Mattress Protest at Columbia University Continues Into Graduation Event
Source: NY Times
Aided by four friends, and to the cheers of some of her classmates, the student who protested Columbia Universitys handling of her sexual assault complaint by carrying a mattress around campus all year hoisted it for the last time on Tuesday as she crossed the stage at a graduation ceremony.
Until seconds before the student, Emma Sulkowicz, walked onstage, Columbia officials had asked her to leave the mattress behind. President Lee C. Bollinger turned away as she crossed in front of him, failing to shake her hand, as he did with the other graduates.
Ms. Sulkowiczs graduation, and the end of her protest, brought to a close a tumultuous year, in which Columbia became a focus of the movement to change how universities address sexual assault.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/nyregion/mattress-protest-at-columbia-university-continues-into-graduation-event.html?_r=0
chillfactor
(7,580 posts)he looked foolish and sexist in front of the graduation crowd....glad the students cheered her....
bravenak
(34,648 posts)niyad
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Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)And a couple of weeks after the alleged attack Sulkowicz wrote "I want to see yoyououoyou" to her alleged attacker on Facebook.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/nyregion/accusers-and-the-accused-crossing-paths-at-columbia.html
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RobinA
(9,894 posts)at graduation are really a bit much. Her beef is with the school, yet she botched up everybody's graduation.
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Snow Leopard
(348 posts)I had to look more into this one too. Sad she is considered some kind of champion.
romanic
(2,841 posts)than actually making a difference. Shame.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)When your FRIENDS think you are a rapist, you have problems.
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closeupready
(29,503 posts)or not, at the end of the day.'
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Including the District Attorney. But it turned out that the person with a problem was the crazy lying false accuser.
Oktober
(1,488 posts)... But chose not to back down
Oktober
(1,488 posts)Oktober
(1,488 posts)... or you disagree with the idea?
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Oktober
(1,488 posts)... Who is throwing the equivalent of a several year long tantrum.
The issue of rape is quite serious and this woman doesn't help the cause one bit.
Joe Magarac
(297 posts)... it's conceptual art doncha know.