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To: Peter J. Huss
" ...One indication that not all soldiers in Iraq are happy warriors is the report recently released by the Army showing that 23 of them committed suicide there last year. This is a dismaying figure. If 22 young men and one woman killed themselves because they couldn't take it, think how many more are desperately unhappy but unwilling to die. "

Anybody know how many NYU students and students from other colleges killed themselves in the last year? Why don't we point our fingers at the university ruling elite for this?

-- Joe
23 posted on 04/12/2004 12:30:31 PM PDT by Joe Republc
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To: Joe Republc
I found the following facts after a quick Google search. Apparently too many college students do not want to be in college, and should be sent back to their parent's homes.

Suicide is the second leading killer of college students - with an estimated 7.5 deaths per 100,000 students per year, according to a study of Big 10 campuses from 1980 to 1990.

Nationally, an estimated 1,000 college students -- out of a total of 15 million -- take their own lives each year.

71 posted on 04/12/2004 12:59:44 PM PDT by T.Smith
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