The Addison County Independent reports that a "group of Middlebury College students [are] hoping to overhaul the college’s sexual assault policy" which is almost twenty years old. The group is "pushing for more preventative approaches to sexual violence and a more extensive support system for students who have experienced it." For example, they are proposing "mandatory attendance [at] a freshman orientation show that [examines] dating, sex and rape on college campuses, implementing a system to anonymously report sexual assaults, [and] hiring a response team that would handle every aspect of a victim’s recovery, including counseling and gathering evidence, should that person choose to press charges." According to the College's Department of Public Safety, the Department received two reports of forcible sex offenses last year and four the year before. "But students say many more incidents go unreported."

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