Corporate POV though; it wasn't free for the students.
   They paid tuition.
   Within tuition, the costs for the journals were paid for by the
   students.
   Even if they didn't use them.
   Nothing's free for students.
   All a big scam.   As far as real or fake suicide, who knows.
   Either story works. Suicide is the less exciting of the two and
   really, I'd love Oliver Stone to make an alt.history movie about
   it. Not that I'm a fan of his movies; I'm not sure if I've ever
   seen any of them, but by reputation he was always good at
   putting together plausible alt-accounts of history convincingly.
   If nothing else, it would make one heck of a novel. When I
   worked at Schering-Plough back in 1999-2002 (now it's Merck I
   think) - corporate scientists had access to things JSTOR and
   subscriptions to all sorts of journals so they could do their
   science. Usually they just had to flip the chirality of an
   existing drug to continue the patent for another 7 years, but
   sometimes they did actual science and were working on developing
   lots of things that never made it past stage 1 or 2 trials.

   The animal testing lab was particularly active.

   Anyway, they had to stay "on top" with the latest stuff... or
   sometimes go back in time 40-50 years to find something obscure
   and difficult to find.

   They didn't have free access to those journals.

   After all, why are people students? Generally, to get jobs. Once
   they're no longer students and have jobs, their companies have
   to pay for the same access they enjoyed as students.   But...
   all that being said: I was always a fan of the type of stuff he
   did. Information should truly be free.