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.
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.
In other words, typical college behavior and two options offered to an unhappy roommate. Instead of learning a little flexibility and tolerance, Blankmeyer said she was driven to suicidal depression over her exposure to a young woman's sex life with her boyfriend. Please note, not multiple boyfriends, or girls, or combination. Yeah, that's why you went crazy, sweetheart. It's not you, it's everybody else in the world who needs to adjust.
A party dorm? Heaven forbid! Why couldn't they just change others to conform to what Blankmeyer wanted? Would that be so hard?
America never promised youth a life without discomfort or compromise. It promises liberty and choice. Perhaps someone so uptight that they were driven to suicidal depression over a little sex belongs in a private dwelling. However, I don't believe the school or anyone else is obligated to pay for that.
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