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My name is Jordan Kissner.
I'm a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and I've been teaching writing to university students for most of the last ten years.
This week's Sunday read is my story for the magazine about a cluster of suicides that struck a small university in Massachusetts between 2021 and 2022.
I wrote about how the mental health crisis among college age students is affecting the staff who teach and care for them, and how it's shaping the broader institution of college in the United States.
So in the summer of 2021, students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, which is a stem focused university of about 5000 undergraduates, received an email from their administration.
A rising senior had died, and the Boston Globe later reported it as a suicide.
Then, a few days before classes started, news of a second suicide appeared in the students inboxes.
And then, by the end of September, a third.
It was every academic institution's worst nightmare, a row of self inflicted student deaths proceeding more or less, with one death a month.
For six months, the students who took their lives hadn't really shown any of the conventional warning signs.
There was this helpless feeling among professors.
Any of their students could be at lethal risk, and they might not know.
And one terrifying aspect of a suicide cluster like this is that you never know if another death is coming or when.