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Media Coverage of Suicide Needs Improvement

By Jared Wolf April 17, 2014

As this month commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Kurt Cobain's death, I am reminded of the iconic headlines that alerted the world to the tragedy. Dramatic, sensationalized headlines like the Seattle...

Editorial: Google petition creates lifeline

Editorial: Google petition creates lifeline

By The Ithacan January 29, 2014

Ithaca College Active Minds has launched a petition to increase mental health resource visibility on Google. It proposed a style similar to Tumblr, in which a window listing resources pops up when a user...

In loving memory

By Shea O'Meara, Accent Editor March 21, 2012
In April of her junior year of high school, Olivia Rowe brought a plastic bag into a hallway bathroom and tied it over her head to stop her breathing. She thought she wanted to kill herself.

Student veterans more likely to commit suicide, study says

By Kevin McCall September 11, 2011
With the United States still involved in two wars in the Middle East, more students are entering college as veterans. A recent study by the American Psychological Association reported that college veterans are six times more likely to kill themselves and 20 percent have planned to commit suicide. The survey included a total of 525…
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