<p>I concur with norcalguy :)</p>
<p>Yes, Duke "pwns" Cornell in every field, including the number of Nobel Prize laureates: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_laureates_by_university_affiliation%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_laureates_by_university_affiliation</a></p>
<p>I think we all just got "pwned" by hopelesshobo</p>
<p>Let's all bow our heads in shame and awe</p>
<p>yeah.... we all did get pwned badly by helplesshobo...</p>
<p>The USNWR is the omniscent, omnipotent, and omnipresent God of university rankings, the fact that Duke is ranked 5th compared to Cornell's 13th is complete and absolute proof that Duke pwns Cornell.</p>
<p>i didn't know duke students had such an inferiority complex when it comes to Cornell.</p>
<p>I don't think this is a Duke vs. Cornell situation, just a moron who happens to go to Duke. Can't fault Duke admissions, a few always slip through.</p>
<p>This isn't a q of Bad publicity, but actually raises some points that are of serious concern.</p>
<p>Is it just me or is completely abandoning a students and ditching him/ her at the time of need seem pretty heartless. </p>
<p>And this statement made by Cornell authority,"Once the student is gone or goes home, the individual becomes the responsibility of parents. Our obligation ends.", when asked as to why they didn't follow up once the girl leftm, I find most troubling. </p>
<p>Its just an observation on my part, but I have a feeling that Universities nowadays aren't as much for the students as they should be. Abandoning mentally troubled students or even the Kaavya case, where Harvard totally ditched her, seems a problematic issue.</p>
<p>ill respond without as much bias as possible, and here's my stuff to back it up:
1. 2 of my friends go to Duke
2. My relative goes to Duke
3. My mom's best friend's son goes to Duke</p>
<p>--AND I STILL THINK DUKE BLOWS</p>
<p>"Its just an observation on my part, but I have a feeling that Universities nowadays aren't as much for the students as they should be. Abandoning mentally troubled students or even the Kaavya case, where Harvard totally ditched her, seems a problematic issue."</p>
<p>well it is a cruel world out there and it doesn't get any better after college. and in america, giving help sometimes means getting sued so i wouldn't blame many of the colleges of not helping students to the fullest. if more parents were courageous enough to understand their child/ren more than to be cowards and blame problems on colleges/ counselors, then colleges would consider having better health programs. but as long as lawsuits and suing continues, there won't be change.</p>
<p>The first time I saw an educational institution react to student depression was when my daughter was in eighth grade and one of her friends had suicidal thoughts. Our school, a private one, moved quickly to dismiss her. I later understood that this reaction was based on the fear of legal action, but I continue to think it was distressful to the point of cruelty.</p>
<p>the good thing about this article is that it shows that cornell is not some cheap ivy that many come to view as and that the academics are rigorous.</p>
<p>i don't think we can blame cornell in this article. i don't think it necessarily brings bad publicity either. because a previous court ruling ruled that colleges may be held responsible for college suicide, the obvious way for cornell to not get stuck in some crazy lawsuit filed by crazy parents is to get her out of campus. it's a move to save cornell from losing a lot of money when it's not really cornell's fault that is making her feel this way.</p>
<p>LOL I remember in 5th grade I wrote a poem where someone fell off a cliff and they took me to the counsler and she asked if I wanted to kill myself. I was like WHAT!??!!? lmao</p>
<p>I have to say--my highschool is much worse, we've had at least 12 suicides since I've been there, and multiple overdoses. College seems like a less treacherous environment as a whole.</p>
<p>when I went to visit for transfer day this question of suicide came up on one of the tours and basically what they said was Cornell recommends these students take a semester or year off or something like that. They didn't make it seem like they kick the students out for being mentally unstable like this article seems to make you infer.</p>
<p>We had two suicides in my town last year...community college kids, both hanged themselves. </p>
<p>I think people with highly suicidal urges probably should take some time off, since the academic rigor of Cornell is definitely not good for someone who is seriously mentally unstable. Universities don't need the liability of a kid killing himself and parents displacing the blame on the school via lawsuit.</p>
<p>HiImAnAlcoholic, your profile shows "cornell" as your location... but I am assuming this is somewhere else? And wow, suicide by hanging... that is brutal.</p>
<p>this guy in my art class hung himself in his garage over spring break--and he had an open casket (everyone was crying at the atheist funeral)~one of the most depressing scenes I've ever witnessed</p>
<p>i think hiimanalcoholic means his hometown, which isn't cornell. Cornell students are more disposed to commit suicide by jumping off a gorge.
:-/</p>
<p>...ah yes. And I sense that is why C gets so much attention? The dramatic leap off a gorge makes for a better story... media is more likely to report on it--making C seem like the suicide capital of academia?</p>
<p>yep ^^^^^^</p>