Vanessa Grigoriadis: What Betsy DeVos Is Getting Right—and Wrong—About Campus Rape

When writer Vanessa Grigoriadis first met Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz in August of 2014, it was before the undergrad began carrying her 50-lb. mattress around campus as an anti-rape demonstration. Grigoriadis, a journalist for publications like Vanity Fair and the New York Times magazine, was reporting a story about Columbia students who accused the university of failing to regard their sexual assault cases seriously.