Just before they departed, in early February, Mansoor, who is a West Point graduate with adoctoraldegree in military history, went bowling with his family.
Jonathan Frye, adoctoraldegree candidate who is writing his dissertation on video games and player types, said that when he started his program at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development he had to ask permission to take classes at the university's Tisch School of the Arts.