Sky Valley Chronicle Washington State News | “WAVE” OF STUDENT SUICIDES AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Sky Valley Chronicle Washington State News | BREAKING NEWS | “WAVE” OF STUDENT SUICIDES AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

(ITHACA, NEW YORK) — What is described as “a wave of suicides” at Cornell University in the past two semesters is a serious “public health crisis,” according to the school’s mental health initiatives director Timothy Marchell who added the school was “not out of the woods yet.”

The Ithaca New York Police Department reported four student suicides during the fall 2009 semester, and at least two over the last two months.

It’s a departure for Charlies Web Teams to publish this story, but I felt the need.

Recent reports of two celebrity children dying at their own hands made the news and I lost my cousin under similar circumstances last month as well. Soon after tweeting about my cousin, I received a new follower on Twitter. Now that person has started her own blog here,
I am a survivor… here’s my story on Blogger!

All of this prompted me to add the SocialVibe widget for “To Write Love On Her Arms” a charity which supports suicide prevention. While not a typical Charlies Web venture and NOT distributed computing, folks can click through to SocialVibe and help me support these efforts. While they are there, they may find a charity they would like to help as well.

 

VIPRE Antivirus Twitter Giveaway

VIPRE Antivirus Twitter Giveaway.

Attention Tweeples

Send a shout out to all your followers Tuesday March 2, 2010 and inform them of VIPRE 4.0 and earn yourself a free license!

 

There but for the grace…

I found myself drawn to the report of the missing actor immediately for reasons I could not voice.

I’d been busy fine tuning the various social-networking accounts I’d recently set up and the associated apps that went with them when the update to Twitter first appeared – probably from CNN or one of the local TV channels I monitor.

We soon learned his name, Andrew Koenig and that he appeared on the T.V. show, Growing Pains. I did not yet equate the last name with the actor we knew and loved as Pavel Chekov from the original Star Trek! Has it really been forty years?!

I was somewhat surprised that one of Lost‘s producers, Damon Lindelof, took a swipe at the media for:

DamonLindelof: Do you have to mention he played “Boner” in every damn news story? Seriously. Have some respect.

and forgetting to not bite the hand that feeds him. Being in the business, he should know how these things work.

I learned that Andrew’s Dad, Walter had a website, but learned nothing new there, so I bookmarked it for future reference. It wasn’t until I ran into Levar Burton‘s tweet when it all came together – the loss, the camaraderie, and family, real or imagined, extended or otherwise.

levarburton: Offering prayers for Walter & Judy Koenig as well as their beloved son, Andrew…

Walter and Judy, my condolences for your loss.

CFC