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January 31, 2012 Reblogged from givemesomethingtoread by jollywell

On a Saturday night in August, 2010, a week before starting college, Dharun Ravi decided to look online for his future Rutgers roommate. He was living with his parents in Plainsboro. Ravi, who was planning to major in math and economics, had learned that he had been assigned to Davidson Hall—a collection of single-story, barracks-like dorms on Busch campus, which is considered the dullest of the four Rutgers campuses in New Brunswick and neighboring Piscataway. He would be in Davidson Hall C, a coed dorm for about eighty students. He knew Clementi’s first name and that his last name started with C; he also knew his e-mail address, keybowvio@yahoo.com—apparently, a distillation of musical terms—and had e-mailed him but received no reply.

This is a very thorough & thoughtful read on a (now) very public event, one that I hope will help move the public conscious forward in accepting people as people - regardless of their orientations, preferences, or anything else that define our individualities. 

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   It’s a long read, but it’s an important one.

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    Definitely worth the read. “He would be born in January / what a gay month” this makes me so, so upset. I can’t believe...

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    Ian Parker presents the full story behind the suicide of Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers University who committed...

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    This is a very thorough & thoughtful read on a (now) very public event, one that I hope will help move the public...

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    You should read this.

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