“You didn’t call the police? Most women would have called the police,” one said, according to Sulkowicz. There, the officers told her to recount her whole story.įrom the questions officers asked her, Sulkowicz quickly got the impression that they thought she was making it all up. So Sulkowicz came out into her dormitory hall, where classmates walked by. They wouldn’t talk to her in her room with her two friends present, because of “procedure,” according to an audio recording Sulkowicz's friend made while she was present. It only took five to 10 minutes, Sulkowicz said, for four officers to come knock on the door of her dorm room. As punishment, her friend was also put on probation and made to write two reflection papers: one from the perspective of Sulkowicz and another from the accused. Her best friend was meant to be at the hearing Sulkowicz had chosen her as her one “supporter.” But her friend was kicked out of that role for talking about the case, according to Sulkowicz, in violation of the university’s confidentiality policy. “To have random administrators being the ones who have to stomach the gory details of rape - they weren’t prepared for this role,” said Sulkowicz. Sulkowicz said she had to draw them a diagram. She told them she had been hit across the face, choked and pinned down, but, she said, one still seemed confused about how it was possible for someone to penetrate her there without lubricant. In the hearing, Sulkowicz said she had to explain to the three administrators on the panel how anal rape worked. And it had been seven months since she revisited the experience at a school disciplinary hearing, a process that she said left her feeling physically sick, then empty and then scared. It had been almost two years since Sulkowicz, now a rising senior at Columbia University, says she was raped by a classmate. When Emma Sulkowicz finished her last exam of the school year on Tuesday, she went back to her dorm room and dialed 911. At the end of finals, most college kids go party.
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