Within hours of each other, two students died in Ithaca's infamous gorges on Saturday. One student was visiting; the other was a Cornell junior. Both deaths are thought to be accidental.

Following the jumping death of a student—Cornell's sixth suicide in as many months—the university has erected new seven-foot anti-suicide barriers over its highest gorge-crossing bridge. [IvyGate, Related]

Cornell recently experienced its sixth student suicide in as many months. The two most recent deaths occurred when students threw themselves into the gorges that cut through its campus in Ithaca, NY. Can we blame the scenery for the deaths?