Students at the U stop attempted suicide

Tuesday afternoon students rushed over to help a man climbing over the bridge on Washington Avenue in an attempted suicide, the Minnesota Daily reports.
"In that situation you want to say something really profound," Alex Rongstad, a student who wrestled the man off the bridge told the Student Free Press.
According to the Minnesota Daily, once the University police arrived, they transported the man into a squad car and to the hospital where he was put on a health and welfare hold.
University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner told the Student Free Press that there appears to be an increase in attempted suicides on campus.
"It's not something that is easy to track per se because they don't always work their way into a police report," Miner told the Minnesota Daily. "On the surface there appears to be more incidents."