Colleges and suicide threats: when to call home?

Daniel Kim
By The Associated Press

The e-mail that arrived at Virginia Tech's health center in November 2007 was detailed and unmistakably ominous. It concerned a Tech senior named Daniel Kim and came from an acquaintance at another college.

“Daniel has been acting very suicidal recently, purchasing a $200 pistol, and claiming he'll go through with it,” the e-mail read, adding details of a