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Paul Nungesser, the alleged rapist of Emma Sulkowicz--who has been walking around Columbia with a mattress to protest the school's lack of action against Nungesser--is now suing Columbia for failing "to protect him from a 'harassment campaign' by Sulkowicz." Nungesser is suing the school's board of trustees, president and a professor that allowed Sulkowicz to write her thesis on the matress-carrying protest. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, reads, "Columbia University's effective sponsorship of the gender-based harassment and defamation of Paul resulted in an intimidating, hostile, demeaning...learning and living environment." The popularity of Sulkowicz's protest, which was picked up by The New York Times and New York Magazine, has also been damaging to Nungesser's and job prospects.  Columbia had no comment on the lawsuit.

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On Saturday, students at Harvard College attempted to break the world record for the longest glowstick chain in order to raise awareness about malaria. The students, part of Harvard College Students Against Malaria, wanted to "do something fun and cool and to raise awareness for malaria," according to SAM co-founder and co-president Mohammed Toure.


The Daily Pennsylvanian

On Saturday, students at Harvard College attempted to break the world record for the longest glowstick chain in order to raise awareness about malaria. The students, part of Harvard College Students Against Malaria, wanted to "do something fun and cool and to raise awareness for malaria," according to SAM co-founder and co-president Mohammed Toure.


The Daily Pennsylvanian

Paul Nungesser, the alleged rapist of Emma Sulkowicz--who has been walking around Columbia with a mattress to protest the school's lack of action against Nungesser--is now suing Columbia for failing "to protect him from a 'harassment campaign' by Sulkowicz." Nungesser is suing the school's board of trustees, president and a professor that allowed Sulkowicz to write her thesis on the matress-carrying protest. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, reads, "Columbia University's effective sponsorship of the gender-based harassment and defamation of Paul resulted in an intimidating, hostile, demeaning...learning and living environment." The popularity of Sulkowicz's protest, which was picked up by The New York Times and New York Magazine, has also been damaging to Nungesser's and job prospects.  Columbia had no comment on the lawsuit.







SOUL Protests the merging of the African Studies and Africana Departments at College Palooza

Beyond blackness

By Sophia Witte · April 28, 2015

Many African and African-American students at Penn believe that the black community is unified because of a shared experience of living as a black person in America — not because black people constitute a homogenized group with assumed similarities beyond the color of their skin.



The Vision

“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.” ? bell hooks Quiet as it’s kept, the denial to protect the black woman in this country belongs to a long American tradition from which this University is not exempt.




The Integrated Product Design Master Program and PennDesign hosted iDesign@Penn, the very first of what will become an annual competition in which Penn graduate students compete for a $50,000 prize to help launch their unique products.

In a room of no more than 40 people, Associate Dean of External Affairs at the School of Design Richard Fitzgerald said, “Five years from now when the iDesign prize is the hottest prize in the United States, you can say that you were here on this first night.”