Penn’s mental health task force recommendations have provoked students to question whether the administration is taking the right steps to promote mental wellness at all.
The recommendations, released on Tuesday and created in the wake of six student suicides that spanned 15 months, focused on “cultural change rather than structural change,” Co-Chair of the task force Anthony Rostain said. While some students felt the report is a step in the right direction, others felt it came to the wrong conclusions and lacked specificity.
“This idea of ‘Let’s focus on changing the culture of perfectionism and competitiveness’ is idealistic and unrealistic,” said College senior Elana Stern, a member of the Green Ribbon Campaign who met with members of the task force last spring.
[For more of this story, written by Jody Freinkel, go to http://www.thedp.com/article/2...ke-student-reactions]
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