Thank you for addressing such an important topic. The Samaritans Inc. a local, non-profit organization committed to reducing the impact and incidence of suicide through programs that befriend, support and educate the community while offering anonymity and treating all individuals with care, dignity and respect.

Our Keene crisis line is: 357-5505 or toll free from anywhere in NH: 1-877-583-8336.

We also offer a weekly support group, "Safe Place", for those who have lost a friend or loved one to suicide (those left behind are known as "survivors of suicide").

More information at www.samaritansnh.org.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) will bring together thousands of survivors of suicide loss to share in a day of healing and empowerment through the eleventh annual National Survivors of Suicide Day program. A local Survivor Day conference will be held in Westmoreland on Saturday, November 21, at Maplewood Nursing Home from 11:30-3pm. The program will also be available online at www.afsp.org. To learn more about National Survivors of Suicide Day, visit www.afsp.org or call The Samaritans at (603)-357-5510 or email pc@samaritansnh.org for further details. Admission is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is recommended. The Samaritans, Inc. has been serving NH since 1981 and is a Monadnock United Way Agency.

In this digital era of remote representation - through facebook, texting, instant messaging, etc - I feel that we have become accustomed to falsifying our own intentions. In our society, where human to human interaction is decreasing in value, we are propelled into a chaos of conflicting identities, images, avatars and other referents for who we are. I feel that this transition into a technocratic age is producing new pathologies which we do not yet know how to name. Clearly our government, our college administration, our professors and our parents are not sufficiently acclimated to these rapidly changing times. The nature of college and scholarship have been transformed. Student life today is nothing like it once was. Most would argue that it is "easier' now with new technologies that speed things up like word processing, email, blackboard, etc. I would like to insist that these new technologies come at a price; Students are constantly bombarded by a sophisticated array of distractions. The digital world is a vast marketplace for ideas, commodities, information and virtual surrogates for ourselves. Our worlds become reduced to the informatics that govern our technologies. This reduction, this juxtaposition of humans and numbers, depersonalizes interactions and continually challenges how we construct ourselves and others. The notion that the incidence of suicide has increased because of these complex social developments seems logical. We must find ways to combat this in the microcosm of our personal lives and social spheres, however, more needs to be done at a macro/societal level as well.

I heard Billy Flynn got married in prison...

As sad as this situation is, I think the Equinox handled it in a very professional manner. It's too bad that this student didn't realize the repercussions of his actions. If he didn't have the time or inclination to meet his responsibilities he should have approached the editors and asked for help before putting the Equinox's reputation in jeopardy as well as his own.

pot smoker should be put in jail and not allowed out. you slacker not understanding this issue. follow rules, donot be a dodo head.

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