April 7, 2000

Preventing Student Suicide

To the Editor:

The title of Ben Gose's article "Elite Colleges Struggle to Prevent Student Suicides" may lead some readers to conclude that suicide is a problem only at the most competitive colleges and universities (February 25). But the truth is, as Gose suggests, that suicide is a problem at all institutions of higher learning. Indeed, as Kay Redfield Jamison points out in Night Falls Fast, although the suicide rate increases with age, it is a leading cause

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