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Columbia University senior Emma Sulkowicz, 21, says she was raped in her own bed at the beginning of her sophomore year. This week, two years after the alleged assault, Sulkowicz, a visual-arts major, has made a promise to carry her mattress around campus every day as part of her senior thesis. It is, she says, a symbol of the burden sexual-assault survivors carry with them every day.

“The act of carrying the mattress from inside my room out into the light has mirrored the way my life has changed, as I’ve brought my personal story out into the light,” Sulkowicz told TIME. “This project is a way to heal one of the most difficult things that happened to me. As I will build muscle and get stronger, hopefully I will also build emotional strength.”

Sulkowicz started the performance-art project on Tuesday, and she said she is determined to continue carrying the mattress wherever she goes — to class, the library, the gym — as long as her alleged rapist is still on campus. That means her project could last until graduation day in May 2015 — unless her alleged assailant is either expelled or chooses to leave the school. Last year, Sulkowicz and two other women reported the same person to the university. All three cases were dismissed.

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[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m not talking about human rights in general, I’m talking about those specific basic human rights.

[–] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How are they being denied basic human rights?

Title IX is very specific and the organization you refer to, FACE, specifically states their goal in relation to title IX.

I can’t tell if your arguing in bad faith or you don’t understand title IX compared to other laws that would apply.

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I was talking about the organisation in the first comment, but then the discussion went to public and private universities in general, which I then replied to.

And the basic human right is the due process I mentioned before.

You don’t have to jump to accusations “bad faith” because you and I are misunderstanding one another. Let’s try to keep Lemmy normal and not spiral into a Reddit argument.

[–] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com -1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not misunderstanding you. I think your struggling to follow your own conversation.

You brought up FACE, an organization concerned with Title IX enforcement specifically.

The other user explained they are given due process (under Title IX) and explained (poorly) that private colleges are not bound by the same rules if they don’t take government funding, expressed as government run.

Then you shifted it to some conversation about basic human rights and questioned what not being government run has to do with.

Which is why I shared the federal government page outlining Title IX exemptions.

Due process is covered under the 5th and 14th amendments, not Title IX.

Remember this:

Where you cited a Wikipedia article about an organization concerned with Title IX to justify your claim they’re not given “due process”.

It’s either bad faith or stupidity. Either way, I’m done engaging with it.

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world -1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I’m not misunderstanding you. I think your struggling to follow your own conversation.

Ahhh so it is a Reddit argument you’re looking for. I can’t help you, but I will correct some errors:

You brought up FACE

Please read the comment above mine.

private colleges are not bound by the same rules if they don’t take government funding, expressed as government run.

And I replied to that with pointing that out as a problem.

Then you shifted

My initial comment:

fundamental principles of our society

vs.

basic human right

Potato potato.

cited a Wikipedia article about an organization concerned with Title IX to justify your claim they’re not given “due process”.

That’s your interpretation of it. And considering the upvote / downvote ratios in your screen shot I assume more people agree with me than with you.

It’s either bad faith or stupidity. Either way, I’m done engaging with it.

Not from my side anyway. Good luck and goodbye.