College and University Blog
Campus Suicide: Send Silence Packing Spring Tour Kicks Off
Yesterday at James Madison University in Harrisburg, VA, more than 1,000 backpacks lay scattered over the campus lawn symbolizing the the staggering number of college students who take their own life each year.
Tuesday’s exhibit kicked off the first of many for the Send Silence Packing tour, a 10-city tour that will make its way across college campuses all over the U.S. this spring.
The Send Silence Packing program is operated through a D.C.-based organization called Active Minds, Inc., which has a “growing network of more than 250 student-run chapters at colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada.” It has gathered 1,100 backpacks and continues to pull in tragic stories of suicide victims to honor loved ones who have experienced the tremendous loss of suicide.
_"By displaying backpacks with personal stories of loved ones that put a