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Activist Emma Sulkowicz Carries Her Mattress to Columbia University Graduation
https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/activist-emma-sulkowicz-carries-her-mattress-to-119369638073.html ^ | May 19, 2015 | Sara Bliss

Posted on 05/20/2015 1:27:44 AM PDT by rickyrikardo

Student activist Emma Sulkowicz made headlines last fall, pledging to carry her mattress around Columbia University’s campus until the administration expelled her alleged rapist, Paul Nungesser. That didn’t happen.

Tuesday, both students were scheduled to graduate. So Sulkowicz, with the help of her friends, carried her mattress in the processional, continuing her protest. According to The Columbia Daily Spectator, the school’s administration emailed seniors on Monday saying, “Graduates should not bring into the ceremonial area large objects which could interfere with the proceedings or create discomfort to others in close, crowded spaces shared by thousands of people.” Sulkowicz disregarded this warning and brought her mattress on stage. According to a tweet from Teo Armus, the Deputy News Editor at the Columbia Spectator, “Emma Sulkowicz did not shake hands with President Lee Bollinger when she went on stage.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: columbia; columbiauniversity; emmasulkowicz; graduation; mattress; mattressback; news; sulkowicz
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To: rickyrikardo

Maybe she’s offering curb service!


21 posted on 05/20/2015 3:02:54 AM PDT by dearolddad (/i>)
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To: rickyrikardo

Never piss off a NYC Princess!


22 posted on 05/20/2015 3:05:40 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: EEGator

Thanks for posting her picture - she has nice teeth ...


23 posted on 05/20/2015 3:09:45 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: rickyrikardo

Another false accusation of rape.

The girl pursued him for months after the sexual encounter and he has the obsessive emails from her to prove it. It was only when he made it clear he wasn’t interested in being her boyfriend that she cried rape. Law enforcement knew about the emails, which is why he wasn’t charged with rape.

The school administration knew about the emails, which is why he wasn’t suspended from school. The school did nothing to stop the girl from carrying the mattress around campus and she continued to harras him with rape accusations even though they knew the accusations were false. This is why he filed a Title IX lawsuit against the school.


24 posted on 05/20/2015 3:16:49 AM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: rickyrikardo

Advertising curb service.


25 posted on 05/20/2015 3:33:51 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Stevenc131
This is why he filed a Title IX lawsuit against the school.

I wish him complete success. A guy's life shouldn't be ruined because of fake allegations.

26 posted on 05/20/2015 3:41:05 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

I knew this guy who married a woman with a teenage daughter.
The daughter hated him and accused him of rape.
His friends and business associates black balled this guy.
The people of the town he liived in treated him very badly.
He spent a bunch of money on a lawyer defending himself .
It came to trial and the girls testimony fell apart.
He was innocent

Where does he go to get his life back?


27 posted on 05/20/2015 3:54:56 AM PDT by South Dakota
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To: rickyrikardo

Thus proving the old adage never f*** anyone crazier than you are.


28 posted on 05/20/2015 3:56:10 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: EEGator
LOOK AT ME!

She's a visual arts major. She wants people to look at her.

29 posted on 05/20/2015 3:57:32 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: FreedomStar3028
Was he found innocent of rape?

He wasn't even charged.

30 posted on 05/20/2015 3:58:17 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: rickyrikardo
Too bad the crowd did not break out in a chorus of William Blake's Jerusalem
31 posted on 05/20/2015 3:59:04 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: rickyrikardo

Perhaps if that PATHETIC MOM had raised her not to put out until she was married, she would not have had such a ‘difficult’ time in college.


32 posted on 05/20/2015 3:59:41 AM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'about' page))
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To: rickyrikardo

There’s a word for people like her. Attention Whore


33 posted on 05/20/2015 4:04:22 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: rickyrikardo

I saw this article yesterday.

If my daughter called and said she had been raped at college, I would call the cops, not some PhD.


34 posted on 05/20/2015 4:08:36 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Din Maker

Because she knows doing so would likely get her arrested for filing a false police report. It has been shown that she made up her story of rape. She had a relationship with the guy after her fake rape, and for months sent him text messages declaring her love for him. Her mattress was just a stunt because she couldn’t think of anything else to do for her senior project. She is the one who should be in jail.


35 posted on 05/20/2015 4:10:13 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Sherman Logan

***Nobody is ever found innocent under our legal system.***

I’ve only seen one exception to that, and it was when the Duke Lacrosse players were exonerated. They were found “innocent”, not just “not guilty”. It was an extraordinary finding.


36 posted on 05/20/2015 4:15:49 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: South Dakota

I think I read somewhere that 30% or more of rape accusations are false. Yet women are almost never held accountable for making false accusations. Perhaps that needs to change. Men have gone to prison on the basis of false accusations.

I read one article that claimed that rape accusations essentially come down to a “he said—she said” scenario, because the rape kit only shows that an act took place, not that it was rape. That isn’t quite true. During rape, a woman is uncooperative, which leads to certain stereotypical injuries. I’d say that the absence of those injuries should make an alleged rape that much harder to prosecute.


37 posted on 05/20/2015 4:16:22 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Vinnie

It cannot be rape if she’s bringing the mattress, can it?


38 posted on 05/20/2015 4:20:39 AM PDT by Big Giant Head
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To: rickyrikardo

“Activist” = LIAR.


39 posted on 05/20/2015 4:29:09 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: FamiliarFace

I wasn’t aware of that. Do you have a reference?


40 posted on 05/20/2015 4:29:46 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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