My university went 6 years without a suicide, and then had 3 highly publicized suicides over the year. They then put in a lot of effort to bury it as much as possible, students went home for the summer, and the university had a few suicide-free years right after
Unfortunately I knew 2/3, and it was well known to be due to the risk of failing a course. Now the university makes sure that no-one knows if there was suicide note and the details of they committed suicide.
The eerie thing was the fact that they all killed themselves in exactly the same way. (hanging off a the ceiling)
But ofc, the plural of anecdotes is not data. There I agree with you.
My university went 6 years without a suicide, and then had 3 highly publicized suicides over the year. They then put in a lot of effort to bury it as much as possible, students went home for the summer, and the university had a few suicide-free years right after