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In the wake of three apparent suicides at Cornell University in the past six weeks, members of the mental health community at Harvard reaffirmed their commitment to providing support for students at risk but disagreed on the need to take immediate steps in response.
The Cornell community was rocked two weeks ago when sophomore William Sinclair and junior Matthew Zika took their lives on consecutive days by jumping into the gorges that run through the campus in Ithaca, New York. The deaths came only a few weeks after freshman Bradley Ginsburg apparently died in...
A total of six students have committed suicide at Cornell this year, while national statistics would predict about two suicides annually within Cornell’s student population of 20,000, according to comments made by Cornell Mental Health Initiatives Director Timothy Marchell to The New York Times. Between 2000...
According to Barreira, a situation like the one at Cornell is known as a “suicide contagion,” a period in which multiple individuals take their own lives. But he said that there is no evidence that a suicide contagion at one university could lead to...
Nonetheless, Barreira added that he plans to coordinate with residential life staff and student mental health groups in order to ensure that everyone is “more alert and more mindful” in the aftermath of the Cornell suicides. He also said that UHS will continue its efforts...