His mental malaise had been accumulating for some time before then, a swirling combination of academic pressure and high expectations. Tang had already attempted to take his life once before, in the spring of his freshman year. How the university, the people within it, and the culture inhabiting it respond to this crisis holds great consequences for the wellbeing of our student body. At Harvard in particular, an ecosystem fueled by curiosity and knowledge but also by achievement and expectation, the conversation takes on new dimensions. Now, amid a pandemic, student mental health presents an increasingly alarming crisis to which universities across the nation must respond. Yet, mental health services at universities have been termed “woefully inadequate” to handle this crisis, leaving many young people in the lurch of despair. A 2010 NCBI report found suicide to be the second-leading cause of death among college students in the United States, with 1,100 students taking their own lives each year. His death ignited new inquiry into the responsibility of universities to address the mental health needs of their students and prevent against suicide, a concern which has grown in recent decades. His profound academic record, however, ran alongside a tremendous mental burden that would eventually lead to self-harm. Tang was a polished violinist and keen mathematician who had recently been branded with the Lowellian crest in just one month, he would have declared a concentration in the Physics Department. It had been less than two weeks into the fall semester when Harvard sophomore Luke Tang took his life on September 12, 2015.