Here's a very odd story for you to kick off the week! Who the hell hasn't had sex in college? Who the hell hasn't experimented with different things in college? Well, apparently Lindsay Blankmeyer hasn't! Blankmeyer is a former student at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, who recently filed a suit against the school because, get this, her roommate's alleged inappropriate sexual behavior drove her into a deep depression. WHAT?
Blankmeyer is seeking $150,000 in damages in the lawsuit that was filed last Wednesday at a U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, citing violations of the Rehabilitation Act, the federal Fair Housing Act Amendments, and Massachusetts anti-discrimination laws. It sounds like she's not only depressed, but she's also a little cuckoo!
According to court documents, Blankmeyer claims that during her senior year, her roommate engaged in online and actual sex right in front of her. Supposedly, the roommate would have sex with her boyfriend while Blankmeyer was trying to sleep a few feet away. Her roommate would also engage in sexually inappropriate video chatting while Blankmeyer was in the room. Do any of you, reading this, actually see a problem yet? Because I don't. Isn't this all part of the college experience? And what if her roommate was just trying to find a way to make extra money to pay for her schooling with the explicit video chats? Maybe she was having sex with these guys for money....Wait! I guess that would be illegal, right? Try living in a frat house, Lindsay! Sex a few feet away from you was an every night occurrence! Well, that's if you weren't the one having the sex.
Stonehill College claims that they responded swiftly and professionally to the concerns of the student in this case, seeking to help resolve the matter. The issues between Blankmeyer and her roommate were first attempted to be resolved through mediation with the dorm's residence director. Blankmeyer was then presented with a number of housing options on campus including a private room. The College even made special arrangements for Blankmeyer to complete her degree while living at home. According to a Stonehill spokesperson, at no time did Blankmeyer notify staff that her concerns involved sexual activity by her roommate. However, she did allege in her lawsuit that the R.D. did nothing to alleviate the problem and that her mental health began to deteriorate as a result. She also alleged that before a scheduled group mediation, her roommate grabbed her while she was sleeping and began shaking her and yelling at her. Blankmeyer said that she was terrified and pretended to go back to sleep. This all seems too far fetched!
According to the lawsuit documents, Blankmeyer had already suffered from previous diagnoses of depression and attention deficit disorder, for which Stonehill had agreed to grant her extra time on her exams and papers. She was also hospitalized during her freshman year for these diagnoses. Blankmeyer's parents and psychiatrist also requested that she get a single room, but supposedly, the school refused the request and offered her two unattractive options: she could've moved to a different dorm that had a hard-partying reputation and room with a girl that she didn't know, or she could've moved to a 'small cubicle-like space' that was previously used as a study lounge. Apparently, the refusal caused Blankmeyer to fall into a dark suicidal depression, which required here to take a leave of absence from school and undergo psychiatric and medical treatment. Blankmeyer completed her Bachelor of Arts Degree from home in New York in September of 2011.
Okay, I call "Bull Sh*t" on this one! It sounds like someone is out to make a quick buck. First of all, it sound like this girl didn't fall into a depression because of her roommate. It sounds like the problems have already been there since she was a freshman. So, she can't keep blaming her roommate or the school on that. Secondly, if her roommate was, indeed, doing what she claims while she was in the room? Then why wouldn't you set up a camera somewhere in the room to catch her, this way you have evidence and something to back up your case? I wouldn't have recorded my roommate to distribute, but I would've used it as evidence, and if the school or the roommate didn't play along with what I wanted, then I would've threatened to distribute the recordings. Because she didn't do this, I really don't believe that sex or anything indecent was the cause of her 'deep dark depression' except for the fact that she probably wasn't getting laid as much as her roommate. Now, that would be cause for a depression! One more question, I keep looking at the photo above, and I keep trying to figure out which girl is Lindsay Blankmeyer. According to the lawsuit, my guess would be the 'fugly' one on the right, but most captions in the papers say that she's the one on the left, which would surprise me that the girl on the right was getting all that action while the girl on the left got none. This is a crazy, crazy world!
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