Columbia University graduate Emma Sulkowicz has a new art show, according to The Cut. Sulkowicz made national headlines in 2014 when they decided to carry their dorm mattress everywhere they went on Columbia’s campus until their alleged rapist was expelled. The art major called it “Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)” and it quickly became the…
A Manhattan judge dismissed a lawsuit that accused Columbia University of a Title IX violation on the grounds that it mishandled the actions of student Emma Sulkowicz, who carried a mattress around campus to protest an alleged rape. Sulkowicz’s alleged rapist, Paul Nungesser, had accused the university of causing him emotional distress and violating his…
Columbia University on Friday won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a graduate over the school’s decision to allow a student who accused him of rape to carry a mattress around campus in protest, even though Columbia had cleared him of the allegation. U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods in Manhattan said Paul Nungesser failed to…
Columbia University on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a recent graduate who said it allowed a student who accused him of rape to harass him by carrying a mattress around campus in protest, even though the school had cleared him of the allegation. In a filing in Manhattan federal court,…
Late last week, Emma Sulkowicz, the recent Columbia graduate who spent her last year of college with her mattress strapped to her back, released a new rape-related performance piece to the public, titled “Ceci N’est Past Un Viol (This Is Not A Rape)”. Hosted on its own webpage, and existing entirely on the internet, the…
Emma Sulkowicz graduated from Columbia University this week, mattress in tow. The 23-year-old student, who filed a rape complaint againt classmate Paul Nungesser in 2013, her 50lb, dark-blue dorm mattress to highlight the university administration’s non-responsiveness to her claim. In September 2014, she turned the protest into a visual art project for her senior thesis,…
A Columbia University student who officials cleared of rape allegations has filed a lawsuit claiming the school allowed his accuser to harass and defame him by permitting her to carry a mattress on her back on its New York campus as a protest. Paul Nungesser, a graduating senior at the prestigious Ivy League school, was…
Getty Images 22-year-old Emma Sulkowicz made headlines this year when she protested Columbia University’s decision not to expel her alleged rapist by carrying her dorm mattress around with her. All over campus. All the time. Now, Sulkowicz (sans mattress, sadly) will be attending the State of the Union address along with New York Democrat Kirsten…
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