Columbia Student Protests Inaction on Her Alleged Rape by Carrying Mattress Around Campus
The student is carrying around a twin sized bed mattress which can’t be easy. Apparently, she’s worked it into a project for her art class as well.
Jessica Roy of New York Magazine has the story.
Columbia Student Will Carry a Mattress Everywhere Until Her Alleged Rapist Is Expelled
Emma Sulkowicz says she was raped in her own dorm bed by a classmate on the first day of her sophomore year of college. Since then, a substantial amount of her time at Columbia University has been spent trying to convince college administrators, police, and even friends that what happened to her really happened, that it was rape, and that her rapist deserves to be punished for what he did.
Sulkowicz is one of 23 students who are part of a federal Title IX complaint filed against Columbia in April for mishandling sexual-assault cases. Though she and two other students reported that the same student had assaulted them, all of their claims were swept under the rug, and the male student was not expelled from campus.
“Every day, I am afraid to leave my room,” Sulkowicz wrote in Time in May. “Even seeing people who look remotely like my rapist scares me. Last semester I was working in the dark room in the photography department. Though my rapist wasn’t in my class, he asked permission from his teacher to come and work in the dark room during my class time. I started crying and hyperventilating. As long as he’s on campus with me, he can continue to harass me.”
Now a senior majoring in visual arts, Sulkowicz has devised a senior thesis rooted in performance art that will allow her to protest the fact that her rapist continues to study on campus. She has committed to carrying around a twin-size dorm mattress everywhere she goes on campus, to classes and appointments, “for as long as I attend the same school as my rapist.”
Columbia Student Will Carry a Mattress Everywhere Until Her Alleged Rapist Is Expelled (New York Magazine)
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If she was raped, she should have called the police. She went to the school instead. The school made a decision. Live with it.
How is this a school responsibility? If a felony was committed, go to the police.
Oh, I’m sure that her “rape” WAS reported to the police. Either through her own incompetence or the incompetence of the officers involved, she likely destroyed any decent shot at a case. That is making the assumption that this isn’t a “remorse” rape claim, or worse, an attempt to hurt the accused student because she is jealous that he sleeps around.
IF she wants to truly commit, put pen to paper, write your story publicly, name names, and eat the defamation lawsuit that is sure to follow. Trying to shame a University by “carrying a bed” around with you is only going to get you laughed at, until people start quietly ignoring you because your mental damage is so sad. Ultimately this woman will be the one referred to psychiatric services and asked not to return to campus due to her disruption.
I’m curious as to what that “harassment” involves?
I’d also be curious about any “medical issues” she might have. I’ve known a few women who practically threw themselves at various men, then accused them of rape. Including two who had sense to run from the women without bedding the women.
There are more medical problems that create odd behavior than just mental issues, an acquaintance’s daughter was one of the above and she just died of a heart problem causing that behavior.