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Stares and Stairs group
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Stares and Stairs was a performance activism group formed in January of 2016 by Morgan Grady-Benson ‘18, Chi Chi Chang ‘18, Nell Sather ‘19, and Liz Dunn ‘18. After taking Lida Winfield’s J-term class, “Radical Humanity: Performance and Social Activism,” this group of students decided to challenge the culture of sexual assault on Middlebury’s campus through performance activism. Their estimated 10-12 performances between winter 2016 and spring 2018 took place in active party spaces; Atwater Suites, Social Houses, the Spring Concert, and an attempted performance at the Rites of Spring [An invite-only party held every spring by Middlebury’s secret societies/fraternities]. During performances four “performers” would stand spread out on a flight of stairs, in various states of undress, handprints in purple paint on their skin, not engaging verbally with those passing by and holding signs that read “I’m not asking for it,” “I’m still not asking for it,” and “Sexual assault leaves a mark.” Accompanying the “performers” were the “bodyguards” who engaged with audience members, managed their reactions in order to maintain a safe environment, and passed out slips of paper that gave information about the group, educational materials, and the date and time of their routine post-performance debrief and reflection discussion.
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Stares and Stairs
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Stares and Stairs Website Post
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This blog post reflects on the dynamics of power, class, race, gender, heteronormativity, and sexual violence present in the culture of Middlebury's "secret" fraternities and how this dynamic manifests in their annual invite-only dance, Rites of Spring. Stares and Stairs posted this to their website on May 17, 2017
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Stares and Stairs
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May 17, 2017
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Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "What’s wrong with Rites of Spring"
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culture
gender
greek life
heteronormativity
race
Rites of Spring
secret fraternity
Stares and Stairs
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The Sexual and Relationship Respect Committee (SRR) was founded in 2015 by Maddie Orcutt ‘16, Sherielle Crosby ‘16, Katie Preston ‘17, and Michelle Peng ‘15, who were all heavily engaged in It Happens Here. After attending a conference at Amherst College and learning of a similar position, these students worked to pass a bill in our SGA Senate that added the Director of Sexual and Relationship Respect position to Middlebury’s SGA cabinet. This bill was passed in the Spring of 2015 and Maddie Orcutt assumed the first directorship position. Two years later, during the 2017-2018 academic year, SRR became an ad hoc committee, meaning that it included committee members in addition to directors for the first time. The SRR committee represents the sexual and relationship respect concerns of the student body when it comes to matters involving the SGA or administration. Most prominently, SRR has engaged in activism regarding freshman orientation consent education, free access to safe sex supplies and menstutal products, and a Complcity Project in which students were asked to recognize and challenge their complicity in Middlebury’s culture of sexual assault. See the SRR collection to learn more about these SRR projects and many others.
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The Sexual and Relationship Respect Committee (SRR)
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In the 2019-2020 academic year, SRR attempted to work with the administration to implement anti-sexual assault consent workshops for current students. This document was made by SRR to express the type of workshops that they wanted, and why the current programming options needed to change. SRR also made a mock consent workshop as an example of what they wanted for future programming. Despite SRR's work and buy-in from various student groups, no workshops were implemented for current students during that year.
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SRR
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2019-2020 Academic Year
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SRR Consent Workshop Goals
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Consent Workshop
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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. This committee published a report that marked the college's first "attempt at self-evaluation on these issues." Task forces on the status of women at Middlebury have also authored reports in 1997, 2008, 2009, and 2014 with observations on Middlebury's progress and suggestions for school administration.
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Reports on the Status of Gender and Women
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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 Task Force also assessed Middlebury's progress on the suggestions from the most recent 1997 Task Force, and made suggestions of their own for the future. This report was presented to President Liebowitz in March 2008.
NOTE: Related content/context on the 2007/2008 Task Force can be found in the FAM folder. Search "Task Force on the Status of Women: Comments from Feminist Action at Middlebury."
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Task Force members are listed on this document
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March 2008
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(2008) Report of the Task Force on
the Status of Women at Middlebury College
alcohol
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Chellis House
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equal pay
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GSFS
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Report of the Task Force on the Status of Women at Middlebury College
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sex life
sexual assault
sexuality
social honor code
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Title IX
Women and Gender Studies
Women of Color