Mattress Protest at Columbia University Continues Into Graduation Event

[LiberalElite]

Source: NY Times

Aided by four friends, and to the cheers of some of her classmates, the student who protested Columbia University’s 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. Sulkowicz’s 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]

1. quite the asshat that president.....

he looked foolish and sexist in front of the graduation crowd....glad the students cheered her....

[bravenak]

2. Tha woman is strong.

[niyad]

3. bollinger is a despicable ass. ms. sulkowicz is one truly remarkable, courageous woman.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

5. You, troll, will be alerted.

[Nye Bevan]

6. The alleged rapist was cleared by a campus court, and Sulkowicz chose not to press criminal charges.

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

[RobinA]

9. Yes, The Theatrics

at graduation are really a bit much. Her beef is with the school, yet she botched up everybody's graduation.

[Oktober]

16. The world revolves around her it seems...

[Snow Leopard]

19. yeah

I had to look more into this one too. Sad she is considered some kind of champion.

[romanic]

26. She is doing more harm to the cause

than actually making a difference. Shame.

[alarimer]

12. Fuck the rapist's apologists.

When your FRIENDS think you are a rapist, you have problems.

[closeupready]

14. Then the discussion segues into 'but it doesn't matter if he was cleared

or not, at the end of the day.'

[Nye Bevan]

23. Yeah, lots of people thought the Duke Lacrosse team were rapists, too.

Including the District Attorney. But it turned out that the person with a problem was the crazy lying false accuser.

[Oktober]

25. I'm confident that he knew they weren't...

... But chose not to back down

[Oktober]

15. DLTDHYOTWO...

[cyberswede]

18. WTF?

[Oktober]

20. Did you not figure out the bit...?

... or you disagree with the idea?

[cyberswede]

21. Your post seems dismissive of an important issue. nt

[Oktober]

22. I'm dismissive of that specific person...

... 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]

17. I'ts not a protest ...

... it's conceptual art doncha know.

[Nye Bevan]

24. Now these posters are going up all over NYC.

http://gothamist.com/2015/05/20/columbia_rape_protest_posters.php