Students at the University of Minnesota spoke at "U of M Day At The Capitol" on February 18 in hopes of getting state legislators to move forward on requests for state funding, $450 million in total.
While $200 million is needed for building maintenance on the seven U of M campuses, another $235 million is required for student health and housing services. A request is also being made for $15 million to install anti-suicide nets on the Washington Ave. bridge that connects the East Bank campus and the West Bank.
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A University health study has determined that 57% of the students at the UofM Duluth campus suffer from a mental "condition". The UofM is the unquestioned source for the information and knowledge that the unwashed masses need to organize their lives. This figure must be taken seriously. If indeed a majority of 8,825 people have a mental condition, whatever that is, it means that a little over 5000 Bulldog students are scurrying around the campus and the lakehead city with some form of neurological disorder, in addition to the background mental problems of the larger community. Mental Health America says that 46% of Americans will meet the criteria for a diagnosable mental health condition during their lifetime.
Why should this be? If roughly half of the population has a mental health condition, at least to the extent that it affects their own lives and those around them in a negative way, what is the cause? Maybe it's a fact that it is the current culture rather than genetics that encourages mental health problems. If so, no amount of taxpayer dollars will change the situation. No amount of study by the UofM or any other academic institution is likely to change the culture of a free society to one where aberrant behavior, the real index of a mental condition, is eliminated.
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