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(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…
The Campus: "Feminist Group Hosts Day of Action"
This Campus article discusses the Planned Parenthood Action Forum, hosted in Hillcrest by Feminist Action at Middlebury (FAM) on March 8. This forum, which was led by Paige Feeser (Vermont Public Affairs Organizer for Planned Parenthood of Northern…
(March 21) The Campus: "PC does not exist at Middlebury"
This op/ed is a direct response to Daniel O'Neil's article a week prior on March 14. This article says that though political correctness can be problematic, there is no point to O'Neil's op/ed, as PC does not exist at Middlebury. Ryan and Stillinger…
The Campus: "New task force debates gender issues"
This Campus article discusses the 2007/2008 Task Force on the Status of Women, and a town hall meeting that they held to collect information for their report. The meeting covered workplace issues of gender equality for faculty and staff, such as…
The Campus: "Middlebury: Where White Supremacists, but Not Survivors, Are Worthy of Free Speech"
After Dunn posted The List, they met with a campus judicial officer who requested the names and contact information of the people who had contacted Dunn with reports of sexual misconduct. Dunn refused. After returning from winter break (Dunn posted…
The Campus: "Sexual harassment hearing creates questions of responsibility"
This is The Campus' first news article about the 1988 Paul Cubeta sexual harassment hearing, and the college's subsequent actions. The Campus editors had been investigating rumors of the hearing (which had been over a year prior) throughout the fall…
The Campus: "Men in white ribbons unite to stem violence against women"
This Campus news article details the origin of the White Ribbon Campaign (WRC), which was started in Canada in 1991. It also discusses the early stages of the Middlebury WRC which was overseen by John Beattie, a staff member who worked with the…
The Campus: "Take Back the Night march confronts rape and violence"
This Campus feature details the Take Back The Night March/Week held in April of 1998, as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The article describes the march and who attended it. It also describes a blue light study conducted by Jennifer Handal…
The Campus: "Middlebury students march to take back the night"
This Campus article describes the annual Take Back The Night march in 1992, which included a candlelight march, music, a speaker, and an open microphone session. The article includes information about how Take Back The Night began, speaker Susan…
(May 9) The Campus: "Free speech for whom?"
This op/ed puts the Middlebury PC debate in conversation with national narratives about PC and a reactionary speech by President Bush. It also describes an SGA meeting on April 28, during which straight white men voiced protests to the new sexual…