The New York Times is currently doing a series of articles on “troubled children” which focuses on the “increasing number of children whose problems are diagnosed as mental disorders.” The most recent article is called “Off to College on Their Own, Shadowed by Mental Illness.” The article is about the difficult transition from high school to college for students with “serious mental illnesses.”

I have a vision of a day when there are established communities on college campuses across the nation where the stigma surrounding “mental illness” has been eliminated, communication has been opened, and there is a network of students committed to supporting one another through their struggles. We are building a strong community, both outside and inside the NYU community, and moving in the right direction.

In the beginning of the Fall 2006 semester, Sascha and I went to Brad Lewis’s first Mad Science/Mad Pride class of the year.

NYU Icarus student organizer and Fountain House intern Montana Queler wrote this theory paper for Steve Duncombe's Cultural Resistance class at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study .