February 25, 2000

Elite Colleges Struggle to Prevent Student Suicides

By BEN GOSE

Counseling centers are flooded, but some students still slip through the cracks

By Eric Plosky's count, at least 16 students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have committed suicide in the past 15 years. Mr. Plosky, who graduated from M.I.T. in June, compiled the total by searching the archives of The Tech, the student newspaper, after students leaped to their deaths from campus buildings in March 1998 and February 1999. He added No. 16 to the list

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