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Columbia student vows to carry mattress until her alleged rapist is expelled - Yahoo News
sep 3 2014
A Columbia University student is turning her senior thesis into a protest against the school's sexual assault policies and her alleged rapist.
Emma Sulkowicz, a visual art major, says she is carrying a twin-size dorm-room mattress until her alleged attacker, a fellow Columbia student, is expelled. Sulkowicz is calling the endeavor, which she says is a sort of performance art piece, “Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight.”
“The piece could potentially take a day or go on till I graduate," Sulkowicz, a senior, told the Columbia Spectator.
The 21-year-old says she was raped in her dorm room on the first day of her sophomore year but did not report the alleged attack until she met two other women who said they were also assaulted by the same man. All three reported their cases to the university, and all three say their allegations were dismissed.
Sulkowicz filed a police report with the NYPD in May.
the reason is in the article you posted.Why is she carrying a matress anyway? This girl sounds like a loonybird. Maybe NOW is paying her to make a big deal out of yet another false rape accusation
Why is she carrying a matress anyway? This girl sounds like a loonybird. Maybe NOW is paying her to make a big deal out of yet another false rape accusation
look into it how? It supposedly happened 2 years ago.Why is she carrying a matress anyway? This girl sounds like a loonybird. Maybe NOW is paying her to make a big deal out of yet another false rape accusation
This drastic behavior gives more credibility.
If she was indeed raped, it might be she's out of it. Rape is very traumatic.
Did they even try and look into it seriously?
If she was indeed raped, it might be she's out of it. Rape is very traumatic.
Did they even try and look into it seriously?
The problem at this point is it's a he said, she said accusation without evidence.
If she was indeed raped, it might be she's out of it. Rape is very traumatic.
Did they even try and look into it seriously?
I doubt it. You can't wait 2 years to report a rape and expect anyone to believe you. This is another rape shakedown.
She didn't report it. Simple as thatIf she was indeed raped, it might be she's out of it. Rape is very traumatic.
Did they even try and look into it seriously?
I doubt it. You can't wait 2 years to report a rape and expect anyone to believe you. This is another rape shakedown.
Possible. I wonder why nobody looked at it at the time. It's not carrying the mattress that is the issue here, I guess, but the fact that someone should have checked this earlier.
Amen. Keeping quiet only gives a criminal the ability to add to their list of wrong doings.She needs to take responsibility for not reporting it.
right. there's absolutely no market out there for graphic designers.Maybe she's carrying the mattress as practice for her future job as a manual laborer, because she darn sure isn't going to get a job with a "visual arts major". She's gonna need a job to pay off those student loans, Columbia isn't cheap.
Oh, wait, nevermind....the guv'mint will take care of her.
to me that makes more sense as a visual representation. she's been harnessed to that mattress for two years now because she didn't speak up in a timely manner. she's been carrying the baggage that long internally.She needs to take responsibility for not reporting it.
It doesn't seem to make clear, if the other two women she met reported it in a timely manner.
