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It’s an unprecedented move in higher education, but a welcome one. The U.S. Secretary of Education has pledged to forgive the loans of as many as 350 thousand students who were defrauded into taking on huge student loan debts by online schools owned by Corinthian Colleges. More students may also be eligible. In the New…
After breaking the news about her first post-grad, post-mattress artwork, a video that shows two people—one of whom is Sulkowicz—engaged in sexual activity, some of which alludes to rape (see Emma Sulkowicz Dives Into Art After Mattress Performance with Rape-Referencing Video), artnet News caught up with Emma Sulkowicz to discuss the video. The recent Columbia graduate, who…
Emma Sulkowicz, the recent Columbia graduate who has taken the Internet by storm thanks to her year-long performance art project Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight, released a video, which shows two people, one of whom appears to be Sulkowicz, engaged in sexual activity, some of which alludes to rape and can be difficult to watch at…
New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell doesn’t tweet a whole lot. He made an exception after hedge fund billionaire and financial crisis profiteer John Paulson’s ludicrous $400 million donation to Harvard, which is naming its engineering school after him in exchange. It came down to helping the poor or giving the world’s richest university $400…
At this point, I should be used to seeing backlash against Emma Sulkowicz, but I still wasn’t fully prepared for what came this week: endless tittering of people around me in real life and in my social feeds saying they “weren’t sure” about Emma’s choice to carry her mattress to Columbia’s graduation; the insistence that…
If a professor is interested in a graduate student for an external, more quotidian reason, the violence done is to her whole faith in herself. Photo by ESTUDI M6/Shutterstock I’ve recently been feeling exhausted by the number of male professors I know who’ve had, or tried to have, affairs with their students. I am not…
When she crossed the stage, Lee Bollinger turned away. Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images Since coming forward with her story last year, Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz has become an outspoken figure in the fight against campus sexual assault. Her Carry That Weight mattress project has served as the centerpiece of countless news stories about universities’…
Some uptown New Yorkers woke up on Tuesday to find poster-sized flyers attacking recent Columbia grad Emma Sulkowicz, who spent the majority of her senior year lugging a blue mattress everywhere she went to protest what she alleges to be the school’s protection of her rapist. Sulkowicz’s protest brought visibility to the long-neglected epidemic of…
YouTube screen captureThis week’s graduation at Columbia University caps the bizarre, often sordid saga involving the two most famous members of the Class of 2015: Emma Sulkowicz, the activist who protested the school’s alleged mishandling of her alleged rape by carrying a mattress around campus, and Jean-Paul Nungesser, the German scholarship student she accuses of…
As Columbia University prepares to hold its commencement Wednesday, one student is ending her protest of the university’s handling of her sexual assault complaint. Emma Sulkowicz has carried a mattress around campus all year, emerging as a key figure in the national debate over how schools address sexual assault. At a ceremony for seniors Tuesday, Sulkowicz…