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Various Facebook event pages for Spirit Day were put up. One such page dubbed "October 20th: Spirit Day", created by Tasha Gawkowski and Malcolm Zawacki, had 67,097 people "attending" as of 12:03 p.m. on October 20. Another one titled "R.I.P.;; In memory of the recent suicides due to gay abuse, wear purple" had more than 1.5 million "attending" as of 12:22 p.m. on October 20.
Rallying around the cause, several Facebook groups encouraging people to wear purple have popped on the site. One of the biggest, "R.I.P. ;; In memory of the recent suicides due to gay abuse, wear purple," has attracted more than 1.6 million attendees.
Christie said his feeling on the case as a father "overwhelms whatever feelings I have as governor" and that he didn't know how Ravi and Wei could sleep at night "knowing that they contributed to driving that young man to that alternative.""That kind of stuff is just unacceptable," he said. "And you don't know the feelings of the person on the receiving end of that ...There might be some people who can take that type of treatment and deal with it. There might be others, as this young man obviously was... much more greatly affected by it."
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link){{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)[Brittany McMillan] initiated the idea after Tyler Clementi, a student at Rutgers University, committed suicide when his roommate used a webcam (computer camera) to "broadcast" Clementi's same sex date.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Christie said his feeling on the case as a father "overwhelms whatever feelings I have as governor" and that he didn't know how Ravi and Wei could sleep at night "knowing that they contributed to driving that young man to that alternative.""That kind of stuff is just unacceptable," he said. "And you don't know the feelings of the person on the receiving end of that ...There might be some people who can take that type of treatment and deal with it. There might be others, as this young man obviously was... much more greatly affected by it."
[Brittany McMillan] initiated the idea after Tyler Clementi, a student at Rutgers University, committed suicide when his roommate used a webcam (computer camera) to "broadcast" Clementi's same sex date.
Rallying around the cause, several Facebook groups encouraging people to wear purple have popped on the site. One of the biggest, "R.I.P. ;; In memory of the recent suicides due to gay abuse, wear purple," has attracted more than 1.6 million attendees.
Various Facebook event pages for Spirit Day were put up. One such page dubbed "October 20th: Spirit Day", created by Tasha Gawkowski and Malcolm Zawacki, had 67,097 people "attending" as of 12:03 p.m. on October 20. Another one titled "R.I.P.;; In memory of the recent suicides due to gay abuse, wear purple" had more than 1.5 million "attending" as of 12:22 p.m. on October 20.