What Happened?

Last week, I was offered full-time employment that would have paid me $13/hour.  I couldn't take the job; it was overnight, and I have nowhere to sleep during the day.  The shelter does not accommodate people who work overnight; everyone has to get up at 6:00 a.m., every morning, every day of the week, no matter what.   The public perception that homeless people "just need to get a job" is based on a near-total ignorance of what homeless life is like.  There are homeless people who do work, and who have nowhere to keep their things during the day because the shelters don't have enough high-school-sized lockers for everyone.  A homeless person who works often uses a desk drawer at work to have a change of clothing.  The shelters often demand that a homeless person who is working provide a letter to the shelters, from the employer, that proves that the person is working, to be eligible for a saved bed.  Of course this puts a working homeless person at a ...

My past student loans were taken out of deferment when I was suspended from Bunker Hill Community College.   I also have now paid off the bill of several hundred dollars that I was charged for the last class in which I was harassed, for which I had an A average and which was one of four classes that I was forced to fail when the false and retaliatory suspension prevented me from finishing the work for them.   I never asked the school to punish anyone; all I did was ask that the school tell people who harassed me to stop harassing me.  I had no agenda; they did, and so did the school.  

That was how I felt when I was formally accused, twice out of three semesters in a row, after I had reported being harassed at Bunker Hill Community College.   That's a picture of part of the male Amherst College student's lawsuit, for which this is the address: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2090107-doe-v-amherst-complaint.html The first semester that I reported being persistently harassed at school, in 2016, I was called by the administrative assistant to the Dean of Students on a Monday morning.  I was asked to schedule a meeting with the Dean of Students for that afternoon, on the same Monday.  I thought that the meeting was being scheduled so that I could tell the Dean in person about my being targeted for harassment week after week.  As soon as the meeting was scheduled, I was sent an email formally charging me with two counts of violating the school's code of conduct and telling me that the scheduled meeting was actually a formal "administrative meetin...

That's the premise of the lawsuit that was filed and won against Amherst College, championed by KC Johnson. The concerns discussed by the lady of that case in her text messages of the night in question refer to her distress about having had sexual contact with her roommate's boyfriend; that's what she felt guilty about.  Her obvious guilt about that was deliberately misconstrued by the plaintiff and everyone who has converged to attack her to be guilt for having committed the alleged sexual assault of which they are all accusing her.  None of them have recognized that she could have felt guilty about having had sexual contact with her roommate's boyfriend; she is deliberately misportrayed as being incapable of that type of guilt, even though that type of guilt is the most obvious explanation for why she didn't think that night about whether or not all of the sexual contact was consensual and she only blamed herself. If the gentleman in question were "blackout d...

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Published October 17, 2012: ___ ___ ______ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ http://amherststudent.amherst.edu/?q=article/2012/10/17/account-sexual-assault-amherst-college __________ Published October 18, 2012 https://www.amherst.edu/campuslife/letters_president/node/436469 __________ Published November 2012: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2095386