Student chased attacker out of dorm room A YOUNG woman who was assaulted by a man as she slept in her room at Sydney's Macquarie University managed to chase off her attacker, police say. The 20-year-old student woke to find the man molesting her about 3.20am (AEDT) on Thursday. "The young woman was surprised in her bedroom ... she screamed and then chased the male from the unit," Eastwood Local Area Command acting superintendent, Steve Fowler, told reporters in Sydney on Friday. Macquarie University said there was nothing to link the attack to its ongoing accommodation of asylum seekers on the campus at Marsfield in Sydney's northwest. "The university does not have any evidence that this is the case and is awaiting the outcome of the police investigation," it said. Macquarie provides services for asylum seekers, including temporary accommodation, under a 2012 agreement with the Red Cross's Asylum Seeker Assistance Scheme (ASAS). Acting Supt Fowler said investigators were speaking to a number of students in the area. The attacker is believed to be in his early 20s, dark-skinned, with a thin build and dark, short curly hair. He was wearing only a pair of grey tracksuit pants.