Last week, 28 Columbia University students carried mattresses to protest the University’s policy on rape. At the end of the protest, the students left their mattresses on the street outside of University President Lee Bollinger’s lawn and are now faced with $471 in clean-up fees.
Emma Sulkowicz's senior thesis has started a movement.
The Columbia University senior gained national attention in September when she began carrying her mattress around campus everywhere she went. The project was both an academic performance project and an attempt to protest the fact that Columbia dismissed a case against her alleged rapist, who still attends the University.
The project inspired a number of student-based organizations, including No Red Tape, (NRT), Carry That Weight (CTW), and Student-Worker Solidarity (SWS), all of which work to raise awareness about sexual assault.
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