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 and. 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 suppose they know over and over and over again and i stopped after a while because it just didn't mean anything to one. per se linux was a boyfriend. so do you remember anything that happened last night and he said we had. said yeah we had said no no and his

face goes slack and. i was so drunk i don't remember the sex at all i was just thinking 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 on 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. life is dominated by the fraternities groups of around thirty students shit accommodation on campus. they are identified by the greek letter make up the fraternities name. they're everywhere and organize a. angelos it is

a whistle blower and a form of fertility memba. 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 and three 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 tourney 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 were kind of collude to to get a certain target you know i mean it sounds funny talking about it this way because

it's 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 ordered to get their victims in top speed into the street 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 with 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 one of us right he's it and all of a sudden this guy is acting in a way that is it 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 realize they get there it's a family and. i am just an awesome awesome place to be there's a big politician this book about this period to period in. two thousand. freshman year.

where. area would be covered with people. this is basically. a lot of girls have four guys so. the next day she filed a complaint. and tried to get. the.

morning after. 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. and she asked me to go with her you know to support her while she was. no investigation. the state police. ever since his daughter's death. once only one thing to know what drove a 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 to 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 he's asking what happened she says sorry it's not your business sorry and then he drops in me don't do anything you would regret messing with other than football is a bad idea. he's looking at the. surface is he communicating on behalf of himself on behalf of the football on behalf of that player who is 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 felt. on every campus we investigated. we tried to contact notre dame. quest 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 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 in boston lawyer and activist wendy murphy is fighting to get if there's a disease 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 about. in cases of sexual discrimination the 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 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. well. it's technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got this huge you're covered. it looks like. we're going to go digital 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 albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers

once built up my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trucks and rational debate and a real discussion of critical issues facing america by the book ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture. 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 you were just really supporting sports one of the things that certain people's regime has become very adept at is controlling the media for example i'll see it right here c.n.n. do i think c.n.n. is you know completely telling it like it is no i think he's a have an agenda i think through jim is is bought and paid for.

league. play right from the scene. first st louis and i were being butchered. on our reporters' twitter and. on instagram. be in the know. on. the authorities 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 of their g.g. to respect the law. if a school knows about student on student harassment that creates

a hostile environment title nine 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. silence often turns into hostility to the victims we had to huntsville alabama where angie of the foreigner has taken refuge she works as a tour guide for nasa. in angie's case 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 rape culture as much that it's a culture of silence rape is one of those crimes that when you mention it no one wants to talk about.

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. roommates in the door. and. if you. think about. everything. go back and. hold. differently.

is a time where paranoid. no one no one could find. but. reaction revealed. the way. to have to go through. behavior. and. defend yourself you don't have any proof. or physical d.n.a. . point. and i.

told. you how do you do with that girl complaining about. school. to somebody. he'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 questioned 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 on 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 if we say we believe in freedom and justice and equality and fairness and when 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 to me it's that that's fundamental. however things have begun to change in the united states in los angeles

a survive his associations o.s.a. 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 also cleary act. so again really i hear people yelling fire around her using the legal system to save her just sounds like too many young women and men on their campus who have been once actually softer raped frats battered my name's lea 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 where survivors feel safe and i want to make sure that if there are racists

i'm campus and when there are rapists on 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. so there's a website where you actually are and you can write one two three title nine yeah article that yes very eerie. glow you're already famous for defending women's rights is the lawyer for the young women she organized 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 funds that this point was going to need to conclude however this is a copy of the not quite a logical place. 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. in the past year reported for two thousand and eleven under the cleary act we have reported 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 a complaint nor have we been officially notified interesting fun. sorry. we have we have heard that there are thirty thousand students and former students 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 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 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 school 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 complaints and we've talked to people at u.s.c.

and we've talked to people in the on the beach and the schools are just going to keep growing and expanding. occidental college is a liberal arts college with some two thousand students with tuition costing fifty thousand. other updates we want to wish. we meet the survivors as they plan the next steps of their fight for justice against the school. that. 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 and 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 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 as 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 better not going but i don't see the thing about women's issues just being just for women. actually i don't i think they're kind of civil rights

issues which i'm sure important that everyone. was focusing on to come just to see just how. close. because it's very detailed do so but it gets fairly talked about even if it does suggest a cultural shift because it's the excuses that people use for us like oh somebody like me i don't know that person and you know it's just. good news if you dress correctly you know. as it would get a little vents like this and also it wasn't exactly real it's really can't really offer a space for people who feel good. thanks. this scourge didn't buy institutions worried about their reputation isn't about today

not today. nor tomorrow but the victim's struggle has come to light and shows the desire for change. in the united states violence is often too common the fight has only just begun. was. there is relativity in the way people get their information there is relativity in the way people value their money there is relativity in the way people. relate to each other but with the botching technology which is mass based which is completely objective store transparent and eternal these relative differences are big point away so to speak and read bring a new paradigm or

a new era of absolute truth. to the new phenomena was. all the face of history. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure.

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