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Suicide Guards Posted on Cornell Bridges

University takes action after 3 students leap to their death

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 15, 2010 1:45 AM CDT | Updated Mar 15, 2010 5:15 AM CDT

(Newser) – Cornell University has placed guards on campus area bridges following the suicides of three students in less than a month. As searchers continued the hunt for the body of the latest victim, a junior at the New York Ivy League school, university officials also launched... Read full story »

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