Ah yes, Mattress Girl. You may be familiar with Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz, who carried her mattress around campus in protest after claims she was allegedly raped. Sulkowicz never pressed charges and the university dismissed the case against the alleged offender. By carrying her mattress around, Sulkowicz made national headlines and also earned credit for her performance art.

The young man she accused, Paul Nungesser, recently sued the university. Nungesser’s version of the story, complete with screen shots of text and Facebook messages, tells a very different story than Sulkowicz’s accouting.

Yet in spite of these facts, Samantha Powers seemed to laud Sulkowicz’ efforts in a commencement speech she gave this past weekend.

Ashe Schow reports for the Washington Examiner:

Ambassador Samantha Power highlights questionable rape accuser in commencement speech

Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, used her platform as Barnard College’s commencement speaker on Sunday to discuss campus sexual assault. She cited a familiar story. The problem was, the story she referred to has recently been called into question.

Power spoke of a “mattress” being carried around to bring attention to “victims” who are treated unfairly by their college or university.

“And yet, even as we are aware of the seriousness of this problem, it takes a woman picking up a mattress and carrying it around her campus to make people really see it,” Power said to applause. “A mattress that a good number of the women in this graduating class have helped carry. And men from Columbia, too.”

The mattress carrier Power was alluding to is Emma Sulkowicz, who made international headlines last year when she claimed that she had been raped by a fellow student, and that Columbia University (Barnard’s affiliate) failed to hold her alleged rapist accountable. In reality, neither the university nor the police found evidence to support her rape claim. After that, she started an art project for college credit in an attempt to shame the man off campus or force Columbia to overturn its “not responsible” finding.