america's colleges switch to hollywood television and the media have become very familiar. with. american football it's chili does and the notorious parties. it's

a life young people dream. but behind the picture is a night for female students. one in five will be a victim of rape during the studies according to the figures published by the justice for. how and why is this happening. for the first time some of the victims. tells her story. in december and. i didn't know what to do. and i stopped.

say let's was a boyfriend. do you remember anything happen last night and we had. said yeah we had said no no and space goes slack and i do know that i was so drunk i don't remember the sex at all i was just thinking that we had sex. and yes i could have been more aware if i had been raised in an environment where i knew about date rape but i didn't and this is something that people don't talk about and like i didn't know what to look out for because i didn't think that people were capable capable of doing i didn't think that to each other when they knew each other i thought rape was a stranger in the bushes. life is dominated by the fraternities groups of around thirty students shit accommodation on campus. they are identified by the make up the fraternities

name. they're everywhere and organize endless policies and drinking binges. angelos it is a whistleblower form a fraternity member. despite the risks. i had this maybe this romantic notion of what was happening inside that you know it would be you know gyves and tweed blazers drinking scotch and debating aristotle and you know if things like some kind of you know class 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. for a 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 i would hope to get so and so girl drunk or you know different drinking games would be played. on the

bar and you know brothers were kind of collude to forget certain targets you know i mean it sounds funny talking about the threat if not literal it's all kind of very self-conscious. in 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 in order to get their victims in toss it into the stream the vulnerable 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.

at. the catholic university. and famous for. fifteen thousand students and.

there's a big tradition the schools are about. to hear it is not. 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. came. the university the state police.

once only one thing. investigators could. despite the threats received by the. a written statement is clear i was extremely scared next he pulled me onto his lap and. my breasts with both his hands he said. crying hard. me don't do anything you would regret messing with other than football is a bad idea. because looking at the text on its surface is easy 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 bricks that comes down on you and certainly we have felt. every campus we investigated the silence room. we tried to contact notre dame 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 that 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 handle complaints a rape and assault at the discretion. do exist. at the new england school 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 ask. 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. sex in 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 intitled 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. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albums. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been a hydrogen handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once built i'm sorry mark it on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the

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these are aware 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. if a school knows about student on student harassment that creates a hostile environment and requires 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 as culture of silence rape is one of those crimes when you mentioned 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 does not speed ahead with. time becomes. it

slows to such an excruciating pace every second becomes an hour every minute a year becomes a lifetime on may twenty fifth twenty. dormitory on campus some nights i can hear the. roommate from the door. and. it is far from a plus. if you. think about. analyzing everything and. hold retrospective what would you have done differently. this. is

a time where paranoid. no one 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 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 you know i didn't want to be told by the 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 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 if 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 associations o.s.a. see 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 professes they filed

a complaint for failure to respect title mine the cleary act. really i hear people yelling fire down are easing the legal system to safer just too many young women and men on their campus who have banks actually softer craved grass battered my name is lee it's a chronic i'm a survivor from occidental college. and 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. on campus and when they're ready to sign campus that the school is doing everything it can to ensure the safety of all of its students and totally on the playing free and encouraging this group we're going to do this together. and big girls don't cry

danielle. that's going to have to be our number eight one two three title nine yeah article and yes very. loyal read famous for defending women's rights is the lawyer for the young women she will denies 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 was going to need to conclude however this is a copy of the not title logical place. we wanted to meet with authorities of occidental college. to our surprise they agreed to an interview with the marketing director tricia lange whose explanations remains rather unclear. right in the past year reported for two thousand and eleven under the cleary act we have reported that thirteen rapes have occurred. 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've received on our sorry. we

have we have heard that there are thirty seven students and former students who are filed a complaint with the office of civil rights. followed by stonewalling. that i 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 to 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 we have caroline 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 their clear complaint 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 if the. occidental college is a liberal arts college with some two thousand students with tuition costing fifty

thousand. the other updates are we wanted my graduation plans we meet the survivors as they plan the next steps of their fight for justice against the school. the survivor 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. 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 of silence goes beyond the victims. all the u.s.c. campus in los angeles we attempt to take back tonight's event one of many to raise awareness on campus violence. today the men all the focus of raising awareness and holding a man's mind is 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 is men and these are just men i heard 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 and i don't even 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 informs everyone. comes up because it's just. close. because it's

a very detailed do so but it's fairly talked about you know even if it does it just all sorts of big excuses that people use for us like oh somebody. i don't know that person i'm. just. kidding you dress correctly you know. as if it could be the fence like this and also the real it's really can't really offer a space for people who feel good. this scourge hidden by institutions worried about their reputation isn't about. not today. nor tomorrow but the victims struggle has come to light and shows the desire for change. in the united states with violence is often too common in

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