<p>“people kill themselves at cornell…that’s all i needed to know”</p>
<p>Sadly. people kill themselves at all sorts of colleges, the suicide rate at Cornell is not above national averages.
[MIT</a> Suicides Reflect National Trends - The Tech](<a href=“http://tech.mit.edu/V120/N6/comp6.6n.html]MIT”>http://tech.mit.edu/V120/N6/comp6.6n.html)</p>
<p>The recent tragic suicide cluster follows several years where there were no suicides there at all. Suicide clusters on a college campus are not without precedent:
<a href=“The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos”>The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos;
<p>In recent times Penn obviously has had suicides as well, eg
<a href=“http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/ae28ec804e0db136a9bdf91ad6fc8b25/suicide.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=ae28ec804e0db136a9bdf91ad6fc8b25[/url]”>http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/ae28ec804e0db136a9bdf91ad6fc8b25/suicide.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=ae28ec804e0db136a9bdf91ad6fc8b25</a></p>
<p>But as for how many, it’s hard to say, since, from the first linked article:
"These schools, as well as Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania, were unable to provide any data regarding suicide trends over the past three decades. "</p>
<p>Suicides often go unreported, lest they spur clusters. In Cornell’s case, jumping into a public gorge from a bridge is a public and highly visible event, people see the act and or the body. Consequently hushing it up is not an option there.</p>