Dartmouth College student suicides force reflection on pandemic policies
“It was isolation like I’d never known isolation. Students inscribed the initials of first year Connor Tiffany in the pavement behind the dorm, where he lived on campus in the fall, his first and only term on campus. Tiffany, 18, of Virginia, died in March. Boston Globe Photo Import
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After three first-year students committed suicide in one year, Dartmouth College students are criticizing the school’s management of the pandemic and advocating for better mental health support.
Students are expressing their outrage through op-eds, memorial vigils, and graffiti outside college President Phil Hanlon’s house that reads, “Paint is impermanent, loss of life is forever,” and “3 deaths too many.”
Dartmouth College freshman Elizabeth Reimer received an email May 19 from an assistant dean warning her of a looming deadline for a non-recording grade option. The administrator explained that she could withdraw from the course, a first-year seminar,.
Four Dartmouth College students have died this school year. Three were freshmen and at least two of them died by suicide. Another student died of non-COVID
Dartmouth College freshman Elizabeth Reimer received an email May 19 from an assistant dean warning her of a looming deadline for a non-recording grade option. The administrator explained that she could withdraw from the course, a first-year seminar,.
HANOVER Dartmouth College students are calling on school administrators to do more to support their mental health and to allow them to grieve following the death of a fourth student this academic year.While they welcomed the changes the college.