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During the afternoon

1,1 informed Norwood Teague that a

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At about 4:30 pm, ^^^^^^^^^^^^B Norwood Teague and I sat


-and ordered a drink. ^^^^^^U joined us shortly later. Norwood sat next to me and
asked me a series of friendly questions, about where I went to school, when I graduated, how I liked
working at the University, etc. I was eager to talk to him and get to know him, as I had spoken to him

very few times ^^^^B^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^B- ^^^^^^B announced at about


5:30 pm that she was going to walk ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^B^^B- I joined her. On
the walk ^^^^^^ cautioned me that she thought Norwood was hitting on me. I told her that I
didn't know Norwood well and didn't pick up on it but thanked her for alerting me.
At about 6:30 pm, the group-^^^^^^^B-entered the dining room for dinner. Considering
earlier comments, I made certain to position myself away from Norwood, and sat in between

-and ^^^^. Shortly after sitting down, ^^B walked to the bar to get a beer and
Norwood took his chair. Norwood moved his dining room chair very close to mine, so that I felt quite

physically trapped. We started talking fairly casually about sports at the university and what our future
career plans were. Norwood begin to then ask inappropriate questions, such as "why haven't you
married your boyfriend" and "when are you going to marry your boyfriend." At about the same time, he

began to rub my back and poke my side. At this time, Norwood was sitting to my left, ^^^N was to
his left, ^^^^^B-was to my right, and ^^^^^^B was across the table from me. I don't believe
that they saw Norwood's inappropriate touching. While Norwood was touching me, I saw him text H

Feeling physically trapped and inappropriately touched, I turned to my right in an attempt to join in
another conversation. I asked ^B what she was talking about and she said, "you missed the
conversation because you've been too busy flirting with Norwood." The insinuation that I had been

acting inappropriately at the time I was feeling threatened was horrifying.


I got up from the table and
leave the dinner table and made sure to walk

I was one of the first to


with others, as I was concerned that

Norwood would follow me. I walked back


In the morning I became aware from

had a similar experience with

Norwood the evening before. I spoke with


H showed me the text messages that Norwood sent her. Itexted

experience to ^B the evening before (without the text messages).


which I did.

that I had a similar


asked me to tell

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