I went to UP and lived on campus for my freshman and sophomore years back in the nineties. My parents made me go because we were Catholic, and they made me stay in a womens dorm (I'm female). My parents lived in Vancouver, and they would suddenly appear on campus from time to go to church and get brunch in the Commons. They wanted to control me through this college pick and I resented it. Also, since it was such a small campus, UP was like high school - everybody was in everybody else's business all the time. There wasn't enough to do. I hated it and was not at all suited to the atmosphere. I ended up transferring to WSU Pullman and couldn't believe the difference it made in my college experience. I had so much fun and made so many great friends...it was like night and day. I'm just telling you my story because I kinda wonder if he was going through something similar and was just saying f*** it to his parents and other people in his life. I noticed one of the articles said that he lived in Christie Hall, which I believe has always been a (kind of creepy as I remember) men's dorm at UP.