… to the sexual harassment charges against him. (Background here.)
The general idea is that the student was the sexual aggressor throughout.
Some of it’s a bit shaky.
Ludlow further denied that he knew the student was underage, believing she was 22 at the time.
“Because of this, he believed her to be older than a traditional freshman would be,” the document states.
Admittedly this is a newspaper quoting from a document, but huh? Because he believed she was 22, he believed she was 22? On what was he basing that belief?
Ludlow says that when NU’s investigation began
he even offered to obtain and provide security video from his building’s elevator and receipts from the restaurant and bar showing how many drinks had been ordered.
I’m not sure what any toing and froing on camera would tell us, unless the camera captured the student hurling herself on Ludlow and Ludlow sternly escorting her to a cab. Similarly, the number of drinks wouldn’t tell us much, since Ludlow and the student are likely to have had drinks earlier in the evening as well.