Toronto man charged with murder of York to slain student - Toronto Star

2011 / 04/20 18: 31: 00 Murder victim father Liu Jainhui with his wife on the left leaves after talking with the media to the Pearson International Airport after the arrival of Beijing.STEVE RUSSELL/TORONTO STAR

How, with Qian Liu, a plane set up grieving parents in Toronto, police announced the arrest of a man they believe the 23-year-old York University student murdered.

Liu's body was found Saturday in their basement apartment.

Graduate of the Beijing City College, came to Toronto in September last year English York, part of a plan, their studies here to promote it.

Only an hour before Saturday, was attacked at 1:00 pm the victim her how much said told via webcam with her mother, she missed home.

On Wednesday, 29-year-old Brian Dickson with murder police charged first degree. He will be released on Thursday morning before the Court.

Liu's body was found friends and their landlord in 27 Aldwinckle Friday at 11 am on Saturday of two heights after they were alerted by Meng Xianchao, the victim's friend in China, which in part of the fight between the woman and a webcam of the night intruder.

While homicide investigation in Liu's death, wait for the cause of death to police for toxicology test results.

Police of released photos of Liu's missing IBM ThinkPad laptop, its lack of external webcam device for live-streaming and her to reclaimed Nokia Smartphone.

Murder victim's father Liu Jainhui with his wife on the left side leaves after talking with the media to the Pearson International Airport after the arrival of Beijing.STEVE RUSSELL/TORONTO STAR

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Father of the dead York student heads for Toronto

The father of the student at York University found dead last week was led Wednesday from Beijing to Toronto, where the police seek to determine what happened to her.

Liu Qian, 23, was found dead Friday in his basement apartment near campus. It was engaged in an online video chat with her boyfriend, who lives in China, 1 h and Friday when there is a strike at its door. She opened her door to a man and a struggle follows.

Later this morning after police were notified by the friends of her boyfriend, Liu body was found in the apartment.

Police said that an autopsy has not shown a cause of death.

Father of the woman spoke to the media in Beijing, before his departure for the Canada.

"It was our only child," said Liu Jianhiu, who is the Director of research of the history of the Communist Party of the Party of the Committee Central of Chinese Communist Party school. The school trains officials of the party.

End women studied at the University of the city of Beijing before arriving at the Canada in September 2010.

"She was interested in media and wanted to study for a Masters degree in it." She has already asked several universities of Toronto and elsewhere, including the University of Windsor, "he says.

"After hearing the news on Qian Liu, our family and friends were all very concerned." But we were praying for the possibility that the victim was a different person of the same name... soon we found that we could reach is no longer my daughter. "And then the Canadian police has very clearly that it was indeed my daughter."

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Student at York u. in webcam attack ID would be

Toronto police have identified the woman they believe died in his apartment in the basement, near York University after having fought with someone who has knocked on his door.

Police found the body of a 23-year old Chinese national, who studied at York, 11 p.m. Friday after an official of the Chinese Consulate called express concern.

Police identified the student as Qian Liu Monday, aged 23, Beijing.

Qian Liu, 23, was found dead in his apartment in the basement near the York University Friday.

Police said Sunday that the young woman had a video chat online at around 1 a.m. Friday with a foreign man who has since spoken with the police.

His mother had called the Chinese Consulate to say that something happened to her daughter and ask officials to check on her at his apartment in the basement located just to the South of the York campus.

Police said the student was found unclothed size, but there is no obvious sign that she was sexually assaulted. The cause of death has not yet determined.

Speaking on CBC News Network, Monday afternoon, constable Toronto police spokesman Tony Vella said that the case remains an investigation into the suspicious death.

"His body was taken to the Office of the coroner for a post-mortem investigation and they must still do more tests... and at that time there, we will have a better understanding when we get results if it is a homicide or nonmais always ranked as a suspicious death""he says.

Vella said that Qian was chatting with a man online, which has witnessed the attack and was able to give police a description of the attacker.

"[The witness online] was chatting with her on Friday to 1 hour in the morning and he heard someone knock on his door and at this point that the Lady stood and answered the door, said Vella.".

"He could hear the man seeking to use his cell phone." Date on which he noticed that there was a struggle between it and the man, and then someone disabled laptop of the victim, "said Vella.

When asked why 10 hours between when the attack was assisted and the arrival of the police, Vella said police was not informed until Friday morning.

"Someone went to [his] address because they feared for his well-being and they went to the apartment and she has found him there and they were concerned, therefore they have contacted the police," said Vella. "We responded Friday to 11 am and this is where we first made aware of the situation,"he says."

"[The witness online] is not Toronto, it is China, and there was a conversation between [the victim] and this man, but he did not notify police, it was someone else and, this is another factor that we seek to."

Zhuo Yue said and Qian used to go clubbing together. He said the person that Qian was chatting with online at the time wherever she was attacked was her boyfriend, although police would not confirm this. Zhuo said he did not know that she was in trouble until he got an email from her boyfriend in Beijing on Friday morning.

"At 8 p.m. I left home for the school," he told CBC News through an interpreter. "I saw not the message sent by her boyfriend until 8: 30 am on the bus." I called my brother immediately to check on her. She did not respond to the door. I called the landlord to open the door. ?

Vella also said that it seems that this was not a random attack.

"It looks like target, but we still consider all the possibilities at this time and it is important to keep the mind open in this case," said.

Although some of the fight is produced out of sight of the camera to the computer, a description of the assailant was provided which could see the witness:

A white man aged between 20 and 30 years.About six feet high and between 175 and 200 pounds with brown hair of medium length, and a muscular disordered at the front and treated at the rear.He wore a blue crew-neck T-shirt.

Police are still looking for a computer of the victim, who took the stage to the other. It is an IBM Thinkpad, model T400.

York University issued a statement Monday afternoon, calling for the death of the woman "terrible tragedy."

"Our whole community mourns the loss of a young promising student," the statement of the President of the York Mamdouh Shoukri. "" Our most sincere condolences and deepest sympathy go to his family, friends and classmates. ""

"The tragic death of a member of the community of York affects us all.". I would ask students, faculty and staff tend to each other at this very difficult time. ?

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Student MBA provide vocational guidance Services a new assignment

Illustration by Olimpia Zagnoli

By Oliver Staley

When the University of Chicago Booth School of Business first contacted Groupon in 2009, the school had no idea that startup, and then a year, would be later $ 4.75 billion. Booth career services Department has heard of students and former students coupon site and contacted the Director General Andrew Mason to plead for the hiring of graduates of business schools. This year, the company interviewed students of Booth and six other MBA programs for summer internships.

B-school graduates once were happy to get a job on Wall Street or the & S P 500 company. Today, a growing number are defining their views on the less conventional careers. Which join the startups, non-profit organizations and other employers who recruit traditionally on the campus of schools. Career services officers are networking spending more time and accompanying students on excursions to visit businesses. Many B-schools are hiring additional personnel dedicated to the identification of potential employers. "We must be much more proactive," explains J.J. Cutler, who manages Wharton School the University of Pennsylvania career services. "I need to have thousands and thousands of links with these small firms everywhere in the world."

The movement is led by students, said Cutler. "In this context is a reaction to the financial crisis, it is a change of generation, part of it is that they are much more diversified backgrounds."

Amit Koren, a student aged 29 at the booth, interned together on in the summer and he worked while he completed his MBA. He did not meet any of the large employers recruiting on the campus of last year because he wanted to work in a young company. "I was looking for a place where I could have an immediate impact and grow with the company," says Koren, who, before to start business school, worked in Group monitor, the firm of consultants from Cambridge (mass.), co-founded by Michael Porter management guru. "The opportunities are so much greater." You can get your hands dirty, you can learn much more. ?

Come September, Neeraja Bhavaraju, an old student of 29 years of the Dartmouth College-Tuck School of Business in Hanover, N.H., will begin to work in the offices of the FSG Boston, a non-profit corporation that works with charities and businesses on the responsibility of the construction company programs. Bhavaraju, who worked at the McKinsey before leaving for his MBA, says employment in a for-profit business is no longer a appealed to him. "I realized that doing this kind of work was not well enough for me," she said. "It was intellectually stimulating but filling does not for me.".

Wharton, where 250 companies recruiting on campus, has reorganized its Office of career of 25 people services; There are now six members of staff who give the floor to small employers. Cutler, explains: "we used to have to play a game and now we have to play two." The Tuck School at Dartmouth has staff stationed in San Francisco and Montevideo, Uruguay, to identify potential employers, on the West Coast and in Latin America. Booth built his outreach team to seven, two, since January 2009.

Business schools invest in career services because they want to continue to meet their graduates. Place any newly MBAs in the perfect job is "probably the greatest motivation to their satisfaction, which translates Alumni giving and participation on the road," explains Scott Shrum, Director of research for the admission of the MBA at Veritas Prep, a provider of prep GMAT test and admissions consulting services based at MalibuCalif.

Unlike large enterprises that hire dozens or even hundreds of business school graduates each year and make job six months before the start of the position, small businesses are often offer until just before the graduation. That creates anxiety for students waiting for startups hear while their classmates accept jobs in blue chip companies, says Rebecca Joffrey, Co-Director of the office of career services at the Tuck School of Business. "Must be a certain amount of tolerance at the risk of really pursue what they came to want to continue," explains Joffrey. "The activity surrounding the MBA recruitment is very strong and widespread."

Jacqueline a. Wilbur, Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management career development, see graduate chase employers rather that the reverse is a welcome change. "This is an unhealthy dynamics, where just because you are accepted to a certain set of schools, businesses come find you", explains Wilbur. "This is not how the world works."

GroupOn, which now has nearly 5,000 employees, has been besieged by requests for information from students, according to Halle Jensen, who heads MBA recruitment company based in Chicago. "There is a scarcity of opportunities such as Groupon, in the past two years" explained Jensen. "Students are excited."

The bottom line: B-schools placement offices are staffing until they work to develop relationships with employers who recruit traditionally MBAs.

Staley is a journalist for Bloomberg News.

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Student debt mounts, shift graduates options

While many economists, that debt in a more favourable light should be considered students say, means the rising loan bills still that many graduates will for a long period the payment.

"In the coming years, a lot of people from their student loans is the payment when it is time for their children to go to College,", said Mark Kantrowitz, Publisher of FinAid.org and Fastweb.com, which the student debt has the estimates, including federal and private loans.

Two-thirds of the recipient from 2008 the Bachelor's degree, compared with less than half of the year 1993 with debts. In the past year graduates who left loan in college with an average of $24,000 has debt. Default rates increase, especially among those who visited for profit colleges.

The mountain of debt is expected to more quickly grow with the next round of budget slashing. Pell grants for students with low income are expected to be cut and at public universities is likely as States with pinched budgets cut back increase on the money they give to universities.

Some education policy experts say that the Assembly has debts wide implications for the current generation of students.

"Have you a lot of people quit or leave the school with much debt, their decisions than the generation before them, be very different can," said Lauren Asher, President of the Institute for student access and success. "Things like not buy an apartment, a family, starting a business starting, saving for their own children education options for people might be, that many students pay debts."

In some circles known student debt as the anti-dowry. As the transition from youth to adulthood with young people longer to get married, buy a House and have children, delayed, can large student loans further slow the process.

"It is much more awareness of students bond than it was 10 years ago," said Ms Asher. "People either in debt or know that someone in debt."

Sure, many economists and experts see student debt as a healthy investment - in contrast to high-interest credit card debt, which is simply a burden on consumers budgets and fallen in recent years. Only 2000 student debt, less than 200 billion dollars, almost as a factor for the indebtedness of households as a whole registered. But now, said Mr. Kantrowitz, student loans are to macro-economic factor of the micro-economic factor.

Susan Dynarski, Professor of education and public policy at the University of Michigan, said student debt in General could be considered a sound investment in a lifetime of higher yields. "If you think about what is good debt and what is bad debt, student loans in the Empire of good debt such as mortgages, fall", said Professor Dynarski. "It is an investment, over the life cycle is paying off."

Average earnings of the Bachelor's degree recipients work full-time throughout the year in 2008 was to a College Board report released last fall, $55,700 or $21.900 more than the average earnings of high school graduates. And their unemployment rate was far lower.

So Sandy analyst and senior fellow at George Washington University, co-author of the report said was political tree, a higher education unaffected, a broader perspective, the student debt was growing so quickly.

Some economists worry that all the news about unemployed of 20-somethings in $100,000 could put guilt of College in fact, some young people participating in College of hold.

Before a decade student debt not so big on the national agenda loom. Barack and Michelle Obama helped awareness to increase when she talked about how their loan payments after the more than their mortgage payments were the Harvard Law School in the presidential campaign.

"We left school with a mountain of debt," said Mr Obama in 2008. "Michelle know I had at least $ 60,000." I had at least $ 60,000. So, if we had we a lot of loans to pay. "In fact, finished we not she paid until we probably for at least eight years, perhaps nine married had."

Even then, Mrs. Obama, said it took the royalties from her husband's best-selling books to help pay off their loans.

In 2009, which facilitates management Obama it for low earning student borrowers get out of debt, with income-based repayment, which grants federal student debt for those who remains 15 percent of their income for 25 years numbers - or 10 years if they are working in the public service.

But if the Obama's long experience payback periods for student debt highlights the advantages of a high-profile education underline their career.

"College is a really good deal," Cecilia Rouse, of Princeton, said to Mr Obama's Council of economic advisers was used. "Even if you have a job plum not land, you will expect still to earn more on your lifetime of objects and the vast majority of the graduates, that to cover their debts."

But rooms even faithful student debt as Mrs. Rouse, a cause additional risks in the current economy strong College loans.

"I am concerned about this cohort of young people, because their unemployment rates are much higher and early job change is how you get these increases during their lifetime," said Mrs Rouse. "In this economy, it is much harder to go from job to job." "We know that it is the mother of bad economy some scars to cohorts, in bad economy, and this."

And there is great concern about those, that borrow heavily for College, then fall, or take years to complete.

DeAnne Loonin, was a lawyer at the national consumer law Center, said education debt not good debt for low-income borrowers, with, most works of which in default.

In contrast to most other debt, student loans can not usually be fired in bankruptcy, and the Government garnish wages or tax refunds or social security can take payments that owed money.

Students who borrow, to visit for profit colleges are especially likely standard. You make about 12 percent of respondents enrolled in higher education, but almost half of those on student loans in default. By default according to the Department of education, about a quarter of the students at for-profit institutions on their student loans three years start, repay them.

"About two-thirds of the people see I went to for profits;" most of their program was not completed; "and nobody worked I have ever scored a job in the field, the allegedly for trained were been", said Ms Loonin.

"For them, the negative mark on your credit report is the No. 1 barrier to moving forward in their lives," she added. "It not only delay their ability to buy a House, it is an apartment to do almost everything they try on their employment prospects, their search after."

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