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NorthJersey.com: Rutgers students plan remembrance of Tyler Clementi today

NorthJersey.com: Rutgers students plan remembrance of Tyler Clementi today
Rutgers students plan remembrance of Tyler Clementi today
Friday, October 1, 2010
LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY OCTOBER 1, 2010, 11:00 AM
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Tables will be set up this morning at Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick where students will be able to leave memorials to honor Tyler Clementi, a classmate who committed suicide after footage of him having sex with another man was streamed on the Internet.

Students planned to set up tables around 10 a.m. today at Brower Commons across from the student center on College Avenue, a university spokesman said. Additional memorials are planned in the next few days.

Authorities said that a body pulled from the Hudson River off Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park on Wednesday was identified as that of Clementi, a 2010 graduate of