Aram Zucker-Scharff

Campus nightmare: female students on the rise of sexual harassment:

“I found photos of me in pyjamas in my bed on their WhatsApp group. ‘Hah! Look what we did to her last night!’ They did the same to one of my friends and she wasn’t wearing anything. She was sleeping and they went in at three in the morning and took a photo of her. They thought it was really funny, but she was devastated.”

“”In a few months, Emma and [her alleged rapist] will graduate […] If Columbia does not act to expel him before then, their graduation will not relieve Columbia of the burden of this episode. Instead, in this important moment in the history of sexual assault on college campuses, Columbia will remain indelibly in the public mind as the university where good men and women did nothing.””

– Every College President Needs to Read This Open Letter From the Parents of a Rape Victim.

Columbia Student Will Carry a Mattress Everywhere Until Her Alleged Rapist Is Expelled:

Emma Sulkowicz staged the piece of performance art as a protest against Columbia’s handling of her sexual-assault case.

“As the case illustrates, school disciplinary panels are a world unto themselves, operating in secret with scant accountability and limited protections for the accuser or the accused.”

– How one college handled a sexual assault complaint.