CNN Report on Cornell Suicides

You can find the full video and related article here. You’ll find lots of original pieces of information that weren’t included in the articles that were run by other major news outlets.

Skorton provides a good response to the  reporter’s question about the reputation of Cornell as a suicide school: “There will be plenty of time to worry about our reputation later. What I’m worried about is the next student in distress.” He also openly states that he does consider Cornell to be in a crisis situation, and that the university is doing everything it can to guarantee the well being of its university.

The video also includes an interview with the parents of Bradley Ginsburg ’13, who say that they are not convinced that their son committed suicide on February 17.

Update: After scanning through a number of Cornell related articles around the internet and blogosphere, I discovered that this is not the only article that says there have been six suicides this academic year at Cornell. The CNN article says that in addition to the two most recent suicides, “Cornell officials had previously said authorities confirmed four other deaths at the school as suicides.” Except for Bradley Ginsburg, all three other deaths (presumably they are talking about Boon Jim Lim ’13, Lucas Wooster, and one other person) have not officially been ruled as suicides by the university. Perhaps a reporter just assumed somewhere, or did a university official accidentally admit the truth about the previously undisclosed causes of death?