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[janice shell]

Some recall hearing about the alleged incident

One student, who chose to remain anonymous, told The New Yorker that he recalled being told about the alleged incident that night or the next day. He said he was "100 percent sure" that the person who told him about it identified Kavanaugh as the student who exposed himself.

Another classmate at Yale, now-emergency room doctor Richard Oh, remembered a tearful female student describing the incident but he could not recall who the student was.

According to The New Yorker, Ramirez told her mother and sister at the time that something upsetting had happened to her but did not share details with them because she was too embarrassed.

Kavanaugh's roommate at the time of the alleged incident, James Roche, said he never witnessed Kavanaugh commit any act of sexual misconduct but he told The New Yorker that Kavanaugh was "frequently incoherently drunk."

Roche became friends with Ramirez, whom he called "exceptionally honest and gentle." He said he could not "imagine her making this up" and said it was "believable" that Kavanaugh could have been involved in an incident like the one alleged by Ramirez.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/24/brett-kavanaugh-deborah-ramirez-what-we-know/1408056002/

It seems be now to have been pretty well-established that Kavanaugh was a serious binge drinker in college. Of course, that wouldn't make him unusual.

And this is interesting:

Ramirez, according to the New Yorker, was reluctant to come forward with her account of the incident because she had been drinking at the time and knows there are holes in her memory. The allegations were first raised by Yale alumni — not Ramirez — in July in emails.

Emphasis mine.

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/24/17895890/yale-deborah-ramirez-brett-kavanaugh-open-letter

And this is how the New Yorker got on the trail of Debbie Ramirez:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/24/17895740/new-yorker-jane-mayer-yale-university-emails-brett-kavanaugh-deborah-ramirez

[I]Mayer said she and Farrow saw emails sent between Yale alums discussing the incident back in July, before Kavanaugh’s first accuser Christine Blasey Ford went public with her accusations of Kavanaugh sexually assaulting her when the two were in high school.

Again, emphasis mine.