people are me because we as a community do care together. reporter: indeed in making her story public emma has become a sentity. her performance art carries that weight where she dragged a mattress with her everywhere on campus got significant press conference. while she s still known worldwide as a symbol of rape survivors, somewhat less known is the complicated story behind it all. paul nungesser raised in germany, attended columbia. he was accepted in 2011 as a john j. schoollar. as far as he and his family were concerned the universe was opening up to him. reporter: paul was nungesser s attorney. paul met emma as freshman in 2011. they became friends and sent each other private facebook messages. before the school year was out they had become sexually