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College rape survivor will carry her mattress around campus until her rapist is expelled
salon ^ | Wednesday, Sep 3, 2014 | Jenny Kutner

Posted on 09/05/2014 2:39:37 PM PDT by dennisw

Emma Sulkowicz is turning her assault into art -- and a protest against Columbia University's sexual assault policy

On the first day of her sophomore year of college, Emma Sulkowicz was raped in her dorm room bed. The Columbia University senior says the perpetrator was a fellow student. He still is — and has been since he allegedly assaulted Sulkowicz and two other female students. As Sulkowicz reported in Time earlier this year, all three cases against her offender were dismissed. So, she’s not taking it anymore.

After joining a federal complaint in April over Columbia’s mishandling of rape cases and speaking out about the school’s failure to address her assault, Sulkowicz is now embarking on yet another effort — an artistic one — to make change on campus. For her senior thesis project, the visual arts major will perform what she is calling “an endurance art piece,” in which she will carry around a standard twin-size dorm room mattress with her everywhere she goes, until her rapist is removed from school.

(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: columbiauniversity; davidpitts; mattressgirl
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To: Responsibility2nd

Depends on the university. For example, at The Ohio State University, the Ohio Highway Patrol aka State Police also has jurisdiction and can override campus police.

Not sure what the situation is at Columbia...


61 posted on 09/05/2014 3:14:51 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

lol

Also...

Future employer: Uh, no. No you can’t bring that mattress in here.

(Unless of course she goes to work at Mattress Firm.)

lolol. I could TOTALLY see that career opportunity for her.


62 posted on 09/05/2014 3:15:49 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: colorado tanker

Um, unless the rapist is a prominent athlete or his family is connected aka a big donor...


63 posted on 09/05/2014 3:16:38 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: trisham

A more complete article here:
http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2014/05/16/frustrated-columbias-inaction-student-reports-sexual-assault-police


64 posted on 09/05/2014 3:16:51 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: dennisw

65 posted on 09/05/2014 3:20:07 PM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: beandog

Smith, meet Wesson. Oh. That’s Sam over there.


66 posted on 09/05/2014 3:22:27 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: dennisw
One of the dumbest things I have ever seen. Was it even "rape rape" as Whoopie defines it?
67 posted on 09/05/2014 3:24:40 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Calvin Locke

1,148,996 freakin youtube hits!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9hHZbuYVnU#t=196

******** She explains her rape-mattress performance art. I am semi-sympathetic to her rape claims


68 posted on 09/05/2014 3:25:16 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: jonno

She claims to have been raped in 8/12, didn’t report it until 5/13, and now expects the accused to be expelled? Sorry, Emma, but at best, you’re a fool.


69 posted on 09/05/2014 3:27:30 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Cry if I Wanna; Timber Rattler

http://time.com/99780/campus-sexual-assault-emma-sulkowicz/

Doesn’t look like she had her day in court, just before a university panel.

http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2014/05/16/frustrated-columbias-inaction-student-reports-sexual-assault-police

In this article, her side of the story, the interaction with police was not successful.

Couple of things for me. One, we have a generation of girls that give it away too easy, no standards, no expectations. Young men have no respect for them because of the way they dress, the way they drink, the way they act. Very sad.

Two, report it immediately if it happened. Unfortunately rape so humiliates the victim, I can see not reporting it.


70 posted on 09/05/2014 3:42:00 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: dennisw

advertising for a new rapist with more talent!


71 posted on 09/05/2014 3:44:10 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: F15Eagle
She proceeded to tell me to take a hike with my advice.

She showed you, eh?

72 posted on 09/05/2014 3:45:11 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: jonno

In looking at her....those consensual escapades had to be after midnight and a belly full of booze...


73 posted on 09/05/2014 3:46:26 PM PDT by StraysDaddy (Don't call me a racist....I'm not a fan of Joe the fool either....)
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To: wardaddy

....and I can’t put my finger on it.


74 posted on 09/05/2014 3:48:52 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: piytar

If anything resembling rape ever happened to any female I know, my only question would be ‘will you help me bury the body’.


75 posted on 09/05/2014 3:50:08 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: dennisw

Three women have accused him of sexual assault, odds are he is a rapist. I like she going after him and not letting the matter drop.


76 posted on 09/05/2014 4:00:41 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: x1stcav
She could go around buck-assed naked and nobody is supposed to take notice.

while it certainly isn't a good idea, the mere fact that she was naked still gives no one the right to sexually assault her.....people would certainly take notice, but that's all that they are permitted to do.....

77 posted on 09/05/2014 4:13:15 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all else)
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To: wardaddy
Something smells fishy here....

be very careful with that observation......

78 posted on 09/05/2014 4:15:46 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all else)
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To: dennisw

Believe if I were her father I would counsel against walking around with a mattress on her back ...


79 posted on 09/05/2014 4:24:33 PM PDT by Vesparado (The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
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To: Cry if I Wanna

There are two ways of looking at this:

1. The guy is a dirtbag who somehow is able to talk his way out of rape convictions.

2. A group of feminist activists wants to make an example of this guy (plus men in general).

You decide.


80 posted on 09/05/2014 4:28:29 PM PDT by rbg81
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