Cornell suicides

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<p>Anyone have the link to the articles talking about this?</p>

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<p><a href="http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=676008000#question2%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=676008000#question2&lt;/a>
<a href="http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=622353600#question2%5C%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=622353600#question2\&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www-tech.mit.edu/V120/N6/comp6.6n.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www-tech.mit.edu/V120/N6/comp6.6n.html&lt;/a>
("Cornell University is one peer institution that does maintain moderately complete records of their student deaths in response to a common perception that they have a high suicide rate. Cornell had eight students take their own lives in the past ten years. With about 19,000 students on campus, Cornell has a suicide rate of about 4.3 per 100,000 student years for that time period, far below both MIT and national rates.")</p>

<p><a href="http://www.cornellsun.com/media/storage/paper866/news/2001/02/13/News/Suicide.Rates.At.Cornell.Not.As.High.As.Believed-1325187.shtml?norewrite200604011247&sourcedomain=www.cornellsun.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cornellsun.com/media/storage/paper866/news/2001/02/13/News/Suicide.Rates.At.Cornell.Not.As.High.As.Believed-1325187.shtml?norewrite200604011247&sourcedomain=www.cornellsun.com&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Cornell_University%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Cornell_University&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The MIT article is the one we use most on the Cornell board to disprove those notions people have about Cornell.
These are just some of the results on the first 2 pages of a google search of "cornell suicides." Learn to do your own research.</p>

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<p>every college has suicides and Cornell definately does not have a high suicide rate. Thats like saying a certain city has car accidents, when in fact all cities have car accidents</p>

<p>4.3 per 100,000 students is literally nothing. Compare that with the suicide rate of other colleges or just simply teenagers as a whole in the U.S.</p>

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<p>they have a few problems at Duke also.............</p>

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<p>not enuf royalty? ;)</p>

<p>bad joke.. sorry</p>

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<p>Duke Pwns Cornell. No contest. At least Duke has basketball.</p>

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<p>u know, duke3d4, thats a pretty dumb sentence.. iots meaningless and not even required.
The death bit is unfeeling and just stupid</p>

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<p>did you get rejected by Cornell or something?</p>

<p>Seriously each college has its own perks. If you love Duke's basketball, by all means, but no need to flame other colleges for no reason</p>

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<p>My bro goes there and I asked him about this because I was curious (We both read in a book long time ago people like to jump off of those extremely high bridges.. Police has to block it or something during testing times..)</p>

<p>He says not many people commit suicides there and the only instance he heard of someone killing themselves were this one freshman guy (who was extremely drunk) thought the bridge railing (stone wall thing) was a fence he had to jump over... and so he did.</p>

<p>I just wonder if he woke up as he fell down and down because that bridge is EXTREMELY high. Poor dude.</p>