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Roommate Charged With Hate Crime in Rutgers Suicide
By not in system - AOL NewsTRENTON, N.J. -- A former Rutgers University freshman was indicted Wednesday on a hate crime charge after allegedly using a webcam to spy on a same-sex encounter involving his roommate, who committed suicide shortly afterward in a case that started a national conversation on bullying. A 15-count indictment was handed up Wednesday by a Middlesex County grand jury against Dharun Ravi, of Plainsboro, who had already faced invasion of privacy charges along with another student, Molly Wei. The indictment charges Ravi with bias intimidation, invasion of privacy, witness and evidence tampering, and ...
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Rutgers to Allow Male, Female Students to Live Together
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- New Jersey's largest university will offer a gender-neutral housing program in three dorms that aims to make the campus more inclusive for gay students. Starting this fall, gay, lesbian and transgender students at Rutgers University's New Brunswick campus can choose either male or female roommates under the pilot program. Heterosexual students will also be permitted to live in rooms with students of the opposite sex. Men and women will share bathrooms. Rutgers drew scrutiny after freshman Tyler Clementi killed himself days after authorities said his dorm roommate used ...
Paralyzed Rutgers Football Player Makes Public Appearance
By not in system - AOL NewsPISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand made his first public appearance since being paralyzed in a game against Army more than four months ago. LeGrand attended a "Laugh to Heal Comedy Fest Fundraiser" for him at the Rutgers Athletic Center on Saturday. "I just want to thank everybody for coming out here today and I'm just going to keep on chopping during my rehab," LeGrand told the crowd of approximately 3,000 who attended the comedy show featuring Rutgers alumnus Bill Bellamy. Mel Evans, AP Former Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand laughs Saturday as he ...
Two Rutgers Students Sue Police After Alleged Beating
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsTwo Rutgers University students have filed a $2 million lawsuit against a New Jersey police department after they were allegedly beaten by officers in their apartment. Kareem Najjar and Jake Kostman say they were asleep when officers from the New Brunswick Police Department stormed into their apartment in the basement of an off-campus house Dec. 10 and began beating the college students in their beds without any warning and without identifying themselves as police. "We didn't know they were cops," Najjar, a 19-year-old sophomore, told AOL News today in a phone interview. "One was wearing ...
Lawyers Defend Students Accused of Filming Tyler Clementi
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(Oct. 6) -- Lawyers for the two Rutgers University freshmen accused of secretly filming a classmate who later killed himself say hate crime charges are not justified and that many unfair assumptions have been made about their clients. Eighteen-year-olds Dharun Ravi of Plainsboro, N.J., and Molly Wei of Princeton, N.J., are accused of invading Tyler Clementi's privacy by secretly filming his sexual encounter with another man and streaming the footage online. They could face five years in prison if convicted. Facebook / AFP / Getty Images Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi reportedly ...
Tyler Clementi's Choice: Sex, Death and Video-Rape at Rutgers
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyIf you try to draw a line between hate crimes and natural human behavior, you'd better have a good eraser. On Sept. 22, violinist and Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi jumped to his death after video of a (gay) sexual encounter was secretly filmed and posted on the Internet, allegedly by fellow students Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei. So far, Ravi and Wei have been charged with invasion of privacy, but some people are calling for hate-crime prosecution. My Woman Up colleague Mia Navarro quotes a New York Times commenter who says his students live in a technology bubble where they rarely encounter ...
Prosecutors Mull Additional Charges in Rutgers Suicide
By David Lohr - AOL News
(Oct. 1) -- New Jersey prosecutors are considering additional charges against two Rutgers University students who allegedly streamed a classmate's gay sexual encounter over the Internet. The classmate committed suicide. "Now that two individuals have been charged ... we will be making every effort to assess whether bias played a role in the incident, and, if so, we will bring appropriate charges," Middlesex County prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan said in a statement. Ryan Pifher, NorthJersey.com Prosecutors are considering additional charges against two Rutgers University students accused of ...
Did Tyler Clementi Reach Out for Help Before Suicide?
By David Lohr - AOL News(Sept. 30) -- The Rutgers University student who committed suicide after two students allegedly streamed a video of his gay sexual encounter over the Internet may have reached out for help before killing himself. A message board thread on justusboys.com contains several messages by a user identified as "cit2mo," who is believed to be 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, the Manhattan news website Gawker reported. On Wednesday, Middlesex County, N.J., prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan announced the arrests of Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, both 18. The Rutgers freshmen have been charged with two counts each of ...
Social Media's Expanding Role in College Admissions
By Elizabeth Schiffman - Politics DailyWhy did a recent Facebook virus requiring users to join a group (and, in doing so, contract a spamming bug) have such devastating success? The promise to reveal "the status update that got a highschool [sic] student REJECTED from Harvard!" must have struck a chord. Though the page was a hoax, the response it earned reflects a growing apprehension about the increasing significance of social media in the college application and decision-making process. Establishing a presence on Facebook is a smart recruitment move for colleges, since the site's 350 million members, many of whom are in their ...
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