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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Osteen partially denies the University of North Carolina’s motion to dismiss allegations including race discrimination, wrongful discharge and tortious inference brought by a Ph.D. student. The only Black person in the organizational behavioral Ph.D. program at the time, the student confided in close faculty that she had been raped and that this had triggered symptoms of her PTSD diagnosis. When she attended a hearing involving her attacker instead of a non-mandatory program seminar, the faculty claimed she was being irresponsible and disrespectful. From there, the student alleges, her treatment by the faculty — all of whom are white or of Indian descent — became increasingly severe to the point where they allegedly complained to professors at other universities and sabotaged her attempts to transfer schools. While the student does not sufficiently evidence her claims against the individual staff members involved and has since withdrawn those claims, she does have standing against the university itself on eight of 10 claims including disparate treatment, retaliation and failure to accommodate.