<p>I hate to inject facts into the discussion, but:</p>
<p>[Hopkins</a> suicide rate in line with national college trend - News](<a href=“http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2006/04/20/News/Hopkins.Suicide.Rate.In.Line.With.National.College.Trend-2242150.shtml]Hopkins”>http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2006/04/20/News/Hopkins.Suicide.Rate.In.Line.With.National.College.Trend-2242150.shtml)</p>
<p>According to the 2006 article,</p>
<p>The national average suicide rate for college students is 7.5 deaths per 100,000 students
MIT has a suicide rate of 10.2 deaths per 100,00 students
Johns Hopkins has suicide rate of 7.7 deaths per 100,000 students
Harvard has a suicide rate of 7.4 deaths per 100,000 students
Duke has a suicide rate of 6.1 deaths per 100,00 students</p>
<p>Cornell has a suicide rate of 5.7 deaths per 100,000 students</p>
<p>Clearly those statistics were before Cornell’s cluster of suicides in 2010, but there were NO suicides at Cornell between 2005 and 2010. </p>
<p>Clusters of dramatic leaps off bridges make headlines and they color our perceptions.</p>