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Colin James Boyarski, son of design department head Daniel Boyarski, recently passed away at the age of 19. Colin, a freshman at Kenyon University in Ohio, was found dead on Sunday, April 3. The circumstances leading to his death are still under investigation, but it appears that the ultimate cause of death was hypothermia.

My first memory of Colin is him racing down the street in front of me and laughing that I wasn't able to catch him. Our fathers are both professors in the design department here at Carnegie Mellon, and we met when we were both very young children. Colin and I only saw one another a dozen or so times as kids. This last summer, however, I spent several weeks working with him as work studies here at CMU. Colin and I talked...

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