The Story of Suicide Pt2

          The second half of this article goes into dept about the whole Clementi, Ravi incident and relationship. It began discussing the first day the boys met while moving in, and their relationship for the first couple weeks. There really wasn't much of one at all. The didn't interact at all beyond a couple sentences at a time. But they seemed to be accepting of each other. Clementi is even quoted saying that "he detected thoughtfulness and intelligence beneath Ravi's swagger." Though Ravi knew Clementi was gay coming in he was still pretty nice to him, and even left the room most of the time sensing Clementi wanted his own space.
          Then Parker begins to describe the web-camming incidents. The first time Clementi had asked Ravi for the room for the night. Ravi saw M.B. arrive, and perhaps out of security he and the girl across the hall Wei web peeked at Clementi and M.B. kissing without their shirts on. Two days later Clementi aske Ravi if they could use the room again that evening. Ravi said sure no problem. Ravi begins to set up a "viewing party" of his roomate this time. He tweets "Anyone with iChat, I dare you to video chat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes, it's happening again." He sets up his webcam situation facing it at Clementi's bed before leaving for Frisbee. But Clementi had found out about Ravi's snooping the last time, and sees his tweet about doing it again. So he unplugs Ravi's computer and turns the cam. Then he talks to and writes an email to his RA describing everything that had happened. The next day the RA confronted Ravi about it. That night is when Clementi jumped off the bridge killing himself.
       
     I would say that Ravi does deserve the evidence tampering charges, but not the bias ones. This is a tough case because I honestly don't believe Ravi meant any real harm by setting up the cameras. The first time seemed it could have been a complete accident. And though the second time was intentional the potential magnitude of it wasn't very high. Furthermore apologized through a couple texts the night Clementi took his own life. Ravi did lie in the first text about changing his mind and turning off the computer, but the second text seemed like a sincere apology. This text helped prove to me that Ravi wasn't bias in this situation and didn't dislike his roommate due to his sexual orientation. Though this dishonesty in the text and his erasing and editing of tweets proves to me that Ravi had tampered with evidence. I understand as a young man in this situation he probably got scared and tried to cover his tracks a bit. But this qualifies as evidence tampering. In the end I feel that the jail time Ravi would receive for these evidence charges suits the crime. He deserve a couple years in prison. But I don't feel he should be locked up for a decade or longer for what happened these couple nights.