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...University Police Department, under pressure from doctors at the Health Services and "some people in the faculties," will no longer release statistics on attempted and completed suicides at Harvard, David L. Gorski, Chief of Police, said yesterday...
...reason for discontinuing the release of the statistics, Gorski said, is that "we don't have complete data--the figures don't present an accurate portrayal of the situation...
...Gorski explained that the UHS, for reasons of doctor-patient confidentiality, does not usually report attempted suicides to the police, which tends to make the statistics understate the true number of suicide attempts. At the same time, the figures may be inflated by the Police Department's practise of retaining for statistical purposes even those suicide calls later proved fake...
Robert C. Mudge, coordinator of records and communications at the Police University, said Wednesday that the police were also concerned about the effect on students' anxiety of publicizing the statistics, although he later claimed this was not the reason for the change. Gorski denied that this was a factor...
Among those urging the police to end publication was Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, who wrote a letter to Gorski on the subject...