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2011年4月22日星期五

In Princeton, questions of the instructor's suicide

Four days later, he killed himself in his Manhattan apartment slashed on April 12,.

Dr. Calvo suicide has devastated a close community of scientists and students, which rated his generosity and animation, so that they called it St. Antonio. And on the campus which has Princeton, private grief admirer broke faulting of the University in public accusations, with Dr. Calvo for how it handled the episode.

It is what exactly to Dr. Calvo unclear, hasty departure from the job. Princeton officials said on Thursday that he was on leave at the time of his death other details refused but ready. "To get the privacy of our employees, the University is not to questions of the staff who are not public," a University spokeswoman, CASS Cliatt, said.

Several former colleagues said that Dr. Calvo, 45, who did not have tenure as a lecturer, was evaluated the term of Office in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures, and that some students and lecturer, had mounted a campaign colleagues to block the renewal. As Director of the Spanish language program of the University assisted Dr. Calvo teach students, of which most students; the students, his friends said, criticized his leadership style and singled comments that they felt unduly hard were out.

In one episode, a student, said on at the beginning of academic year Dr. Calvo them a blow the face deserves, and smote together his own hands. In another he called genitals in an E-mail as a joke a male students, to get someone to work with a common Spanish expression that begs.

Dr. Calvo also frustration with students, expressed, he felt himself seriously not their teaching duties, said friends. Angelina Craig Florez, lecturer in Latin America, and the Iberian cultures at Columbia University, said that she last spoke with him at a Conference in February.

"He was very excited because he had what to do, were a review which was normal, has been subjected to, but some of the students does not follow," she said. "Some don't even show up for classes that they were informed, and it is his responsibility to ensure that the language programme runs smoothly."

Some of Dr. Calvo students complained this week, Princeton with them about his departure or death have been sincere. They said that they have not received, that it up three days later in an E-mail had died, which simply put, that Dr. Calvo "has passed."

James Williams, a student of Pittsburgh took an advanced class with Dr. Calvo, said that on Friday the instructors from the building was accompanied, students waiting for 30 minutes in the classroom. When they left, they asked where was the Department Chairman Dr. Calvo.

"she said, had he left today to early for personal reasons that he would be back next week," Mr of Williams recalled.

The day before the suicide, the students waited again for Dr. Calvo. After 20 minutes other Professor entered the room and announced that in the course indefinitely, again relying on personal matters, which Dr. Calvo, was visited.

After studying in the following week of Mr. Williams said, told him the new Professor Dr. Calvo even killed. Williams has a Facebook page with the title "justice for Calvo: make a student response" created and planned a strategy session for Saturday. "Definitely more questions must be answered," he said.

Dr. Calvo "never seemed to the kind of person who would commit suicide," added Mr.. Williams.

"If there was a leak in turn, that all should be alone," he continued. "But it is an error by a person or group, or institution which treated him perhaps unfair or unethical must be addressed and measures taken."

At the monument on Tuesday, students collect their anger and confusion Stimmhafter. "I really want to know more about what happened," said Molly Bagshaw, 19. "I want the holes that are filled out, before I can move."

You reminded lively teacher with a love of colorful shoes and a quick wit. A woman recalls the time that bartender in Toledo, Spain charmed, where he oversaw a summer program, so his entire class free Dr. Calvo round of drinks. Another student, said Dr. Calvo students on the campus, about her life to chat would stop.

"He had such a power about him," said Williams Mr.. "He would go not only in the classroom."He would bounce.

Friends of Dr. Calvo said the timing of his firing put him in a difficult position. Since he was sponsored by Princeton in the country on a work visa, he would quickly have an other work to find - and sponsor.

"Antonio in the United States for over 10 years lived and made a living in this country for themselves", said Marco Aponte Moreno, former lecturer in Spanish at Princeton University, who now teaches in England. "Also meant the loss of his work that he his life in the United States behind would have to leave."

Nate slider contributed reporting.


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2011年4月15日星期五

Study ties suicide rate in labour force to the economy

Experts said the new study may help one long tarnished to clarify relationship between suicide and economic development.

While many researchers that have argued economic hardship can increase the likelihood of suicide in people who are already vulnerable - such as those with depression or other mental illnesses - having research has been mixed. Some studies have supported such a link, but others have found the opposite: that prices in times of high unemployment, as if people have integrity, when they need it most.

With more comprehensive data, economic trends, nail down, the new study found a clear correlation between suicide rates and of the economic cycle in young and middle age adults. This correlation disappeared as a researcher on children and the elderly. It may not the case, which cause economic difficulties suicide attempts, but they can be factors.

"they have a nice job add a piece of a very complex puzzle," said Eve Moscicki, a researcher at the American Psychiatric Institute for research and education, which was not involved in the investigation. "It may be that in humans, which are more prone to suicide to lose a job or receive a reduction in pay, it adds an additional stressor."

In the study, which appears in the American Journal of public health centers for disease control and prevention investigated suicide rates per 100,000 Americans each year from 1928 to 2007 researchers at the Federal Republic.

The overall rate dropped by more than one-third in this time of 11.2 of 18.0, with most of the decline before 1945. Fluctuated in the mid-1950s, tended upward until the late 1970s, and back down from the mid-1980s until 2000. In the years improved access to care, rising standards of living have this general downward trend researchers and better drugs, attributed to among other things.

To determine the effect of economic cycles, the average rate calculated period as the economy responsible researchers and compared with the average in the years to the downturn. The sharpest increase came at the beginning of the great depression, when prices jumped 23 percent - on 22.1 1932 of 18.0 1928. The study found small bumps during the oil crisis at the beginning of the 1970s and the double-dip recession of the early 1980's, among others economic troughs.

The suicide rate dropped in General in times of economic expansion, with some exceptions. While the 1960s boom went among the people in the 1930s and 1940s and actually decreased in the elderly in the severe recession of the mid-1970s.

Cultural factors played a role, the authors argue. "The social unrest and turmoil of the 1960s have added youth mental stress and contributed to their ever-increasing rates of suicide," she wrote. "For the older group, the rapid increase in the benefits of social security in the late 1960's a safety net may have been in difficult times."

Feijun Luo, the main author of the study, said, "the findings suggest the potential, you will find a large increase during this current recession under before." His co-authors were Curtis S. Florence, Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Yantai Ouyang and Dr. Alexander E. Crosby, all of the C.D.C.

Suicide is impossible to predict, and rarely even in the most dire, so prevention programmes and early treatments had mixed results. The most address specific problems such as drug abuse, depression, isolation and difficult family relationships. But this study communities and doctors should be a better feeling not only if risk is high, but where - working-age adults, in this case.

"Once people age of the workforce, it seems no relationship between the business cycle and their vulnerability," said Dr. Florence.


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'Suicide blast' in mosque in Java - BBC News

15 April 2011 last updated at 08: 38 GMT Armed anti-terror police commandos escort Abu Bakar Ba'asyir at Jakarta court on March 14, 2011 Indonesian police against terror groups, who claim they are inspired by Abu Bakar asyir A suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Indonesia has suspected himself to kill and wounded 28 people are active.

Almost half of the wounded are police officers, such as the attack during Friday prayers at a mosque in a police complex in Cirebon, West Java.

It follows a recent spate of letter bombs, but is the first suspected suicide attack in the country in two years.

Most Indonesians are Muslims, but the State is secular.

Eyewitnesses reported that the man among the believers was, when he set from the explosives.

"He prayed." Suddenly out of the third series, it was a blast. I was in the last line, "was cited a witness named Anton Detik news website."

"We suspect it was a suicide bombing," said Indonesian Police spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam.

"The police were the most active in the fight against terrorism and that is why they are angry at us," he added.

Several high-profile says militant suspected of involvement in the recent bombings in Indonesia arrested or killed by the police of the BBC's Alice Budisatrijo in Jakarta recently.

"Looks like it has been a shift in the extremists target, from Western to State symbols," said Noor Huda, a security analyst, the BBC.

Continue reading the most important story October 2002: suicide attacks on two nightclubs in Bali kill 202 people, many of you Australian touristsAugust 2003: in the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta car bomb kills 14September 2004: car bomb Australian Embassy in Jakarta kills nine, Dozens injuredOctober 2005: suicide bombers kill 20 in BaliJuly 2009: twin suicide attacks on two Jakarta Hotels nine to kill and injure scores "It is for what they committed to see as injustice against them by the police and other authorities her revenge."

In December the most-wanted to help one which Indonesia Islamic militant suspect, Abu Tholut, was suspected to set up a militant training camp in the province of Aceh, recruitment of militant and arrested the raising funds for "Terror activities".

The highest profile has arrest cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, as the spiritual leader of many of the Indonesia seen radical groups.

He is currently on trial in Jakarta.

In recent years, Indonesia has introduced a combination of the new laws, anti-terror to combat militancy, international cooperation, training and reintegration.


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