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Stonehill College Student’s Lawsuit: Roommate Had ‘Disturbingly’ Open Sex Life

Lindsay Blankmeyer Alleges Girl's Wild Behavior Furthered Her Depression

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A college student from New York is suing Stonehill College in Massachusetts, a Catholic Liberal Arts College, saying her roommate’s sex life drove her into a suicidal depression and that the school did nothing to address her concerns.

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The student, Lindsay Blankmeyer, alleges that her roommate, “Laura,” was “having online and actual sex right in front of her,” according to the court complaint.

“More disturbingly, Laura would have sex with her boyfriend while Lindsay was trying to sleep just a few feet away. Laura would also engage in sexually inappropriate video chatting when Lindsay was in the room,” the complaint read.

Blankmeyer suffered from depression and Attention Deficit Disorder when she enrolled at Stonehill in September of 2007. She said she wanted to see how she would perform in school “without any sort of additional help in the form of a reasonable accommodation.”

However, the complaint states that Blankmeyer began to incur issues because her roommate “often had overnight guests without asking [Blankmeyer's] permission or even informing [her] that she would be having guests.”

The complaint also went on to say that Blankmeyer’s roommate would “stay up late with lights on,” keeping her awake. The complainant even claims that her roommate “began shaking her and yelling at her” while she was sleeping.

Blankmeyer eventually went to her resident assistant, detailing her “toxic environment” and “emotionally taxing…struggles.”

After the resident assistant apparently told Blankmeyer’s roommate, Laura, to provide advance notice of guests visiting the room and to “video chat in the common area,” according to the complaint.

Blankmeyer was given additional housing options, which did not meet her satisfaction. She and her parents asked if she could have her old dorm room back minus her roommate.

When that request was denied, they asked for a single room, but were told Blankmeyer “was not entitled to a reasonable accommodation of a single room.”  In the weeks and months afterward, she fell into a “dark and suicidal depression requiring her to take a leave of absence from school.”

Blankmeyer eventually moved to a hotel, but left the “increasingly isolated environment.” She was eventually able to complete her final semester of school while home in New York.

The lawsuit against the school alleges Stonehill refused to grant Blankmeyer “reasonable accommodation of a single room.”

It alleges that the school violated the Rehabilitation Act, the federal Fair Housing Act Amendments and Massachusetts anti-discrimination laws.

Stonehill said it is taking the accusations seriously.

“We are reviewing the complaint, which focuses on a previous roommate issue. There are two sides, and sometimes more, to every story. We will be responding to the complaint,” said Martin McGovern, director of Communications and Media Relations at Stonehill College, in a statement.

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  • Nancy

    Find her roommates stash of condoms and use a pin to help nature along.

    • JB

      LMAO

    • Greg

      Problem solved in about 9 months…

      • Me

        Actually in one cycle of the moon. Or, maybe some other 28 day cycle.

  • Minky Moose

    Remember when women respected themselves, had dignity and grace, didn’t farm themselves out to multiple men like pieces of meat? I almost want to say ‘yeah, me neither’ except that it’s true young women today are skanks. There have always been the slutty girls but not nearly as many as you see now. By the way, if you don’t like this comment, go xxxx yourself.

    • Brown

      It was before Feminism.

  • David True

    Sleep is essential, should be curfue on loud sex in dorm rooms. Set aside places in lounge area for whom the itch is unusually high, plant bushes. keep everyone happy.
    But if one gets it all, the other will still be depressed. I suggest sharing.

    • kmrod

      there’s no need for a curfew on loud sex, there’s already a curfew on loud noises.

      let’s make sure we understand the real issue here………… the college offered to make accommodations and she turned them down then sued the college for not making accommodations, aka STUPID FRIVOLOUS LAWSUIT.

    • Think About It

      How trew. Sharing is not a nue concept. It especially helps when you’re feeling blew. A place in the lounge might not be a good idea as the students will eventually scrue.

  • Steve

    They left out the most important detail – Stonehoill is a Catholic college – at least in name.

    • kmrod

      actually, IT SAYS THAT IN THE FIRST SENTENCE OF THE STORY

  • brad

    She showed have planted a webcam and charged a view subscription or played them for Pelos’si committee.

  • Jenny

    If her roommate was openly having sex in front of her she should have taped it and posted it to the Internet. She could have made a few bucks off of the tapes and made her roommate miserable enough to leave.

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    • Try Again

      Yeah, just like the case last year where the roommate did that and is now facing a slew of charges because the roommate ended up killing himself due to the video. You’re absolutely brilliant.

  • aeroskyn

    Note to self…..don’t date a woman named Lindsay Blankmeyer.

    • JB

      A good Lysol spray down is in order, followed by fumigation with a pesticide and order eliminator. Can you spell Shameless Skank?

      • Try Again

        You guys are killing it on the reading comprehension here.

    • Zipperhead

      Lisa Blankmeyer, wasn’t that one of the characters in Anilmal House?

      • Zipperhead

        Lindsay Blankmeyer, wasn’t that one of the chacters in Animal House?

  • WALTC

    She should have borrowed a copy of Sheldon and Leonard’s Roommate Agreement. All those issues are addressed and remedies stipulated.

    Can’t figure out what kind of ambulance chaser would even take on this case.

  • Othello

    I wonder which lucky company will be the one who gets to hire this Blankmeyer dynamo …

  • Ricardo

    This story is worthless without pics (of the room mate).

  • lauren

    are you sure the room mate’s name was not ” Sandra Fluke?”

    • JB

      Hahahaha LMAO… that’s good

  • Daniel Morgan

    Let me see……colleges are not suppose to interfere with the sexual rights of students and provide them with birth control, abortions and healthcare and also protect the rights of students that don’t want to listen and watch and demand special privileges (this girl could have doubled up with someone else more in tune with her beliefs)…..no matter what the college does, they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

    In the end, colleges mass produce students who are rude, impulsive, unable to solve their own problems and are basically unable to deal with the real world.

  • walljasper

    ‘Am trying to understand her point above being subjected to live sex acts of her roommate but ‘will need corroborating film footage, photos and any audio recordings for further study to draw any conclusions.

  • 223/4/freedom

    Romney and Obama support Eugenics:
    The goal of Planned Parenthood and the eugenic legacy of Sanger, Sebelius, Obama, Polosi, Boxer, Clinton, Mitt Romney, etc., and organizations like NOW and LDS support Eugenic policies to localize, to centralize, and to eliminate the physically unfit, the materially poor, the racially inferior, mentally incompetent (which is by their definition anyone whom disagrees with their particular Utopian world-view), and the methods for these ends are alive and thriving today. They relish and worship the term “science” which in fact “is” a method not a body of truths or facts. The scientific method is education, contraception, sterilization, and abortion. The best part of this tragic comedy is that it is the intended victims of these practices and policies that are the most ardent supporters, but don’t bother pointing this out to them, they have been so well manipulated like the Epsilons of Huxley’s “Brave New World,” that you will be the focal point and not their zombie like obedience to the libidinous proclivities from the lower functioning amygdala to which they are enslaved.

  • Suburbanbanshee

    Wow. One minute everybody’s all being sorry for the young man whose roommate taped him, and swearing that never shall anyone be bullied again.
    The next minute, it’s perfectly acceptable for one roommate to hog the room, assault the other woman, and do all kinds of stuff unacceptable at a Catholic school — because obviously, it’s the victim’s fault, and bullying such a suicidal victim is good.

    What seems obvious to me is that the sexually aggressive roommate was sexually harassing the other one, and was probably deliberately trying to get rid of her. It sounds like it may even have involved sexual assault, depending on how the laws of the jurisdiction count sexual assault. Certainly there was physical assault, if she was deliberately waking the roommate up like that.

    Of course, colleges constantly discourage calling the real police, but it’s often justified. Certainly a lawsuit is in order.

  • Dave q

    when you get Laura’s phone number pleeze pass it on…that chick sounds hot..

    • jawal

      Ahhhhh, the benefits of a liberal education. Look, she should have just bit the living piss out of her roomate for being such a disgusting pig. As, free spirited as it sounds, it is lewd and piggish. We have reached a point in American society where we have equated freedom and liberty with human depravity. Yes, human depravity still exists and deserves to be called out as such.

  • adios amigos

    Guess she was jealousbecause she wasn’t getting any!

    • Peter

      Your correct maybe she should have joined in !!!

      • Baldy Kirby from Atlanta

        Yep – she should have drove on the Threeway Freeway….

        And put the videos on Youtube.

    • walljasper

      Sounds like nobody ever climbed into her canoe for a midnight paddling around Lake Romance.

  • Nik

    The Lawsuit is frivolous because Blankmeyer was being unreasonable by not taking another room. She insisted upon having a single room when she could have just moved into another double. She claims her “preexisting psychological conditions” gave her the right to a single room. If this was the case, then she should have applied for a single room at the beginning of the year. Also she still managed to graduate in 4 years without a delay.

    • herm

      Normally I’d agree, but the Americans with Disabilities Act seems to give her a leg to stand on;)

  • Evan, Stonehill ’10

    “The first option was to move to another dorm called “The Courts” where Lindsay would have to live in a room that was previously being used as a study lounge. It was not a dorm room, but rather a small cubicle-like space.”

    I lived in one of those singles my senior year, and I was lucky to do it. Those rooms were the biggest singles on campus and my favorite dorm room from all four of my years at SC. She was offered a perfectly acceptable solution and turned it down. My theory: she just got her first notice to pay back her student loans and freaked out.

    • george

      Or maybe she sees this as her road to fame, however fleeting. Not to mention the prospect of digging some bucks out of the school.

      • kmrod

        “maybe she sees this as her road to fame” ……….. she’s definitely going to hear her name on Leno and Conan.

  • rocker90

    why is she watiting this ling to file?

  • http://daksden.wordpress.com dakotahgeo

    Blankmeyer needs a damn good spanking and some educating! She’s darn lucky the university even listened to her.

    • Nimadan

      So I take it, you’re bringing your kids up to act like the slut room mate did?

      And then, let me guess, you’re going to be surprised and indignant
      when they’re charged with sexual harassment, aren’t you?

  • mj

    can someone get me laura’s phone # ?

    • Thomas

      508 867-5309

      /just guessing – you might reach Jenny, though

  • Len

    Actually she’s right. Her roommate seems to have consistently and continually violated basic dormitory rules. While its not the job of the school to judge the roommates openly sexual lifestyle, they do have an obligation to enforce dormitory regulations equally for all students. By allowing the roommate to ignore the rules, the school has left itself open to this type of lawsuit.
    If the roommate had carried on her open lifestyle within the rules, including but not limited to obtaining permission for overnight guests and conducting video chats in a more appropriate area (remember, dorms are not free…students pay large sums of money each semester), then the lawsuit would indeed be frivolous.

    • Jean

      She needs to grow up. Living in a dorm is never easy. Every one of my friends have had problems with their first dormmates including bringing their boyfriends to stay over. None of these people fell into a deep depression or became suicidal. She had these problems before going to school and she should have known this could happen or she should have gone to a school she could commute to from her parent’s house where she was “safe.”

    • mitchrx7

      are you a baby too?

    • MIZ-ZOU

      I don’t recall any rules at my University regarding the need for permission to bring in overnight guests or how to use the internet in our own rooms. This sounds like an issue of an inconsiderate roommate more than anything. If she wanted to be in a place where they (try to) keep guys from staying overnight, she should have moved into a sorority, rented an apartment, or taken one of the other reasonable accommodations the school offered. When you share a living space, you don’t get to dictate everything.

      • mjazz

        Shouldn’t have to share a living space with a third person, though.

      • Jac

        You get to dictate DECENCY. It isn’t unreasonable to ask a roommate not to have sex in front of you.

  • Lauren, Stonehill ’10

    I am embarrassed for the lawyer who decided to use his law degree to take this case.

    • Curly

      Don’t ever be embarrassed for a lawyer!

      • george

        Absolutely not. The lawyers themselves are never embarrassed.

        • Joe

          Really ! No wonder most politicians are former lawyers !

      • BILL MCNEAL

        This girl will become another “f”ing lawyer…just what we need ….oh yes one more thing….”OBAMA OR AMERICA YOU CAN’T HAVE BOTH”…PLEASE PASS IT ON…THANKS

  • Esmerelda

    Blankmeyer sounds like a spolied nut.
    I cant get the room I want so I’m going to sue.
    Too Bad, that’s life, cant always get what you want.

    • LISA PELL

      And if the Govt. pays for the room mates birth control you can sue the Govt!

      • kmrod

        nope, still wrong.

        • phnx

          satire kmrod, satire

    • nosympathy

      1. Google the lawsuit filing on PDF; very interesting; Apparently Lindsay’s first roomie dropped out after attempting suicide. Think about that for awhile. Maybe her first roomie should sue her…
      2. Google her and check out her twitter pic.
      3. But a lawyer can get you what you don’t deserve..

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