A young Emma Sulkowicz was beginning her sophomore year as an art student at Columbia and was raped in her dorm room. Emma did not report the incident at first, but after hearing from two other classmates who told her that the same rapist was also abusing them, she filed a complaint with the administration. Students tend to be worried about reporting rape because the police aren't always good at making rape accusations. After six months of Columbia not hearing Emma's accusations, they found the rapist in favor (Grigoradis Vanessa, The Cut). Among female college students, nine out of ten rape and sexual assault victims knew their attacker (Fisher, National Institute of Justice). Emma falls under these nine, knowing the rapist, Paul, very well. At the end of their first year, they both signed up to help lead the following year's outdoor orientation program. During the training trip on the Delaware River they had sex