Two (2) Cornell engineering students committed suicide via gorge bridge jump 2 days apart from each other this past week. Also, a month ago another student jumped the bridge, which brings the campus suicide rate to 3 within the past month. As I understand, in the past there is an average suicide rate of n per year here, where n is between 0 and 1.
Why have campus suicides spiked in frequency lately? I wish I knew, but may never know. It's disheartening, for sure, even though I did not know any of these students.
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I read a story about it, and suicides have indeed spiked at Cornell. From 05-09 there were none, but a school of Cornell's size I read should have around 1.5 per year. 6 this year, really sad.
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