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These stories represent our own in-depth reporting on the conditions and events that led to student movements for change. They include discriminatory house rules and health care, leniency toward serial offenders, and lawsuits brought by survivors.
2020s - to come
2020s - to come
2010s
2010s
Carleton's system for dealing with assaults still isn’t working, and a lawsuit after two rapes reveals the limits of Title IX.
Leniency toward rapists fuels student outrage, with activists unwittingly repeating the demands of earlier cohorts.
Nine sexual misconduct complaints about anthro professor Jay Levi aren’t enough to take him out.
2000s
2000s
Student mag: "At least four perpetrators of sexual assault known to the administration currently attend Carleton. At least two are serial offenders."
1990s
1990s
Resistance grows after four survivors sue Carleton for failing to protect them from serial offenders, President Lewis intercedes in official SPC sexual assault policy review, and yet another repeat rapist is allowed to remain on campus.
Antioch College students develop the language of consent
1980s
1980s
Students grapple with the realization that campus rapists aren’t intruders or bogeymen: they’re fellow students.
A new approach to researching sexual violence reveals the true prevalence of rape on campus.
1970s
1970s
The Women’s Caucus and a famous alum get it done
The ERA, Title IX, and Roe v. Wade begin to improve the outlook for equality.
1960s
1960s
How fed-up residents from a women’s dorm reject Carleton’s sexist rules on dating and curfews.
Young women in Chicago risk their own liberty to provide reproductive health care to strangers when doctors won’t.
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