In December 2013, Baruch College freshman Chun Hsien Deng accompanied his new fraternity brothers to the Poconos. He didn’t return.

At first, his death was a regional story in The New York Times, which reported on page A29 that law enforcement officials in Pennsylvania were investigating the incident. Deng had been involved in an outdoor game called “The Glass Ceiling”—a metaphor that his Asian-American fraternity used to depict the difficulty of breaking into the American mainstream.