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Dharun Ravi Gets 30-Day Sentence

Kevin Spak — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:05:18 CDT

After declining to speak on his own behalf, Dharun Ravi was sentenced to 30 days in jail today for spying on and allegedly outing gay roommate Tyler Clementi. Ravi "stared wide-eyed at the judge" as the sentence was read, but had no other reaction, according to the New Jersey Star-Ledger...

NFL's Buccaneers Sign Paralyzed College Player

John Johnson — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:04:25 CDT

Normally, when a football team signs a player to its off-season roster in May, it doesn't make headlines. It's different when the player is Eric LeGrand, who was paralyzed from the neck down during a Rutgers game in 2010. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers gave LeGrand a symbolic contract so he...

Rutgers Slams Student Paper's Pro-Hitler Parody

Matt Cantor — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:35:52 CDT

A student at Rutgers has filed a complaint after a parody newspaper printed a pro-Hitler story with his byline. The university is investigating the situation as a bias incident, the AP reports. The piece, titled "What About the Good Things Hitler Did?," was attributed to Aaron Marcus, a Jewish columnist...

Ravi Found Guilty in Gay Spycam Case

Kevin Spak — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:00:00 CDT

A jury convicted ex-Rutgers student Dharun Ravi of hate crimes and other offenses today for using a webcam to record and distribute video that outed his roommate, Tyler Clementi, as gay. After three days of deliberations, the jury found Ravi guilty of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy for making...

Tyler Clementi's Roommate Tried to Apologize

John Johnson — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:56:41 CDT

New texts involving the suicide of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi have been made public, including this one from roommate Dhuran Ravi: "I’ve known you were gay and I have no problem with it," he wrote. "I don’t want your freshman year to be ruined because of a petty misunderstanding, it’s...

Rutgers Board Builds Wall Between Itself, Angry Crowd

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:55:05 CDT

Yesterday’s Rutgers Board of Governors meeting got a little awkward, with the board literally building a wall between itself and an angry audience. Dozens of students, professors, and campus workers attended the public meeting to protest an employee salary freeze and the university president’s high professor salary. But the biggest...

Ex-Rutgers Student Accepts Deal in Suicide Case

John Johnson — Fri, 06 May 2011 17:44:19 CDT

Molly Wei admitted her role in the cyberbullying case that led fellow Rutgers student Tyler Clementi to kill himself and agreed to cooperate with authorities. She will likely avoid jail as a result, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer . Wei must complete 300 hours of community service, attend counseling on cyberbullying, and...

Rutgers Kids to the Boss: Please Save Our Reputation

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:55:05 CDT

Rutgers has suffered some bad publicity lately, most recently when news surfaced that Snooki was paid more than Toni Morrison to give a talk there. But a group of students believes it has a solution: Bring Bruce Springsteen to campus. A Facebook event titled "College Ave Freeze Out: Let's Bring...

To Give Talk, Rutgers Pays Snooki More Than It Paid...

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:49:05 CDT

Apparently, Rutgers University thinks Snooki is worth more as a guest speaker than Nobel-winning novelist Toni Morrison. Beloved author Morrison will be paid $30,000 to give the commencement speech in May—the first time Rutgers has paid for a graduation speaker—but Snooki snagged $2,000 more when she...