Lizzy Seeberg’s Family Feels Rejected by Notre Dame as Football Star Is Not Charged
In their search for answers following their daughter's suicide, Tom and Mary Seeberg have been stonewalled by a school that 11 Seebergs call alma mater. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Illinois Mayor Died After Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound, Autopsy Finds
Filed under: Democrats, InvestigationsResidents of Springfield are in shock after an autopsy found that Mayor Tim Davlin killed himself with a single gunshot to the chest. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | ...
Notre Dame’s Punt in the Probe of Lizzy Seeberg’s Sad Death
Filed under: Crime, Woman UpThe St. Mary's College freshman took her life this fall after she reported being assaulted by a Notre Dame football player. ND officials' silence in the case casts a pall over the entire athletic program. Permalink ...
Tyler Clementi’s Choice: Sex, Death and Video-Rape at Rutgers
Filed under: Woman Up, Video, Internet, Ethics, Hate CrimesWho's culpable in the outed teen's suicide? Lots of people. But if Clementi had resisted the urge to end it all, we'd be having a conversation about ethics and privacy, not about death. Pe...
The Rutgers Suicide
Filed under: Woman Up, CultureThe tragedy at the New Jersey university raises questions about how technology affects the journey from adolescence to adulthood. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Open thread for night owls: Alyssa Peterson
The Nation published Part I of Greg Mitchell's remembrance of Alyssa Peterson Sunday. Part II comes Monday:
 With each revelation, or court decision, on U.S. torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gitmo -- or the airing this month of The Tillman Story and Lawrence Wright's My...
Psychotropic Drug Abuse in Foster Care Costs Government BillionsFiled under: Investigations, Health Care, PD Investigations, MedicineChildren in foster care are much more likely to be on antipsychotic medications than other children on Medicaid. Many of these drugs are medically prohibited -- and dangerous -- for m...
Army Suicides Grow, but This Soldier Was SavedFiled under: Iraq, Afghanistan  On a dusty afternoon in a squalid U.S. Army base in eastern Baghdad, the world seemed to cave in on Spec. Joe Sanders. On daily patrols, soldiers around him were being killed and grievously wounded by improvised roadside bombs. The sweltering August...Follow seriouslypolitics on Twitter!
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