Online Dating Site for Ugly Finds Success Pretty Quickly
Oct 28, 2010 Dating Websites
Women and men doing online dating must like to read about ugly people. Maybe it’s for relationship searches. Maybe it’s for amusement purposes. Either way, since you’re here I’m assuming you are one of these people. I mean you are an online dating person, not an ugly man or woman.
The post I did recently, Online Dating Home of the Brave and Ugly was quite popular. So many people read it that I promised to follow the story. Here is an interesting update of this unique piece of online dating news.
“Ugly Website” Unveils Its First Engaged Couple!
Pretty luck, huh? After just two months of online matchmaking for people who don’t count mirrors as friends, British-based website, The Ugly Bug Ball has already gotten credit for a couple getting engaged.
You can decide for yourself if the pair of lovebirds in the photo is “aesthetically challenged.” However, I will tell you that upon first glance (and actually my second, too), I thought for sure they were lesbians.
Their Love at First Bite Story
Tom (on the left) is 36. He works as a carpet fitter and has been single since 1998. He describes himself as having “a face that makes children cry.” He found 31-year old Janine on the site in late August soon after it launched.
They say a shared love of junk food and TV dinners was enough for them to “know” after just four dates. ”I always thought I was too ugly to meet Mrs. Right,” says Tom. “But my life changed when I met Janine. She’s beautiful and I love her in every possible way. I still can’t believe this happening.”
Now having just gotten engaged this week, the couple is planning a wedding this winter, and has already started writing their vows to each other.
They have also received a free honeymoon to Borth in Wales, courtesy of The Ugly Bug Ball. It brings to mind the old saying, “There is no such thing as an ugly bride.” I’d say that adage might soon be expecting a challenge. But based on some of the weddings I’ve attended, I’ve already seen enough proof.
More than 3 Strikes for Two and a Half Men Star Charlie Sheen
Oct 27, 2010 Celebrities
I’ve never seen the TV show “Two and a Half Men.” Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m guessing Charlie Sheen plays the role of half a man. I say this because he seems to know the role of a small man all too well in real-life, especially when it comes to relationships with women.
How Charlie Sheen didn’t go down after “allegedly” abusing his wife last Christmas is beyond me. How he is still starring in a television series that a network pays him handsomely to do because many people still watch the show despite his off-screen behavior is way beyond being beyond me.
As another World Series is about to begin, it begs the question, how many embarrassing real-life situations does it take to strike out the guy who played the pitcher, “Wild Thing” in the movie “Major League”?
Earlier today reports say New York City police were called to The Plaza Hotel in midtown Manhattan after an allegedly drunk and half-naked Charlie Sheen was found in a widely damaged guest suite with a naked woman identified as an escort.
Whether it was made online or by telephone, it sounds like a pay for play date gone bad for Sheen, 45. According to Life & Style magazine, the naked woman was discovered screaming inside a closet “fearing for her life.”
NYPD found the hotel room was trashed. Hotel security officials reportedly estimate the damage caused by Sheen to be around $7,000. The New York Daily News also reports that authorities found cocaine in the room.
When the police officers approached Sheen, whom they described as incoherent, he screamed slurs at them and told them he was “out partying,” according to the New York Post. Sheen apparently went into a rage when he discovered his wallet and cell phone missing.
The police officers who recognized the actor, gave him the choice of going to jail or the hospital, reports Life & Style Magazine. Eyewitnesses say Sheen left the hotel in a bathrobe and shorts as he entered an ambulance accompanied by his ex-wife Denise Richards.
NYPD officials confirmed that a 45-year-old emotionally disturbed white man was transported from The Plaza Hotel to the hospital early Tuesday. However, as of this evening, he was on a flight to California. No charges have yet been filed against Sheen because he was hospitalized as an emotionally disturbed person. Sheen’s spokesperson told People.com that the actor had an “adverse allergic reaction to some medication.” A violation of his probation is possible.
Escort Radar makes the best radar detectors on the market. I wonder if they have a BS detector for us to use on Charlie Sheen. We seem to need one in this sad dating news story involving him and an escort.
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A Virgin Reveals The Starbucks Conspiracy Behind Online Dating
Oct 26, 2010 BOD Bites
I am a virgin. I am a grown man and still a virgin. I admit it. In some ways I wear it like a badge of honor.
I’m not talking about sex. I’m talking about what many people seem to think is more pleasurable than sex:
I have never had a cup of coffee in my life.
My father drank it day and night. My mother drank it too. I didn’t like the smell. And when my father got me once to try coffee ice cream as a kid, I discovered there was in fact something that tasted more like stinky ass than my mother’s alleged meat loaf.
A few years ago I tried to drink an expresso while sitting at gunpoint in a moment of peer pressure with my new friends in Bosnia Herzegovina. I didn’t get beyond a sip of that mud.
Don’t get me wrong. I know Starbucks. I’ve bought and sold their stock successfully. When I was married, I went there every single morning as an act of kindness for my wife because I knew it got her day off to a good start. I also have a friend named Troy who has given me a proprietary look inside the business model of Starbucks since the place is more or less his landlord.
Starbucks is the Real Offline Star of Online Dating
Plenty of Fish is making plenty of profits. Match.com and its sister sites are part of the wealthy IAC Corporate family. And eHarmony has an advertising budget that makes today’s political spending in America seem conservative. They basically have a license to print money from singles. But who has an even sweeter deal?
Starbucks does.
Dinner and a movie are way off the standard online dating menu today. Most men and women doing online dating don’t want to go all out and risk it all on a first encounter with someone new. No one wants to commit to making a day or night of it.
Most sensible women don’t want to meet a stranger at night in the event he is the next psycho or Ted Bundy. Most chivalrous men don’t want to invest the time and expense of a nice dinner in case the woman they’re meeting looks and eats more like the offensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers than the person she posted in her online dating profile photos.
Starbucks is the meeting place du jour. It is the online dating stick your toe in the water place of choice. If you can go through five online dating profiles without finding a man or woman saying their suggested first meeting spot is a Starbucks, I’ll buy you a Venti Peppermint Mocha and hand deliver it to you anywhere in the free world.
It has got to be a conspiracy. It is the online dating news story of the century that no one in the traditional media is telling. I’ve done countless TV interviews with U.S. Senator Arlen Specter. He was at the heart of the Warren Commission’s investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I should talk to him about it. He just got voted out of office.
Starbucks is behind the birth of the whole online dating industry. Starbucks is the master of the movement. Trust me, if you haven’t already had an online dating first meeting at one of their locations, it’s only a matter of time.
By the way, if you’re a virgin like me, the hot Chai Latte is pretty good, but nothing even close to resembling great sex.
Tags: online dating news, online dating profiles, singles, starbucks
Dating Canadian Baby Boomers say Condoms are for Kids
Oct 24, 2010 Online Dating News
Hockey season is here again. And older dating Canadian singles will continue doing more than pucking. They’re heating up their empty nests on cold winter nights.
A national survey by the Canadian Liver Foundation found some interesting information that makes for good online dating news. The results from one thousand single men and women aged 46 to 64 prove they are reliving their youth and doing exactly what they have told their own kids not to do sexually.
- They are having one-night stands.
- They are engaging in sex with multiple partners.
- And they are failing to use condoms.
“Do as I Say in Dating – Not as I Do!”
When it comes to safe sex, the Canadian survey shows older singles aren’t practicing what they preach. While 70 percent of those surveyed say they tell their kids to practice safe sex, 30 percent of unmarried boomers admit they’ve had unprotected sex with a new partner. Furthermore, the same group said they aren’t worried about contracting a sexually transmitted infection or disease. The Canadian Liver Foundation was researching ways to prevent the widespread virus hepatitis as a sexually transmitted infection. Across Canada, there are 250,000 cases of hepatitis C.
Here are some of the other sex and dating facts found in the survey:
- 82 percent of baby boomers believe it’s important to have an active sex life at every age.
- 57 percent feel more free about having sex.
- 40 percent of men and 5 percent of women are open to one-night stands.
- 33 percent of unmarried boomers have done online dating.
Tags: online dating news, sexual partners, singles
Father-Son Team Rethinking Radical Changes to Online Dating Compatibility
Oct 24, 2010 Online Dating News
Clicck is clicking (or should I say “challenging”?) on all cylinders again. The online dating website that stakes claims to marrying science with good old-fashioned internet matchmaking, is now focusing a new line of questions on psychology.
Clicck is looking at the viability of the online dating industry’s current standard for matching two individuals based on complimentary personalities. They are doing this because their psychological team is trying to create a viable alternative to the many disappointing online compatibility tests today that really lack proven clinical legitimacy.
While staying shy of a complete psychological profile, Clicck’s current questionnaire is being retooled to create a more in-depth exploration into what makes a potential mate tick. They hope this will deliver a clearer and more successful match to users.
You don’t hear the term “Father-Son Combination” too much in the online dating industry. But Clicck is now controlled by a unique father-son team. Earlier this year, Psychologist Diplomate Dr. Christopher Ovide Sr. joined his son, CEO Christopher Ovide Jr. They hope this combination provides a more accurate and professionally designed technology tool for all of those men and women looking online for love.
Dr. Ovide is partnered with Dr. Heather Martens, another psychologist focused on relationship and marriage counseling. It is her subsequent analysis that will play a vital role in developing a better psychological profile of a person despite the limitations of online dating technology.
“During our research and review of the available data we have determined it is essential to assess every aspect of an individual’s personality,” said Dr. Ovide. “And we must also include demographic compatibility in the mix before indicating if two persons are compatible. We also believe it is critical that people understand a compatibility test is not the same as a psychological profile.”
Clicck claims to have two unique dimensions to its next generation compatibility questionnaire “This is very exciting,” says CEO Chris Ovide, Jr. “The new dimensions and more specific questionnaire will allow us to improve our recommendations and decrease the number of inaccurate matches.”
This would be the kind of online dating news all singles would want to hear.
Tags: online dating news
Why do BBW’s Get to Throw Their Weight Around in Online Dating?
Oct 23, 2010 Dating True Stories
I hear voices. So what? I hear songs, too. In fact, I can still sing along with Ray Stevens’ huge hit from 1970, “Everything is Beautiful.” Part of the lyrics was, “Everybody’s beautiful in their own way…”
Bigger is better. Yeah I’ve heard. There are popular reasons for it such as a value meal, better cushion for the pushin, more to love, and so on.
I’m just like you. In some ways I wish I was bigger. In other ways I wish I was smaller. Guess all you want.
Size matters. I get it. But looks matter, too. Don’t they? To me they do. That’s why I’m using this online dating blog to generate food for thought about BBWs.
Long before online dating and nine years after Ray Stevens’ greatest hit, Carole Shaw had hers. She deserves credit for coining and copyrighting the phrases “Big Beautiful Women” and “BBW” when she launched BBW Magazine for plus-size women.
No matter how accurate a term it is, nobody wants to be labeled as “morbidly obese.” It’s just not flattering. Nor is it socially acceptable.
I also understand that saying “Fat” ain’t where it’s at. Full-figured seems diplomatic and user friendly. Plus-sized sounds pretty positive, too. But these softened descriptions and all others like them don’t add up to BBW. It’s a term that’s grown more mainstream than the magazine and its marketing mission ever was.
Good for Carole Shaw and her creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. However, I just want to weigh in that I find fault with her phrases the way they are used today in online dating and society in general. Here’s why with just one case in point.
Years ago there was a dancer named Avalanche at my friend Shawn’s rather tame bachelor party. She said she was 402 pounds. She was warned that she wouldn’t get paid if she took off her clothes in her performance. Depending on the person, her appearance was the highlight or lowlight of the evening festivities.
It’s important to state that this woman put herself through the laughter and ridicule in return for money. No one forced her to do such shows. I remember she body slammed my friend who is a big guy and practically killed him. He was still sore a week later at the wedding. But what I vividly remember most and wished I didn’t was that when the light hit her face just right, she was one of the least attractive people I’ve ever seen. It had little to do with her weight.
I’m glad that the online dating industry features a sizable niche for overweight singles and those who are attracted to them. Go for it people. Make your own online dating news. From a business standpoint, BBW online dating websites make sense given the fact that America is growing more obese every year.
I work hard to stay height weight proportionate. It’s not fun. Still, I’m totally fine with big women basically saying, “This is who I am, take it or leave it.” That’s their attitude and their choice.
Sure, we call old people “seniors.” But we don’t call all Caucasians, African-Americans, Latinos, tall people, short people, disabled people, or middle-aged, average-sized Irishmen like me – beautiful.
Simply put…to me, BBW is often BS today.
It’s an overused, overweight stereotype. Not all big or obese women are beautiful. And so they shouldn’t try to seize an advantage in online dating by throwing their weight around using the euphemism – BBW.
Tags: BBW, online dating news
Dear Online Dating Diary: Zoosk Thinks I’m Ugly!
Oct 20, 2010 Dating True Stories
Mirror Mirror on the wall. I must be the ugliest of them all. Based on who Zoosk is matching me with, I’m convinced of it. I don’t want to make this kind of online dating news. Say it ain’t so!
While I am not Brad Pitt or Denzel Washington, Tom Brady or Derek Jeter, I don’t think I’m that bad looking. Even if you think I fell out of God’s ugly tree, I didn’t hit every single branch on the way down.
Since I write an online dating blog, I decided to explore the fast-growing online dating site and Facebook app, Zoosk. One of its features for single men and women is called the Zoosk Scientific Match System. It goes by the acronym ZSMS. Sadly, in my personal experience so far, I’m thinking ZSMS stands for:
Zero Science MatchMaking Skills.
Here’s how it works or doesn’t work. Every day I am sent an email informing me I have been matched with another woman. Both of us have been notified and asked to vote on each other’s profile within 24 hours. All responses stay anonymous unless both singles approve. Otherwise, neither person knows about the other person’s response.
There is nothing in my eyes with the Zoosk Scientific Match System that even remotely resembles the law of attraction. Yeah I know, I’m like every other guy trying to upgrade to find a woman who is too good for me. But c’mon, couldn’t the Zoosk computers once in a while match me with someone I’d consider to be sexy or at least attractive?
The reality is most of the women I’ve been matched with by Zoosk are so not my type upon first glance that I’m now fully expecting to hit the decline button. I don’t even need to scroll down to the online dating profiles any more.
It’s been so disappointing I’ve reached the point that I consider it a moral victory if once in a while I happen to weigh less than a woman ZSMS recommends for me.
In the Zoosk forum I can see that ZSMS calculates matches for Zooskers according to their search criteria. It claims that over time, ZSMS will learn more about your preferences and will work to find your best match. Here’s more of how they describle the Zoosk Scientific Match System:
“Think of it as being like DVRs that suggest television shows to you. At first, TV show suggestions are based on very basic criteria along the lines of, “If you like science fiction, you’ll like The X-Files.” As you tell the DVR what shows you do and don’t like, it comes up with better suggestions.
ZSMS is free to all Zooskers, so when you log in, just take a moment to accept or decline the match it suggests. If you decline the match, ZSMS will soon offer you another to choose from. The more you use it, the better your matches will get. If you and your suggested match both click “Accept,” you’ll both be notified and you can take whatever next steps you like.
ZSMS is not yet at the point where it’s using your search settings. For now, it’s selecting profiles based on pretty basic criteria, such as age and proximity…We’re tweaking it regularly, taking member feedback into account. We’re pretty excited about it. Soon, ZSMS will be making some pretty solid matches and bringing people together!”
The Zoosk Scientific Matching System is free to all members. So you have nothing to lose but your time, patience, confidence, hope, and so on. Until now, I’m scoring a big, fat zero with Zoosk.
Tags: online dating blog, online dating news, online dating profiles, zoosk
The Truth about Lying in Online Dating
Oct 18, 2010 Online Dating News
Here’s the truth about online dating…not everyone is honest. And I just don’t get it. I have to say it because if I don’t keep it real in writing this online dating blog, readers won’t return. So far so good.
If your goal is really to find your perfect match then you have to be who you are. You have to think like you really think. You have to feel like you normally feel. You have to act like you usually act.
And you have to look like you currently look, right?
If you lie in your online dating profile about your likes and dislikes, you’re hurting yourself and the person you meet. If you lie to yourself and others using photos from many years, many hairs, or many pounds ago, you’re only going to be discovered when you actually meet any potential match in person. In addition, this practice doesn’t make perfect because it often leads to disappointment and added doubts about what other truths you’re not telling.
It sucks when you meet a woman whose profile says she loves to work out but the butt she hauls on your date is wider than the backside of a race track. And for the ladies, it’s a sad moment when you quickly realize it’s “game over” because the new guy you just met who loved the same football team as you, in reality is so friggin old his favorite players wore leather helmets.
What led me to write about this topic right now was not to unload on my personal experiences. Yeah I have plenty and I’ll get to them. The truth of the matter is I just came across a University of Kansas study that I thought was interesting enough to share with you.
“What people lie about depends on what kind of people they are.”
Those are the words of Jeffrey Hall, a Jayhawk researcher and assistant professor of communication studies. He surveyed more than 5,000 men and women in a national Internet matchmaking service. Hall was trying to determine what kinds of singles are most likely to lie during the online dating process. So, he inquired as to how likely they were to lie about personal issues such as wealth, weight, age, relationship goals, past relationships, and more.
The findings of the study were published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. But here are the major online dating news headlines:
Men admitted to lying more overall. Women were most likely to lie about their weight.
Hall found that those who lie on online dating services are people-pleasers who want to present themselves in the most favorable light to get someone to like them He believes the behavior would be the same if these individuals were dating in the traditional manner. Their actions are not necessarily manipulative, Hall said, but rather a more of a reflection on their personal desire to be liked and to fit in.
Whatever the reason behind the baggage and BS, starting a relationship without a foundation of trust is in my opinion a blueprint for a breakup. If you can’t trust in yourself enough to be honest with yourself and just be who you are, you’re probably headed for online dating headaches and heartaches.
Surely, you can do better than that. Surely, you and anyone you meet deserve better than that, too.
Tags: online dating blog, online dating news, online dating profiles, relationships
Cougar Online Dating Site Wants Relationship with CougarTown Star Courteney Cox
Oct 17, 2010 Celebrities
Online dating takes no time off. Case in point is that a million dollar offer is already on the table for Courteney Cox even though her separation from husband David Arquette was just announced a few days ago.
Arquette appeared last night at the Spike TV Scream Awards in Los Angeles. He was wearing jeans and a leather jacket and looked happy and relaxed. He did not walk the red carpet in order to avoid interviews with members of the media. The 39-year old actor was there to promote his latest work in Scream 4 with his co-stars, Neve Campbell and Emma Roberts plus the film’s director Wes Craven.
It was on the set of the first Scream movie in 1996 where he met Courteney Cox. The two stars got married three years later. They now have an 8-year old daughter Coco. Us Weekly magazine reports the couple is “by no means interested in giving up. They just need time apart.”
Meantime, dating website CougarLife.com is trying to get together with Courteney Cox. The website which promotes itself as the “premier online dating service that pairs women in their prime with younger men and ends the double standard,” has made a $ 1 million contract offer to lure Cox into a relationship as its spokeswoman.
The sexy 46-year old Cox stars on the ABC Television series “Cougar Town.” Her character is a divorced mother who is busily vying for the affection of younger men. Last Wednesday at 9:00 the show finished third in its time slot attracting 7.3 million viewers for a slightly higher rating of 4.4.
Cougar Life is said to be pouncing on Cox because her separation actually took place a couple of months ago. While it certainly makes sense that the actress could put a pretty and popular face on the branding of the online dating website, Cougar Life could really run wild on singles if they were able to convince Courteney Cox to complete an online dating profile and become a member. Now that would make for big time online dating news and wouldn’t hurt her show’s ratings either.
Tags: cougarlife, cougars, cougartown, courteney cox
Even a 4-Year Old Knows not to take NO for an Answer in Dating
Oct 5, 2010 Dating True Stories
Bear with me please. I know this is an online dating blog for singles. But I write it from Chandler, Arizona. It rained here today. To me, that’s breaking friggin online dating news! But wait…there’s more.
The storm blew my rocking chairs into the lake. That might have been a huge news story on Fox 10 in Phoenix had I called my buddy there. Anyway, the real story is my weather tragedy turned into a dating triumph…for my 4-year old.
Never Miss a Good Opportunity to Jump in a Puddle!
That’s one of the life lessons I’ve learned from my son. Today, we had a rare opportunity to act on it. So when I picked him up from preschool, we went feet first. Times like this between a single Daddy and a 4-year old boy with no adult supervision have their rewards.
After stopping home for dry clothes, we went to the indoor playland at the worldwide place with the golden arches. My little man always calls it “Old McDonald’s.” It amuses me every time so I have never corrected him.
No other people were there when we arrived. Within 30 seconds, not one but two adorable little girls his age appeared with a Mommy. Jackpot!
My son the hunter picked up the scent faster than a bloodhound on a prison break. “Daddy, I want to play with them,” he said as he locked on the targets. I replied, “Go get em Buddy.” To myself I thought, “That’s my boy!”
He had no time for small talk. There was no foreplay. Not even a hello. I laughed as he went right for the kill in boldly asking, “Do you want to play with me?” “No,” said one of the girls. Yep, just like his old man.
He came back to me to “Supersize” the “No” he got. It was an emphatic enough protest for the girls and the Mommy to hear. Actually, his disappointment might have been loud enough for Ray Kroc in his grave to hear. Then came the matchmaking breakthrough.
The Mommy called the girls over to her. When they broke their quick huddle, the girls offered to play with my boy. Aah. Young love was alive and well. Life was better than a Happy Meal. I thanked her for making us both smile.
The kids played well together for nearly two hours. The girls were really nice despite him being “All-Boy.” I watched my son chase two little beautiful girls in and out of slides and chutes, and shared some laughs with the Mommy of the one girl about him being so smitten with them. The good news is I think my son scored another “play date.”
Now it would be way too predictable to tell you the moral of the story here is, “Don’t Take No for an Answer” in your dating pursuits. Boring!
The real golden nugget of dating advice from my 4-year old is this. To increase your odds of getting a date – Always do your asking out within earshot of their Mommy.
Tags: 4-year old, online dating advice, online dating blog, online dating news
Rutgers Gay Suicide: Online Dating Invasion of Privacy
Oct 2, 2010 Online Dating News
Tyler Clementi’s 18-year old body and spirit were dragged out of the Hudson River on Thursday. It was more than a week after he jumped to his death from the two-level George Washington Bridge, which safely takes commuters across the river between New York and New Jersey.
A Facebook page supposedly belonging to Tyler Clementi had a mobile status update on September 22. It read, “jumping off the gw bridge sorry.”
The Middlesex County, New Jersey Prosecutor’s office has charged two Rutgers students with invasion of privacy. Further charges including bias are pending. Allegedly, Clementi’s roommate at Rutgers, 18-year-old Dharun Ravi and another student, 18-year-old Molly Wei, placed a web camera in Clementi’s dorm room without his knowledge. It was then used to broadcast his sexual encounter with another man on the internet.
The social media trail
Reports say Dharun Ravi is believed to have posted messages on Twitter.com a number of times to share information about his roommate’s sexual orientation and activities. Tyler Clementi is believed to have used a gay website, JustUsBoys.com.
Twitter – August 22, 2010 (allegedly from Ravi):
“Found out my roommate is gay?” The tweet also linked to a thread on JustUsBoys. Another page on JustUsBoys showed a post labeled “college roommate spying.”
Twitter – September 19 (allegedly from Ravi):
“Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.”
According to prosecutors, Ravi tried to use the webcam again two days later.
Twitter – September 21 (allegedly from Ravi about Clementi):
“Anyone with iChat, I dare you to video chat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes it’s happening again.”
JustUsBoys.com – September 21, one day before Tyler Clementi’s jump from the GW Bridge (allegedly Clementi under username “cit2mo”):
“so the other night i had a guy over. I had talked to my roommate that afternoon and he had said it would be fine w/him. I checked his twitter today. he tweeted that I was using the room (which is obnoxious enough), AND that he went into somebody else’s room and remotely turned on his webcam and saw me making out with a guy.”
Reports say the user, Cit2mo, then asked readers what he should do, including whether or not he should try to get another roommate. Several responses said the webcam was an invasion of privacy. Cit2mo said he might talk with a resident assistant in the dorm.
Cit2mo later responded that he had reported the incident. “He [the resident assistant] seemed to take it seriously… he asked me to email him a written paragraph about what exactly happened… I emailed it to him, and to two people above him….”
A lawyer for JustUsBoys.com confirmed the posts were traced back to Rutgers.
Rutgers University is reeling from scrutiny over the controversy and looming legal issues about how long it knew about the situation, and what it did or didn’t do to resolve it. University President Richard McCormick is meeting with members of the school’s gay and lesbian community. So far the only statement from Tyler Clementi’s family said, “We understand that our family’s personal tragedy presents important legal issues for the country as well for us.”
To try to put out the fire, a candlelight vigil is being held tomorrow night on the Rutgers University campus. Tyler Clementi might be there in spirit.
Tags: gay suicide, invasion of privacy, online dating news, Rutgers, Tyler Clementi