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Superstition (The Secrets of Van Buren University) Carmen Mok partner-less and sliding into aAn umbrella is opened indoors. A black cat crosses your path. Three cigarettes are lit from one match. These are omens of bad luck that no one takes seriously. But at Van Buren University when these, and other superstitions, are broken students die. Sophomore Jerry Williams hard hitting reporting has won awards for Van Burens school newspaper. But when he connects a series of campus deaths to bad luck, his editor questions Jerrys judgment, kills the