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[Kadie]

here is one story,

Thu Sep 30, 12:31 pm ET
Suicide sparks outrage on Rutgers campus
By Liz Goodwin


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About a hundred students demonstrated Wednesday night on campus chanting, "We're here, we're queer, we're not going home." Gay students told the school newspaper, the Daily Targum, that they want their own space to live in where they can feel safe and free from bullying.
Coincidentally, the college had launched a two-year project Wednesday to encourage civility in New Jersey and on campus.

Robert O'Brien, an anthropology instructor who helped organize Wednesday's protest, told The Upshot that the university needs to hear out lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students' demand for designated gay-friendly spaces in dorms instead of just talking about civility.

"Students are told that all of Rutgers is safe and why would you need a safe place in your dorm?" O'Brien said. "And they're told they don't understand the way the world works. And then they come to my office and they cry and they scream." O'Brien, who didn't know Clementi, said he knew another gay student who committed suicide last year.

It's unclear whether Clementi was openly gay. Only three of the 50 students who lived on his hall said they knew him when asked by a counselor, according to the New York Times.

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