I’m heartbroken to learn of another student death at this school. My thoughts are with Paul’s family and friends.
I feel certain that the school will respond with increased effort to address the issue of student suicide. The article points out that the school is adding an after-hours call center and full-time psychiatrist now that the General Assembly has made the funds available.
One incident reported in the article linked - that of the grieving student who requested an extension and was refused - is at odds with my d3’s personal experience. When a close friend of hers, not a W&M student, was murdered in November 2010, she received extensions and incompletes in every class. Two of the professors in her major offered them to her before she even asked them.