A scarlet A is very hard to remove once it’s been pinned to you. But facts don’t matter, paging Lisa Madigan!
Via WaPo
Last fall, Columbia University senior Emma Sulkowicz began carrying a mattress around campus — a protest, she said, of how the school handled her sexual assault complaint against a fellow student. She didn’t name her alleged assailant, but as Sulkowicz’s story and the image of her mattress went viral, his identity soon became obvious. By the end of term, Paul Nungesser had been denounced on fliers and at rallies and former friends crossed the street to avoid talking to him.
Now Nungesser is suing his school, its board of trustees, its president and one of its professors, saying that Columbia failed to protect him from a “harassment campaign” by Sulkowicz even after a school disciplinary panel cleared him of responsibility in the case.
“Columbia University’s effective sponsorship of the gender-based harassment and defamation of Paul resulted in an intimidating, hostile, demeaning … learning and living environment,” reads the federal discrimination lawsuit filed Thursday, according to the Associated Press.