Enclosed Spaces Do Wonders For Depression
From NYU's Washington Square News comes word of new measures designed to keep students alive:
Students will no longer have balcony access at Carlyle Court and Coral Towers dorms starting in the summer, after NYU closes them in a move designed to prevent suicide, university officials said yesterday.
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Though none of the five recent suicides occurred at an NYU dorm, NYU is targeting the dorms because some suicide-prevention experts suggest that controlling the means to commit suicide is an effective method of preventing it.
Next, NYU to eliminate ovens, stones, and rivers.