Student Suicide

Tyler Clementi committed suicide after he was taped by his roommate having sex with another man. Tyler was a freshman student at Rutgers University and had only been there a month. According to news reports Dharun Ravi, Tyler's roommate, tweeted "Roomate asked for the room till midnight. I went into Mollys room and turned on webcam. I saw him making out with a dude.Yay" Tyler's facebook status read "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry". Police found Tyler's body along with his wallet and student id card. Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei have been charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy. Dharun faces two additional counts of invasion of privacy for attempting to use the camera to view and transmit another sexual encounter involving the same student. My thoughts... bullying has to stop and I think Ravi and Molly should be held accountable for their actions. However, I do not think Ravi is to blame for Tyler committing suicide, nor do I think our government is to blame. As a child who was bullied by schoolmates, I never told my teacher and I never told my parents. Sure my feelings were hurt everyday and the huge gap between my teeth wasn't getting any smaller, but I never once thought about committing suicide. What was done to Tyler is not even a fair comparison to my bullying experience, but in both situations society turned a blind eye to bullying, almost as if it's a rite of passage. There is a lack of compassion or even etiquette when it comes to bullying. No one came up to me after I was teased and said "Don't worry everything will be ok". It makes me wonder if anyone went up to Ravi and Molly and said " You guys are sick and losers, I will be reporting this to school authorities and I hope you both get expelled" or did anyone go up to Tyler and say " Hey man what they did was wrong and I know you are hurting right now, but I'm here with you"? RIP Tyler Clementi