Three students have died by suicide this semester at a New Jersey university, sparking criticism about mental health resources

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Social media users identifying themselves as current students and alumni of Rowan University in southern New Jersey have criticized the school for not doing more to help students with mental health problems after an unusual recent spike in student suicides

The most recent suicide -- the third of the current semester -- happened the day after Thanksgiving, rocking the 19,600-student university in Glassboro."Losing three students in one semester is beyond description," Rowan University President Ali Houshmand told CNN."How do you look into the faces of the parents of these kids?"Houshmand said the number was unusually high for a single semester.

Hall said she decided to organize the event"in memory of my friend and others, because I wanted to say that we didn't forget about them."Deaths have sparked criticism on social mediaAt least a handful of current and former students have posted online comments critical of the university's mental health resources.Lauren Kubiak, who graduated from Rowan University May 2018, said on Twitter she believes the school doesn't have enough counselors available to students.

 

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(1) Whatever the , its too many, & its not Rowan specific. Mental health challenges exist on many campuses. The pressure to succeed, to distinguish oneself, the whole all above avg thing, needs refinement. Parents, help calibrate your kids that its not easy and it work.

Unfortunately, this generation was not allowed to fail, to fall out of a tree and break an arm, to lose... To learn that failure can and must be overcome. To learn how to survive and thrive after falling down. Sadly, it's no wonder these kids become depressed.

PLEASE DON'T PUT ANY RUSSIAN REPUBLICANS ON TV BECAUSE THEY WANT TO SPREAD DISINFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA ON EVERY NETWORK!!

[Jhn 14:6 NKJV] 6 Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

The degeneration of the society, now in the open and seeping to the surface, is the real cause of this. Start with free porn and deviant sexual behaviours being pushed onto children.

People are losing hope because the country has turned it's back on God. When the nation turns back to God, the mental anguish will subside to some extent.

There are a lot at my kids university too. Cornell has the highest of them all I think.

That is their choice, if you want to help first check at their background.

three? that many people died at my college every weekend

We pray against the spirit of death in Rowan University. God can heal and he will heal your minds completely!!

Americans across nation are being hit w/ souls crushing mental debates. even if they dont know it right now. Uncertainty & lies being told do hurt your mind. Folks raised in faith & ethical lives are watching crime & vanity eat their decent nation. Thats CultGOPs plan. sedition.

They should assign each student the own personal guardian, at tax payer expense. - Democrats,

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