Ryan and his co-defendant, 28-year-old Joseph LePore, both of Florham Park, were sentenced in January 2007 after accepting a plea deal that dismissed homicide charges.
LePore, who also pleaded guilty to eluding arrest, is eligible for parole in November.
In what they called a prank, the freshman roommates at the South Orange campus set fire to a paper banner in a lounge area and the fire spread.
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