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NYU Student Says Roommate Urinated On Her And University Failed To Ensure Her Safety
NYU Student Says Roommate Urinated On Her And University Failed To Ensure Her Safety

A student at NYU is saying the institution has failed to ensure her safety after she reported an incident involving her roommate. She said the incident wasn’t taken seriously, she was not moved to another housing and has been subject to harassment since turning to social media for support. Eloni Belcher, a sophomore student at Tisch School Of The Arts, said she woke up around 5:26 a.m. on April 12 to her roommate urinating on her arms. She said her roommate appeared to be inebriated. Belcher immediately got up to wash the urine off her mattress and bedsheets. “I was freaked out — so I got up, and I said, ‘What are you doing?’ and then she says, ‘Oh, sorry,’” she told NYU student news outlet Washington Square News . “I was just in shock, and I was like, ‘I don’t know what to do.’” Belcher said that she and her roommate had gotten along but got into a disagreement a day before when Belcher asked if she could lower the volume when speaking over the phone. On April 12, Belcher said she...

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