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2007-08-13
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2007-08-13 09:12:56
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Brent Jesiek
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Brent Jesiek
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2007-08-13
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A pile of mementos in front of construction fencing at the intermediate memorial site. At the time of this photo, staff members and volunteers were cleaning up the site, moving some items to storage and others to the newly completed center of the memorial. Photo taken July 6, 2007.
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Memorial Mementos
construction
mementos
intermediate memorial
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2008-03-20
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2008-03-20 18:07:24
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Kacey Beddoes
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Brent Jesiek
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2008-03-20
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(April 18, 2007) Memorial on edge of drillfield; Torgersen Hall behind.
Photo courtesy of Brent Jesiek.
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Memorial on drillfield
candles
Drillfield
memorial
message board
torgerson
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2008-05-23
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2008-05-23 16:03:39
Still Image
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Kacey Beddoes
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2008-05-23
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A Memorial Plaque that says:
"April 16 Memorial
THIS MEMORIAL TO THOSE LOST ON APRIL 16, 2007, WAS INSPIRED BY A SPONTANEOUS ARRANGEMENT OF 32 HOKIE STONES - THE CORNERSTONE OF BUILDINGS THROUGHOUT CAMPUS - CREATED BY GRIEVING STUDENTS FOLLOWING THE TRAGEDY. TODAY, THE MEMORIAL STANDS BOTH AS TESTIMONY TO THE HOKIE SPIRIT AND SENSE OF COMMUNITY THAT AROSE WITHIN ALL MEMBERS OF THE VIRGINIA TECH FAMILY, AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE 32 INQUIRING MINDS AND INSPIRING LIVES THAT WILL BE FOREVER TREASURED.
DEDICATED AUGUST 19TH 2007"
Photo taken at the April 16 Memorial on April 15, 2008.
Photo by Brent Jesiek.
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Brent Jesiek (bjesiek@vt.edu)
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Memorial Plaque
anniversary
memorial plaque
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2007-06-17
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2007-06-17 15:21:11
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Brent Jesiek
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Brent Jesiek
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2007-06-17
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Construction of an intermediate memorial in front of Burruss Hall is currently underway. The full text of the Memorial Project Notice visible in the foreground is available in this Virginia Tech News Story: <a href="http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2007&itemno=333">"University announces plans for intermediate and permanent memorial to honor victims of April 16 tragedy"</a>. Photo taken Thursday, June 14.
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Memorial Project Notice
burruss
construction
intermediate memorial
memorial project
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2008-03-26
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2008-03-26 16:04:25
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Kacey Beddoes
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Roger Gupta
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2008-03-26
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Memorial balloons released at English field before the game on on March 18, 2008.
Photo by Roger Gupta.
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Memorial ribbon balloons
balloons
baseball game
english field
yankees
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2007-07-11
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2007-07-11 16:13:00
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Chad Newswander
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Mollie Adams
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2007-07-11
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Memorial ribbons hang outside the tent that holds the signed message boards.
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Memorial Ribbons
memorial
message boards
messages
ribbon
signed boards
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2007-08-15
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2007-08-15 14:09:59
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Na Mi
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Yucheng Ying
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2007-08-15
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A lot of wreathes and flowers were placed besides the Norris Hall. People also wrote solace messages on the posters and set them with the flowers.
Photo taken April 24,2007
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eng
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Memorial site besides the Norris Hall
flowers
solace
the norris hall
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2007-08-14
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2007-08-14 11:18:50
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Na Mi
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2007-08-14
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A memorial site for one of the victims whose name is Daniel Perez Cueva,around the Hokie stone on the drillfield.
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eng
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Memorial site for Daniel Perez Cueva
daniel perez cueva
Drillfield
Hokie stone
memorial site
perez
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2008-03-20
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2008-03-20 22:41:04
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Kacey Beddoes
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Brent Jesiek
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2008-03-20
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(April 19, 2007)
32 stones like this - one for each of the deceased - are arranged in a semi-circle in front of the largest memorial, on the drillfield in front of Burruss Hall.
Photo courtesy of Brent Jesiek.
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Brent Jesiek
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Memorial stone
Drillfield
flower
memorial
stone
vt flag
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https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/Virginia Tech Recovers- April 19,2007 My First Day_343d6914da.jpg
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2008-04-21
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2008-04-21 17:05:48
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Kacey Beddoes
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Teri H. Hoover
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2008-04-21
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Drillfield memorial stones and Burruss Hall on 4-19-07.
Photo by Teri H. Hoover.
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Teri H. Hoover <crystalirisphotos@gmail.com>
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Memorial stones
burruss
Drillfield
memorial
stones
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2008-05-30
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2008-05-30 09:21:56
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Kacey Beddoes
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Brent Jesiek
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2008-05-30
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Memorial stones dry in the sun on the afternoon of April 16, 2008, A Day of Remembrance. The stones were painted at a "Remembering Through Art Creation" event in Squires Student Center.
Photo by Brent Jesiek.
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Brent Jesiek (bjesiek@vt.edu)
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Memorial Stones
anniversary
remembering through art
stones
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https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/Yale Daily News - Memorials are a positive force after tragedy_fb3b67710c.pdf
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2007-06-11
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2007-06-11 23:44:01
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Sara Hood
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Danielle Tumminio
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2007-06-11
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Published: Thursday, May 3, 2007
Opinion articles
Danielle Tumminio
Guest Column
4/17/07. When students from Virginia Tech struggled to make sense of the horror that struck their campus last week, they erected a banner on their student center with the date of the massacre. It provided a reminder of a time and a place, a way to express a trauma through white lettering on black canvas. It was an attempt to remember.
Theirs is not the first — nor, unfortunately, will it be the last — commemoration of a tragedy. This desire to remember seems built into us. We sing, sculpt, hold one another, dance, write poems and pray in order to find solace in our most tumultuous moments. Using these forms, we try to incorporate trauma into our lives so that we can give meaning to events that feel meaningless. If we're going to move forward from the horrors we experience, this process seems essential. Otherwise, evil becomes something like a dangling participle not properly integrated into a sentence. It hangs there, and it has, quite literally, the last word. There's no hope in a worldview like that.
So through our memorials, we try to find meaning. Perhaps that's why our nation's capital is peppered with commemorations of wars and those who represented our country in them. Through carved stone, we remember our history. Likewise, after the Columbine shootings, students draped flowers over Rachel Scott's car and sat on its hood, sobbing in grief. Leaning against red Acuras, we remember our loves. Or following Hurricane Katrina, memorial services were held in worship spaces across the country. In our religious homes, we remember the possibility of hope.
But if there are right ways to remember, there are certainly wrong ways to remember as well. "Just move on" and "It's time to get over it" are common phrases in our culture, and they imply that the only way to recover from a traumatic event is to forget it.
The trouble with these cliches is that they conflate remembering with reliving. Reliving traps us in the past, keeps us from existing in the present and building hope for the future. But remembering is different: It is the means by which, again and again, we try to defeat pointless horrors by giving them some perspective. That's the transformation that must occur if we are to prevent the dangling-participle problem.
This power of memorializing is something I've experienced in my own life. I was a junior at Yale on Sept. 11, 2001. I remember that the phone lines were down, and I couldn't call my family. When the trains were running again, I returned to the New York suburb in which I grew up. I felt isolated and frightened. When the Amtrak drew near Manhattan, the train slowed and passengers huddled near the windows, gazing upon a skyline that had changed forever. It looked tilted — just like my reality — even though rising grey smoke held the place where the towers once stood. Then the conductor asked us to keep a moment of silence, and it became our memorial, our remembrance of a horror that shaped our lives. They were strangers on that train, but they shared something with me — they were mourning, too — and they became my community at a time when I felt profoundly protected. In that memorial, I was offered a sign of hope that I was not alone. I will never forget that, nor should I.
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, I, and so many others, observed endless memorials. Some were noble, some bittersweet and some gut-wrenching: signs for missing people in Grand Central Terminal, military planes that kept watch over Manhattan with their deafening drones, chaplains for the cleanup crews and the putrid stench from the pyre of the Twin Towers. Those memorials challenged and changed our understanding of a horror. The same goes for the students at Virginia Tech. As they wear their school colors and attend candlelight vigils and invite a nation to mourn with them, they bear witness to nightmare. That experience will transform them, in their grieving and their remembering, in their hope and their search to make sense of the insensible. To forget the tragedy would be to forget who they were, who they are and whom they will become. But how they remember is their choice.
9/11/2001. 4/20/1999. 8/23/2005. 4/16/2007. These are the dates that form us. These are the dates that are seared into our memories. These are the dates we cannot — and should not — forget.
Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio is a 2003 graduate of Yale College and a fourth-year student at the Yale Divinity School.
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Original Source: <a href=http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/21058> Yale Daily News - May 3, 2007 </a>
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Yale Daily News, Editor-in-chief - Sarah Mishkin <sarah.mishkin@gmail.com>
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Memorials are a positive force after tragedy
memorials
yale
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2007-06-11
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2007-06-11 15:00:09
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Chad Newswander
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Paul Trumble
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2007-06-11
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Items are laid outside of Norris Hall in remembrance.
Original source: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paultrumble/468800615/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/paultrumble/468800615/</a>
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eng
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Permission:
Paul Trumble
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paultrumble/468800615/
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Memorials at Norris Hall
flowers
memorial
Norris
-
https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/Chapel_80a7809779.jpg
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2007-05-29
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A teddy bear and an angel are placed outside the War Memorial Chapel.
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Flowers are laid at the War Memorial Chapel to mourn the victims.
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People bring flowers and balloons to the drillfield, in order to mourning for the victims.
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People came to the Squire Student Center with flowers and balloons to mourn for the victims on April 19.
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Students, staff and faculty at University of Toronto Mississauga signing a memory book to be sent to Virginia Tech.
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4-30-07
<b>Mental Health is Everyone's Business: Historical Reflections on the Virginia Tech Shootings
By Heather Munro Prescott</b>
<i>Ms. Prescott is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. Her book, Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services on American Society and Medicine will be published by University of Michigan Press in Fall 2007.</i>
<i>A man's college days, collectively, are usually his happiest. Most of mine were not happy. </i>--Clifford Whittingham Beers, <i>A Mind That Found Itself </i>(1908)
Clifford Whittingham Beers's words came to mind as I followed the news coverage of Cho Seung-Hui's shooting rampage at Virginia Tech last week. I empathized with the victims and their families and for the community; it was a tragic and terrible loss of life. As the days wore on, I began to have another reaction to the events. Since I am a historian and a client of mental health services, the heated discussions about what to do with "deranged" students like Cho that appeared in various mainstream media seemed all too reminiscent of earlier incidents of discrimination against mentally ill individuals. One especially troubling article by crime novelist and psychologist <a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009977">Jonathan Kellerman in the Wall Street Journal</a>, placed the blame for the shootings on the anti-psychiatry and deinstitutionalization movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He argued for stricter laws for involuntarily committing students exhibiting disturbing thoughts or behavior, declaring it was better to "err on the side of public safety rather than protect individual liberty at all costs." This cavalier attitude, combined with the sensationalistic footage of the "madman" on NBC, seemed to me a step backward in a century-long battle to safeguard the civil rights and enhance the public's understanding of mentally ill individuals.
<i>A Mind That Found Itself</i> represented a landmark in this struggle. Likened to <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i> in its vivid description of the horrors of asylum life, the book launched a nationwide movement to reform institutions for the mentally ill. Beers, along with other Progressive Era reformers such as Jane Addams and Julia Lathrop, went on to form the National Committee for Mental Hygiene (NCMH). This organization aimed to take psychiatry beyond the asylum walls and use the discipline to address problems in homes, workplaces, schools, and other institutions. Like other public health organizations at this time, the NCMH aimed their preventive efforts at youth in schools and colleges, believing intervention was most effective during adolescence when the personality was most malleable.
Supporting the work of the NCMH were studies of psychiatric problems among soldiers during the Great War. According to Dr. Stewart Paton, a lecturer in neurobiology at Princeton University and a former member of the American Expeditionary Forces Medical Corps, "Peace no less than War produces 'shell shock.' " By the late 1920s, Princeton and at least twenty other private and public colleges and universities had added mental hygiene to their health services on at least a part-time basis.
Establishing counseling services on the college level was not easy, however. Despite the efforts of Beers and the NCMH, mental illnesses, even minor ones, still carried an overwhelming social stigma. Indeed, it was during the 1920s that many states passed laws calling for the involuntary sterilization of "mental defectives." Another formidable obstacle was opposition from faculty members, who believed that mental hygiene services were simply coddling students who could not meet academic standards. Yet diligence by college mental health experts, as well as a high incidence of psychiatric problems in the military during the Second World War, provided additional justification for counseling programs for the nation's young people. The 1947 report issued by President Truman's Commission on Higher Education lent further support, arguing that these institutions should not only train the intellect, but also foster emotional growth and social adjustment. Dana Farnsworth, Director of Harvard University Health Services, argued in 1954 that mental health was not only the responsibility of health care professionals, but was everybody's business. This included students themselves, whom he believed should play a role in planning and organizing health services.
Farnsworth's call for a student-centered health service would have unintended consequences in the ensuing decade, as students demanded freedom from "institutionalized paternalism," which permitted campus health centers to release confidential patient information to other campus officials, parents, and prospective employers. At this time, homosexuality was still considered a mental illness, and grounds for dismissal from many colleges as well as exclusion from the U.S. military and civil service.
Some campus psychiatrists, including Farnsworth, blamed student uprisings on permissive parenting that caused a growing gap between intellectual and emotional maturity in late adolescence. Robert Coles, a research psychiatrist from the Harvard University Health Service, and Joseph Brenner, a physician from the M.I.T. health service, who served as medical staff for the Mississippi Summer Project in 1964, challenged this viewpoint. They found that the student volunteers were far from "immature" or "psychopathic." Rather, most student volunteers displayed extraordinary bravery in the face of constant danger, serving as exemplars for mental health professionals on how to advance human dignity and freedom. This activism by students and sympathetic professionals contributed to the passage of the Family Educational and Privacy Act of 1974, which was intended to protect students' rights to privacy.
The passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990 provided further protections for mentally ill students. Earlier this year, Virginia became the first state in the nation to pass legislation prohibiting colleges and universities from expelling or punishing students "solely for attempting to commit suicide, or seeking mental-health treatment for suicidal thoughts or behaviors." Last week's tragedy has caused many to consider revoking this law. If accomplished, this measure would be a major setback in the history of mental health services on college campuses. Not only is it impossible to predict which emotionally disturbed students will commit violent acts, the threat of sanction would deter mentally ill students from seeking treatment. It also overlooks larger structural problems, including cutbacks to student counseling services, lack of insurance coverage, and most importantly, persistent cultural myths about mental illness that prevent troubled individuals from obtaining the help they need. The time has come to heed Beers's call, cease stigmatizing the mentally ill, and provide full access to the supportive mental health services that all Americans deserve.
<b>Related Links</b>
<a href="http://hnn.us/articles/37806.html">HNN Hot Topics: School Shootings</a>
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Published: Friday, April 27, 2007
Maggie Reid
Staff Reporter
In her sophomore year at Yale, Naasiha Siddiqui '07 found herself facing more problems than just the sophomore slump. Siddiqui was severely depressed, and when she checked into the Mental Hygiene Department at University Health Services, she was forced to leave school on medical withdrawal. Ever since, she has struggled to balance manic depression with a college career — taking three forced withdrawals and one voluntary leave of absence, and applying for readmission five times.
"I was really frustrated," she said, referring to her first forced withdrawal in the fall of 2001. "Their attitude was, 'She's unstable, we don't want her at school right now.' In one respect, it seemed like discrimination because I was doing all I could to try to stay in school. But on the other hand, the administration should have some say over when students aren't fit to go to school."
Mental illness has long been a hot-button issue on college campuses, but in the wake of this month's shootings at Virginia Tech, even greater scrutiny has been placed on university support systems for students with psychological illnesses. At Yale, the Mental Hygiene Department specializes in counseling and crisis intervention for suicide and depression cases. But in seeking to protect the psychological health of its students, Yale's mental health services must walk the fine line between enabling students to receive treatment while remaining in school and protecting the student's health and safety — or the health and safety of others — by sending seriously depressed students off campus.
For the most part, universities across the country find themselves in a sticky situation with regard to mentally ill students. Universities may be found liable if they fail to detect and respond to cases that result in suicide or murder. But privacy and anti-discrimination laws limit the amount of information about students' mental health to which administrators have access, and the laws may prevent administrators from forcing students to take involuntary medical leaves.
In general, the laws forbid universities from disclosing information about a student's health records to parents or administrators, including residential college deans and masters, without the student's consent. The exception comes when health officials believe that the health and safety of the student or of others are at risk. But Yale administrators said the definition of such an emergency is often blurry.
Because of the subjectivity of such cases, the decision whether or not to force a student to withdraw is made on a case-by-case basis, YUHS Chief Psychiatrist Lorraine Siggins said.
"Most students who take a medical withdrawal ask for it themselves," Siggins said. "However, occasionally a student who had attempted suicide and is considered to be a danger to self and others is asked to take time away from school for treatment and to get their mental health issues stabilized."
According to University policy, if a student is forced to withdraw for mental health reasons, he or she may not reapply until two semesters have passed, including the one during which he or she left. With such serious consequences, administrators said, withdrawal cannot be forced simply based on strange behavior or a possible diagnosis of mental illness, Siggins said.
Yale officials said the forced withdrawal policy serves the best interests of vulnerable and potentially reckless students. When students are severely mentally unstable, Siggins said, they can lack the presence of mind to voluntarily seek the medical help and time away from campus that they need to resolve health issues.
But Siggins said students are expected, as dictated by University regulations, to return to school as soon as doctors confirm that they have recovered.
The YUHS Mental Hygiene Department seeks to address mental health problems before they reach the point of necessitating a forced withdrawal. It offers mental health and counseling services to all enrolled students throughout the year, Siggins said, and because mental health issues can be dangerous and pressing, the department makes a concerted effort to be easily accessible, providing an on-duty psychiatrist 24 hours a day.
"In the course of an academic year, we see between 16 percent and 20 percent of the student body," Siggins said. "For students who have continuing mental health problems, we can provide treatment throughout the year."
But although officials say Yale's mental health counseling program focuses on reaching students before they reach a crisis point, Yalies who have gone through counseling at the Mental Hygiene Department said that Yale could do a better job of removing barriers to getting help.
Susan* voluntarily entered the counseling program at YUHS during the first semester of her sophomore year. Although she told them she needed immediate attention for urgent anxiety and depression, she had to wait over a week before she was allowed to see a therapist, instead meeting first with a clinical social worker.
"Unless you are suicidal, they make it very difficult to see someone," Susan said. "This is particularly scary when it comes to mental hygiene problems."
Susan said the narrow-minded focus on suicide detection to the exclusion of other problems deterred her from using campus psychiatrists and led her to consult a therapist in a different state whom she can only visit once a month.
But she added that though it can be difficult to get an initial appointment, once a student has made an first visit to the YUHS clinic, it becomes easy to get further appointments with a therapist.
Siddiqui said the prospect of being forced to withdraw can also prevent students from going to seek help.
"Mental hygiene can be very alienating," Siddiqui said. "Since I had my experience, a lot of my friends have been afraid to go to mental hygiene because they don't want to get kicked out of school. It's not a very welcoming place."
Some students said the mental health department is too quick to act in cases of suspected depression. One student who had been referred to a YUHS psychiatrist said that fear of liability in the event of a suicide or murder makes Yale administrators move too swiftly to hospitalize or force the withdrawal of a student.
During a psychiatry session, Ryan,* a junior at Yale who has withdrawn because of his bipolar disorder, said the therapist kept asking him if he ever had suicidal thoughts, and specifically if he was drawn to sharp objects or tempted to hurt himself. Ryan said that though he ultimately was given a choice whether to withdraw, officials pressured him to do so.
While the attention to suicide might be helpful in preventing crisis situations, Ryan said, the manner in which it was addressed was unhelpful.
"I might have been suicidal, but I wasn't looking to withdraw," Ryan said.
Ryan said that he has seen private psychiatrists who never mentioned hospitalization, but that college doctors are more ready to hospitalize their patients because of the fear of liability in the case of a suicide.
Outside the examining rooms of health services departments, universities often find it difficult to determine when psychiatric help is warranted, since it is difficult to know when a student's erratic behavior stems from mental illness rather than the vagaries of ordinary college life. Though Yale prides itself on providing many levels of supervision, from peers and professors to the residential college system, some students worry that this method of observation and personal counseling is not necessarily effective.
"I talked to my master and dean about my problems, but they didn't even notice anything was wrong before I brought it up," Susan said.
In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, deans and freshman counselors have discussed the protocols already in place to deal with students who may seem to have psychological problems.
Freshman counselors in Branford and Silliman said they discussed mental health risks at their weekly meetings with their deans last Monday. But their rules about watchfulness or guidance did not change in the aftermath of the shootings, counselors said.
"We talked about the incident, but we did not get any official instructions," freshman counselor Amy Broadbent '07 said.
Although there is no specific protocol for the freshmen counselors to follow if they become aware of a possible mental health issue, they said they are trained to talk to students who come to them with problems and to take them to see professionals at YUHS. Counselors said they deal with mental health issues on a case-by-case basis, and have confronted problems ranging from severe depression to slight anxiety over classes or relationships.
"We have liaisons in the mental health department if we have any questions or to help us navigate the bureaucracy," said Howard Locker '07, a freshman counselor in Silliman. "The dean did not specifically tell us to be more on the lookout [after Virginia Tech], it's something I think most counselors are innately attuned to do in the wake of such a tragedy."
Siggins said that although 90 percent of the students who come in for therapy do so on their own, the rest usually come to the clinic at the suggestion of their deans, coaches or friends. But she said there is no difference in the amount of attention paid to students based on how they were referred.
"We always take student peer concerns very seriously," Siggins said. "We treat each student on an individual basis."
*The names of some students have been changed to protect their medical information.
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Original Source: <a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/20991"> Yale Daily News - April 27, 2007 </a>
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