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Re: After 14 student deaths, North Carolina State confronts a national crisis

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Iobaties <Ich8@yahoo.com> wrote in news:solq56$le7$12@news.dns-netz.com:

> Vance wrote
> 
>>  Faggots tend to kill themselves a lot.  They know they are mentally
>>  ill. 

With the end of its spring semester last week, North Carolina State 
University concluded a tragic school year that saw the deaths of 14 
students.

Seven students died by suicide, two fatally overdosed, four passed away 
from natural causes, and one student was killed in a car accident, 
according to Mick Kulikowski, NC State's director of strategic 
communications and media relations. Over a dozen students and mental 
health experts described the loss of life at NC State to ABC News as 
staggering and tragic, as well as a concerning example of national trends 
in student mental health.

"I really started feeling it once it got to the fourth student death, 
because it really started to feel like it was an epidemic on campus at 
that point," said Mariana Fabian, a fourth-year student and opinion editor 
for NC State's student newspaper, The Technician.

The deaths have cast an outsized shadow on the Raleigh campus, where 
classes continued through the year as the number of deaths gradually 
increased. NC State convened a task force devoted to mental health in 
November, releasing an 89-page report in late February that recommended a 
flurry of proposals to improve student life. The report's sobering 
conclusion: while NC State is "dedicated" to improving student mental 
health, "there is not only room for, but also a need for, additional 
efforts."

Apart from occasional wellness days and outreach following student deaths, 
the humdrum of college life continued at NC State, leaving little time for 
grieving according to some students.

"We're having to say goodbye to the students, but also focus on turning in 
an assignment," junior Angelina Cordone told ABC News.

Some communities on campus have faced a larger toll of the tragedies — as 
at least seven students, including three who died by suicide, have been 
part of NC State's School of Engineering, according to Kulikowski. With 
over 36,000 students, NC State has averaged eight student deaths, 
including three by suicide, annually since 2018, according to the task 
force's report.

"I think a lot of people really want to honor the lives that were lost, 
but there was also a big feeling of enough is enough," said Eleanor Lott, 
a sophomore and a member of NC State's mental health task force.

In late March, Vice Chancellor and Dean Doneka Scott described the year to 
ABC News as a tragic "outlier," pointing to the nationwide challenge of 
educating students amid a rise in depression and suicide among young 
people.

"Institutions across the country are grappling with this," Scott said. 
"This is not an NC State-only issue. It's an issue in higher education 
writ large."

The rate of suicide has roughly increased in the United States over the 
last two decades. Despite a two-year decline in 2019 and 2020, the rate 
rose again in 2021, with one of the most significant year-over-year jumps 
for those aged 15-24, according to the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC). For that age group, suicide remains the third-leading 
cause of death.

Across 10 student interviews with ABC News, some students at NC State 
pointed to the stresses of being a student there – including its demanding 
STEM classes – and stress stemming from grades and social pressures in an 
isolated campus community following years of coronavirus-related 
restrictions. Others described broader concerns about the weight of being 
young in a seemingly broken world, including the intensity of politics, 
debt, fleeting job opportunities, and the general fear of facing fewer 
opportunities and success than prior generations.

"We feel like we have the weight of the world on our shoulders," junior 
Ezekiel Snyder said.

They were weak.  You do not want weaklings in the gene pool.  Let them die 
and be done with it.  

<https://abcnews.go.com/US/challenging-year-north-carolina-state-
confronts-spate-student/story?id=99008743>

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