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To anyone who’s followed the case of Emma Sulkowicz, Columbia University’s “Mattress Girl,” the fact that her symbolic protest doubled as a credit-earning work of performance art seems a fitting commentary on the whole situation. Sulkowicz, who graduated Sunday, spent her senior year hauling a 50-pound mattress around campus to protest the Columbia administration’s failure to expel her alleged rapist. It would be difficult to overstate the adulation showered upon her: She won the National Organization for Women’s Susan B. Anthony Award and the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Ms. Wonder Award; she was the subject of a glowing New York Magazine...

An Oregon woman, a professional massage therapist, has recently accused former Vice President Al Gore of sexual assault. After the alleged assault in the Hotel Lucia, the woman called the Portland Women’s Crisis Line (PWCL). This what happened when she called the hotline: “They urged me to report the incident to the police but they did not know the name of the perpetrator yet as I did not want to deal with the shock and awe response from them or anyone yet. At last I finally told the name to the phone counselor from PWCL. She went totally silent for...