During a dedication ceremony Monday of the Tyler Clementi Center at Rutgers University in New Jersey, U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, (D-N.J.) announces that he and U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) have reintroduced legislation in Congress that would require colleges to implement anti-harassment policies.
Rutgers University names a new student named for Tyler Clementi, a gay student who jumped to his death in 2010 after his roommate used a webcam to record Clementi in an intimate encounter with another man.
Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student convicted earlier this year of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate who later committed suicide, will turn himself in Thursday to begin serving a 30-day prison term.
Jesus would understand the shaming of LGBT people by devout Christians. His experience of organized religion was similar to ours. His close friends all deserted him because they too were shamed into not having any association with him. Shame isolates.
Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi, 20, was found guilty of invasion of privacy, tampering with evidence and other charges, but the jury declined to convict him of bias intimidation of Tyler Clementi.
