Student Sues School Over Mattress Stunt
A Columbia University student who officials cleared of rape allegations has filed a lawsuit claiming the school allowed his accuser to harass and defame him by permitting her to carry a mattress on her back on its New York campus as a protest.
Paul Nungesser, a graduating senior at the prestigious Ivy League school, was accused by Emma Sulkowicz of raping her in August 2012. She complained to school officials, but they later cleared Nungesser. He maintains the sex was consensual.
In protest, Sulkowicz began carrying a mattress with her at all times on campus in what she said was an artistic statement entitled “Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight).” The performance piece earned the visual arts student national headlines and an award from the National Organization for Women.
In his lawsuit, filed on Thursday, Nungesser argues he was a victim of harassment and defamation and that the university allowed him to suffer in a hostile educational environment, according to a statement from his attorney, Andrew Miltenberg.
How about that.
I’m wondering why he’s not suing the person who actually harassed and defamed him.
Chuck Bartowski (11fb31) — 4/24/2015 @ 8:17 amGood for him. The school restricted his movements and encouraged the harassment by giving the stalker credits towards graduation for her actions.
They deserve to pay.
Mr. Bartowski, suing her gives her a forum to rant again and she doesn’t have the money Columbia does. Suing Columbia has the effect of showing other schools that they can no longer get away with harming half the student body in their zeal to be Social Justice Warriors.
NJRob (d36337) — 4/24/2015 @ 8:23 amNot sure how I feel about this one.
time123@gmail.com (03e182) — 4/24/2015 @ 8:34 amOn the one hand what I definitely wouldn’t want to be in his place.
On the other hand how ‘innocent’ was he? Really didn’t do it or just wasn’t enough evidence to prove he did it?
Wow! Two, count them two Snowflakes in a legal peeing contest. Yeah, Columbia is obviously a “prestigious” school. And classy too!
Hoagie (58a3ec) — 4/24/2015 @ 8:44 amHere’s one take on whether he is innocent or not…
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/03/columbia-student-i-didn-t-rape-her.html
Mustang51 (2dd274) — 4/24/2015 @ 8:47 amYou just knew, these campus tribunals were going to attract the lawyers, like sharks to blood!
Mike Giles (ea55d1) — 4/24/2015 @ 8:52 amcarrying around a mattress at a failmerican rapeversity seems like a less-than-wise thing to do
happyfeet (a037ad) — 4/24/2015 @ 9:12 amGood.
SarahW (6f3980) — 4/24/2015 @ 9:45 amWondering how these ninny children perpetuating stunts are accepted to college int the first place. I guess they are good at faking.it.
SarahW (6f3980) — 4/24/2015 @ 9:48 amUpsetting to see love-lorn girls extracting revenge and being praised and rewarded for it.
SarahW (6f3980) — 4/24/2015 @ 9:49 amMaybe today’s crop of young ladies didn’t have the life preparation we did, not even the foreshadowing of jump rope rhymes. No jump rope waiting at the bus stop, no bouncing on the blacktop.
Cinderella dressed in yellla/ went upstairs to kiss a fella/ made a mistake/ and kissed a snake/ how many doctors did it take
SarahW (6f3980) — 4/24/2015 @ 9:55 amcarrying around a mattress at a failmerican rapeversity seems like a less-than-wise thing to do
Mattresses are heavy, so it probably gave her strong muscles. And she didn’t have to deal with the crowds at the campus fitness center.
JVW (f443d5) — 4/24/2015 @ 10:24 amTime123 – didn’t do it, and that is rather obvious to anyone that takes even a moment to look into it.
JD (2b209d) — 4/24/2015 @ 10:27 amShe’d be under oath, and subject to cross-examination. If she’s lying, I would think any lawyer would love to tear her apart on the stand.
THAT, I suspect, is the actual reason she’s not being sued.
While I don’t deny Columbia University has some responsibility, the woman making the false accusations is far more culpable. She should be held accountable for her actions, too.
Chuck Bartowski (11fb31) — 4/24/2015 @ 10:43 amMattress Girl just one of many attention-seekers out there. With all that heavy-lifting/carrying exercise, she should be ripped enough to fight off any and all untoward schoolboys.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/24/2015 @ 11:14 amIt is too bad that Gillibrand wasn’t sued, too.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/24/2015 @ 11:24 amIt is too bad that Gillibrand wasn’t sued, too.
Didn’t that wretched president of the University of Virginia also hold up mattress girl as a hero of the rape hysteria movement?
JVW (63a6d0) — 4/24/2015 @ 11:51 amFree country, right? Free expression? How is this not protected speech? She can argue her case if she wants.
If FIRE is going to fight campus speech codes (which it should), then it should be defending Columbia’s support of this girl as well. The principle doesn’t change just because you find the cause annoying.
Leviticus (01884d) — 4/24/2015 @ 12:28 pmLeviticus, is slander/false accusation protected speech?
This is not annoying speech. This is speech that is possibly criminal.
kishnevi (adea75) — 4/24/2015 @ 12:32 pmdefamation isn’t protected speech. Without intending any comment on the truth of her accusations, if she’s been lying, she doesn’t get to rely on the first amendment.
matt d (7b78f2) — 4/24/2015 @ 12:33 pmmaybe if she carried her mattress around topless it would be more for reals artistic and not feel so much like a weird freaky angry screwed-up loser cutter chick plea for attention
happyfeet (a037ad) — 4/24/2015 @ 12:34 pmOf course defamation isn’t protected speech – and of course this isn’t defamation. It’s he said, she said. There is no true/false toggle for something like this.
Leviticus (01884d) — 4/24/2015 @ 12:38 pmAs Dave “Iowahawk” Burge tweeted recently (paraphrasing): As I understand matters from liberals, colleges are places filled with rape and racism, and everyone should attend.
Mitch (341ca0) — 4/24/2015 @ 12:38 pmIs he going to provide decisive proof that she consented to whatever happened? With her denying same? I seriously doubt it.
Leviticus (01884d) — 4/24/2015 @ 12:39 pmLeviticus–As a young man who presumably dates, doesn’t this bother you?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/columbia-student-defamed-by-mattress-girl-is-suing/article/2563566?custom_click=rss
elissa (ead9c9) — 4/24/2015 @ 12:47 pmThank goodness at least they won’t be marrying and saddling any children with the surname Sulkowicz-Nungesser.
elissa (ead9c9) — 4/24/2015 @ 12:55 pmYeah, it bothers me. So does a bus full of Oklahoma frat boys chanting about lynching. But that doesn’t mean it’s not protected speech.
Leviticus (01884d) — 4/24/2015 @ 12:55 pmcampus rape is a serious issue
happyfeet (a037ad) — 4/24/2015 @ 12:56 pmmore or less
happyfeet (a037ad) — 4/24/2015 @ 12:57 pmTo sue her would risk perpetuating her grievance (it might be perpetual already, but still.)
Columbia needs to be sued because of what Columbia (a) did do and (b) didn’t do subsequently and (c) allowed her to do and (d) they tried to claim “no harm no foul” when he was obviously being harmed.
Is she using a real mattress now? I thought it had been replaced by a ballon dummy that only weighed a couple of pounds.
htom (4ca1fa) — 4/24/2015 @ 1:02 pmIsn’t the lawsuit about the college allowing a hostile environment? This would and should be a free speech issue but, if the hostile environment laws exist and apply to colleges, this is an issue.
DRJ (e80d46) — 4/24/2015 @ 1:04 pmGee, who’d-a-thunk: A “hostile educational environment” for the goose is a “hostile educational environment” for the gander.
“EQUALITY!!!!” wins.
A_Nonny_Mouse (a3831a) — 4/24/2015 @ 1:08 pmAgain from the examiner article–more about the university’s role.
elissa (ead9c9) — 4/24/2015 @ 1:16 pm“rape survivor” is an inexcusably gay way to put english words together in a phrase
happyfeet (a037ad) — 4/24/2015 @ 1:20 pmWonder if this Nungesser is a relative of Charles Eugène Jules Marie Nungesser, French WWI ace, who disappeared on an attempted transatlantic flight 2 weeks before Lindbergh made his.
Gordon Pasha (e67fc8) — 4/24/2015 @ 1:23 pmThere is no true/false toggle for something like this.
1) He is not suing her.
2) He is suing the school because it, and a professor, suggested he was a rapist even after the schools process and the police both determined he was not.
The school has a responsibility towards students, that constrains its actions and statements. It violated these, it violated its own policies, and it allowed an employee to do so repeatedly. All these actions contributed to
Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/24/2015 @ 1:26 pmshamingdefaming the student, and intentionally so.Then there is this:
Cal State-Northridge Halts Class Registration Until Students Complete Feminist Anti-Sexual Assault Video Game.
h/t: insty
Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/24/2015 @ 1:29 pmat the very least Mr. Leviticus the poor guy deserves his day in court
he’s been through a really hard time
happyfeet (a037ad) — 4/24/2015 @ 1:29 pmIf her speech isn’t defamatory, the school is right for allowing it to proceed.
Leviticus (01884d) — 4/24/2015 @ 1:38 pmwell that’s what the court will look at
meanwhile I wanna see that ex machina movie about the sex robot that has her own agenda
happyfeet (a037ad) — 4/24/2015 @ 1:44 pmIsn’t the lawsuit about the college allowing a hostile environment? This would and should be a free speech issue but, if the hostile environment laws exist and apply to colleges, this is an issue.
I think Leviticus is correct, though, that those of us who take a jaundiced eye towards the whole “hostile environment” racket should probably stand with Columbia. But a university can’t have it both ways and pick and choose which one of their favored grievance groups gets to play that card.
JVW (887036) — 4/24/2015 @ 2:13 pmExactly.
DRJ (e80d46) — 4/24/2015 @ 2:18 pmI assume the courts will decide if the lawsuit proceeds, not the school.
DRJ (e80d46) — 4/24/2015 @ 2:19 pmAgreed.
Leviticus (01884d) — 4/24/2015 @ 2:19 pmI know your “Agreed” was for JVW’s earlier comment, not my comments.
DRJ (e80d46) — 4/24/2015 @ 2:20 pmNot that we disagree, only that we cross-posted.
DRJ (e80d46) — 4/24/2015 @ 2:21 pmRegardless of any award (geesh, I hope that it is substantial), this forces the school to defend its actions and gives the court a chance to slap them down explicitly.
Further, I hope that the suit names individuals as well as the school as defendants, and requests that any damages assessed against them must come from their personal funds. This dam well should include the little performance artist. Words have meanings, dontcha know.
NeoCon_1 (0a21d6) — 4/24/2015 @ 2:26 pmI assume the courts will decide if the lawsuit proceeds, not the school.
I wonder if Columbia has a history of providing redress to students who claim a hostile environment. If so, it seems they would have a tough argument against letting the case proceed. Maybe the best possible outcome is that Columbia and other colleges will reevaluate the degree to which they patronize these children, er, students.
JVW (887036) — 4/24/2015 @ 2:29 pmIf the undergraduate administrators are anything like the Law School Dean, they may double down.
DRJ (e80d46) — 4/24/2015 @ 2:36 pmmaybe it will not hold up legally as defamation,
but being publicly accused of being a rapist may certainly have a negative effect on one’s life if one didn’t do it
and if the school essentially supported the girl then they are guilty of something,
if nothing else, maybe this will make college administrations be eager to let the police handle criminal investigations with due process
once upon a time, I think, people were quicker to try to handle things without lawyering up and apparently taking hints from PR firms (hey, even Gitmo terrorists can be made to look like innocent victims).
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 4/24/2015 @ 4:18 pmDean Leebron has apparently forgotten that hypotheticals are, er, hypothetical. And intended to make students think.
Or perhaps he does remember, and wants them to not think.
kishnevi (91d5c6) — 4/24/2015 @ 4:48 pmcolumbia mattress
mg (31009b) — 4/24/2015 @ 4:58 pmperforming art
columbia leaders
performance farce
‘thinking is a microaggression’ over there,
narciso (ee1f88) — 4/24/2015 @ 4:58 pmThe higher education establishment has long been in the business of not wanting them to think.
http://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-red-line/article/2014/2/18/academic-freedom-justice/
Look who is calling the tune. She’s the ideal product of the establishment. Which exists to fill her head with prejudices, not thinking ability.
Steve57 (cd6f9a) — 4/24/2015 @ 4:59 pmA lot of information, plus the mattress-girl complaint, at the Daily Caller.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/24/2015 @ 5:00 pmI do know of a case of alleged rape, at a certain Big Name Ivy League School, which was handled through the criminal justice system, about 15 years ago. The young man in question ended up spending a year in jail before the guilty verdict was overturned by an appeals court. It did not totally derail his life, since his own teachers, the Dental School faculty, supported him and helped him begin his career…but he had to move to a different state to do so, and while in jail his fiancee’s family persuaded her to break up with him, even though they claimed to believe his innocence. (The fiancee was a younger cousin of mine, which is why I know about it. The incident took place before she met him.)
kishnevi (91d5c6) — 4/24/2015 @ 5:00 pmyou know who carries around mattresses on their backs?
whores.
It’s not exactly one of them brain teasers.
happyfeet (831175) — 4/24/2015 @ 5:14 pmSort of an aside. One of the first losing causes I espoused was women in combat back in the ’90s. Mostly because the reasons why it was a grand idea, I was told, really were rather stupid. For instance, while admitting that even with hours of daily training a woman could develop 60% of the upper body strength of similarly aged and sized man, they had more education!
Oh. We would accept this argument from Pakistan? One of the sexes gets more of a public good.
Also, if you read the Harvard Crimson article you’ll see why I never found the Maoist Red Guards the universities produce particularly useful. If I needed the ready room rewaxed it was much better to have a high school dropout as opposed to the higher educated who could explain to me why my white privilege made the whole job a crime against the minorities.
Just because I was better at hauling damage control equipment up and down a ship’s ladder didn’t mean I was a better person than a woman who I could outrun. Or do more pushups than. Prisons are full of guys who are better at those things than I am.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/08/last-ioc-marine-experiment-women/25478813/
Eventually if you’re in the infantry you’ll have to drop trow on the trail and relieve yourself because your case of diarrhea won’t allow for anything else. No moving off to find a bush to hide behind; right now. Funny. A lot of women don’t find the certainty of doing this in front of a bunch of 18 year old guys an attractive career choice. Which among their other fine qualities means they’re smarter than me.
The peeps who push for women in combat, as in ground combat, aren’t women who have been exposed to the realities of the situation. They’re Hillary!, who thinks her ambitions to become Commander in Chief will be derailed unless she can shove some other dumb broad into the infantry. Not Chelsea; she gets a six figure no show job at TV network.
The other broads just ain’t so dumb, it turns out.
Steve57 (cd6f9a) — 4/24/2015 @ 5:35 pmCouldn’t have happen to a better school.
Bill (66398d) — 4/24/2015 @ 5:37 pmhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/12/13/report-swedish-army-castrates-heraldic-lion/
Trigger alerts and safe places in this instance are no longer necessary. The danger of a feminist witnessing an unneutered lion has been averted.
I’m all kinds of crazy to share foxholes or gun tubs with these people.
Steve57 (cd6f9a) — 4/24/2015 @ 5:42 pmReading through the complaint, I’m not sure he really has a case under Title IX. Columbia can probably show that even if they discriminated against this man, they don’t discriminate against men as a group.
The contract case is a little stronger, but the language of the contract/student code is pretty vague on the obligations for the school, with lots of things that the University “may” do, but I didn’t see anything it “must” do.
The defamation case is where the Plaintiff wins. It’s also the best chance for meaningful damages.
Although I’m reminded of the line (paraphrasing): “who do I sue to get my reputation back?”
egd (1ad898) — 4/24/2015 @ 7:32 pmThat reminds me of a comedy sketch I saw, circa 1980. Might have been on SNL. The subject was women in the draft. The commentator said, “Go ahead, draft women. In fact, draft all women. Then when the Russians beat us, we can say, ‘Big deal. Who did you beat? A bunch of girls! We weren’t even trying!’ “
Chuck Bartowski (3e0e89) — 4/24/2015 @ 7:37 pmpity Mattress Girl
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/24/2015 @ 8:10 pmcrossed the platform from Sleep Train
to the Crazy Train!
“Sort of an aside…”
– Steve57
Sort of?
Leviticus (01884d) — 4/24/2015 @ 11:02 pmLibard Mattress GIRL
Gus (7cc192) — 4/24/2015 @ 11:18 pmSeeking much attention now
obviously NUTS
Yes it was quite the tangent. I meant under the heading of apparently lost causes. And fighting the good fight anyway.
Steve57 (cd6f9a) — 4/25/2015 @ 12:57 amMattress guy, where are you?
mg (31009b) — 4/25/2015 @ 2:32 amThanks for that link, kevin M.
Assuming that is anything close to accurate,
she should sue the school for encouraging her instead of getting her help.
(Making a point, not suggesting a practical action).
maybe I don’t know enough about how this facebook thing works, but I’m assuming when she was posting things on it that the content was not private between the two of them, correct? (Or do people use it for one to one communication in stead of an email?)
I think at onetime if a dean of students saw a young woman posting on facebook a concern for her reputation because she got an STD…that the dean might have asked the student into the office for a little chat and suggested some professional help.
Of course, I guess we really know very little of all that transpired here, other than she went very public with her claims.
Interesting story, kishnevi, good to hear the fellow had the needed support.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 4/25/2015 @ 5:51 amcertainly going through the criminal justice system does not guarantee a proper result, but generally it is better than college administrators reacting to RS articles.
There is no true/false toggle for something like this.
Yes, there is.
JD (3b5483) — 4/25/2015 @ 6:51 ammattress on her back
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/25/2015 @ 7:14 amheld promise but Manson Lamps
you run, Young Man, RUN!!!!
her Girl Scout motto
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/25/2015 @ 7:18 am“Be Prepared” also warning
to all who crossed path
In his lawsuit, filed on Thursday, Nungesser argues he was a victim of harassment and defamation
More commonly such people are coming from a stereotypical liberal versus conservative type of angle, often a devotee of women’s rights hollering “I’m suing you!” in regards to a “male chauvinist” or a non-liberal, if not conservative, organization or company.
But nothing is surprising any longer in this age of insanity, in this era of a confused, upside-down, increasingly desensitized America:
Mark (607f93) — 4/25/2015 @ 7:22 amIf the allegations of the Complaint are true, then Columbia allowed and, at times, assisted a female student in harassing a male student. It’s the college edition of Mean Girls.
DRJ (e80d46) — 4/25/2015 @ 7:25 amshould you cross her path
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/25/2015 @ 7:27 amthe fuggin’ you will get’s not
Imaginary
his thoughts turned to Springs
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/25/2015 @ 7:30 ambut one look in her wild eyes
nuts were Raisinets
Unsuspecting Nerds
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/25/2015 @ 7:34 amthe wild eyes say she’s not your
Average Hose Beast
priorities I see:
http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/23/duke-university-sides-with-islamists-against-feminist-speaker/
narciso (ee1f88) — 4/25/2015 @ 7:38 amheh Columbia
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/25/2015 @ 7:40 amThe Days of Rage replaced by
her Daze of Craze… HA!!!
young Vito was shocked
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/25/2015 @ 7:43 amlearned “going to the mattress”
had a new meaning
crazy Mattress Girl
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/25/2015 @ 7:47 amshe screamed “fug me in the butt!”
he was chlam chowdah
Student sues school over mattress stunt
lad learns lesson from crazed Mattress _unt
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/25/2015 @ 7:54 amAs she stuffs briefcase after cash-stuffed briefcase in her Serta, Hillary! shows who’s the for reals Mattress Girl
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/25/2015 @ 7:59 amCoronello, you’re on fire.
Good thing I have an extinguisher.
Steve57 (08cad4) — 4/25/2015 @ 8:32 ammaybe I don’t know enough about how this facebook thing works, but I’m assuming when she was posting things on it that the content was not private between the two of them, correct? (Or do people use it for one to one communication in stead of an email?)
You can set posts for “only friends”. Then it depends on who’s on the list.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/25/2015 @ 8:53 amDid I show you this? I think I showed you this. https://twitter.com/rvabelieves.
It’s one thing to for well meaning children to sign onto this, but check out who else did. The Virginia AG. Most of the commonwealths attorneys (including my own county, Henricoh, every campus police and security operation in the region, at every institution, private and public and t every tier (uviersity ofRichmond, virginia Commonwealth University, Wiliam and Mary, the community colleges….
SarahW (6f3980) — 4/25/2015 @ 9:08 amBut that doesn’t mean it’s not protected speech.
Did you read any of the material ? I doubt it. The suit names the University, its president and the idiot professor who authorized harassment as “art.”
Mike K (90dfdc) — 4/25/2015 @ 9:26 amAs far as I am concerned the current “Rape Culture” is another example of Moral Panic like the Salem witch trials of the “recovered memory” scandal of the 80s. The latter example ended suddenly when a father who had been accused by a daughter who was being treated by a psychologist for bulimia was encouraged to believe her father had molested her. The father won a big lawsuit against Western Medical Center in Orange County and the major insurance company that provided malpractice insurance for psychologists announced it would no long cover “recovered memory” treatment. The practice stopped like a light switch had been turned off.
A big loss by Columbia, after the Duke case settlement, should make a huge difference in the present Rape Culture hysteria.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 4/25/2015 @ 9:38 amSorry for the awkward sentence in that comment. The whole rape culture thing is a lie and part of the war on men and boys.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 4/25/2015 @ 9:41 amSo Columbia’s giving her both college credit toward graduation and publicity of her “art” as repayment for carting around her mattress? Yeah, for that and a few other reasons I’d say the university may be in some trouble, here. And, see, she can’t stop now even if she wants to (not to suggest she wants to) because the activists and Columbia and cause journalists don’t want her to. She is serving a purpose to them.
After reading the lawsuit complaint which is quite entertaining, I am so glad I managed to get through my college career before the age of facebook, texting, and twitter. Ugh.
It’s clear Paul’s motivation for the lawsuit right now centers around his being able to inoculate himself against her claims and to expose her lies and motivations sufficiently to be able to find employment in the United States following his graduation from Columbia in May. I hope there may be some damages money involved, too.
It’s certainly seems that Gillibrand’s invite to the SOU as her guest further emboldened Emma and her handlers and helped to “legitimize” Emma in the international media even though her claims had already been dismissed by both the police and the university.
elissa (ac7320) — 4/25/2015 @ 9:50 amMike–
There was also the 90’s panic over sexual abuse of children, which led to the McMartin Preschool witch-burning. There, the problem was false memories, implanted by endlessly-repeated leading questions from “investigators.”
Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/25/2015 @ 10:12 amI think they should have sued Gillibrand as well. Her immunity does not include unofficial statements, and a sitting senator’s “opinions” come with significant weight. The invite to the SOtU would be an example of this. Certainly the invite defamed Paul.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 4/25/2015 @ 10:16 am#90… false allegations against parents or other authority figures – most so incredibly far-fetched that only maroons or vindictive people with agendas would ever buy-in – went on in a big way in the Bakersfield, Ca. area in recent decades. Prosecutors went all in, as well
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/25/2015 @ 10:37 amand I think “McMartin” was in the 8o’s, but could be wrong.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/25/2015 @ 10:38 amyes and Fusters in South Florida, and the Amireaults in Boston
narciso (ee1f88) — 4/25/2015 @ 10:40 amKevin, you may want to read what’s at the link. I did a long post on Chicagoboyz about all those cases.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 4/25/2015 @ 10:52 amI’m having some trouble with the whole “hostile educational environment” concept, as a spin-off from the relatively new hostile work environment created by sexual harassment law. It will be interesting to see what they define as hostile since the concept, although not necessarily the practice, of these institutions is to educate the students which may well cause them to be exposed to things, ideas, that are new to them and possibly contrary to ideas they held dear when they arrived for that education. I knew such hostile environments in the distant past, before any of this was codified when confronted with Differential Equations. I’m pretty sure that the statute has run, so I’ll just chalk it up to life-in-general.
What do these people do when they graduate and face the real world….?
Gramps, the original (9e1415) — 4/25/2015 @ 11:20 amSafest thing now for undergrad women to do is become LUGs before entering real rape culture outside of sheltered academic life.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/25/2015 @ 11:44 amSadly, it seems that the only way to keep schools from caving in to SJW demands as the path of least resistance is for the victims of said caving to sue them blind–like the corrupt judge who received bribes from both sides said: “How about you two give me the same amount and we decide things on the merits?”
M. Scott Eiland (a742b7) — 4/25/2015 @ 12:20 pmVia CBS news website here’s Emma’s response to the suit.:
elissa (64443d) — 4/25/2015 @ 12:39 pmshe sounds like a very hurt angry and scornful person
where dem pups
happyfeet (831175) — 4/25/2015 @ 1:11 pmTherapy dogs should simply not be expected to have to deal with this sort of thing, Mr. feets.
elissa (64443d) — 4/25/2015 @ 1:18 pmyou’re so right they’re spread mighty thin as it is
i do not know the answer
happyfeet (831175) — 4/25/2015 @ 1:28 pmNo, these were probably private messages. In addition to the public and semi-private posts that you may be familiar with, FB also has an “instant message” feature, where you basically text with another person.
These texts are not public. These private messages are, I believe, the source of the intimate exchanges between the two people that are part of the brief.
Pious Agnostic (4e1a81) — 4/25/2015 @ 1:40 pmWhat do these people do when they graduate and face the real world….?
I suspect that this may have much to do with the increase in “diversity” administrative staff in universities. What else are they qualified for ? Note that she and the UVa case both involved women administrators with a history of “sexual oppression.”
Mike K (90dfdc) — 4/25/2015 @ 1:49 pm“i do not know the answer”
Mr. Feets – I think she needs to journal about her bad choices.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/25/2015 @ 2:03 pmshe could burn her mattress Mr. daley it would be very cathartic
then she would be free of the chains of rape
and she could scamper joyfully in the meadows, and all of her tomorrows she would greet with celebration
if only she were free
happyfeet (831175) — 4/25/2015 @ 2:19 pmThank yous for explaining some of the nuances of FaceBook.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 4/25/2015 @ 2:55 pmThe lawsuit is merely his artistic expression of the pain of his experienced!
htom (4ca1fa) — 4/25/2015 @ 9:54 pmSounds like reason number 1 for not using Facebook.
From many years ago. I’m sure the grand total is marginally higher. The point being Columbia University is the very definition of morbidly obesely wealthy out of all proportion to their station in the scheme of things.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 4/26/2015 @ 12:21 amI hope the young man cures them of their Scrooge McDuck billions. Take a big dollop of that ill gotten loot Paul. But don’t stint on making it noisy and public, otherwise it’s all for naught.
Lesson: Colleges should heed ancient advice regarding “A woman scorned….” That’s all this whole thing is about. Dude simply couldn’t abide an invite to anal that horse-faced little slut.
Maximum Gronk (f4747e) — 4/26/2015 @ 1:07 pmWTF Sen. Gillibrand?
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/04/25/gillibrand-i-hope-uva-rape-hoax-puts-more-of-a-spotlight-on-the-problem/
elissa (d83127) — 4/26/2015 @ 1:36 pmrape in the spotlight eff yeah
happyfeet (831175) — 4/26/2015 @ 1:39 pmFreddie Gray would not want this.
happyfeet (831175) — 4/26/2015 @ 1:41 pmIn clear violation of the school’s own confidentiality policies. And, as the complaint alleges, in violation of state and federal laws.
It’s clear reading all the private FB messages the girl was clearly nuts. And from those as well as other evidence in the complaint an inveterate liar. Guys, don’t get involved with clearly insane women.
papertiger @109, I believe Columbia’s endowment is now around $9.2 billion.
Steve57 (08cad4) — 4/26/2015 @ 8:38 pm