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"Surrender Your Booty!!!" Pirate Dance Party poster
This is a poster from the "Surrender Your Booty!!!" Pirate Dance Party held by Cook Commons in Pearsons Lounge in the fall of 2007. This poster, as well as the fact that a pirate porn film would be playing at the party, drew criticism from feminist…
(1990) Special Committee on Attitudes Toward Gender Report
The DU mannequin incident sparked controversy over the status of women at Middlebury at the end of the 1987-1988. In the aftermath, Middlebury President Olin Robinson appointed a Special Committee on Attitudes towards Gender in the spring of 1988.…
(1997) Report of the Task Force on the Status of Women at Middlebury College
At the request of the Student Affairs Committee and the Board of Trustees, a task force was put together to evaluate the status of women in the Middlebury community, to review progress since 1989-1990 school year (when the first ever 'Gender Report'…
(2000) Sexual Assault Report to the Trustees
One of the things discussed in the Task Force on The Status of Women reports is the Title IX process and the college's response to reports of sexual assault. One concern is that students will not report their assaults or seek help due to the negative…
(2008) Report of the Task Force on
the Status of Women at Middlebury College
This is the 2008 report from the Task Force, which was appointed in April of 2007. As part of their research, the Task Force engaged the Middlebury campus community through open meetings, small focus groups, one-on-one interviews, surveys, etc. The…
(2009) Administrative Response to 2008 Task Force on the Status of Women Report and the 2009 Steering Committee on the Status of Women Report
After the Task Force on the Status of Women authored their report in 2008, the Steering Committee on the Status of Women clarified specific action items and goals for the administration in their 2009 report. This is Middlebury's administrative…
(2009) Report from the Steering Committee on the Status of Women
The 2008 Report from the Task Force on the Status of Women, presented to President Liebowitz in March of 2018, contained "72 specific recommendations to improve the status of women at the institution." Due to the broad scope of the 2008 report, a…
(April 11) The Campus: "PC seen as threat"
This op/ed is written in defense of Daniel O'Neil's article in the March 14 edition of the Campus. This article specifically addresses the legitimacy of the college's new sexual harassment policy which prohibited "negative comments concerning sexual…
(April 18) The Campus: "College policy protects discussion, not hatred"
This op/ed is a direct response to David Upham's article written a week prior in the April 11 issue of The Campus. Moss responds to Upham's opinions about the new sexual harassment policy (which included harassment based on sexuality for the first…
(April 18) The Campus: "Correcting Upham"
This brief op/ed corrects an incorrect statement in David Upham's article from the April 11, 1991 issue of The Campus. In that article, Upham claims that whether or not homosexuality is a mental disorder is a question of current debate in the field…