Dharun Ravi was found guilty today of spying on his college roommate Tyler Clementi, who later committed suicide in the fall of 2010. Continue reading
Tyler Clementi
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A warning—this post is on a difficult subject to discuss. Not only am I unable to tell the full story and incapable of being impartial or unsentimental, but I may still very well fail to do the Clementi family justice. If it weren’t for my own siblings, I wouldn’t have made the attempt.
In this week’s New Yorker, Ian Parker reexamines the ongoing case of Tyler Clementi, a household name for the worst reasons a parent (or frankly, a student) could imagine.
Using Tyler’s own words and interviews with witnesses and family, Parker creates an incomplete but valuable portrait of a reserved, thoughtful teenager who had just come out to his family when he started his freshman year at Rutgers University. Continue reading