All agree that, after speaking to Amaral, Queen took hold of Amaral's wheelchair and pulled her into the lobby.

Amaral says she was "dragged" off the elevator, and says this action is at the heart of her assault charges--"My chair is part of my body," she says.

Queen acknowledges that he did move Amaral's wheelchair, but says his actions were justified by the fact that she was blocking the elevator doors.

"I asked her again, and said, 'If you refuse to allow the doors to close on the elevator, I will have to pull you into the lobby," Queen says. "She refused, and I gently but firmly pulled her chair into the lobby."

His contact with Amaral's chair, Queen says, was limited to three seconds.

Amaral says Queen's actions to remove her from the area were not sensitive to the precariousness of her position in the wheelchair.

"Three times I told him not to touch me and he did. I had absolutely no defense when he pulled me backwards. I could do nothing," says Amaral, who says she feared falling out of her chair. "If I was standing up at least I could pull away. When I'm sitting in the chair, I couldn't do anything."

Amaral says Queen took advantage of her disability.

"He knew that I could not fight back...and he took advantage of his power," she says.

Following the incident at the elevator, both say a meeting between Queen and Amaral occurred in Queen's office.

In that meeting, Queen says he discussed Amaral's behavior with her.

"[I told Amaral] her behavior was not appropriate, would not be tolerated in the future [and that] she could expect to face disciplinary charges in the future," according to Queen.

Amaral says Queen's conversation with her was significantly more pointed.

"Dean Queen repeatedly told me that if I do this behavior again at the extensionschool I would be arrested and removed and neverallowed back on campus," Amaral wrote in hercomplaint to the OCR. She sent a copy of thiscomplaint and the complaint filed with the CPD toThe Crimson yesterday.

At the end of the meeting, according to Queen,Amaral asked for an apology from him, which hesays he offered.

"I said I was sorry I had to move yourwheelchair after giving you the opportunity tomove yourself," Queen says.

Following this, Queen said, Amaral expressed awillingness to apologize directly to Shinagel forher actions. Queen says he recommended againstfurther direct contact between Amaral andShinagel. He says he also "made it clear that anyfurther contact with the extension school wouldhave to be through me."

Amaral says this apology was coerced by threatsof her arrest.

CPD officials this week said they could notestimate how long the case would take toinvestigate