UPDATE: THANK YOU EVERYONE.

Armaan Premjee was reinstated to USC on December 18th after his writ hearing. This petition was cited in The Daily Trojan. Unfortunately, they RE-OPENED the rape investigation, because no official verdict was there. If anything, it's possible that SHE raped HIM, and was too drunk to remember. You have shown me that together, we can get universities to change. In today's political climate, we have a lot of work to do. Thank you.

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Armaan Premjee, 20, was a junior at the University of Southern California (USC), pursuing a bachelors in business administration. One night, this all changed. After a $200,000 bail and months of investigations, Armaan just wants to finish his degree. He has 6 credits left.

Armaan went out one night to have some fun. He met a girl named Arshia, who was 19 years old at the time. She really liked him and invited him to her dorm room. They had sex. However, she did not remember the night and the young woman's roommate filed a rape allegation.

The availability of video footage in this case however led to the judge dismissing the trial. “There is no indication of any withdrawal of consent" he wrote in his final ruling. Clear footage from inside the bar, outside it, and inside the woman's dorm room showed that she was very much the aggressor in this encounter.

She made sexual hand gestures behind Armaan's back, and walked him out of the bar. She motioned for him to come to the elevator to go to her room. According to California law however, this woman's blatantly suggestive behaviors do not count when she is drunk, as she is incapable of giving consent. In California, drunk sex is non-consensual sex, or rape.

Arshia took responsibility for her actions, and did not want the case to proceed. Nevertheless, the two main police officers in this case, Oscar Gamino and Carla Zuniga, treated Armaan as if he was "guilty before proven innocent," contrary to constitutional law. These police officers withheld exculpatory evidence from prosecutors. “They had the video camera footage from the very start,” Premjee said. “They suppressed evidence that could have basically changed my life" (The Daily Trojan).

Despite the judge dismissing the trial, USC's Office of Equity and Diversity decided that Armaan violated TItle IX. This decision was made by a panel that did not see the video footage, and Armaan was not permitted to defend himself. Armaan was consequently expelled from USC. This has harmed his reputation, although, his interview with FOX 11 has 7million views, and the public demands justice for Armaan.

Armaan's fate illustrates the blatant discrimination against men in cases of sexual assault, due to the title ix provisions enacted under former president Barack Obama. False rape accusations harm men's reputations and mental health, limiting equal access to education. Meanwhile, the victim stays anonymous and continues their lives as if nothing ever happened.



By signing this petition, an email will be sent to the president of USC, Wanda M. Austin. If enough emails are sent before Armaan's hearing on December 18th, perhaps she will change her mind and drop the case. Please help Armaan get back into school and sign this petition.