Deborah Dwyer

BY DEBORAH L. DWYER [PDF VERSION] Marco Verch / CC-BY-2.0By all accounts, Christopher Purtz was a rising star with a bright future ahead. In high school, he was student body president and an All-State football champion. He graduated with honors and earned a full athletic scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he joined a fraternity and was named an All-American.

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Stories published by the Gazette are archived online. This archive in intended to mimic the function of print archives, which are used as a historical artifact and public record of accurate information. Since content in the archive is often searchable, readers or sources sometimes ask that content be removed from the archive. This policy is intended to explain the function of the online archive and appropriate reasons for removing — or "unpublishing" — content.