Endeavoring to Do Better
The Timeline Project
Carleton students have worked hard to increase safety and gender equity on campus. We celebrate their triumphs. Because of the transient nature of college life, however, these heroes moved on, only to be replaced by incoming students with no awareness of what their predecessors had achieved, and on occasion the progress they made regressed, with problems recurring under changing administrations. To document the history of these struggles, we reviewed both external and internal sources, including every issue of the Carletonian from 1960 to the present. We hope the chronology and related articles we aggregate here will serve as inspiration for more informed and effective changes.
2010s
A decade roiled by date rape drugs, fumbled assault complaints, and multiple complaints against a professor.
2000s
“At least four perpetrators of sexual assault known to administrators currently attend Carleton. At least two are serial offenders.”
1990s
A federal lawsuit leads to laws protecting survivors, but adjudication problems persist.
Another serial predator gets kid-glove treatment and students get LOUD.
Antioch College students develop the language of consent.
1980s
These victims knew their rapists–sometimes they lived next door.
