<p>In no way is this meant to be a shot at Cornell, it is an honest question that I have. I am a psychology major who does suicide research and I believe that I read that there is a bridge at Cornell that they put netting up on both sides of around midterms and finals to keep kids from jumping off of it. I believe I read this about Cornell but I am not actually sure. Can someone let me know if this actually happens? Thanks!</p>
<p>I haven't seen extra netting around any bridges here except when they're doing construction.</p>
<p>Urban Legend Alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Is it true they speak in C++ in MIT? Or was it Visual Basic... I forgot which.</p>
<p>Troll alert.</p>
<p>Last time I come over to the Cornell boards, I swear. I am glad to hear it is an urban legend but I can prove this is my research interest if anyone cares. I appreciate those responses which answer the question in a non-mocking manner. Tahoe, I am not a troll, and I tried to make that clear at the top, but rather I was trying to figure out if this was the case so I know if I should put it in a research proposal as I was recently invited to do an honors thesis at Notre Dame. If you believe me to be a troll honestly email me and I can shoot you a copy of a research paper I wrote and also talk about the research that is being done, I am legit on this. Heck, I even put OT. </p>
<p>Thank you again for those who did answer genuinely becuase my question is genuine.</p>
<p>I keep all of my correspondences on this board, but I hope you have more qualitative and quantitative preliminary research than asking random people on an Internet message board for background information regarding your honors thesis proposal. Here are some resources from the Jed Foundations website which you might find helpful <a href="http://www.jedfoundation.org/libraryNews_alphalist.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.jedfoundation.org/libraryNews_alphalist.php</a>. </p>
<p>Otherwise, the last post reminds me of this famous quote
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare</p>
<p>A few people have said I was a troll so please, PM me and I will give you my email so you can get in touch with me and I will send you my research and what research I am currently doing now. I am not trolling, just asking a question in this thread. I did not say that Cornell had a high suicide rate or anything inaccurate, I just asked a question, that is all. I apologize for asking.</p>
<p>Fair enough Tahoe, I was just curious as I knew I had read it but of course I never list anything in a paper that isn't cited elsewhere or presented in my own research. Below is a brief documentation of the research I do so that hopefully it will clear up the troll issue.</p>
<p>Just to cover the issue for all becuase several people have brought it up, my research concerns suicide but more specifically college suicide. I have done research on the effect grading has on suicidal ideation and if going to a grading scale like MIT switched to for freshman (pass/fail system) would help lower suicidal ideation for students. I have a copy of this paper that I could send to those who doubt. I also do research with Prof. McIntosh at the University of Indiana at South Bend on survivors of suicide and the guilt and grief they feel as a result of the suicide. I am going to be starting a honors thesis in the near future most likely about the stigma involved in suicide and the secrecy that surrounds it and if this is healthy or not.</p>
<p>I just thought it would be easy enough to satisfy my curiousity to just ask you guys, I thought that would be harmless. Apparently I was incorrect in this assessment and I apologize for that. I also don't see anything in the research you posted about the bridges of Cornell (I usually use PsychInfo, but thanks for the link, I will keep a hold of it) so I figured I needed a local's knowledge just to know if it did happen or not.</p>
<p>it's all good, people just constantly do the "yeah, well, cornell has the highest suicide rate in the country" routine, to which we always have to state "actually, the suicide rate at cornell is about 4-5 suicides per 100,000 students as opposed to the national average of 7:100,000." It gets rather annoying to see the stereotype still exist. </p>
<p>as to the original question: no, there's no nets or anything put up around the bridges come finals and exam time.</p>
<p>I apologize for that, I wouldn't have posted it if I knew it was like that! I am sorry guys. I know how things like that can be pet peeves, I have many of my own on the ND board.</p>