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you know. it just doesn't seem to be shocked we ask him he consulted sounds like. random. like one or two people like. you the student got to three scription from a fairly unobservant doctor. sunni militants using leaf. leaf. 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 can't do it so they do hear you lose sleep your little bit. ten percent of students who take drugs become addicted. lunch fats is very familiar with this phenomenon
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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 students these pills can cause violence elucidations 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 has dozens of office full study trucks. to attract students these miracle pills have even been renamed study aids. in order to get hold of them a simple phone call will do. what.
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but the police have been looking at these new internet dealers for quite some time october 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 any traffic where doctors may be involved. on campus the addresses of these specialists are being exchanged illicitly we went to interview one of them. and it was like this because this is. what is wrong you know before i take a test or something and i pretend to be a student who is having difficulties. so here's a loop through it so exactly how it's made to sign a disclaimer. the words of the word for ok. as it was. in two thousand and nine almost six million prescriptions like this were issued to
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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 week letters identified. ronald reagan george w. bush steven spielberg mark zuckerberg. although they encourage support loyalty and integration as a code of conduct most violent and sectarian. after a few weeks of negotiations some of them allowed us to film them. it's rush week the week for selecting new members and tonight it's operation charm at the sigma alpha. house. so the owner can see. the
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aim to find future flatmates for this brand new house located in the heart of campus inside there's a fireplace a club chair paintings of the form a alumni you could almost forget that students live here and we retire so these are all of our general championships. tonight the fraternity will only be create the university's best pedigrees if you say. graham has been an essay member since two thousand and ten and he knows the selection ritual well. for the house events are there also events. we started a certain street. there you go. the atmosphere is rather relaxed everybody's trying to make a good impression you're going to take away the house in a couple of guys together are you. good for their candidates the first visit is
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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 house right down the street they're building this new house it's going to be like one hundred square feet here in ars just to be bigger than our regular 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 the town they are a very bad place to hang out here. this student in the red shirt gets a slightly warmer welcome spencer is a different kind of candidate to the athletes. though i mean you know that i mean this idea of being head. no. you know it's.
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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. here. very rare it's yours. you prefer. their preferences. or its territory. at the university of kentucky twenty five fraternities shared the campus and the pick of the students quite apart from their parent teaches him they also indulge in fierce competition in terms of pot and alcohol. lots of both. for and this is what gives a fraternity its reputation these nights of heavy drinking at the end of the afternoon and upon a campus delta sigma fi house has already started to coffee we need more pitchers.
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delta saying this is your 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. certainly done great joys. of a second best of the met is best says i i i knew that it was yes there are loads of up little booklet for turning he gets a rally here and we chant this song and yeah we all rush important hello. yeah but it's welcome like really well you know how it's good. for these much obituaries have only one objective tonight the brothers for life to . that would cost the money if there was enough by americans by rise was even
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though i would go forward to. aside from the camaraderie the fraternity also have another purpose to enable their members to meet go. this is mary gearin she's about to make our way to the wall of. their favorite targets aren't waitresses but so richly stupidness the female equivalent to fraternities on campus. of the of nine pm in the delta is at a house the party is in full swing. was among the thirty or so excited goes we see luciano delta six party guy. he's come on a scouting mission thanks oh god that's our doing. thank you thank you thank you i was. with them on campus fatalities of sororities
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form a single community one big dating club the students from good families where anything goes was with that what happens here stays here was thank you thank you i normally it's the fraternity is 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 free however how i'd tolerate. the only guys who really is so shares are hearing us are already pretty much only talk to her rationally boys yeah yeah i'm. sure he'll give this year a new email evidence with them and your friend. they're dating guys here and paternity
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is a like that's just like you do but then we like make fun of can we can make fun of like yeah people who are nice or it may have a name oh gee i which is means i mean depending. on american campuses academic success relies on integration into these elite societies to get in some students want to educate even the most barbaric afresh the initiations. serious years long catastrophe is coming to a close foreign backing of opposition and terrorist forces are in retreat in face eradication but the struggle is far from over the war is essentially won the winning the last few peaks will be no easy task school. years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with the gun bad
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guy trying to get to one of my family members he would have better a lot better and i think they are inheriting whenever my my baby says my book was published in the year two thousand more than the whole for a million americans have been killed by far olds in the us i thought to me as i did this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the gun i just saw i did to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photo all those years ago i don't know this but we are not. i would not be surprised if a deal is made selling fannie mae and freddie mac. people's bank of china saw that especially china becomes america's biggest landlord and keeping prices down. and the name. harmony and this is i think
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what we're can expect in the next few years because the u.s. is the world's biggest debtor china is the world's biggest creditor so you put those two together you have the biggest creditor taking some of the u.s. debt like government guaranteed fannie mae freddie back all the people to borrow money on those games and they've got chinese landlords that's so. we had to have no film the east coast of the united states. here we have to document one of the oldest american universities. upon leaving its graduates all among the country's top six highest salaries. and 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 brother before him.
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let's start there and then over here too so i actually like every time every time i want to go to sleep it's like underneath. the student isn't bitta however his initiation is he killed him. they spared him nothing this was actually the night 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 then the winner. in contrast to the principle of support among fraternities hey single fresh initiation is a time of and this humiliation about the vase a couple pledges vomit into a pan and one of the patrollers cracked you know eggs and cheese and big hit in the oven in the pledge. and you're a snow angel he has inflicted upon other. the very same tortures he did out says
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before daring to testify about them in one of america's biggest magazines rolling stone confessions of an angry frat boy among these confessions there is something that nobody has forgotten when i first saw the kiddie pool it was like a shark people vomited in and people. people are jocular. the year before someone defra kid the cultures were swimming around in that you're like bow ties. at dartmouth his confession exploded like a bomb but once 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 money it's you know the word they. give the most you know a lot of them are in for attorneys 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.
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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 parte meehan have chosen to break the law of silence. by pressing charges against their son's fraternity came to court to indicate my son's that stays. there until he died 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 of going to gauge. that they're going to be. live down the response for whatever damage that we can. get the jurors to work. for the loss of their son the
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parte millions are claiming damages against the fraternities president as well as two other 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 . and this is just before i went to college and the long hair was an a student thing that kept. good but here we are just a working there looked in there. and just i. thought. the next morning the police discovered our mum's lifeless body the alcohol content in his body was seven times the legal limit. since the tragedy time has stood still at
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the parte means house but. its worth is. just for the stuff in here right now so i just can't bring myself to take it out than. 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 certainly didn't even make any sense you know but now they can organize and get married and have kids and do whatever they want. to have kids downstairs hernando that they don't know this is so the pâté me inspired a civil lawsuit to get compensation. the culprits were finally sentenced to pay a fine of millions of dollars in damages. on american
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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 temple. sixty thousand students meet here every year it's three pm on the largest beach of the island rowdy has been drinking heavily ovett student discovers the joys of spring break for the first time. during the really cute little. well you think really the girls are going to read. what's in store for them dance competitions and drinking again. 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
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their limits to drugs and alcohol many of them finished their afternoon in a medical tent set up a few meters from the beach there or be hydrated there drop in this body later. accustomed to such depaul cheree the state of texas is not to mean with its resources that two hundred first aid workers are hired so that the party does not turn into a tragedy in charge of 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 but in the girl's room some haven't stomach the alcohol so well they get through drunk at the beach for their share in the year in the past when. you have to keep going rowdy and out and have their own technique from the
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beach they came in here in stop drinking if they want to can't drink 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 secondly. emily and sherry are two students from dallas with a clear objective means we. hear that he made. it 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 just want to make sure that we're in the park and watch we're going to try to make sure that.
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never was your car or 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 to up there to watch things that people don't think about. the control tower several meters from the ground i don't with night vision cameras we have one camera that co-created 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 a camera all the way around we can actually and you can show me pretty close. mike has just received a call from the tower an individual has been spotted dealing cannabis. use are the road for you right. the tower allows mike to rest you don't sue infringe that will . take you in two thousand and thirteen the south padre island police makes three
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hundred and forty five arrests over eight days. we find rowdy in the queue for the night club. tonight he's planning to dance and drink all night he's out for a night. the problem is he's only eighteen what it was sort of. for this student has a fake id he's pretending to be the legal age for drinking alcohol. free entry. rowdiest managed to get past the barrie unlike these under-age girls. it turns out that he an alj and have been planning this for a long time like this. on a sixty dollars to. have a great night out these two boys have saved up almost five hundred dollars the
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equivalent of two months of student job salary. but please stick to. a. lot of. the silly stuff. every year spring break brings in around one billion dollars for the american economy. after several hours of partying around and allergen our 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 to share and learn to take their pain to strain every really here. every evening these volunteers prepare more than six thousand pancakes to help the party goes absorb some of the alcohol that binge drinking. in ten years spring break has become another miscible event on the schedules of american students tomorrow we get up early with good food and we continue to just party
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unity. like cool spring break is rowdy and old and will be going back to campus to take their exams. but there have to knuckle down in the united states one out of every two students leaves university without a degree. she'll be a. student have been mild for most. of the day with. the counselor. on up but if we were me
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today. i would wish to set my limit who speculate him to me or the now with jamie as a hunk on the over. i now at the five the. hell i got money but that never. seemed like him to make the point i made or the only measure of how compelling closer got because of me is because he. was. level was. dropping bombs brings peace to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battle. to stop the predator tell you that will be gossiped about by foul play. as he tells me you are not full enough to
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