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Early this morning, an anonymous person or persons put up posters around Columbia University—in the 116th Street subway station, outside of Tom’s Restaurant, on stoplights and construction walls—emblazoned with the image of student Emma Sulkowicz and her now-iconic mattress. Since September 2014, Sulkowicz has been dragging the mattress around campus as a protest against the…
During their first year on campus, an estimated 18.6 percent of freshman women were the victims of rape or attempted rape, according to a new study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. “Sexual violence on campus has reached epidemic levels,” the authors write. “Interventions to reduce sexual violence on campus are urgently needed.” Prior studies have…
Emma Sulkowicz, the visual arts senior who accused another student of raping her in 2014, carried her mattress to her Columbia University graduation ceremony Tuesday, even though “large objects” were banned at the venue. Walking mattress down ramps in Lerner for #ccclassday — teoarmus (@Teo Armus) On Monday, campus administration sent an email to students…
Updated: May 19 at 11:40 a.m. Though a new policy said graduates would be barred from bringing ‘large objects’ to Class Day ceremonies, Spectator news deputy Teo Armus has confirmed that Emma Sulkowicz, CC ’15, was allowed into the Columbia College Class Day tents with her mattress. Sulkowicz’s senior thesis, “Carry That Weight,” is a performance art…
Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz, who accused fellow student Paul Nungesser of rape and then carried a mattress all year in protest of the administration’s handling of her claims, carried that mattress onstage during Tuesday’s commencement exercises. Sulkowicz was helped by several friends; the audience cheered as they marched across the stage. Here’s a video, via…
Today is graduation day for students in Columbia College at Columbia University, and student Emma Sulkowicz, who said she was sexually assaulted by a fellow student in 2012, walked into the ceremony toting the dorm room mattress she’s been carrying around campus all year in protest. Advertisement – Continue Reading Below The university announced a…
A provision barring large items has been added to administrative guidelines sent to seniors before Columbia College Class Day on Tuesday. This may include the mattress that Emma Sulkowicz, CC ’15, plans to bring to the event for her senior visual arts thesis. “Graduates should not bring into the ceremonial area large objects which could…
Keith Bedford / Reuters Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia University senior who made national news for carrying a mattress to protest the school’s handling of her alleged sexual assault, walked across the stage with her mattress at graduation Tuesday. Guidelines issued Monday said that students would not be allowed to bring large objects into the tents…
ITT Educational Services, one of the country’s largest for-profit college operators, has fallen into a financial and regulatory spiral that many observers say it is unlikely to emerge from. The company, which had 51,000 students as of March, is slowly running out of options to stay afloat. Except, of course, for one: enroll more students….
Commencement day is supposed to be a time for celebration, but at a small Georgia college, it has turned into a day of controversy. On Wednesday, a student at Kennesaw State University named Kevin Bruce recorded an uncomfortable encounter with a university adviser. Later in the evening, he uploaded the video on Twitter. It has now been retweeted over 4,000…