Cornell Reaches Out To Students, Increases Mental Health Support

The Cornell Daily Sun:

Amid a barrage of national media attention over the recent string of student deaths, the University continued to pursue an aggressive mental health awareness campaign Monday on campus.

The University said Monday night that security personnel will remain posted on the bridges for an average of 18 hours per day until the end of the week when students leave campus for Spring Break. The Cornell University Police Department is coordinating those efforts.

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Comments

[Gudrun]

09:56 AM on 03/16/2010

I hope some help can be found for these young people. My husband attended Cornell as a Ph.D. student in the early 80s, and we have many fond memories of Cornell and Ithaca. College has become much more competitive since those days, I really feel for these young kids trying to get their education and make their way in the world. Please know that you are loved and that the problems that seem so overwhelming to you now really do have remedies. Reach out to those around you, don't give up your life which is so precious.

[Tomlastliberalleft]

09:50 AM on 03/16/2010

I feel sorry for kids (yes they are still kids at 21) putting their heads in the vice that colleges have become. People pretend that there is no problem with the psychological torture heaped upon the students now. It was bad enough when college was somewhat affordable (long time ago) but now. Add the pressure of grades, the pressure of peers, the pressure of expense and the needless competition forced upon people who are in many cases not equipped to cope and you end up with countless stories just like this one.

I think you can judge a society reasonably well by the methods it uses to teach and train the next generation and by that simple yardstick we are failing our children in a profound and destructive way. America is sick and getting sicker by the hour, one can only ponder just how bad things must get before we do something about this. Washington is not the only thing broken, the very fabric of this society is quietly tearing apart and no one seems to give a really care.