Posted on 09/05/2023 11:10:47 PM PDT by Libloather
A person was found dead outside a North Carolina State residence hall on Monday - as campus returns following a year that saw 14 student deaths.
Students returning to NC State on Monday saw police tape around Sullivan Residence Hall on the Raleigh campus as officers investigated the death of a male student.
Last year, NC State saw 14 deaths, including seven by suicide. Two deaths were overdoses, one by car wreck and four were 'natural causes.'
Students on campus fear this year may be no different, with another death just two weeks after returning to campus.
‘It gave me this dark feeling,’ Sullivan House resident Matthew Davis told ABC 11.
‘That could be somebody I know. It could be anybody.’
For this academic year, NC State increased its mental health clinicians from 35 to 50 in the face of a furious student backlash as the deaths mounted last year.
It set up a mental health task force that concluded ‘there is not only room for, but also a need for, additional efforts’.
But Vice Chancellor and Dean Doneka Scott insisted that ‘100 or 1,000 counselors’ would not resolve the crisis.
‘Institutions across the country are grappling with this,' she told ABC in May.
‘This is not an NC State-only issue, it's an issue in higher education writ large.’
The university averaged eight student deaths a year, including three by suicide, among its 36,000 students before last year’s spike.
Seven of last year’s deaths, including three of the suicides, were at NC’s School of Engineering.
Many of the students housed in Sullivan Residence Hall are engineering students.
‘I'm just a freshman, so it just makes me put everything into perspective and think about everything differently and just see everything differently,’ Davis said.
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That whole campus could use an experienced Exorcist.
14 deaths in a year could simply be a string of bad luck and misfortune, or it could be a case of summoned evil.
No, it's probably young White males committing the majority of the (successful) suicides. Why does the article assiduously avoid mentioning this salient fact?
Esp. given the fact that the article states that most of the suicide victims were from the School of Engineering, where males surely predominant.
Somehow I knew that it wouldn't be young Black women from the Dept. of Grievance Studies.
Regards,
Wow that’s kinda freaky
” I’m just a freshman, but somebody else’s death is all about me. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me me me.”
My niece just started her first year at NCU despite my protestations about going to college. Her only qualm so far, is black spiders in the trees at night.
I wonder how 14 deaths out of 36,000 students compares to the general mortality statistics for the demographic group represented.
Wow...in the 1990s at KU all 4 years there were about 6 deaths: 2 from meningitis; drunk driving; overdose; alcohol poisoning and a suicide. May have been a few more but deaths on campus were rare.
Not the same. Is it "probably" or is it a "fact." Maybe that's why they haven't mentioned it.
I know.
They should report the facts - all the salient facts.
I can't believe that the suicides are evenly spread across all ethnic groups, both sexes, etc.
I commend them for at least mentioning the cluster among Engineering students.
Regards,
4 of those 14 were of “natural causes” (vax mandates?)
2 of those 14 were of drug overdoses.
That leaves 8 deaths, 1 by a car wreck, and 7 suicides.
Of 36,000 students, 9 killed themselves, 7 on purpose. That’s in line with their history of 8 a year, minus the “natural causes” (vax mandates?).
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