Thursday September 30

Thursday's paper had a couple articles about suicides.  It seems that this has been a large issue recently across the country.  In the part week, six boys committed suicide because of being bullied because they were gay.  One of the articles was about one of these boys, Tyler Clementi. After being videotaped engaging in some questionable behavior, Clementi, a Rutgers student, jumped off the George Washington Bridge. I don't understand how the issue of suicide has broken out so greatly across the country recently. In the second story, four suicides occurred at Fort Hood in Texas.  I had actually read about this story in the Providence Journal because the couple that was talked about was from Rhode Island. Fort Hood experiences a great deal of mental breakdowns and suicides.  I feel as though more should be done to help these soldiers and ensure that this number of suicides decline.