Columbia University Student Will Drag Her Mattress Around Campus Until Her Rapist Is Gone. Is Walking Around With Mattresses A Good Image For Columbia University Recruiting Students? (Video)

The Huffington Post reports:

Emma Sulkowicz is a senior visual arts student at Columbia University. On the first day of her sophomore year, she says, she was raped by a classmate on her mattress.

"Rape can happen anywhere," she explains in the video above. "For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then."

Sulkowicz' senior thesis, titled "Mattress Performance" or "Carry That Weight," is a literal expression of that emotional weight. In what she calls an endurance art piece, she will drag her mattress everywhere she goes on campus until her rapist is expelled or leaves. The project, she says, could extend for one day or for the entire remainder of her time at Columbia.

It appears Emma Sulkowicz knew here accused rapist:

Sulkowicz’s experience with the NYPD was harrowing, to say the least. She describes the police as “dismissive,” as they emphasized the fact that she had engaged in earlier consensual sex with Nungesser and that she could not remember specific details of the attack, like what shoes Nungesser was wearing. They demanded graphic details, and one officer also allegedly told friends Sulkowicz brought for emotional support that he “didn’t believe [her] for a second.”

Watch the video down below. Should Columbia University become an all women's college for safety reasons? If you are a parent , do you want your son going to Columbia University where people walk around with mattresses as performance art? Will Emma Sulkowicz bring her mattress to job interviews in the future? If you are an employer do you want hire someone who went to Columbia University and is traumitized by the death of someone they don't even know that they can't function and take an exam?