Word: mentality
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...When it comes to the complex intersection of campus safety and mental health, the questions of what counts as sufficient warning signs and how universities should respond to them often end up in court. Move too quickly by, say, suspending a depressed student for posing a threat to himself or others, and schools can - and do - get sued for discriminating against the disabled. But parents of students who committed suicide have also wrangled settlements out of colleges for not doing enough to intervene. And, of course, there can be hell to pay for failing to protect other students when...
...suicide. Last August, New York City's Hunter College agreed to pay $65,000 to settle such a case. In the wake of these suits, the Governor of Virginia signed a bill last month that prohibits state colleges from penalizing or expelling students "solely" for attempting suicide or seeking mental-health treatment for suicidal thoughts. The law's primary goal is to encourage kids to get help, and it also requires schools to develop policies for dealing with such students...
...universities work on their emergency mental-health protocols, they have struggled with privacy rights when determining whether to notify families that a student is acutely distressed. Last summer the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on suicide prevention among college students, issued intervention guidelines that covered, for example, contacting parents against a student's wishes. The foundation, co-founded by a retired pharmaceutical executive after his son committed suicide, recommended that colleges avoid policies that either require or prohibit calling parents when a student seems acutely distressed. Why? Because schools need wiggle room and because sometimes families...
...Police asked Cho to speak to a counselor from a local mental-health facility; afterward, a magistrate issued a temporary detention order committing Cho to a psychiatric hospital. It's very difficult to obtain such orders; patients must not only be deemed mentally ill but unfit to care for themselves or an immediate danger. Court records show that Cho was not deemed an imminent threat, but it should have been clear by then that he was deeply troubled...
...most serious evidence on Cho, evidence that should have been used to ask him to leave the university not on mental-health grounds but for violations of behavior rules. She told CNN he was taking pictures of women under desks; she told the New York Times that she "had been so nervous about taking him on as an individual student that she worked out a code with her assistant: if she mentioned the name of a dead professor, her assistant would know it was time to call security." The only reason Roy was taking...