A 27-year-old Penn State staff assistant and graduate student fell from a seventh-floor hallway window yesterday at Calder Commons, 520 E. Calder Way.

The State College Police Department said the woman, who landed on the second-floor roof of the building's lobby, had left written information saying she intended to commit suicide.

Police did not release the name of the woman yesterday, but The Daily Collegian was able to identify her as a Penn State employee.

Due to the nature of the incident, the Collegian is withholding the woman's name from this report.

Police believe the female State College resident either climbed or jumped from the window about 10 minutes before a staff member working building maintenance saw her and called police at 10:03 a.m., Lt. Diane Conrad said.

Police said the woman, who is not a resident of Calder Commons, had been at work before she entered the building and forcibly removed a seventh-floor window.

The Alpha Fire Co., Alpha Community Ambulance Service, Centre Community Hospital medics and police responded to the incident shortly after it was reported.

The fire company removed her from the second-floor roof with a fire truck ladder, Alpha Fire Chief Stan Clouser said.

She was first transported to Centre Community Hospital with serious injuries.

She was later flown by helicopter to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Sgt. Duane Musser said.

By 6:45 p.m., she was in a Geisinger operating room in serious condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Derick Lengemann, a Penn State student who lives on Calder Commons' seventh floor, said he was leaving for class at about 9:45 a.m. when he noticed a windowpane was pulled from its frame near the building's elevators. Glass that had been broken from the frame was scattered in

the hallway, and the window's screen was missing, he said.

Lengemann said he thought the damage was the result of vandalism at the time, and emergency personnel were not outside the building when he left.

By the afternoon, a wooden board secured by screws stood in place of the window. Stones on top of the second-floor roof were scattered and covered in blood where the woman had fallen. Bloody handprints were on a wall outside a second-floor window.

Many residents of Calder Commons, which houses mostly undergraduate students, were aware of the suicide attempt, but few knew specific details.

Calder Commons employees declined to comment about the incident.