TRANSPARENCY TUESDAY: Colleges’ “if you’re suicidal, you’re expelled” policies deserve greater scrutiny

A Western Michigan University undergraduate says he was thrown out of school and banned from college premises after being hospitalized for clinical depression.Jackson Peebles told the Western Herald that, even after his own physician gave him a note clearing him to return to school, WMU initially refused to readmit him, alleging he violated a student conduct code against "[c]ausing physical harm to self or others," although he neither attempted suicide nor threatened anyone else.