The Campus: "Midd women Take Back the Night"
This Campus news article describes the different parts of the Take Back The Night march at Middlebury in 1991, as well as the main topics brought up by speakers which included homophobia, spousal assault, gender equity, and rape statistics. Here is the article from The Campus' archives, as well as a photo of the article as it was originally printed.
Lori Landau
May 9, 1991
The Campus: "Tears for the night"
This poetic Campus opinion piece describes Daly's experience of crying during the Take Back The Night event. She states all of the reasons and people she was crying for, and urges people to stay hopeful and take action. Here is the article from The Campus' archives, as well as a photo of the article as it was originally printed.
Kristin Daly ‘94
April 23, 1992
The Campus: "No Rape at Middlebury?" Op/Ed
This Op/Ed came in response to a poster campaign (posters put up with sexist quotes overheard on campus), the college's official sexual violence reporting numbers, and the designation of a new Task Force on the Status of Women in 2007. In a scathing and sarcastic appraisal of the college's response to sexual assault, Garcia writes that the college culture of sexism and assault hasn't changed much since the DU mannequin incident in 1988. Despite the fact that the college's reports show almost no sexual assault on campus, Garcia discusses their failure to implement the suggestions of past Task Forces on The Status of Women, and the campus culture of degrading women, homophobia, toxic masculinity, and sexual education through pornography. Here is the original print op/ed well as the website version.
NOTE: Related content/context in the FAM collection on both the sexism poster campaign (search "Sexual Harassment is an Issue Op/Ed) and the use of pornography at a Middlebury Common's event (search Pirate Party), both mentioned in this op/ed.
Alexandra Garcia
November 29, 2007
Beyond the Green: "Dear Campus" article from Middlebury Unmasked producer Maddie Orcutt
This Dear Campus article by Maddie Orcutt '16 was published in Beyond The Green on April 12, 2015. Written shortly after the release of the Middlebury Unmasked video, Orcutt, one of the producers, writes about her experience of being a survivor and anti-sexual assault activist. She also discusses the negative impact of both student and institutional complicity.
NOTE: The link to the original post is below.
Maddie Orcutt
April 12, 2015
Task Force on the Status of Women: Comments from Feminist Action at Middlebury
This document includes FAM's suggestions to the Task Force on the Status of Women at Middlebury in 2007. The Task Force that these suggestions were sent to published their report in 2008. These suggestions cover blue light phones, social houses, the health center, rape/sexual abuse/sexual harassment, certain on-campus parties, public safety crime report e-mails, majors, and getting female faculty to stay on campus.
NOTE: Related content/context can be found in the "Reports on the Status of Gender and Women" collection. Search "(2008) Report of the Task Force on the Status of Women at Middlebury College."
FAM
September 30, 2007
2008 "Carbon Neutral by 2016...Rape Free by ??" Protest
These are photos from an anti-sexual assault campaign launched by FAM in 2008. Shortly after Middlebury announced their plans to become carbon neutral by 2016, FAM launched a campaign questioning the institutions commitment to becoming rape free. These photos show activists preparing for their protest in BiHall as well as the protest itself.
FAM
2008
Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "So Many Stares: looking back at our first installation"
Stares and Stairs Website Post
This blog post reflects upon the experience of the first ever Stares and Stairs instillation as well as the various supportive, kind, defensive, and violent reactions of students . Stares and Stairs posted this to their website on April 20, 2016.
Stares and Stairs
April 20, 2016
<h2 style="text-align:center;">"IHH Event Planned for January" by Emilie Munson (12/4/2013)</h2>
IHH Campus Articles
Ahead of the upcoming third annual IHH storytelling event, <em>The Campus</em> interviewed co-founder Luke Carroll Brown, who spoke about hoping to reduce the stigma around sexual violence. Two other students speak to the importance of the event.
Emilie Munson
The Middlebury Campus
12/4/2013
<h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://middleburycampus.com/23314/news/ihh-event-planned-for-january/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://middleburycampus.com/23314/news/ihh-event-planned-for-january/</a></h3>
<h2 style="text-align:center;">"Map Project Marks Locations of Sexual Assault on Campus" by Ben Dohan (11/1/2018)</h2>
IHH Campus Articles
After an IHH organizer, Taite Shomo '20.5, had begun to advertise the go/link for students to submit locations on campus that they'd been sexually harassed or assaulted, she spoke to <em>The Campus</em> about the project's history and goals.
Ben Dohan
The Middlebury Campus
11/1/2018
<h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://middleburycampus.com/23314/news/ihh-event-planned-for-january/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://middleburycampus.com/41056/news/map-project-marks-locations-of-sexual-assault-on-campus/</a></h3>
<h2 style="text-align:center;">"Map Project Marks Locations of 108 Sexual Assaults and Harassments" by Caroline Kapp (3/7/2019)</h2>
IHH Campus Articles
The Campus covered the second rendition of The Map Project, which showed 108 "red dots" and was displayed in Davis Library. Several students spoke about their reactions and the urgency they felt about combatting sexual assault on campus.
Caroline Kapp
The Middlebury Campus
3/7/2019
<h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://middleburycampus.com/43593/news/map-project-marks-locations-of-108-campus-assaults/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://middleburycampus.com/43593/news/map-project-marks-locations-of-108-campus-assaults/</a></h3>