After a Suicide, Questions About Promoting Privacy on Campus

When a student kills himself, it?s a painful experience for a campus. Certainly that is the case with the recent death of Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers University?s Busch campus, in Piscataway, N.J., Beyond the grief, the circumstances around Mr. Clementi?s death raise questions of not only how colleges can help students in crisis, but also how, and if, they can prevent the sort of malicious behavior that can contribute to such a crisis.