Crisis on campus: Universities struggle with students in distress

One Monday morning in March, a lonely and homesick 19-year-old undergrad took his own life in residence at the University of Waterloo, Ont.
“I can’t believe this is real,” his 16-year-old brother wrote the next day in an agitated social media post filled with grievances against the school.
“My brother is gone and I’ll never be able to tell him I love him ever again.”
As the post grimly noted, his brother was the second “brilliant min