Multiple suicides leave WPI reeling

Image:  Seven student deaths in the last eight months have left the Worcester Polytechnic Institute community grief-stricken. Compounding that tragedy is the fact that at least three of those lives were lost to suicide; two deaths are under investigation, according to the university. “Certainly any loss of a student is devastating,” said WPI president Laurie Leshin. Three deaths by suicide in the span of a year is staggering for a campus that has seen two student suicides over the...