[Request] I need someone to talk to

I got inundated with support which has been amazing. Thank you so much for replying.

I prepared a brief summary of what I'm going through.

Sure. I suddenly got a ton of messages so here's a summary of what I have going on. Any advice is welcome. I am currently drafting a letter to the president of the school, but I wish I could afford a lawyer to send it for me to have more weight. It's a long story. I am an adult student in college. I earned and lucked my way into a fancy private school with crazy good connections and have a 3.8 with 4 papers to publish. But my recent ex didn't only break my heart, after saying she specifically wouldn't she spread horrible rumors about me around the school. I was staying in the private apartments in campus by taking care of two other traditional students. They both had issues and their rich parents wanted a minder to make sure they didn't get into trouble. Problem was that they wanted the trouble bad. One got into heroin and the other started making homemade booze when I took it away. So when the rurmors started they capitalized and together got the Dean of Students to sign me out of my private lease. Legally she cannot do that, but at the time I was threatened with expulsion. She even saw all their drugs and such and did nothing about it. The school has a bad drug problem and they just cover it up to protect their image. This made me homeless and I had nowhere to go. I couch surfed from place to place and was able to finish the semester, but when I came back the students doubled down and tried to get me kicked out of class targeting my teachers and even calling in a false gun threat. The administration eventually filed a Title IX against the students but buried that too. I went to apply for student housing and aid and I was then denied, because even though the school has admitted that the students were "hazing me" as they classified it, they thought that 1) the rumors still made students uncomfortable and 2) I am an older man and that would also be a problem. Turns out that is not legal ether and I have now filed an OCR claim but that can take months to produce results. In the mean time the semester is a month away. Jobs are not forthcoming and when I get one I will likely have to choose between it and school. I will have to give up my education to live, barely. When asked the school said things like "why is that our problem". I don't qualify for government assistance in GA because I am in school. Being in school makes you ineligible for most all aid, as they figured that schools make up the burden. But they don't, and the actions of the schools and students have made me homeless. Furthermore these former friends targeted my social network aggressively, and a few inside the group produced proof of this. They pressured my buisness partner to disown me and my income went with it, and then publicly threatened anyone who associated with me with social isolation and other reprisals if they continued to aid me in any way. Now my only temporary shelter is a drug addict's couch and I don't know what I am going to do. If I could afford a lawyer I could sue them but I can't, I literally had less than a dollar until someone donated 7 dollars so I could get an uber an hour ago.

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