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“The lead attorney in my case asked me, ‘What do you want from us?’ I wanted them to do their jobs.” Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features I am not a victim of sexual assault. At least, I am not a victim of sexual assault according to the commonwealth of Virginia. Jesus Rivera, aka Vladamir…
On Black Friday, Nadia Ezaldein, a University of Chicago student, was working at a Chicago Nordstrom when her ex-boyfriend entered the store, found her in the accessories department, and shot her to death. It was her 22nd birthday. A day earlier, on Thanksgiving, Shannon Jones, a student at Cornell University, was allegedly strangled to death…
The fourth time a Poughkeepsie police officer told me that my Vassar College Faculty ID could make everything OK was three years ago. I was driving down Wilbur Avenue. When the white police officer, whose head was way too small for his neck, asked if my truck was stolen, I laughed, said no, and shamefully…
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In 1978, in a computer lab at Essex University, two brilliant young students invented the future of video games. Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle were the creators of the Multi-User Dungeon – or simply MUD – a text-based adventure that ran on a giant DEC PDP-10 mainframe. They programmed the game in their spare time,…
The Other Side of Diversity The prevailing narrative surrounding minorities in tech relates to how beneficial employing minorities can be for a company and/or how detrimental the lack of diverse perspectives can be. I’ve searched for, and have been disappointed to find that few studies have been done on the psychological effects of being a…
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…