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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…

Tags: Administration, Alexandra Garcia, DU, homophobia, Mannequin Incident, pornography, poster campaign, Public Safety, Rape, sexism, sexual assault, sexual harassment, Task Force on the Status of Women, The Campus, toxic masculinity

"How Do I React?" by Andrew DeFalco (5/1/2013)

A male student writes an opinion piece about struggling with his own role in rape culture after attending an IHH event and how the community must engage in hard conversations about changing behavior.

Tags: It Happens Here, op-ed, sexual assault, students, The Middlebury Campus

"Not Victims, Not Risks, Not Impressed" By Anonymous (3/16/2016)

Three survivors co-wrote an anonymous op-ed in response to a Middlebury Campus article entitled "Reexamining Our Sexual Assault Investigative Process."

Tags: Administration, Administrative Response, op-ed, Rape, sexual assault, Sexual Violence, students, The Middlebury Campus

Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "Post-Chromatic Mini-Responses"

May 12, 2016- Post-Chromatic Mini-Responses .pdf

This blog post includes responses from different "performers" and "bodyguards" after an installation at Chromatic, a social house on campus. These responses detail student reactions to the instillation and observations on the party culture among…

Tags: Chromatic, Chrome, party culture, performance activism, performance art, sexual assault, Social House, Stares and Stairs, student reactions

"Map Project Marks Locations of Sexual Assault on Campus" by Ben Dohan (11/1/2018)

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 The Campus about the project's history and goals.

Tags: It Happens Here, Map, Map Project, Performance, Rape, sexual assault, Sexual Violence, students, The Middlebury Campus

"Map Project Marks Locations of 108 Sexual Assaults and Harassments" by Caroline Kapp (3/7/2019)

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.

Tags: It Happens Here, Map, Map Project, Rape, sexual assault, Sexual Violence, students, The Middlebury Campus

"Students React to 'It Happens Here' Event" by Charlotte Gardiner (4/23/2013)

Several students share their reactions to the It Happens Here storytelling event.

Tags: It Happens Here, Performance, Rape, sexual assault, Sexual Violence, students, The Middlebury Campus

(1990) Special Committee on Attitudes Toward Gender Report

Special Committee on Attitudes Toward Gender - 1990.pdf

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.…

Tags: Faculty, Olin Robinson, sexual assault, Special Committee on Attitudes Toward Gender, staff, students

"More is Needed to Combat Rape Culture" by Editorial Board (3/14/2019)

Prompted by The Map Project, The Campus Editorial Board makes several recommendations regarding how to fight rape culture at Middlebury, including new in-person trainings, making reporting sexual assault easier, and changing party culture on campus.

Tags: Administration, Green Dot, It Happens Here, Map, Map Project, MiddSafe, Poster, Rape, sexual assault, Sexual Violence, students, The Middlebury Campus

"IHH Packs McCullough Again" by Eliza Teach (1/22/2014)

The Campus article describes the third annual IHH storytelling event in the winter of 2014 and its general success.

Tags: It Happens Here, Performance, Rape, sexual assault, Sexual Violence, students, The Middlebury Campus

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