just as in many other ivy league american schools some students take drugs to boost their academic results. mean defectives they can study through the night without showing any signs of tides you do my friend so you do what's right for you to be and there are. to. be. in the united states these study drugs have become a public health issue more than a third of american students take them regularly. go to columbia thanks to an exam she took under the influence of infection. to avoid a disciplinary action she will hide her identity i didn't have any expectations of getting in the essay i wrote was it hot a biography five pages i ended up speaking. madison it just it puts you. in a mental space where you can focus entirely why not take

a pill if everyone else is doing it to give you a competitive advantage. helping hand that she got hold off very easily. a friend of mine prescription for a concert and he gave it to us for free i'm probably down like a dozen times or so. and you will see how these pills are almost sold us over the counter drugs on campus. we walk through the streets around new york university with a hidden camera. after twenty minutes of searching become across this student we'll call him joe. seriously. at least. you know it. just doesn't seem to be shocked we ask him if he can soldiers out. friends. like. people like. the student got to three script. from

a fairly unobservant doctor. many millions using. it. so josh deals the twenty five milligrams that he doesn't use and sell. after a few minutes of negotiation he lets us buy one of his pills ten dollars for thirty milligrams of amphetamines you go in so they do you. know that. ten percent of students who take drugs become addicted. is very familiar with this phenomenon a journalist at the new york times he was one of the first people to raise the alarm. but i have to succeed i have to get an a i have to get into the best law school i have to be in the in the cream of the problem if average is no longer acceptable we're all in very big trouble among the most fragile of students these

pills can cause violence police nations and suicidal thoughts. despite the risks a real traffic of these drugs has developed over the internet. this classified ad site well known by americans as dozens of office full study trucks. to attract students these miracle pills have even been renamed study. in order to get hold of a simple phone call will do. good the police have been looking at these new internet dealers quite some time. oktober two thousand and twelve operation dot com led to the arrest of twenty one new yorkers who were operating on this site. among them a student at n.y.u. . the aim of the authorities is to break up and. traffic where doctors may be

involved. on campus the addresses of the specialists are being exchanged illicitly we went to interview one of them. and it was not the psychiatrist. what is it you know before i take a test or something and i pretend to be a student who is having difficulties over. the years would trigger. exactly. no no health scan no verification of my student status instead of any medical examination he just hands me a sheet. with a. distance do you have problems organizing yourself or concentrating do you have memory problems that this questionnaire put together by the world health organization helps diagnose attention deficit disorders among adults. to also works as a medical guarantee for this doctor. who will be able to. read your route

through the. bridge and return to a large intestine yeah exactly this goals was. to protect himself from any possible prosecution the psychiatry is made to sign a disclaimer. that would support for ok doctors there was it was. in two thousand and nine almost six million prescriptions like this were issued to young americans every month in four years this figure has more than double good to succeed other students hedge their bets on another system of co-working which has stood the test of time. back at the university of kentucky. these great big tuireann like buildings are home to the famous fraternities on the front of each building greek letters identified. ronald

reagan george w. bush steven spielberg mark zuckerberg all of them have been through these exclusively male secret brotherhoods. although they encourage support loyalty and integration as a code of conduct many americans consider them as violent and sectarian. after a few weeks of negotiations some of them allowed us to film then. it's rush week the week for selecting new members and tonight it's operation charm at the sigma alpha epsilon house. so the only us going to see you the aim to find future flatmates for this brand new house located in the heart of campus inside there's a fireplace a club arm chair paintings of the former alumni you could almost forget their students live here and we retire so these are all before any real championship

that's. tonight the fraternity will only be create the university's best pedigrees . graham has been an essay member since two thousand and ten he knows the selection ritual well. over a thousand votes are there also events. we store in a short history. so you know. the atmosphere is rather relaxed everybody is trying to make a good impression you're going to take over the house in a couple of years ago they will go for you. good for their candidates the first visit is only the beginning of a long process selection hazing initiations to get a place here they will have to get through what are sometimes violent challenges but not tonight discouraging the contenders is out of the question their attack is still focused on the competing for eternity for us right down the street their goal in this new house it's going to be i. a hundred square feet here in ours just to be

bigger than ours but they're doing it like a two million dollar west budgets are struggling here for eternity is operate with huge budgets entry for the sposi students cost between one thousand to three thousand euros a year. the wealth of these fraternities is mainly gifted to them by former members it's you know kind of like a a suite almost for two people but. benefactors who will become sponsors of these students once graduated this is a fraternity's main strength building a professional network radio in jordan there. is a presence around it's kind of his role model. these fraternities are mainly hope to young white anglo-saxon americans. it's a great way of continuing a system of the elite and privileges spencer but they are a very bad place to hang out. this student in the red shirt gets a slightly warmer welcome spencer is

a different kind of candidate to the athletes. oh i mean you know that i feel as i do my big head. you know. you know it's. right there at the s.a.e. house spencer is already a little at home. his place in the house is reserved it's a family heirloom. for dad no you're serious very serious it's yours. you prefer. their preferences. or it's tertiary. at the university of kentucky twenty five fraternities share the campus and the pick of the students quite apart from their parent teaches them they also indulge in fierce competition in terms of pot and alcohol. what's.

more and this is what gives a fraternity its reputation these nights of heavy drinking at the end of the afternoon and about an accomplice delta sigma fire house has already started to party and we need more pitchers. delta saying this is a new channel twenty two he's organizing the feeling he's in charge of the fraternity social life his mission for the days to motivate those who are choosing the new members and they begin by going over the classics. are very very great joy thirty. seven they're getting better the net is best is. very aware. there was a robot put a booklet for turning it gets a rally and we chant this song and yeah y'all rushing for diallo. yeah but it's welcome like well well you know that was.

the bottom of all these much obituaries have only one objective tonight the brothers for life who i would question my right to think there was enough by against five guys in my house even though i thought i would go forward this year. aside from the camaraderie the fraternities also have another purpose to enable them members to meet girls this is american she's about to make out with t. ball thank their favorite targets aren't waitresses but sorority students the female equivalent of fraternities on campus. nine pm in the delta is at a house the party is in full swing. i. thank among the thirty you so excited goes we see luciano down to six party guy. he's come on. scouting mission. oh yeah that's how i do it.

was i lived on campus fraternities and sororities form a single community one big dating took the students from good families where anything goes was i was what happens here stays here. that was there was talk of. it like i normally is with the term issues that host the sorority so that these young ladies don't have to pay each fraternity member contributes two hundred dollars perturb it is all done to encourage making connections times with frat parties it's all free how you know i told her it was like the only guys who really associates are here in

a sorority you pretty much only talk to her right really boys yeah yeah i'll. even give you my own events and your friends are dating guys who are paternity you say like that's just what you do but then we like make fun of can't we can make fun of like yeah people who are going to answer and they have a name of g.-d. i which is means they mean depended. on american campuses academic success relies on integration into these elite societies to get in some students want to take even the most barbaric afresh the initiation. the economic development is all about numbers really pleased to avoid this quarter we've heard one hundred six point. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think. mad that our c.e.o.

mike du made over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart a says c.n.n. with all due respect i have to say i don't think that's right. just you know a free market would. people went from pretty simple financial lives pre nine hundred eighty to the point now where people are. just totally submerged in their financial accounts and they're all in debt and what exactly devoid society. the part of the government tried to do. might be making things worse. by saying this is not work this is. hopelessly disastrously wrong.

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we had to have no film the east coast of the united states. where we have to document one of the oldest american universities. upon leaving its graduates are among the country's top six highest salaries. promotional images of an elite campus without history where one out of every two students is a member of a fraternity. was one of them just like his grandfather a brother before him let's start. over here too so actually like every time every time i want to go to sleep it's like underneath. the student isn't however his initiation he killed him. they spared him nothing this was actually the night of rush everyone gets kidnapped and taken to this other spot where they don't know where they are. going to charge a lot of six cups of beer you know as fast as you can the first person here in the

russian loses and in the winter. in contrast to the principle of support among fraternities hazing initiation is a time of and this humiliation about the vomit couple pledges vomit into a pan and one of the patrollers cracked you know eggs and cheese and baked in the oven in the pledge. and juris no egg he has inflicted upon others the very same tortures he did out says before daring to testify about them in one of america's biggest magazines rolling stone confessions of an eye for among these confessions there is something that nobody has forgotten when i first saw the people it was like a shock people vomiting people your. people. the year before someone defra the pledges were swimmers.

you're like baptized. at dartmouth his confession exploded like a bomb that was the scandal was over the university tried to bury the matter i tried to get them to investigate and they never did you know in a real way if you really want to know what i think yeah it is it's a money it's you know there were the give the most you know a lot of them are in for journeys and a lot of them are on well some of them are on the board of trustees or were on the board of trustees and. you know millions of dollars changes hands. andrew left dartmouth before graduating even though he survived the fraternity violence others weren't so lucky. you're ten am at the long island courthouse. jack omarion pâté meehan have chosen to break the law of silence by pressing charges against their son's fraternity. to court to indicate

my son's stays. to die from alcohol poisoning. this civil trial marks the end of four years of relentless legal battle according to their lawyer this tragedy should serve as an example for going to get. that they're going to be. live on a chance for whatever damage that we. get the jury still work. for the loss of their son the parte millions are claiming damages against the paternity is president as well as two of the frat boys who were present on the evening of the hazing. the university itself is not involved the tragedy took place off campus. a man was nineteen years old he was the only child from jacka merriam's remarriage. this is just before i went to college and the long hair. it was an a student. he was very smart

very capable among wanted to be a doctor but on the twenty eighth of february two thousand and nine his dreams were crushed his hazing turned into a tragedy after he was very very drunk. and that he was trying to stop drinking they kept. pouring but about his stroke that's when. the party discipline that they took my simple already had passed out and they took him up to a house and. put him to bed good behavior i'm just they really they left him there them just by. the next morning the police discovered our mom's lifeless body the alcohol content in his body was seven times the legal limit. since the tragedy time has stood still at the parte means house that. was.

just putting stuff in here right now so i just can't bring myself to take it out of them. the poor of. the first char saw the three students sentenced to a weekend in prison an injustice for nicole and sister and a sign of impunity of these fraternities weekends in jail going on very becoming and suddenly didn't even make it he said you know but now they can organize and get married and have kids and do whatever they want. have kids downstairs have not go there they don't know this is so the parte me and spider civil lawsuit to get compensation. the culprits were finally sentenced to pay a fine of millions of dollars in damages. on american campuses alcohol has become a real problem. once

a year students from across the whole country gather for a heavy drinking session. we are in south padre island texas the spring break template. sixty thousand students meet here every year it's three pm on the largest beach of the island rowdy has been drinking heavily student discovers the joys of spring break for the first time we. were really curious where it was really good girls are going to read. what's in store for them dance competitions and drinking. american students forget the pressure of the upcoming exams in the mean time anything goes for good or for showing for a show there are agreed to give them a shot. from their families and what they used to these youngsters no longer know their lives due to drugs and alcohol many of them finished their afternoon in

a medical tent set up a few metres from the beach there or be hydrated there drop in this barge later. accustomed to such depaul cheree the state of texas is not to mean with its resources there are two hundred first aid workers to hide so that the party does not turn into a tragedy in charge of the fire chief bernie the sad sad sad bring regular course like we have a disaster is controlled chaos. every day one hundred spring breakers are admitted to this field hospital. today about he has managed to get back to his hotel without any problems you. know all but in the girls' room some haven't stomach the alcohol so well they get through drunk at the beach for their care and here in the past all the way. they're going to keep going rowdy and out and have their own technique from abuse they came in here in stop drinking if they really can't drinking then

they would have been and they were going to party and just like us. for these students spring break rules the effort they've made throughout the year. so they party day and night. a few hours later the girls get to second with. emily and cherie are two students from dallas with a clear objective means we are here five days a baby. again tonight the team gets going. headed to was one of the biggest nightclubs on the island that's loose in the city spring breakers are the cause of many out to the sheriff mike is the tense this period of the year right now we're just sure that we're in the park and watch we're going to try to make sure that. the wires you cars are trying to break into the steal cars. since last year mike has been able to rely on

a very special form of support to help them control the situation feels by his ability from up there to watch things that people don't think about. a control tower several meters from the ground i don't with night vision cameras we have one camera that show painted on top. of the tower and what does it all straight out three hundred sixty degrees like you have here play station actually we can move that camera all the way around we can actually as you can tell me pretty close . mike has just received a call from the tower an individual has been spotted dealing cannabis. use i didn't read the story right after the tower allows my to arrest you don't sue infringe that will. take you in two thousand and thirteen the south padre island police makes three hundred and forty five arrests over eight days. we

find rowdy in the queue for the nightclub. tonight he's planning to dance and drink all night he's out for a night. the problem is he's only eighteen when he was sworn in. for this student has a fake id he's pretending to be the legal age for drinking alcohol. any entry injury. rowdy has managed to get past the barry unlike these under-age girls. it turns out that he an out and have been planning this for a long time. and please. take your picture. on a sixty dollars to. have a great night out these two boys have saved up almost five hundred dollars the equivalent of two months of student job salary. by twenty six still.

a. lot of. a silly. every year spring break brings in around one billion dollars for the american economy. after several hours of partying roundy and elgin are a little hungry and just as well because outside a pancake stand awaits that and there are catholics from all over texas cooking at the stove want to share and learn to use their pain to train every really here. every evening these volunteers prepare more than six thousand pancakes to help the party goes absorb some of the alcohol they've been drinking. in ten years spring break has become a non miscible event on the schedules of american students tomorrow we get up early we go to the beers and we continue to just party unity. like cool spring break is

rowdy and old and will be going back to campus to take their weeks out. but there have to knuckle down in the united states one out of every two students leaves university without a degree. the band.

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