A wave of suicides at a major U.S. university spotlights the growing, under-addressed mental health crisis for younger Americans.
Ironically, the mourning and anger at NC State came as America was much more focused on a different and alsoat U.S. universities — the gunman who walked into two buildings at Michigan State University on Monday
Our body politic — our fickle news media in particular — is hard-wired to at least focus for a short while on a mass shooting like what took place in East Lansing and cover its rituals like the, even if we’re mostly incapable of doing anything about the problem. When it comes to a slow-motion tragedy such as campus-wide depression and suicide, we seem to lack not just the attention span but the right language to talk about it.
But what is behind it? To paraphrase James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, “whaddya got?” We already mentioned the constant threat of gun violence, like what erupted in Michigan — just one of the political problems of a fractured and increasingly broken America that intrude on campus life.
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