these parties. it's a life young people dream of but behind the picture is a night for female students. one in five will be a victim of rape during their studies according to the figures published by the department of justice. how and why is this happening. for the first time some of the victims of the epidemic. we are in los angeles. tells her story. i was raped in december two thousand and ten. the morning of december fourth two thousand and ten in my bed. in the cardinal gardens housing complex at the university of southern california. i didn't know what to do i stop saying no over and over and over again and i stopped after

a while because it just didn't mean anything to. say lips was a boyfriend. so do you remember anything happen last night and he said we had. said yeah we had sites to remember said no no and his face goes slack and i do never that i was so drunk i don't remember the sex at all i just figured we had sex. and yes i could have been more aware if i had been raised in the environment where i knew about date rape but i didn't and this is something that people want to talk about and like i didn't know what to look out for because i didn't think that people were cable capable of doing i didn't think people did that to each other when they knew each other i thought rape was a stranger in the bushes. the life is dominated by the fraternities groups of around. the students ship

accommodation on campus. they are identified by the greek letters that make up the fraternities name. they're everywhere and organize endless pansies and drinking binges. angelos it is a whistle blower and a form of fertility member. camera despite the risks. i had this may be the throw mantic notion of what was happening inside that you know it would be you know guys in tweed blazers drinking scotch and debating aristotle and you know things like god or some kind of you know classy like cocktail party vibe which obviously it wasn't very like naive point of view for turning is inherently have a binge drinking culture the main goal of a frat party. to get girls trying to sleep with them or to lower inhibitions all around you know if you're on your friends on bar duty you know it helped to get

so and so girl drunk or you know different drinking games would be played on the bar and you know certain brothers would kind of collude to to get certain targets you know i mean it sounds funny talking about it this way because it's not like a literal it's all kind of very self-conscious. ninety percent of cases the rapes are committed by an acquaintance. on the east coast in massachusetts david lisak an expert on campus rape. the vast majority of sexual assault on college campuses is being perpetrated by serial offenders and they're not mistaken this is not a result of miscommunication and it's not caused by alcohol they are using alcohol very often but they're using alcohol as a weapon ordered to get their victims in top speed and. if they really are

srinivasan and extremely easy to say. on average each one of the serial rapists is responsible for six rapes during their college years. they like all sex offenders they learn how to identify a vulnerable population. so in a university setting for example of vulnerable population very often means the youngest people on campus freshman. and i think people also underestimate the level of terror that when you have somebody who you thought was well he's just a student i know him he's the guy who invited me to this party he's he's one of us right he's it and all of a sudden this guy is acting in a way that is is terrifying. the other thing is oftentimes these cases get labeled as he said she said and and you can't you can't look at somebody and listen to them and say there's the truth there's a lie. so what do you do you investigate and it's never

a he said she said case there are always there are witnesses there are you know there are multiple avenues to investigate these cases including some pretty standard forensic evidence. complaints filed by the victims are usually followed by long and poorly conducted investigations. we are two hours from chicago in indiana at notre dame the catholic university with an impeccable reputation and famous for its american football team. fifteen thousand students and up to sixty thousand. is a really special place and you wouldn't really know and less here here if they. tell you about it but you never really realized the. it's

a family. i know just an awesome awesome place to be there's a big tradition the schools are about. to hear it is not. freshman year. where. this whole area would be covered with people. this is basically. a lot of girls have four guys. and.

the next day she filed a complaint. and tried to get justice. the. morning after. she came. out something that happened. before. you know went through the whole story of what had happened how she had already. given her poor. and then at the point that she was talking to me about it was when she was going to meet with the police chief. and she asked me to go with her you know to support her while she was identification of the players. no investigation was opened.

the notify the university the state police ten days after the events. ended her life ever since his daughter's death. wants only one thing to know what drove to suicide investigators couldn't reach any conclusions despite evidence of the threats received by the. written statement is clear i was extremely scared next he pulled me onto his lap and kissed me even harder in my breasts with both his hands he said to suck in my neck and i started crying hard the day after the salt a message from the football player was not only threatening it was dominating that same day on the second at about six twenty meaning where. to happen she says sorry it's not your business and then he drops in me don't do anything you would regret messing with the football is a bad idea. because looking at the. surface is communicating on

behalf of himself on behalf of the football on behalf of that player who is the acting for this moment what's interesting maybe prophetic about this is that become of maybe the truest statement anyone makes in this entire matter that you don't want to mess with this you will regret it it will be. comes down on you and certainly we have. on every campus we investigated. we tried to contact notre dame authorities who refused our request for an interview . has come up against an institution that defends instead of his daughter. is precious to universities. three years later the analysis is terrible and things haven't changed. if you're going to be a world class institution notre dame or otherwise you're going to be world class in

everything you do including athletics then you ought to have an absolute world class response process disciplinary process the truth finding process around the issue of sexual assault or any other crime that would go on a campus. universities down the complaints to rape and assault at the discretion yet the laws do exist. at the new england school and lawyer and activist wendy murphy is fine to have universities she specifically teaches about those laws right here the title mind started off in this country as an aspect of the civil rights act the best way to get equality to happen. is to prohibit discrimination against you well what kind of discrimination is most likely to inhibit your ability to learn harassment and violence. an amendment from one hundred seventy two

title nine imposes equal access to education for boys and girls to bask. in cases of sexual discrimination a university must act or risk losing federal grants to the cleary act of nine hundred ninety requires universities to declare the number of sexual assaults on campus. sexual salt on college campuses has been an epidemic for a very long time. the numbers that we hear range from one in four one in five one in six students on campus will be the victim of rape or attempted rape during their years in college it's actually a more risky environment for a woman than not going to college in other words you're more likely to be raped in college than in the real world in my experience the worst schools are the schools that house the most untitled males so it's the ivies the elite schools the d.

ones that have the elite athletic programs the schools where the guys are worth the most if the question is what costs us less the guys are going to win every time schools that make money based decisions. are much more common than they would ever admit publicly. but you got a lot of sneering and negative press for your engagements here in russia especially for your public appearances with food and even though they weren't explicitly political they were just supporting sports the scenes that certain people who zoom has become very adept at is controlling the media for example right here c.n.n. do i think c.n.n. news you know completely telling it like it is no i think is a have an agenda i think through jim is is bought and paid for.

illegal. series of schools lisa tried to clear. the pulling out of. your life for just getting everybody. little look somehow made the law the weapons m.i.l.f. wife would hate. most of us think it's safe. place cases mostly it's limits to play sometimes for nothing little this season and its people still believe it's not just you give up the story he will be jobst if you see

a stage eight look it means absolutely nothing but speech was still. plenty.

one of. the all the face. of the strategies they condemn the silence that surrounds the epidemic in april two thousand and eleven the obama administration sent out a notice signed by vice president joe biden to remind the universities to respect the law. school knows about student on student harassment creates

a hostile environment. the school to take immediate action to eliminate the harassment and prevent its reoccurrence. despite the government's attempts universities have not reacted to the legal reminders. often turns into hostility to the victims we had to huntsville alabama. has taken refuge. she works as a tour guide for. the university contested the events and placed her in a psychiatric hospital it's a simple case of blaming the victim. i think it's not really a culture as much that it's a culture of silence rape is one of those crimes when you mention no one wants to talk about. publishing her story in the campus newspaper she exposed the university's behavior regarding her rape in one week more than ten thousand read

her story on the internet. being raped time to. time does not speed ahead like it does when you're with friends instead time becomes. such an excruciating pace every second becomes an hour every minute a year becomes a lifetime on may twenty fifth twenty. dormitory on campus. here with his roommates in the door. and. it is far from a pleasant wake up call. if you. think about. analyzing everything and.

hold retrospective what would you have done differently. and. is a time where. no one could find me. especially but. the university's reaction revealed that. the powerful get their way. we'd have to go through behavioral counsel and like sit down with him and. defend yourself but you don't have any proof and there are no witnesses or physical d.n.a. so it's not really much folk point. and there's a high chance that you and i and united i don't want to be told school that i

hadn't been so i think how do you deal with that girl complaining about the son of an alumni who gives millions of dollars to the school why listen to somebody who's going to lose money at the school or why make actual changes that will put you in the press in a negative light. once again money is the primary motive. the school must be exemplary to maintain revenue and show that it defends american values. values question by jackson katz a sociologist who studies male and female campus relations. i think the media has gotten more and more objectifying of women and actually that the explicit nature of the violence in the sexualized nature of the violence by men

against women has gotten more extreme and it's not about imitation it's not about young people or older people watching media or playing a video game or listening to music and then going out and imitating what they've seen that's a that's a really narrow and simplistic way of understanding the effects of media the effects of media are much deeper and more long term than that and they have to do with establishing norms so lots of boys growing up heterosexual boys growing up are consuming these narratives of manhood where the man is just. completely dominating and sometimes degrading the woman as he's having sex with her and they think that a lot of these guys think that that's normal because that's all they know because that's shaping their psyches in their sexual socialization because if we believe we say we believe in freedom and justice and equality and fairness and where and where men then we have to support feminism we have to support women's efforts to be treated like full human beings and we have to challenge our own sort of power and privilege in that sense it's i mean it's that's that's that's fundamental. however

things have begun to change in the united states in los angeles as survivors association say c. was created by a group of victims to break the silence. the young women have decided to use the law to denounce the university's attitude. led by two professors they filed a complaint for failure to respect title nine of the cleary act. really i hear people yelling fire or easing the legal system to safer just too many young women and men on their campus who have been actually softer raped frats battered by names later chronicle i'm a survivor from occidental. because of my experience with the administration i graduated early i left the school in december of this last year. and i'm here today because i want occidental to be compassionate i wanted to be a place for survivors feel safe and i want to make sure that if there are racists

on campus and when there are rape the sign campus that the school is doing everything it can to ensure the safety of all of its students and totally on the plane free and encouraging this group we're going to do this together. and big girls don't cry danielle. so that's a red herring and very one to think i don't mind yes. yes very very. gloria only read famous for defending women's rights is the lawyer for the young women she will deny is the press conference to file a complaint against occidental college it's the first time the twenty year old women talk to the national media. early this morning a complaint was filed on behalf of a number of victims with the office of civil rights against occidental college for violating title knowing the complaint documents violations involving thirty seven

occidental college students who were allegedly raped sexually assaulted battered harassed and or retaliated against for speaking out against sexual violence accidental needs to be investigated by the department of education they cannot conduct business as usual while women are being raped we are asking the department of education to take swift and immediate action to force the college to do what they are legally required to do or lose their federal funding. that this point we're going to need to conclude however this is a copy of the not title article plane. we wanted to meet with authorities of occidental college. to our surprise they agreed to an interview with the marketing director trisha lang whose explanations remains rather unclear. on the past year reported for two thousand and eleven under the cleary act if a part of that thirteen rapes have occurred and we have heard that there are thirty

seven people who have filed a complaint against a college we have not seen the complaint nor have we been officially notified that we interesting fun. sorry. we have we have heard that there are thirty thousand students and former students have filed a complaint with the office of civil rights. followed by stonewalling. was undergoing an overview of its policies and procedures and with that anything that has changed in the last number of years and the current policy will be over viewed to see that it fits the needs of the students and compliance with the department of education. however we do encourage students and former students cheer for port and to come forward we see it as a positive thing that they're speaking out and that they're helping to address that

issue and still being very concerned about the students who are on this campus today and the students yet to come this way carolyn hellman and. the professors in charge of the o.s.a. see complaints never believe the official statements. about two years ago it became apparent that the college was actually not going to make real changes but they were going to tell us they were making real changes so we had to shift our strategy and do more research and more kind of public. efforts to get them to change back was formally formed last year when it became very clear that the administration was simply not going to move on this and were some of the original co-founders along with a group of students you know we've been hearing from schools across the nation but it's been schools here in los angeles and across california that we've become really close to in terms of you know this national movement helping them file their

title nine complaints filed there clearly complaints and we've talked to people at u.s.c. and we've talked to people kathy on the beach and the schools are just going to keep growing and it's the. occidental college is a liberal arts college with some two thousand students with tuition costing fifty thousand. any other updates we want to wish the last time we meet the survivors as they plan the next steps of their fight for justice against the school is right. from u.s.c. has joined them she learned that defending oneself is possible and that silence could be broken. this experience of getting to know each other and knowing. that this affects so many people. and gives you your humanity back. and by doing this now. ten years from now fifteen years from now my children won't

have this happen to them my grandchildren will have this happen to them because we did this now. it's the right time. we had to teach people that slavery was bad and that women could actually vote and it wouldn't destroy the economy we can we can do this so i feel. the movement to break the law goes beyond the victims. we attend the take but it's one of many to raise awareness on campus violence. today the men all the focus of raising awareness and holding on men's minds to stop rape because it's something that affects all of us and is something that is predominantly done by men and i'll manage very small group of men and these are just men i hear timing us that they're really not ok with it and they're so not to care that they're going to show the ultimate sign of empathy by putting on heels when i was i didn't think about women's issues as being just for women. actually i

don't think they're kind of civil rights issues which i'm sure of everyone good. looks like because it's just. good. because it's a very detailed group so yes but it's. fairly talked about even if it does suggest all sorts of big excuses for people for us like. i don't know that person can i don't just. need to be addressed directly you know. as if i don't get the sense like this and also that i think that the media it's really. really offers a space for people who have been good at. this good hidden by institutions worried about their reputation isn't about. not

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