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NJ senator calls for anti-bully law after suicide - Yahoo! News

NJ senator calls for anti-bully law after suicide - Yahoo! News

NJ senator calls for anti-bully law after suicide

Frank LautenbergAP – U. S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) speaks at a statewide town meeting in memory of Rutgers student …

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg said Wednesday he'll introduce legislation requiring colleges to adopt a code of conduct that prohibits bullying and harassment following the suicide of a student whose gay sexual encounter in his dorm room was broadcast online.

Lautenberg, D-N.J., made the announcement at a town meeting on the Rutgers University campus in memory of 18-year-old freshman Tyler Clementi.

Clementi, a promising violinist, jumped off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River on Sept. 22 after the intimate images of him with another man were webcast, and his body was