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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 ...
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 ...
Opinion: 2010 -- The Year Privacy Died
By Adam Hanft - AOL News(Dec. 20) -- The mediasphere was abuzz over Time magazine's choice of Mark Zuckerberg over Julian Assange of WikiLeaks as Person of the Year. It would have been better for Time to give it to both of them. After all, the two are inextricably linked. They're Markian Zuckersange, a fusion of both sides of our privacy combat and revelation revolution. Zuckerberg was chosen because, as Time's editors put it: "The way we connect with one another and with the institutions in our lives is evolving. There is an erosion of trust in authority, a decentralizing of power and at the same time, perhaps, a ...
Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, Alleged Rutgers Cyberbullies: Where Are They Now?
By Dorothy Gannon - AOL NewsDharun Ravi and Molly Wei were just two of a host of people who momentarily grabbed the spotlight in 2010 and dominated a news cycle or two while getting their 15 minutes of fame. In this series, AOL News is checking in on 25 of these newsmakers and giving them a 16th minute. West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North / AP Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei both left Rutgers after Tyler Clementi committed suicide. Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei Made News in 2010 When They: Allegedly used a webcam to broadcast over the Internet a sexual encounter between Ravi's roommate and another man. The ...
'Gossip Girl'-Style Facebook Scandal Plays Out at Conn. Prep School
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Nov. 23) -- America's elite prep schools may be portrayed as envious, insidious bastions of backstabbing politics on television, but in the real world they sometimes turn out to be -- well, pretty much the same. Connecticut's famous Choate Rosemary Hall, once home to JFK, Ivanka Trump, Edward Albee and others, has become embroiled in a Facebook scandal that seems ripped from an episode of "Gossip Girl," The Daily Beast's Lynnley Browning reports. A group of Choate students are in serious trouble after posting flames to a 200-page private Facebook thread titled "Mwaahhahaha," where they ...
New Jersey Lawmakers Pass 'Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights'
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyScore one for the bullied. New Jersey lawmakers have passed a law against harassment in schools that will require educators to adhere to an "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights." The measure sailed through the state General Assembly and Senate by wide margins Monday and now heads to to the desk of Gov. Chris Christie, The Associated Press reported. Christie, a Republican, has spoken out against bullying in schools but has not said whether he would sign the bill. Under the legislation, public school employees would undergo training on how to spot and deal with bullying. School districts would create ...
NJ Lawmakers Approve Tough Law to Fight Bullying
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TRENTON, N.J. (Nov. 22) -- A law against bullying in schools, which advocates call the nation's toughest because it requires schools to develop anti-harassment programs, was approved Monday in New Jersey. The state General Assembly and Senate both passed the bill overwhelmingly and sent it to the desk of Republican Gov. Chris Christie. He said Monday night that he hadn't read the bill but that the state's lawyers have raised concerns over whether its provisions infringe on constitutional rights. He did not say whether he would sign it. Mel Evans, AP Steven Goldstein of Garden State Equality ...
Report: Lawyers Fight Claims in Tyler Clementi Suicide
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Nov. 1) -- Defense lawyers say the former Rutgers University freshmen accused of using a webcam to watch and broadcast a male classmate having sex with another man never saw the couple having sex and never streamed the images online. Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, both 18, were charged with invasion of privacy. Prosecutors say that on Sept. 19, the pair used a webcam to spy on Ravi's roommate, Tyler Clementi, while he had sex with another man, then streamed the images online for anyone to see. Three days later, Clementi committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. But after a ...
Turn Purple on October 20 -- and Show LGBT Youth It Does 'Get Better'
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyStand up for gays on Oct. 20. Wear purple. Do it in memory of Tyler Clementi, and all the other young people we've lost. In a harsh and often hopeless world, give hope, if for no other reason than because you can. I'm no fan of silly color memes and Facebook games. I believe the amorphous thing we call "awareness" changes little in the lives of real people, and gives the public a false sense of security and satisfaction. Cancer, for instance, cannot be willed away or "awarenessed" away any more than Tinker Bell can be saved by audience members clapping. But now -- at last! -- along comes a ...
Gay Prejudice Starts on the Playground
By Peter W. Fulham - Politics DailyWhen I was in middle school, few accusations silenced a room as quickly as this one: "What are you? Gay?" If you wore the wrong kind of t-shirt, if you botched an assist during a soccer game, or if you listened to outdated music, you could expect the dreaded interrogation. My classmates always asked the question with a vitriol that made clear what the right answer should be. No. I'm not gay. But I was, and I knew it. As you grow older, it becomes easier to forget the brutality of childhood. Prejudice begins on the playground, and children often face the most intolerance at an age when they ...
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