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RAPE & SUICIDE DISCUSSED IN PRESENTATION AT SLU

CANTON - Andrea Fuller Cooper, a woman whose daughter committed 
suicide after experiencing depression due to a rape, will give a 
presentation on acquaintance rape, depression and suicide on 
Thursday, April 8, at 7 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence 
Hall at St. Lawrence University. The event is open to the public.
	Cooper's daughter Kristin, a student at Baker University 
in Kansas, was raped by a friend in August of 1995. Despite a 
friend's encouragement to go to the police or to share the information 
with her parents or a counselor, she told only a few sorority sisters 
and began to drift into a state of depression. Months passed before 
she realized she could no longer deal with the pain, and she took her 
own life on New Year's Eve, 1995.
	Her mother now travels around the country sharing Kristin's 
story. Clinical depression affects 10 million Americans in any given 
year, and one-fourth of all women will suffer at least one occurrence 
of depression in their lifetimes. One-third of all women in college 
suffer from depression.
	Further, more than 2.5 million women experience some form of 
violence each year, and nearly two of every three of these women are 
attacked by someone they know. By some estimates, one in four women 
will be attacked during her college career.
	For more information, call the student activities office at 
315-229-5757.

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