<p>I also agree…enough has been said.</p>
<p>[msnbc.com</a> Video Player](<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/35926540#35926540]msnbc.com”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/35926540#35926540)</p>
<p>if anyone hasnt watched yet…</p>
<p>please close it</p>
<p>I would like personally to apologize to all, for my being genuinely concerned about the kids and not statistics to cover the problems at hand. I am sorry that I am not as concerned about generating positive PR. I am just a current Cornell parent, not an alumnus from years ago promoting the school to prospective students. Improving the situation should be a shared responsibility, and we should actually listen to the kids. They currently live there and have firsthand experiences.</p>
<p>What a passive aggressive apology. Once again it’s all you being a victim.</p>
<p>Please close this. Enough has clearly been said.</p>
<p>Lastly,
One should not feel guilty at all for wanting to probe the situation, because their kids go there or might attend there. It was a national news story, and parents have every right to know for the safety of their kids. Concern should be not be equated with morbid curiosity. Please tryto be humane to the parents as well as the kids.</p>
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<p>MrsOwl: I do not see anyone saying that “there is no problem.” One suicide is one too many; we all agree on that, and Cornell is aggressively addressing the situation with its students. </p>
<p>Those of us who are citing the well-documented statistics are trying to combat the misimpression that Cornell’s suicide rate is outside the norm – with the implication that it is somehow a dangerous school. This is simply not the case.</p>
<p>I used to post on a site of critics of cruises - and it was possible to block, if only for yourself, certain posters so you just did not need to hear them…Is that possible on this site?</p>
<p>memphismom: Click the username you want to ignore, and select “View Public Profile.” At the person’s profile, right under their name at the top, click “User Lists.” Select “Add to Ignore List.”</p>
<p>^ Hahaha</p>
<p>Yes, please close this thread. I don’t want to see this on the top everyday.</p>
<p>LasMa:</p>
<p>If the school was aggressively addressing the situation, why weren’t patrols on the bridges after the first or second incidents on the bridges. It actually took a third incident. Was that aggressive???</p>
<p>It was televised on Fox college sports pacific channel, or something like that. which, amazingly enough, my cable service carried.</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>I am happy I came across this thread and still happier to be done reading it. </p>
<p>If this is ANY example of how people communicate at the school, then I know for sure I will NOT send my son to Cornell.</p>
<p>I’m also quite satisfied to know internet kindergarten tactics (what horrible writing! go away if you don’t know anything! stop being passive aggressive!) are used among the ivy league messageboard threads as any other board on the internet. </p>
<p>When you pull the ivy down, the building crumbles. </p>
<p>He can go to MIT or St. John’s.</p>
<p>I daresay this IS an example of how people communicate at the school. Some of it anyway, by some people.</p>
<p>I likewise am happy that you came across this thread, and I daresay that there are others in the Cornell community that will second that.</p>
<p>Good luck to your son at St. John’s.</p>
<p>'nuff 'nuff</p>
<p>This thread has run its course.</p>
<p>Students have been very forthcoming to answer parent questions here.
Thanks to all.</p>
<p>There is a thread ongoing in the Parents Forum. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/881699-cornell-deaths-9.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/881699-cornell-deaths-9.html</a></p>