Experts agree that suicide contagion is a real phenomenon. Some would question, however, whether moving a student off campus is any help. That's because physical proximity may be less important to a suicide cluster than other factors like media coverage or discussion via e-mail and the Internet. But forthcoming research by Madelyn Gould of the Columbia School of Public Health indicates that the more public a suicide is, the greater the likelihood of contagion. In other words, if a student makes a suicide attempt on campus that other students find out about, this will probably have a greater effect than if the incident occurs away from campus or at home, notwithstanding the effects of e-mail, the Internet, and the media.