A 19-year-old UW-Eau Claire freshman died while giving birth in a dormitory bathroom Tuesday.
A resident assistant found Karen Marie Hubbard in a bathroom stall Tuesday night, according to the Associated Press.
The newborn girl is alive and in critical condition at a Marshfield, Wis., hospital.
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University officials said residents repeatedly passed in and out of the bathroom, offering assistance to the woman who they believed was only sick.
The pregnancy was unknown to the woman's roommate, and officials said they are unsure if Hubbard herself knew she was pregnant.
Hubbard was a pre-pharmacy student from Withee, Wis., where she graduated a co-valedictorian in 2001.
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