Columbia’s ‘Mattress’ Mistake

A fter three long years, justice has finally been served: Columbia University has settled a Title IX lawsuit filed by former student Paul Nungesser for its mishandling of sexual allegations made against him.

In 2012, Emma Sulkowicz, now known as Mattress Girl, accused Nungesser of raping her. He was cleared after a university (and NYPD) investigation: Massive evidence, including her text messages long after the supposed assault, proved her account to be as fishy as that Rolling Stone “exposé” on the University of Virginia.

His lawsuit centered on the school’s discrimination against him — notably, by supporting her as she continued to drag his name through the mud.

Columbia did, after all, give Sulkowicz academic credit for her “Carry That Weight” thesis project, in which she carried her mat- tress around campus in protest of the school’s decision not to punish Nungesser.

Those antics made Sulkowicz a celebrity, lionized by politicians like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and handed NOW’s Woman of Courage and Susan B. Anthony awards — all of it falsely tarnishing his reputation.

Nungesser graduated in 2015. His lawyer, Andrew Miltenberg, notes that the settlement (for an undisclosed amount) gives the real victim here “a chance to go on with his life and recover from the false accusation against him.

“We hope that the resolution of the case also ensures that no student will ever have to endure what Paul went through after he was exonerated.”

Sadly, we expect it will take a few more humiliations before the ideologues who promoted Sulkowicz finally give up.