A second-year student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts said the university failed to adequately respond to her concerns after her roommate allegedly urinated on her in their Broome Street dorm, though administrators claim they have “taken the matter seriously.”
The alleged incident took place April 12, when Eloni Belcher said she woke up around 5:26 a.m. to find her roommate squatting over her and urinating on her arms. Belcher said her roommate, who appeared intoxicated, looked surprised that she had woken up and caught her in the act. She said she immediately cleaned herself, washed her soiled mattress and bedsheets, which by then “smelled so rancid,” she said.
“I was freaked out — so I got up, and I said, ‘What are you doing?’ and then she says, ‘Oh, sorry,’” Belcher said. “I was just in shock, and I was like, ‘I don’t know what to do.’”
Belcher said she maintained a good relationship with her roommate since moving in together last semester, but said a disagreement the day before may have precipitated the incident. She said she had texted her roommate and asked her to quiet down while she was on the phone because it was “disruptive” and “frustrating.”…