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- From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
- Subject: Re: Some Real Folklore
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 23:40:56 GMT
- Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
- Lines: 53
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- References: <1992Nov19.012349.16219@rchland.ibm.com>
- Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
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- jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
-
- +Do you think that college Deans and Presidents have the
- +power to cover up certain "unfavorable" incidents that
- +happen on campus?
- +
- +While I attended the University of North Dakota, I never
- +once heard of a student who committed suicide. This
- +seems strange since there are 11,000 students at UND and
- +I attended 5 years.
- +
- +I began to think that the university was keeping the news
- +out of the papers and off of the TV somehow, but don't have
- +any real proof.
- +
- +Does anybody know the suicide rates for the 18-24 age group?
-
- I don't have national data for the 18-24 age group but for the
- 15-24 age group in 1988 there were approximately 4,900 total deaths
- from suicide. The national rate of suicide based on 1989 data is
- 13.2 per 100,000 for this age group. BTW, the rate of death by
- suicide for North Dakota is 10.6 per 100,000. Which is on the
- low side.
-
- Several possibilities come to mind:
-
- - UND students commit suicide, but only those from out of state
- where it's less likely to be reported. Of course, these are
- less likely to be reported as suicides to the general campus
- population. [I don't know the number of out of state students
- for UND, but I would expect it to be relatively low.]
-
- - You were there during a string of good years where the student
- population earned a relatively high GPA thus obviating the
- need for "suicides."
-
- - Everyone was stoned during that period and thus saw no need
- for suicide (and probably couldn't competently execute any
- plans to do so if they felt so inclined).
-
- - UND is a secret alien base populated by aliens with incredibly
- robust constitutions and excellent dexterity thus you were the
- person wondering about suicide.
-
- - There may have been 1 or two but you missed it.
-
- - There may not have been any.
-
- Terry "Only the college presidents that have college level CIAs" Chan
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