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Thoughts of suicide haunted Anita Rutnam long before she arrived at Syracuse University. The Winchester, Mass., teenager had a history of mental illness and had even attempted to kill herself. During her junior year of college, she tried again. On a February morning in 1998, just days after a campus counselor recommended she be hospitalized for her suicidal tendencies, Rutnam threw herself off the eighth floor of a Syracuse dormitory and fell 90 ft. to the patio below...
...Rutnam, A.M., gave an interesting address in the Living Room of the Union last night under the auspices of the Harvard Political Club, on "Present Political Conditions in India." H. M. Gilmore '08, president of the Political Club, presided and introduced the speaker. After the close of the address, at the request of the Democratic National Committee, Gilmore appointed a committee of the Political Club to co-operate with Democratic political clubs in other colleges, looking toward the formation of an intercollegiate Democratic league. The members constituting the Harvard committee are S. Bowles, Jr., '08, H. S. Blair...
...Rutnam appeared in the picturesque native garb of his country, then gave a discussion of the conditions in which India is placed at the present time through the neglect and oppression of the English government...
...state in which India is placed at the present time, Mr. Rutnam said, is the same as that in which America was in relation to England at the time of the Revolution. "Taxation without representation" is the complaint of the Hindoos, but as the present 305,000,000 population of India exceeds the 3,000,000 of this country in colonial times, so does the greatness of the injustice in India exceeds injustice of the American oppression...
...Rutnam is a graduate of the University of Madras and a recipient of the degree of A.M. from Princeton. He has also spent several years in Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a Hindoo, one of the few who have received an English education. In his native country he is a leader in the movement for native rule, and as editor of the Ceylon University Association, and as committeeman of the Ceylon National Association is well qualified to speak on the present political situation in India...