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May 20, 2015

Columbia Student Carries Rape Protest Mattress at Graduation 
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And a Columbia University senior who lugged a dorm room mattress around
campus to protest the university's handling of sexual assault has
carried it across the graduation stage. Emma Sulkowicz carried the
mattress all year in a call for a student she accuses of raping her to
be expelled. A group of friends helped Sulkowicz carry it across the
stage at their graduation ceremony on Tuesday.

 

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