This. Is. Genius (h/t
@DestinTrueheart):
The
band also made light of a recent protest by a Columbia anti-sexual
assault group, No Red Tape, during which the words “Columbia Protects
Rapists” was projected onto the university’s Low Library when prospective students were visiting the school.
“An
army of high school creepers is now thinking, ‘Yes, I will go to
Columbia after all,’” the band’s “poet laureate,” Mikhail Klimentov, a
junior, said.
Ms.
Matlow noted that No Red Tape itself had mocked artwork as an
inadequate option for fulfilling the sexual respect requirement.
“Unless it involves a mattress,” she added, a reference to Emma Sulkowicz,
a Columbia senior who, as part of her visual arts thesis, has carried a
mattress with her everywhere she has gone on campus to protest the
university’s handling of her claim that a fellow student raped her in
her dorm room. The line drew a few boos, and then some cheers.
One art critic was not so amused!
Ms. Sulkowicz, who figured in several other jokes about her status as a poster child for sexual assault on campus, did not attend Orgo Night. But she said in an interview that she was hurt and disappointed in the band.
“I guess they don’t really know anything about how a survivor would feel, to get totally made fun of in front of the entire school,” she said.
Seriously.
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