MSNBC.com 03/02/12
“Woman’s lawsuit against Roman Catholic College says roommate had too much sex”
A New York woman has filed a lawsuit against her former Roman Catholic college in Boston, claiming administrators didn't do enough to help her when she complained that her roommate was having too much sex in their dorm room.
Lindsay Blankmeyer said in a federal lawsuit that she suffered from depression and attention deficit disorder before she enrolled at Stonehill College, but was driven into a suicidal depression after school officials wouldn't give her reasonable housing alternatives to get her away from her roommate at the school in Easton, Mass.
Stonehill spokeswoman Kristen Magda said the college responded "swiftly and professionally" to Blackmeyer's complaints about her roommate, first trying to resolve the dispute through mediation with a residence director, then by giving Blankmeyer "multiple options" for campus housing, including a private room.
In the lawsuit, Blankmeyer says the college offered her two options, one was moving to another dorm where she would live in a room that was previously used as a study lounge and was a "small cubicle-like space." The other option was to move to a dorm with a reputation as a "party dorm" to live with a girl Blankmeyer did not know.
Common Sense Review
So how do you resolve an adult situation, you sue the school?
Ms. Blankmeyer has fed into societies “it is all about me” mentality. Thousands of student around the world have roommates they don’t like, yet don’t sue the school. Interesting enough the article never mentions a direct confrontation between the two roommates, instead mediation.
The school offers her, a private room but because it isn’t a suite at the Plaza, it isn’t good enough. They offer her a dorm room in a “party dorm”. It is a Catholic College, “woohoo, let’s party 7 AD!”..
She end up finishing her last semester at her parent’s home with a bachelor’s degree in the arts.. Sound like someone didn’t learn to be an adult…
Once again another child/adult without a clue on life and the issues she will run into in the real world. Sometimes I feel we are going to have a generation of mentally challenged adults who will have a problem coping due to mommy, daddy and school not teaching skill on how to handle adversity in life.
I see another SSI-disability category… I need a govt check because I can’t cope…
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