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well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. i marinate joining me. for in-depth impartial and financial commentary for news and much much. only on bombast and on. it was very interesting because it would drop out of the sky that would roar back up that would shift across a few degrees. and do a circle and about at
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a speed but you know just astronomical speeds. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. it's because one whole attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. and our teen years we have a different pretty. good though because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not have a look. at. you guys sort of jokes
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i will handle the thing i said i've got to. america's colleges which through television and the media have become very familiar . with. american football it's chile does. 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 department of justice. how and why is this happening.
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for the first time some of the victims. speaking out. tells her story. iris raped in december two thousand and ten. the morning of december fourth two thousand and ten in my bed. in the cardinal gardens housing contacts at the university of southern california. i didn't know what to do. and over and over again and i stopped after a while because it just didn't mean a thing to. say let's was a boyfriend. do you remember anything happen last night and we had. said yeah yeah we had said no no and. slack and i do know that i was so drunk i don't remember i just figured we had sex.
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and yes i could have been more aware if i had been raised in an environment where i knew about but i didn't and this is something that people won't talk about and like i didn't know what to look at. because i didn't think that people were capable capable of doing that to each other when they knew each other i thought rape was a stranger and the precious. life is dominated by the fraternities groups of around thirty students commendation on campus. they are identified by the greek letters that make up the fraternities name. they're everywhere and organize endless policies and drinking binges. angelos it is a whistle blower and a form of fertility member. despite the risks. i had this maybe this romantic notion of what was happening inside that you know it would be
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you know. drinking scotch and debating aristotle and you know things like god or some kind of you know 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 you know would help 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 get certain targets you know i mean it sounds funny talking about it this way because it's not literal it's all kind of very subconscious. in ninety percent of cases the rapes are committed by an acquaintance.
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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 intoxicated for the stream we've only got an 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
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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 you. 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 here'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.
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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. up to sixty thousand. feet. is a really special place and you wouldn't really know unless here here it's a people always tell you about it but you never really realize that it's such a family. you know just an awesome awesome place to be there's a big tradition the schools are about. to hear it. the rest.
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is. tailgating. this whole area would be covered with people. this is basically. a lot of girls have four guys. and the guys take advantage of it. the next day she filed a complaint. and tried to get justice. the. morning after. something had happened. before. you know went through the whole story of what had happened how she had
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already been in contact with. the hospital given her poor. and then at the point that she was talking to me about it was. and she asked me to go with her you know to support her. identification. no investigation was opened yet universities are responsible for crimes committed on campus victims can either notify the university or the state police ten days after the events. ended her life ever since his daughter's death. once only one thing to know what drove her to suicide investigators couldn't reach any conclusions despite evidence of the threats received by the young a written statement is clear i was extremely scared next he pulled me onto his lap
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and. my breasts with both his hands he started. crying hard the day after the salt a message from the football player was not only threatening it was down on me. at about six twenty. where. i happen. business and then he drops in me. do anything you would regret messing with a. bad idea. these 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 bricks that comes down on you and certainly we have felt. on every
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campus we investigated. 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 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 handle complaints a rape at the discretion. do exist. at the new england school
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and. activist wendy murphy is fighting the university's 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. and amendment from nine 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. 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
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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.
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these aren't just soldiers this bet's no soldier is russia's internal special forces but being tough and good with a gun may not be enough for these extreme tests. only the most capable will be to the end. of. those whose dreams can melt away exhaustion ranks put themselves through fire smoke and water but not for money for promotion all that. is the coveted crimson bearer. to gen x. but eugenics vulgarized darwin science punishment for an uncommitted crying i was there are. innately feeble minded still today for the future i don't know why. but i still don't know why genetic improvement through forced sterilization the basis for nazi ideology don't stop at just sterilizing and now go to the point of
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death. for years rarely discussed on till now i'd really rather not talk about that but. 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 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. often turns into hostility to the victims we had to huntsville
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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 rape culture as much as 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. it's such an excruciating pace every second becomes an hour every minute
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a year becomes a lifetime on may twenty fifth twenty. dormitory on campus some nights i can hear the. roommate from the door knowingly talking and joking. it is far from a plus. if you. think about. analyzing everything and. wishing that i could go back and how i. hold retrospective what would you have done differently. it is a time where paranoia. no one no
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one could find. especially but. the university's reaction revealed that. the powerful get their way. to have to go through. behavioral counsel and like sit down with him and. defend yourself you don't have any proof. or physical d.n.a. so it's not really much folk point. and there's a high chance that. i you know i didn't want to be told school. so i think how do you deal with. complaining about the son of a. millions of dollars through the school why listen to somebody who's going to lose money at the school or why make actual change will put you in the press.
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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 cats. who studies male and female champus relations. i think has gotten more and more objectifying of women and actually 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 nice. when 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
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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 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 complaints for failure to respect title nine of the cleary act. really i hear
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people yelling fire down or easing the legal system to pay for just too many young women and men on their campus who have banks actually softer craved frats battered my name's 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 want to be a place for survivors feel safe and i want to make sure that if there are racists i'm campus and when there are great assigned campus that the school is doing everything it can to ensure the safety of all of its students and totally on at the playing. three and encouraging this group we're going to do this together. and big girls don't cry danielle. that's going to do absolutely we are here and great ones
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who think i don't mind yeah or glenn yes very very. gloria allred 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
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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 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. right now i'm 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 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 who
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are 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 in 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
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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 one complaint 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 it's the. occidental college is a liberal arts college with some two thousand students with tuition costing fifty. other updates we want to wish last night we meet the survivors as they plan the
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next steps of their fight for justice against the school and. 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 and so i feel. the movement to break the law of silence goes beyond the victims.
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the u.s.c. campus in los angeles we intend to take back tonight's event one of many to raise awareness on campus violence. today the men all the focus of raising awareness holding a man's mind is to stop rape because it's something that affects all of us and is something that i am is predominately done by men and i'll manage very small group of 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'm going to do the 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 important that everyone. was like oh because it's just hard to put. a gun because it's a very detailed do so but it gets really talked about even if it does suggest
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a cultural shift the critics the excuses that people use for us like oh somebody look at me i don't know that person i'm. just. being nice if you dress correctly you know. as it would be a little vents like this and also it wasn't exactly the real it's really can't really offer a space for people who feel good. thank you. lou . this. hidden by 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.
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on marinating the financial moral. act serious development cannot stop taking credit. in life there are good and they're not off. sweden or finland to join nato would provoke some sort of on the part of russia as far as calculus is. not what faces. the west north and south. or. carries out dates it should go like cannibalism and slavery and child labor to civilization.
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