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September 4, 2014

Columbia University Senior to Carry Dorm Mattress Around Campus in Call for Rapist's Expulsion 
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A Columbia University senior, who says she was raped on campus two years
ago, has launched a novel protest and performance art piece to call for
the expulsion of the alleged perpetrator. For her senior thesis project,
Emma Sulkowicz will carry around a twin-size dorm room mattress with her
everywhere she goes on campus until her rapist is expelled.

Emma Sulkowicz: "I will be carrying this dorm room mattress with me
everywhere I go for as long as I attend the same school as my rapist.
And the piece could potentially take a day, or it could go until I
graduate."

Sulkowicz says the perpetrator has also sexually assaulted two other
female students. She was part of a federal complaint last year
challenging Columbia's handling of rape cases earlier this year.

 

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