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YOUR MARCH 20 editorial ("College Loans the Next Debt Bomb") correctly brings attention to a concern for many families, but it fails to mention one important strategy to address this dilemma: saving for college. Saving for higher education offers enormous benefits compared to borrowing. If a family saves $25 a month, it could have about $10,264 after 18 years. Those savings can gain state tax deductions, too. Meanwhile, someone who repays a $10,000 loan with interest over 18 years would ultimately pay $18,563 without any favorable state tax treatment.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - An alternate juror in the trial of a former Rutgers University student convicted in a webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide said he disagrees with the verdict. James Downey told the Record of Hackensack on Saturday that he wouldn't have voted to convict Dharun Ravi on any charges related to allegations that his actions were motivated by anti-gay bias. Prosecutors said Ravi set up his webcam in his dorm room and watched Tyler Clementi kissing another man on Sept.

Here is a verdict sheet for Dahrun Ravi in the Rutgers webcam spying case. T.C. is Tyler Clementi. M.B. is the man he was with during the spying incident. Some counts have more than one element, but Ravi only had to be convicted on one element to be guilty of the charge. Count 1 Fourth-Degree Invasion of Privacy, related to T.C.: GUILTY Fourth-Degree Invasion of Privacy, related to T.C.'s guest, M.B.: GUILTY Count 2 Third-Degree Bias Intimidation - Invasion of Privacy with the purpose to intimidate T.C. because of sexual orientation: NOT GUILTY - Invasion of Privacy with the purpose to intimidate M.B. because of sexual orientation: NOT GUILTY - Invasion of Privacy, knowing that the conduct constituting invasion of privacy would cause T.C. to be intimidated because of sexual orientation: NOT GUILTY - Invasion of Privacy, knowing that the conduct constituting invasion of privacy would cause M.B. to be intimidated because of sexual orientation: NOT GUILTY - Invasion of Privacy, under circumstances that caused T.C. to be intimidated, and considering the manner in which the offense was committed, T.C. reasonably believed that he was selected to be the target of the offense because of sexual orientation: GUILTY Count 3 Third-Degree Invasion of Privacy, related to T.C.: GUILTY Third-Degree Invasion of Privacy, related to M.B.: GUILTY ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - The lawyer for a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate in an intimate encounter with a man asked a jury Tuesday to focus on his client's intent rather than his actions in reaching a verdict. "What's important is the context in which everything was done," Steven Altman told the Middlesex County Superior Court panel, which is expected to begin deliberations Wednesday in the high-profile case against Dharun Ravi. But First Assistant County Prosecutor Julia McClure told the jury that Ravi's actions were "mean-spirited and malicious.

NEW BRUNWSICK, N.J. - Jurors in the trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man will not hear directly from the defendant. Dharun Ravi's defense lawyer rested his case Monday without calling Ravi to testify. The jury could begin deliberating Tuesday or Wednesday, after lawyers give their summations, and the judge gives instructions. Ravi's lawyer, Steven Altman, said Monday that although he didn't think there was anything to gain from having his client testify, the jury might hear from him indirectly in closing arguments.

NEW BRUNSWICK - Dharun Ravi was "stupid . . . ignorant . . . immature," his lawyer told a Middlesex County Superior Court jury this morning, but he was not a criminal. Attorney Steven Altman hammered away at that theme in a lengthy summation in the Rutgers University webcam spy case, urging the jurors who will decide his client's fate to remember that he was "an 18-year-old kid" just starting his first year in college when he saw his roommate kissing another man via a webcam stream from his dorm room.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Prosecutors rested their case Thursday in the trial of a former Rutgers University student, setting the stage for lawyers to begin their defense of the young man accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man. Dharun Ravi's lawyers are expected to present an investigator and several character witnesses starting Friday. His roommate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge on Sept.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi, accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man, told friends that someone at Rutgers was planning a "viewing party" with beer and rum to watch the dorm-room liaison, a high school friend testified Monday. The testimony came from Michelle Huang, a Cornell University student who said Ravi told her about it in a text message on Sept. 21, 2010. Ravi, 20, is on trial on 15 criminal counts, including invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, and several accusing him of trying to cover his tracks.

Six days of testimony in the Rutgers University webcam invasion-of-privacy case have made it clear that Dharun Ravi spied on his college roommate in a sexual encounter with another man. Witnesses and evidence introduced at the trial, which resumes Monday, also indicate that Ravi wrote snide and sarcastic comments in e-mails and text messages and on Twitter about what he saw. But when a Middlesex County Superior Court jury finally begins...