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The Personal Side of Suicide
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April 11, 2011 ![Suicide-Awareness-024411_005_DIG_DS1_0001_ About 1,100 backpacks covered the lawn in front of the William Pitt Union on April 4, representing the estimated 1,100 college students nationwide who did by suicide each year. To give a face to those lives lost, personal stories of people who attempted suicide as well as stories written by families and friends accompany many of the backpacks. The event, Send Silence Packing, was part of a nationwide college campus tour by Active Minds Inc., a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that seeks to help campuses create comfortable environments for open conversations about mental health issues. The display was sponsored by the Pitt chapter of Active Minds and Pitt's Give Depression a Voice: Talk About It team.](/sites/default/files/images/Suicide-Awareness-024411_005_DIG_DS1_0001_.jpg)
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On the Freedom Road
Follow a group of Pitt students on the Returning to the Roots of Civil Rights bus tour, a nine-day, 2,300-mile journey crisscrossing five states.
Day 1: The Awakening
Day 2: Deep Impressions
Day 3: Music, Montgomery, and More
Day 4: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Day 5: Learning to Remember
Day 6: The Mountaintop
Day 7: Slavery and Beyond
Day 8: Lessons to Bring Home
Day 9: Final Lessons