The Columbia University student who was cleared of raping Emma Sulkowicz, the art student known as Mattress Girl because she carried her mattress around campus for her senior art thesis, is suing the school for allowing her to conduct a smear campaign against him while they were students. 

According to the New York Daily News, new evidence is being entered into the case begun in April by the attorney for the alleged rapist Paul Nungesser, who is currently living with his parents in Germany since graduating. As an art student, Sulkowicz carried her dorm room mattress, on which the rape allegedly took place, all over campus as her senior thesis and even across the dais at graduation.

These stunts had the intended effect of garnering national media attention, further blighting Nungesser's reputation. Sulkowicz also displayed pornographic pictures superimposed over news articles bearing Nunbesser's name as the accused. Nunbesser is blaming Columbia for allowing her to so visibly display her "art" around campus and for ignoring the obvious smear campaign against him. He says this was allowed because he is a male that was accused of rape.

It is stated that Columbia's attorney will argue that the protest art "did not undermine Nungesser's education to such a degree that it violated his rights" nor was his treatment "gender-specific." Yet, Nungesser's attorney told the NY Daily News, "The university failed in its responsibility to protect a student from a hostile education environment based on his gender."

Since graduation, Sulkowicz has released a purported art project, a pornographic video filmed in her dorm room with an unidentified male showing the two engaged in violent intercourse. Many believed this to be a recreation of the alleged rape. Sulkowicz denies that charge.