Dawn rose on their adventure, then disaster hit
Deaths hit BU’s campus hard
More:
Relatives await word on injured BU student
Also see:
BU student is city's 4th homicide this week
Vigil held in honor of slain Boston University student
Suffolk student falls to death in apparent suicide
Death of BC student ruled a suicide
What the hell is going on over there? Something in the water?
"Student death ruled suicide at Harvard" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff / April 27, 2012
Wendy Chang's death is the latest tragedy involving Boston-area college students. Two MIT undergraduates took their own lives in the fall, and a Suffolk University senior died last week after apparently jumping from a campus building. Earlier this month, a Boston University graduate student died in an apparent suicide after ingesting a toxic chemical in her South End apartment.
See: Woman in toxic suicide was at Boston University
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention estimates that 1,100 college students commit suicide each year, and the vast majority have an underlying mental health disorder at the time of their death.
Related:
"An emerging pattern of mental illness called bipolar disorder that affects 10 million Americans. The late nights, flexible schedule, and socialization of college can often trigger a person’s first episode."
About 85 percent of all victims do not seek help because they are either reluctant to discuss their problems with a stranger, fear the judgment of friends, or do not know where to turn, according to the foundation.
See: Saying Goodbye to Seau
A 2011 survey by the American College Health Association found that 45 percent of college students and almost half of female students had “felt things were hopeless’’ at some point in the past year. More than 16 percent said they had felt that way in the past two weeks. Thirty percent had “felt so depressed it was difficult to function,’’ the association said.
We've all been there, kids.
Dan Reidenberg, a psychologist and executive director of the Minnesota-based group Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, said several factors, including the difficult job market, can put some college students at risk of harming themselves as graduation approaches.
See: Sunday Globe Special: Student Loan Legacy
“It’s harder to find jobs right now, and they need to know that it’s not about them personally,’’ he said, adding that students are not always prepared for the realities of paying bills and loans....
I suppose it's their own fault the stoo-pid kids bought into the indoctrinating, inculcating, conventional wisdom.
--more--"
Also see:
Harvard, BU trustee conflicts are cited
B.U. Brotherhood
UPDATE: BU suspends fraternity amid hazing investigation
BU plans to establish campus sexual assault crisis
BU sorority suspended in alleged hazing
It's the girls, too?
It's time to have a talk with the parents:
"BU open with students, parents about wave of trouble" April 27, 2012|Mary Carmichael, Globe Staff
For Boston University, it has been an awful four months: The college has seen an undergraduate badly injured in a fire, the arrest of two hockey players on sexual assault charges, two episodes of what appeared to be extreme hazing, and a student practical joke gone so badly awry it drew international media attention.
And it just got exponentially worse.
Last week, in by far the most serious and troubling event, a graduate student was slain off campus.
But even as BU courts the 19,589 high school seniors it has admitted for next year - who must decide whether to attend by Tuesday - the university is not downplaying the bad news. In fact, president Robert Brown is making sure parents know about recent events.
“We want to make sure they’re getting the facts accurately,’’ Brown said Thursday in an interview, his first extensive comments on the string of incidents. “You know, I’m a scientist. The facts are what they are.’’
9/11, 9/11, 9/11, building don't fall down that way because of jet fuel fires -- especially one never hit by a plane.
--more--"
More: Residents oppose BU biolab for deadly diseases in South End
Wouldn't you?
I mean, he could have passed it off to the other guy.
