_Slate_ offers a good layman’s rundown of problems facing colleges dealing with mentally ill students who may be at risk of committing suicide. There is a lot of complicated political and legal precedent for why things are as they are and how they are changing, and this article offers a very quick, readable overview of what’s what, using the recent controvery at GWU as a jumping-off point. The article especially warms my heart by actually explaining how FERPA(Family Education Rights and Privacy Act) limits the debate, something that most news accounts ignore completely in favor of a blanket “no comment” from the schools.