How can I sue a state college in Masssachusets ?
I was a student at Framingham State College in Massachusets from Spring semester 1995 to Summer 1999.
All the time I was there I was ostracized and harassed.
No one would talk to me, if I aproached somebody they would be rude and run away without me having a clue why. I do not know if that is the way they treat foreigners in that state.I was harassed all the time by a group of students also.
During this time I fild complaints with campus police, the office of residence life and the dean. Nothing improved. During all the time this was happening I was seeing a
psychiatrist and taking a medicine for depression and anxiety called zolot.I started taking this medicine before I went to college.When I left College (I graduated) I was allready psycotic and the psychiatrist prescribe me risperdal.Nowdays I live in Madeira, an island that is part of Portugal. there is not an embassy here but there is a consulate.I went to the U.S. with a green card. What can I do from Madeira to sue them?
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You have to prove that the university had a policy or institution that approved or encourge harrastment of your type.
You would then have to gather up testimony of others who experienced it. most likely resulting in a class action suit.
Otherwise you wouldn’t have a case
Get a lawyer. They can review your case and see if there is enough to sue. You might have better luck suing the specific students that harrassed you, though.
I am so sorry that you had such a bad time there. However, the thought of you suing them is, to be perfectly honest, ridiculous.
The facts as you lay them out:
1) You stayed there for 4 years.
If it was so awful, you should have transferred to another school.
2) You say you had no clue as to why people were rude to you any time you approached them.
I find that hard to believe. If you are properly groomed (an in no offensive odor) and not wearing outlandish clothes and approach people in a calm way, there will always be someone who responds positively, even if there are a few rude people around.
3) You ask if “that is the way they treat foreigners in that state”.
Give me a break. There are many people of foreign origin living happily in the state.
4) Your say you complained to the campus police and office of resident life.
Campus police? When someone was rude? That’s like me going to the cops when someone calls me fat. I need to ignore them and move on (and yes, I also need to lose some weight), not try to have them forced to be nice. The resident life office probably felt you sounded immature, like someone crying to their mother because “no one will play with me”.
You should have gone to the school’s Office of Multicultural Affairs. Yes, they have one. Here is the url:
http://www.framingham.edu/studentaffairs/multicultural.htm
If you went there with an open mind, not with complaints, you would have met other foreign students who may have been able to give you constructive advice on how to interact with other students.
5) You were seeing a psychiatrist the entire time.
Are you telling me this doctor never gave you any of the advice I list above? Did you take any of the advice and actually try to change how you were coming off to people? Or did you go around with the attitude that, this is they way I am and they should be nice to me even though I am behaving oddly?
6) You were on meds for anxiety and depression before you went there.
Some of your negative feelings were in your head before you stepped foot on that campus. You need to examine the reasons you went to a foreign school in the first place. Were you unhappy with your relationships where you were? Did you think that going to another place would magically make things change?
Truthfully, it does not sound like you were a good candidate for foreign study to begin with, since you have such issues with anxiety and depression. College is stressful as it is, and trying to get through it in a foreign country is even more stressful.
I hope I do not sound cruel. I have my own set of emotional baggage that I am working through and I am just trying to help you to see that if you step back from a situation and look at it objectively, you may see things a little more clearly.
It is hard to be honest with ourselves and admit that our own actions sometimes cause negative events in our lives, but consider this old saying:
If we keep doing what we have always done, we will keep getting what we have always gotten.
We have to take a hard look at ourselves and change our negative outlook and behavior to something more positive. When I push myself to clean up, dress nice and put on a smile, people treat me well. It makes you more attractive and makes people want to know you.
I wish you well, and I will pray for you to become more emotionally healthy so that your life can get better.
Now quit trying to make easy bucks with a lame lawsuit. Get off your fanny and make some positive changes in your life!