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On Thursday, the parents of Emma Sulkowicz — the Columbia University student who has been carrying her mattress around until her alleged rapist is brought to justice — published an open letter to the school, its president and its board of trustees. “On April 18, 2013, our daughter, Emma Sulkowicz, CC ’15, reported that she was…
Emma Sulkowicz, who will not put her mattress down until her alleged rapist is expelled, is its new public face. “Want to meet at my dorm? Less carrying for me.” Emma Sulkowicz, a.k.a. the international sensation “mattress girl,” is emailing from her phone in her Columbia University dorm high up over Morningside Heights, where she…
Entry Text Columbia University students staged a demonstration Friday, dragging several mattresses in front of the Ivy League school’s iconic Alma Mater statue to protest the university’s handling of sexual violence on campus.The student demonstration was in support of Emma Sulkowicz, a Columbia senior who says she plans to carry a mattress, like the one…
Emma Sulkowicz thought she would be carrying her mattress alone. As her senior performance art project, the Columbia University student chose to carry around the twin mattress on which she was raped until her rapist was expelled. Word of the project, called “Carry That Weight,” spread across the Internet and other media. Women across campus responded…
After years of criticism for being too lax on campus sexual assault, some colleges and universities are coming under fire from students who say the current crackdown on perpetrators has gone too far. Dozens of students who’ve been punished for sexual assault are suing their schools, saying that they didn’t get a fair hearing and…
Few issues affecting higher education have captured as much national attention this year as sexual assaults on college campuses. When Congress reconvenes after its August recess, a bipartisan group of lawmakers will continue their push to pass legislationaimed at curbing campus sexual assaults. The Obama administration has taken on the issue, making public recommendations for how colleges should…
Danielle Dirks is an assistant professor of sociology at Occidental College, co-founder of End Rape on Campus and the author of the forthcoming “Confronting Campus Rape: Legal Landscapes, New Media and Networked Activism.” For decades, American universities have hidden a silent epidemic of sexual assault. Despite the fact that one in five college women will…
Sexual assaults on university campuses have become a hot topic in Washington, state legislatures, and in the news. With consistent reports (like this one from The New York Times) of institutions botching their responses to these cases, FIRE has long argued that campuses are ill-equipped to adjudicate these cases and that the guilt or innocence…
Photo Anna, outside the Barn, a campus dance hall, said she was sexually assaulted there weeks into her freshman year at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Credit Leslye Davis/The New York Times GENEVA, N.Y. — She was 18 years old, a freshman, and had been on campus for just two weeks when one Saturday night…
TIME Newsfeed society What I Learned as a Woman at a Men’s-Rights Conference Don Bayley—Getty Images I went to the conference in suburban Detroit expecting a group of feminist-hating Internet trolls; I found much more Detroit once epitomized the possibilities of the American Dream: as the hub of the U.S. auto industry, money, power and…