{"id":3725,"date":"2007-10-16T11:23:44","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T18:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/16\/sexual-abuse-survivor-suspended-from-eastern-illinois-university-for-having-flashback\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T18:43:32","slug":"sexual-abuse-survivor-suspended-from-eastern-illinois-university-for-having-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3725","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Abuse Survivor Suspended From Eastern Illinois University For Having Flashback"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Inside Higher Ed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While enrolled at Eastern Illinois, Manges says she saw a private counselor off campus to deal with her diagnosis of PTSD \u2014 a result of the sexual abuse she experienced from 1999 through 2000, when someone she knew not only abused her but also collected money from other men who did the same.<\/p>\n

She was sitting in French history class September 5 when she could feel a flashback coming. Trying to leave but unable to exit the room in time, she collapsed before reaching the hallway.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t remember what happened because I was disassociating, but what witnesses said, what my professor said, is that I started sobbing uncontrollably, shouting, screaming. I was unresponsive; I was just lying on the floor,\u201d Manges says. […]<\/p>\n

In a letter to Manges dated September 17, Eastern Illinois\u2019 assistant director of judicial affairs writes that given Manges\u2019 admission that she violated the two code of conduct standards prohibiting disruptive behavior during the September 5 \u201cincident\u201d (in other words, the in-class flashback), and \u201cthe seriousness with which the board viewed this incident, it is their recommendation that you be suspended from the university, effective immediately, for a minimum of an academic year through the Spring Semester, 2008, during which you would be prohibited from being on the campus without prior permission of the vice president for student affairs.\u201d […]<\/p>\n

While what Manges says happened at Eastern Illinois may not be common, nor are such experiences uncommon, says Karen Bower, a senior staff attorney at the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Bower says she routinely (more than once a month) gets calls from students who are forced to leave college for mental health reasons. […]<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have urged that schools not use disciplinary action for behavior that\u2019s a result of mental illness,\u201d Bower says \u2014 echoing Professor Smith\u2019s sentiment that a judicial board hearing didn\u2019t seem like an appropriate venue for addressing his student\u2019s situation. […]<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they think it\u2019s objective, but discrimination based on conduct that\u2019s the result of disability is the same as discrimination based on disability,\u201d Bower says. \u201cThe use of the disciplinary system as a whole is really a way of removing students from an environment instead of finding out what kinds of supports and services they need to stay in school and be successful.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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