November 22, 2024

3 thoughts on “Dark Scene On a Bright Day

  1. What do you mean “this brings the fatality count up to eleven”, i.e., eleven students have died this year, eleven students have committed suicide this year, eleven students have committed suicide in the history of Cornell?

  2. Hello parent,

    I should have been more specific: when this was published, that was in reference to the 11 students that have died so far this academic year for various reasons. Regrettably, since this article was written, Matt Zika committed suicide on Friday, the count is now 12. Three have been gorge related deaths, presumably suicides.

    I must point out that this is not the norm here whatsoever. Cornell typically maintains the same expected number of suicides as any other school of similar size. This year has been a very unfortunate exception.

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