哥伦比亚大学19岁华裔学生自杀身亡

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Wu, a native of Pasadena, California, was an editor of the Columbia Economics Review, a cohort leader of 180 Degrees Consulting, and a member of Columbia Taekwondo.

19岁的华裔学生吴科克11日下午被发现死在哥伦比亚大学的学生公寓。（取自吴科克的社交网络）

哥伦比亚大学一名19岁的华裔学生11日下午1时许，被发现死于学生公寓，该学生为大学二年级的吴科克(Kirk Wu，音译)，来自加州帕萨迪纳市，曾是“哥伦比亚经济评论”的编辑，并且是学校跆拳道社的成员。

吴科克身边的同学都评论他“非常开朗”，他自杀的原因疑似考试压力过大。

据哥伦比亚大学学生周报“哥伦比亚每日观察家”表示，事发地点位于曼哈顿113街和阿姆斯特丹大道(Amsterdam Ave )的麦克班(MaBain Hall)本科生公寓，该公寓的一名门卫发现吴科克在公共卫生间的门口晃来晃去，并且脖子上围着一条布。

哥伦比亚大学本科教育副校长瓦伦蒂尼(James J. Valentini)事发之后也给学生致信，他在信中表示，麦克班公寓的一楼大厅每天晚上8时至10时会提供心理咨询服务，希望学生能充分利用该资源，合理释放压力，排解消极情绪，避免更多意外发生。

Kirk Wu, a sophomore in Columbia College, died Thursday, Columbia College Dean James Valentini wrote in an email to the Columbia community. He was 19 years old.

Wu, a native of Pasadena, California, was an editor of the Columbia Economics Review, a cohort leader of 180 Degrees Consulting, and a member of Columbia Taekwondo.

Staff members from Counseling and Psychological Services and Residential Life will be available to support students in the first floor lounge of McBain Hall, where Wu lived, between 8 and 10 p.m. tonight, according to Valentini’s email.

Valentini also wrote that CPS will offer extended walk-in hours until 11 p.m. tonight, until 9 p.m. tomorrow, and between 1 and 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the CPS office on the fifth floor of Lerner Hall. CPS’s main office, located on the eighth floor of Lerner, will open tomorrow at 8 a.m.

He added that the Office of the University Chaplain will offer counseling tonight from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Schiff Room in Earl Hall, and will resume regular hours of counseling tomorrow, from 12 to 5 p.m., in the same location.

Earlier this week, Columbia unveiled the new Live Well | Learn Well website, which is aimed at centralizing campus mental health resources and is one of the many initiatives meant to improve mental health in response to a series of student suicides in the 2016-2017 academic year.

Information about Columbia’s Counseling and Psychological Services can be found here, and about Barnard’s Furman Counseling Center can be found here. Columbia Nightlineprovides free, anonymous peer listening services and can be reached at 212-854-7777 from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. A full list of Columbia’s health and well-being resources can be found here. To reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, call 800-273-8255.