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Former Student Sues College Over Stay in a Mental Ward
She had come to New York from Nigeria after being admitted to the City University of New York’s most elite honors program, which gives students full tuition, a laptop and a $7,500 stipend.

But in the late fall of her second year at Brooklyn College, in 2008, Sophia Chinemerem Eze went to the security staff there, saying she had experienced problems with her off-campus roommates and suspected that her landlord had planted a video camera in her bedroom. She wound up on a psychiatric ward at Kings County Hospital Center, and in a lawsuit filed last week, Ms. Eze says the college played a role in hospitalizing her without cause.

“It was a nightmare to her,” her lawyer, Andrew J. Spinnell, said on Thursday. “All she did was go to the college to report an incident that she felt was unseemly, and the next thing she knows she was at Kings County Hospital for two weeks.”

A Brooklyn College spokesman, Jeremy Thompson, said the college could not comment on the allegations because of the pending litigation. But he said the city’s Emergency Medical Service, not the college staff, decided to take her to the hospital.

Ms. Eze, 26, who currently lives in Harlem, never returned to Brooklyn College after she was hospitalized. Her lawyer said she would not comment.

The case touches on issues raised both by the suicide of a Rutgers University student, Tyler Clementi, last fall — his roommate and another student stand accused of secretly monitoring him with a webcam — and by the shooting last week in Tucson, where college administrators had wrestled with how to respond to the suspect’s unusual behavior.

The lawsuit, which was filed Jan. 5 in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, says that when Ms. Eze went to the campus police on Dec. 2, 2008, she suspected that she “was being defamed on the Internet” by her roommates and that “her landlord at the time had installed a hidden camera in her bedroom.” Her lawyer said she had found a camera inside a vent.

But Ms. Eze never went to the police to complain about a camera, said her lawyer, Mr. Spinnell. “She was afraid of the police,” he said. Nor is there evidence that any images of her surfaced on the Internet. Mr. Spinnell acknowledged that “she wasn’t 100 percent sure if it was the landlord” or a roommate who had planted the camera.

Another lawyer, Gregory Antollino, said Ms. Eze won a $110,000 settlement last year from the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation, which runs Kings County Hospital Center. He said an examining physician told Ms. Eze that if she did not sign herself in, then doctors would commit her involuntarily, resulting in a longer stay. “So they tricked her on that basis,” he said.

A spokeswoman for the Health and Hospitals Corporation, Pamela McDonnell, said she had no comment.

Mr. Spinnell said Ms. Eze had heard secondhand that her roommates had made defamatory postings online. “I asked her if she ever saw that, and she said ‘No,’ but she was told,” he said.

But Ms. Eze herself made a series of postings on her MySpace page that are alternately rambling and menacing. In one, she announced that she was disowning the Eze family and changing her name to Sophia Abraham McWill. In another, she wrote, “I am BY FAR SANER than any of you,” adding that she “would GLADLY destroy it all to make sure YOU PAY.”

The new lawsuit alleges that when Ms. Eze went to Brooklyn College’s security office to voice her suspicions, a college psychological counselor was summoned. The counselor asked her a “series of personal questions pertaining to her psychological state of mind,” the suit said, including whether she was suicidal, heard voices or ever suffered from mental illness.

The lawsuit said that Ms. Eze answered all the questions in the negative, but that the counselor called an ambulance anyway and that Ms. Eze was “forcibly led into an ambulance.”

Ms. Eze accuses the college of preventing her from finishing her courses after her hospitalization, but Mr. Thompson disputed that. “We had given her opportunities along the way to meet with her professors and complete her course work, and she didn’t choose to take advantage of that,” he said.

Ms. Eze had been admitted to the Macaulay Honors College, an elite program that received about 4,000 applications for 400 spots this school year. Students in the program have dual affiliations with the honors college and one of CUNY’s senior colleges — in Ms. Eze’s case, Brooklyn College.
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whatdidyousay! said:
The guy looked crazy and you can't change that!
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does he look crazy (criminal) too?
 
:laugh2: ^^^^

Jared's ex-girlfriend shared with Fox news that she believes he is "faking" being insane in order to avoid prison time. The question is, then whether her statement and those of other people who profess to know him, is true or not. *shrug*

Good news that Congresswoman Giffords opened an eye yesterday (for the first time), according to her two closest friends. Yay!!
 
Banjo said:
... Sarah Palin actually used the phrase, "Blood Libel"?

Not a good move if you ask me. Of course, she just had to make it all about herself. What a narcissist.
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Hey, she didn't make it about herself, as soon as this happened people were pointing fingers at her. She is the victim and nothing more and she has the right to defend herself.

I think you need to keep your political comments to your own country and stay out of ours. Believe me Canada is far from perfect.
 
Banjo said:
Oh, I'm perfectly aware of that one. :lol:

This is one thing that bothers me about some books. A lot of them are penned by ghostwriters. Why call yourself an author if you actually didn't write it? Hmm-mm. It's narcissism, that's what. They take such a big interest in themselves that they have to have all of the credits to themselves.
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I am getting pretty sick and tired of your comments on our political system, don't you have anything better to do like bash the Canadian government? Sarah Palin is not as evil, or as bad as you think. We all know she is not perfect but so doesn't everyone else in this world.

What have you got against this person anyway? Do you know her personally? Have you read the books on her? Is she from Canada? What is it with you and her? Everyone is entitled to their opinions but really, sounds like you got some sick perverted fetish about bashing this person when you don't even know her. This says more about you than anything else.
 
cdaigle430 said:
Hey, she didn't make it about herself, as soon as this happened people were pointing fingers at her. She is the victim and nothing more and she has the right to defend herself.

I think you need to keep your political comments to your own country and stay out of ours. Believe me Canada is far from perfect.
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cdaigle430 said:
I am getting pretty sick and tired of your comments on our political system, don't you have anything better to do like bash the Canadian government? Sarah Palin is not as evil, or as bad as you think. We all know she is not perfect but so doesn't everyone else in this world.

What have you got against this person anyway? Do you know her personally? Have you read the books on her? Is she from Canada? What is it with you and her? Everyone is entitled to their opinions but really, sounds like you got some sick perverted fetish about bashing this person when you don't even know her. This says more about you than anything else.
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I agree with Banjo. Palin is a ditzy dumb-ass. :lol:
 
cdaigle430 said:
Hey, she didn't make it about herself, as soon as this happened people were pointing fingers at her. She is the victim and nothing more and she has the right to defend herself.
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Sarah Palin is hardly a victim these days. Especially if she's using phrases such as "blood libel". She is an attention hoarder. She should had waited until after the people were buried to say something.

But she couldn't resist the urge, she had to stir up the pot even more and politicized the tragedy even further. People shouldn't have blamed her in the first place, that was in bad taste. Only idiots would have bought into that claim. It should had been ignored and focus on the tragedy instead.

It's a shame how the tragedy was used as a political pawn for both sides. If it wasn't for John McCain, we wouldn't have to see this poor excuse of a human being everywhere in the media. Then maybe this wouldn't have happened.
 
cdaigle430 said:
I am getting pretty sick and tired of your comments on our political system, don't you have anything better to do like bash the Canadian government? Sarah Palin is not as evil, or as bad as you think. We all know she is not perfect but so doesn't everyone else in this world.

What have you got against this person anyway? Do you know her personally? Have you read the books on her? Is she from Canada? What is it with you and her? Everyone is entitled to their opinions but really, sounds like you got some sick perverted fetish about bashing this person when you don't even know her. This says more about you than anything else.
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would you say same to American citizen who said exactly same thing as Banjo?
 
Jiro, good link on that story. Interesting to see how two cases came out of the situation. 1st settlement is dealing with the decision to keep her there for two weeks and I guess the 2nd is for the college pysch calling for an ambulance. Interesting to see if that is unusual or not.
 
cdaigle430 said:
Hey, she didn't make it about herself, as soon as this happened people were pointing fingers at her. She is the victim and nothing more and she has the right to defend herself.

I think you need to keep your political comments to your own country and stay out of ours. Believe me Canada is far from perfect.
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If Palin was the victim why did she say anything at all about the event? She's not a politician. She earns money how?

Anybody is welcome to express an honest, sincere opinion about American politics. Doesn't matter if banjo isn't a citizen. It's a invaluable perspective.
 
Jiro said:
would you say same to American citizen who said exactly same thing as Banjo?
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Here is another American citizen that feels the same way about Palin and if by some crazy notion she wins then yeah Canada is looking pretty good compared to four years of her leadership.
 
ember said:
Here is another American citizen that feels the same way about Palin and if by some crazy notion she wins then yeah Canada is looking pretty good compared to four years of her leadership.
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and I'm pretty sure Israel wouldn't want to deal with a President who accused some people of blood libel. She doesn't have a chance in hell to get that nomination she's looking for. Too many Republicans are too leery of her.
 
Banjo said:
and I'm pretty sure Israel wouldn't want to deal with a President who accused some people of blood libel. She doesn't have a chance in hell to get that nomination she's looking for. Too many Republicans are too leery of her.
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I don't know she has many a fans here in Texas not sure why but they love her and defend her to the end in the debates we get into. Guess we will see who she is running against, and she is already gaining popularity with her show, sadly its not so much about politics anymore as it is about popularity.
 
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