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Bard College at Simon’s Rock (SRC) is a small liberal arts and sciences college located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Founded as Simon’s Rock in 1966 by Elizabeth Blodgett Hall, it became part of Bard College in 1979. Unique to the college is its early-college program which allows high school students to start college early.
Campus Life
Simon’s Rock does not provide an accurate or updated list of their campus groups online, so it is impossible to determine the exact amount of groups.
Liberal groups on campus include the Queer Straight Alliance (QueerSA), the Gender Action Coalition, Activist Collective, Infoshop Collective, Women's Center Zine, and the Race Task Force. The College Democrats are inactive.
On the SRC tumblr page, they promote QueerSA's video against Prop 8 which features a song making fun of Christianity and those who are against same-sex marriage.
In 2007, the liberal group, Activist Collective, petitioned to ban Coca-Cola products from campus. Coca-cola is no longer sold on campus as part of the "Killer Coke" campaign which aims to support labor unions in Latin America.
The Llama Ledger is the college’s unofficial, student run newspaper that is updated weekly. It features a weekly sex column entitled, “Llama Sutra."
The Vagina Monologues are held each year around Valentine's Day. The play by Eve Ensler celebrates statutory rape, promotes an anti-male worldview, portrays women as perpetual victims, and is unapologetically anti-heterosexual. Students in the Gender Studies department are given credit for participating in the performance.
