Around Campus


Send Silence Packing As students walked across the lawn between Pray-Harrold, Snow Health Center and the Rec/IM one day last September, they slowed down at the sight of backpacks spread across the lawn, each containing a photo and personal story—a story about a life taken by suicide. Send Silence Packing is a traveling exhibit of 1,100 backpacks, representing the number of college students nationwide who commit suicide each year. Stations posted around the edges of the exhibit explained resources available to those struggling with mental illness. The exhibit was just one part of a larger, federally-funded EMU program to prevent campus suicide. While the exhibit was silent, its message was loud: Help is always available. 3


—Quinn Alexander photograph by Paul Vuocolo


6 Eastern | WINTER 2016


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