Campus campaign encourages suicide prevention
Moriah Carty | April 2After receiving an unusually high number of suicide calls last week, campus outreach group Agora Crisis Center created a new campaign to promote the importance of reaching out and communicating with people. The group set up a tent near Zimmerman library on Wednesday and passed out pieces of paper that encouraged students to write out past or current experiences, using the Twitter hashtag #ShareTheWeight. The papers were then hung around the tent for other students to read. The idea behind the campaign is to promote an open discussion about suicide, even through social media. “We want people to share the weight of their struggles with each other,” said Jeremy Jaramillo, associate director for Agora.
