Yes. Just found this media reference:
Link:
http://www.lohud.com/article/201106...riends-school-reflect-missing-college-student
The Westchester mall is in White Plains NY, a suburban city near Greenburgh, where her parents live.
JMO: A person contemplating running away might wait until their courses are complete first; therefore, the fact that LS was mid-way through a program lessens the probabilty that she would run away.
OTOH: Were her attendance and performance in the course satisfactory? If she were not doing well, perhaps she was upset about something, and didn't care if she finished.
Anthropologie is retail chain. Internship can be code for working for free. If IU gives academic credit for internships, she may have been required to pay for the privilege of being allowed to do free work for the store.
JMO the internship in the local mall would not have been enough to dissuade her from running away.
With terrible rumors about the people in her social circle, whether true or false, LS may have been frightened enough to leave.