Four days later, he killed himself in his Manhattan apartment slashed on April 12,.
Dr. Calvo suicide has devastated a close community of scientists and students, which rated his generosity and animation, so that they called it St. Antonio. And on the campus which has Princeton, private grief admirer broke faulting of the University in public accusations, with Dr. Calvo for how it handled the episode.
It is what exactly to Dr. Calvo unclear, hasty departure from the job. Princeton officials said on Thursday that he was on leave at the time of his death other details refused but ready. "To get the privacy of our employees, the University is not to questions of the staff who are not public," a University spokeswoman, CASS Cliatt, said.
Several former colleagues said that Dr. Calvo, 45, who did not have tenure as a lecturer, was evaluated the term of Office in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures, and that some students and lecturer, had mounted a campaign colleagues to block the renewal. As Director of the Spanish language program of the University assisted Dr. Calvo teach students, of which most students; the students, his friends said, criticized his leadership style and singled comments that they felt unduly hard were out.
In one episode, a student, said on at the beginning of academic year Dr. Calvo them a blow the face deserves, and smote together his own hands. In another he called genitals in an E-mail as a joke a male students, to get someone to work with a common Spanish expression that begs.
Dr. Calvo also frustration with students, expressed, he felt himself seriously not their teaching duties, said friends. Angelina Craig Florez, lecturer in Latin America, and the Iberian cultures at Columbia University, said that she last spoke with him at a Conference in February.
"He was very excited because he had what to do, were a review which was normal, has been subjected to, but some of the students does not follow," she said. "Some don't even show up for classes that they were informed, and it is his responsibility to ensure that the language programme runs smoothly."
Some of Dr. Calvo students complained this week, Princeton with them about his departure or death have been sincere. They said that they have not received, that it up three days later in an E-mail had died, which simply put, that Dr. Calvo "has passed."
James Williams, a student of Pittsburgh took an advanced class with Dr. Calvo, said that on Friday the instructors from the building was accompanied, students waiting for 30 minutes in the classroom. When they left, they asked where was the Department Chairman Dr. Calvo.
"she said, had he left today to early for personal reasons that he would be back next week," Mr of Williams recalled.
The day before the suicide, the students waited again for Dr. Calvo. After 20 minutes other Professor entered the room and announced that in the course indefinitely, again relying on personal matters, which Dr. Calvo, was visited.
After studying in the following week of Mr. Williams said, told him the new Professor Dr. Calvo even killed. Williams has a Facebook page with the title "justice for Calvo: make a student response" created and planned a strategy session for Saturday. "Definitely more questions must be answered," he said.
Dr. Calvo "never seemed to the kind of person who would commit suicide," added Mr.. Williams.
"If there was a leak in turn, that all should be alone," he continued. "But it is an error by a person or group, or institution which treated him perhaps unfair or unethical must be addressed and measures taken."
At the monument on Tuesday, students collect their anger and confusion Stimmhafter. "I really want to know more about what happened," said Molly Bagshaw, 19. "I want the holes that are filled out, before I can move."
You reminded lively teacher with a love of colorful shoes and a quick wit. A woman recalls the time that bartender in Toledo, Spain charmed, where he oversaw a summer program, so his entire class free Dr. Calvo round of drinks. Another student, said Dr. Calvo students on the campus, about her life to chat would stop.
"He had such a power about him," said Williams Mr.. "He would go not only in the classroom."He would bounce.
Friends of Dr. Calvo said the timing of his firing put him in a difficult position. Since he was sponsored by Princeton in the country on a work visa, he would quickly have an other work to find - and sponsor.
"Antonio in the United States for over 10 years lived and made a living in this country for themselves", said Marco Aponte Moreno, former lecturer in Spanish at Princeton University, who now teaches in England. "Also meant the loss of his work that he his life in the United States behind would have to leave."
Nate slider contributed reporting.
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