Posted on 03/16/2010 3:08:47 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
So far this year, three Cornell students have leaped to their deaths in the famed gorges of Ithaca. This comes a year after a graduate from a decade ago was found dead at the bottom of one of them after having inexplicably returned to campus.
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Yeah, I clicked on this thread just to see if I could divine what was meant by that. Nice editing, huh.
Laut graduated from Columbia U. School of Bidness.
I think it’s the fact that the current generation was brought up on phony self esteem. Now they are in a competitive environment and lack the coping skills to deal.
Plenty of places to go ‘splat’ around Ithaca...I recall a long swinging bridge over a deep gorge just outside of downtown...gave me the willies just to walk over it. Jumping from that would do the job...hike to the top of Taughannock Falls, and jump...better than 200 feet to the rocks below. Try not to land on hikers at base of falls, though...
**Sounds like Cornell is doing a pretty poor job of instilling self esteem in their students.**
But AlBore’s LOUSY MOVIE is required viewing.. I think in EVERY CLASS or at least MOST of them.
A young lady I met, came to Cornell for a 5 day symposium on “the English translations of Renaissance Italian Literature”.. Day one ... AlBore’s movie... Day two ... Lecture on the Evils of Capitalism and American Culture in General.. she Complained about it all the way to the Airport on day 3
Didn’t make sense to me either.
your backyard PING..
doesn’t the competitive environment start AFTER college?
I was once introduced to an emeritus professor at Cornell in his 90s who lived in a very large house near the Fall Creek gorge. I was told at the time that he owned some land that encompassed part of the gorge and that he wanted to donate it to Cornell but they had refused to accept it because of the added liability.
Too true. Add to that no belief or faith in a higher power for support.
This is on the front page of the NY Times today.
“Actually I blame the university. The climate of the place is such that every one is finger pointing and one upping each other.”
Not everywhere - the culture significantly varies by college and department. And frankly, some aspects of the university culture is imported from the big cities, and some widespread nihilistic aspects of youth culture are unfortunately well represented here. But nothing explains the situation fully; depression lies very effectively to those suffering from it.
It is a heartbreaking time, especially for the families.
Yes, no question. There seems to be no common cause that drives a person to suicide. The pressures are very much to the individual.
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