The Sexual and Relationship Respect Committee (SRR)

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.