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unity party and that is that all. your grandson isn't twenty one years old yet the legal age for drinking alcohol in the usa. but on campus circumventing the law has become a national sport. and other on the way to the stadium they get thirsty again yeah the competition has started. in the streets of lexington the behavior of these young men doesn't seem to shock anyone you go there. the students even walk along with a bottle of vodka in their hand however as is the case on many other american campuses alcohol is legal here the cops ok that is if there was a default down for you to hammer though like a residue but as long as you can spare. the gold rush or somebody on university match days anything goes for almost anything.
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just outside the stadium the traditional parade has started. led by kerry their leader the cheerleaders galvanized the crowd. heave a triumphant parade announces the arrival of the uncontested stars of the campus. around fifty student football players accompanied by their team of staff. all eyes are on this group of players good enough to play for the big professional team. in the usa the love of university sports goes much further than the campus borders. in the stadium parking lot many supporters teds have been set up. fans of all ages from all over kentucky support the wildcats. is beyond me this weekend. but we will bring in a story. to tell. the fans of. very loyal and also
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very generous. ticket sales related merchandise supporter donations last year the football team brought in more than thirty million dollars for the university a cash machine which contributes to its fate. inside the stadium the great event of the sports business has begun. the brass band on the cheerleaders provide a great show. for the play it's a rifle. that cheered on by a crowd of sixty thousand supporters. twenty two year old frenchman tom giambi has a front row seat. to look it's a touchdown i missed it almost a tester. tom as a top level tennis player recruited by the university to defend their colors i think. it was one thing that.
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the frenchman was awarded a sports scholarship which allows him to study for free today's his moment of glory . and none attainable treat for the majority of students because behind all the show and the american universities hired a reality that is very different. columbia dartmouth new york university american universities are among the best in the world renowned for their teaching their sports establishment but also for campus life. and party. studying here can cost up to eighty thousand dollars a year. so when students don't receive scholarships like tom they take on
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a debt in order to finance their studies. thirty two thousand. two hundred twenty. two get by financially some female students like it don't hesitate to look for support. to the first two hundred dollars. a site openly matches up generous donors with indebted students and so the controversy breaks out . you are a prostitute and you are a mit educated printer. on campus the pressure to succeed is so high that american students overindulge binge drinking to let their hair down. but also taking amphetamine derivatives to boost their academic results there's a real trafficking of substances going on. the fraternities are symbol of prestige in american universities they attract students who want to be part of the elite. to
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join these influential and secret societies some are willing to be put through all sorts of humiliation we would get points for vomiting on each other. diving into the heart of american campuses where the obsession to success justifies all manner of extremes. lexington is the second largest city in the state of kentucky. over the last three years tom giambi has become one of the local tennis teams mainstays and thanks to this he lives in this residence with the swimming pool free of charge also known for the eagles who to those in need. or keep. the lexington campus holds more than twenty eight thousand students cost of studies up to twenty thousand dollars per year. but even so the tennis player doesn't pay a penny it gets better in order to enable him to succeed on the tennis court the.
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the city adapts to his sports schedule. well here in the interest of your active directory ivy and password. thomas and his final year of communication studies now with the many matches he has scheduled for the season he will often be absent with such students the university asked that the teacher's off lexical. suggest this is a good. all right it's for the spirit official university sponsored event yet that's not a problem so teachers have to be accommodating was students like tom yeah we have to be able to work with work with them in their schedule believe we can do that. because at lexington the campus lends itself to school and the olympic size swimming for a climbing wall abounding track the city is also home to the largest basketball stadium in america. to attract the best athletes the university lays out its red carpet. almost twelve million dollars of scholarship money is shared out every year
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. but the schedules of the school students are not restful in the slightest. most students are still sleeping with thomas back at the changing . of. the world. with a new university term new supplies await him in his locker. is known to georgia to with us there are. those who think like you few. gifts bearing the acronym of a big sports equipment brand the university's official sponsor are your team in the more than. your eyes are just in the form of your.
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well there was this it is a new emotion. tom and his eleven team members trained on average for four hours a day coached by fellow frenchman city called blue dogs. this former professional player has led the kentucky tennis team for the last two years . to strengthen their teams american universities recruit internationally the contract is simple they have to wait for the good discussion. to not return. and the university of kentucky certainly provides the means. here there are almost two hundred people to ensure the welfare of the athletes footballers basketball players tennis players after training that all meet in the state of the art care facility. with a mandatory dip in the high spots. with the. children
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or their. families on american campuses the athletes are not quite like the other students. every year they bring in about one hundred four million dollars for the university. on the top of the podium american footballers and their indispensable cheerleaders. nineteen times university champion the kentucky team holds the most titles in the history of the united states toned flexible agile here cheerleaders are real acne. kiri is twenty two years old she's one of the team captains. like tom no school fees are completely covered so this young woman likes to get things right. today is official photo day these photos will grace the posters on the calendars for the upcoming season carrie therefore wants to look perfect. so you're actually
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the image of the school we are we are us along with the wildcat so the mascot is a lot of pressure oh of course it is but you get used to it you know like the first time i went out on that football field it was terrifying but the coolest thing ever . i wouldn't change it for the world. a little girl's dream becomes a reality but it's also a job under intense scrutiny that we have to really really watch and even our coaches watch what we. like tweet and facebook and what we posted to worry not allowed to. facebook and although they tell us if it's something that you wouldn't want your grandma to see then don't post it that's the best way they think is right now i know some people at some crazy grandmas but we know what it really means. and so this means that cheerleaders are representing that american campuses twenty four hours
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a day and then also allowed to make mistakes i think to see everyone. around to this for me always you'd be surprised like that thank you very much in around and playing around or getting e-mail about it because the supplies reaction to it never fails. you know just the here right there. gotcha. you always project the best image of yourself so as to not tarnish the university's reputation and that's even true of the mascot they also receive a scholarship. to this young man refuses to be filmed though not through vanity but because his contract requires him to remain anonymous. like a disney character he's not allowed to talk his job is to keep people guessing. this is you just leave it does all those emotions. it's all it always emotions are in the life of others then you're basically understand what he's trying to express it. like i can't even talk to you know how much so much reason you want to get out
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of assuming it was really here but that's about it just to understand what cheerleaders or even what we said that this combination of show and business is perfect. for the university athletes must obey very strict rules. in their official activities of cool split also outside the stadiums. banks geysers financial life they say maybe the fella. who could use it this is
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a central plank support diagram is a good club in my town so you stop to. she'll be a. still dependent mile from us to the independent those with meters that they did with. the counselors a placenta i went up at a sauna we were meeting there. with with a set of my love and respect to let him to me or be here now with jamie as a hunk on the road. now it's a bad thing. but because hell i've known him for that matter. i see let him to make the point i made already in the marriage will have one thing closer geared up to grab me. it's because he is so see you so when i when i would tell.
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you it's eleven pm on a saturday night tom the french tennis player has gone out. with a few friends that go into a student night and they buy a house. tonight the athlete has swapped his official uniform for a rather provocative t. shirt. to show you know. the price of fame and the system he and the athletes are celebrities tom invites people to take photos. of. the sports stars have to be exemplary. while the other students let themselves be. on
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the go as well to be outdone. lives during all of. this was. one of. within barely an hour these two students will have consumed almost two teachers a strong alcohol. i asked for tom he knows that he's closely monitored in front of our camera the frenchman accents of. the extremes of this america tom has learned to make the most of it. but for the students without scholarships getting into university is a luxury to out as three students have to borrow money. oh in april two thousand and twelve the amount of american student debt reach a significant high of one billion dollars. just in new york hundreds of students
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demonstrated to the media relate their anger the potential of the economically last generation and the rich dad would see right now over twenty five thousand dollars if the parents were despairing for their rights. and among the victims the president of the united states and sell the show and we know about this person this is not something i read in a briefing book we always been a pain or for student loans about eight years ago think about it i'm the president united states. an increasingly greedy society in the united states the cost of studies has tripled in thirty years. woodstock two hours' drive away from new york. this is where sky lives thirty one years old married and the mother of two children like many students to fund design school she had to borrow money. they said student loan debt is
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a good debt that you can carry and i was told that it was like paying off a car. at the time part of the sum was loaned by the state the other part by sallie mae the leading american student loan company but at the end of her study she had a nasty surprise skye couldn't find work her debt skyrocketed so i started at thirty two thousand nine hundred sixty four dollars and today oh one hundred twenty seven thousand eight hundred eighty dollars so it's thirty seven thousand dollars in interest alone and the rest of that is collection cost in fees. in eighteen years sky stet has tripled the accumulation continues to grow havea by one thousand dollars a month. erica has been has to cover the household costs one is owed no bank will open a current account for his wife. for all her purchases. skye has to use her
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husband's debit card. even worse due to her debt no employer wants to risk taking her own. now hundreds of job applications then got a couple called out but i have been treated like a criminal yes i. they pulled a credit report they look at what's on that piece of paper and then they decide we were based off of that sheet of paper. faced with this debt and sky has decided to fight this morning she is going to a solicitor to file a complaint against her old school who forced her to borrow. and this is not her first attempt plan to ease. the cases that a one word against the third party collection agencies representing sallie mae. sky has sued them for how recent they were calling me at my work they were calling me at my home they were telling me that this would impact my children's life and i
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reported those conversations. ever since sky has called them every day to try and renegotiate her debt. but before that the bank demands a payment of twenty five thousand dollars i may suggest that one comes up with twenty five thousand dollars a month. one . of the solutions have been suggested to her they were quite surprising. you can either go into the military you can move to a different country or you can find somebody who's passed and use their cell security number. to avoid excessive debt more and more students are resorting to practices that are borderline prostitution. new york in the heart of the island of manhattan lies the n.y.u.
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campus one of the most prestigious private universities in the united states. it is also one of the most expensive in the country sixty thousand dollars per. release is a student in her fifth year of food processing studies to pay for her studies and live in new york this young woman lines up dates let's see i had class then i have lunch at noon with one guy and i'll probably go home and do some homework and then i have to immediately got to dinner with another guy. four hundred also dollars lisa company single men to lunch or to dinner without any other obligations. but before meeting her next client she pops home to get ready i like to wear. a dress. for a date because you know that's what they're here for they want to take out a hot attractive young woman so i try and play that part it's like
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a uniform it's very detached from emotion. who knows she doesn't i mean there is i don't know many. times something. as an average student at least has not been awarded a scholarship at twenty two years of age she's already accumulated two hundred thousand dollars of debt. so as to avoid awkward questions from her roommate she goes to a cafe to check out her new office she split for choice. i believe just one in a few hours ago and i really have something to offer so you can see one offer to take me out our first two hundred dollars one for one fifty six week except for if it was the offer was too low. i could counter them and easily do for mark to try and get more money in one week up to one thousand five hundred dollars and that's
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not counting all the free meals and pretty hungry. but i don't see any of my own that i bought myself. it's one o'clock in the afternoon and she goes to a trendy hotel restaurant on seventh avenue if you're stuck inside a man in his forty's is waiting for her film their lunch with a hidden camera this is your first date this is your first experience here i don't want any problems i have a girlfriend. should kill me if she knew i was seeing other girls sisters the man isn't single but only sees no downside she says i just wants the lunch is over she will never see him again. today and it's. but sometimes you guys and over something like this. stuff it inside. her one time i got a chocolate bar with it like taped inside i think they're paranoid about it looking
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like a transaction. but to supplement having come kelly's won't settle for just having lunch with lonely met. a few weeks ago she signed up to a dating site which takes it even further. the concept is simply match rich man with attractive young women who need money. some benefactors even go as far as paying for their studies in full. in the united states the site hit the headlines in your piece to. june two thousand and twelve on the dr phil show one of the most watch programs across the atlantic charter school bill plante even purchased a new car with cash on a d.v.d. the female students who use the site face up to the criticism. one way the site's founder defends himself is providing a very valuable service that people need you are a prostitute and you are
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a mit educated pimp. despite the scandal the site has never been condemned by the north. today more than a million female students have signed up to it it's a case far less twenty three years old. anthony has a date with a female student he is single and has no qualms about using this site to go one day . at forty eight anthony is a successful businessman. he owns six hundred thousand dollars a year for around thirty thousand pounds a month. he's made a lifestyle out of the speak straight day. i mean yeah i'm going to get at it for three years well during their years in the. house or so i get to date around their . different beautiful weather and we get to know each other what is she looking for
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where my looking forward to expect we might expect to look at what eles is looking for is a new benefactor this young woman has just started a course in a setting she says with. the first four years of study have been fully paid by men like anthony who of course sugar daddies here there's enough money problems going on in life that financial data says you first school that was supposed to better you it's not it's not helping on the cards brazil i've done are you know worth a dollar a day so i have no qualms with. a woman to get through college one of the lenses there neither of them feels as though it's prostitution even in disguise. i feel like other things like you're getting peeved to have stags but a lot of times it's not just by. it is that double layer. sex is indeed part of the contract not an obvious close to
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a suit. child. since the other place. i have always. liked makes me sad. but so your body undermined her in several places that. your mind is like that. rotten thing. that. her best friend trish is one of the only people she's told it does sound like crap. comments coming out. it might change someone else's finances or that the contract. for how studies are less is paid a high price but this obsession with success is not just a matter of money. years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with
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a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better luck with their pattern i think they are inheriting whatever my my baby's says my book was published in the year two thousand more than half a million americans have been killed by far in the us where he had his 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. and i decided to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know this but we are not. in the culture is good enough. the big picture but it's. a real business which we need to maintain we need to but just know all the facts all the prospects at the
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thing. i thought modern day slavery in libya triggers protests in several european capitals we look at what's led to such a dire humanitarian situation in the country. while the brussels protest against slavery descends into riots and looting with almost one hundred people arrested. also coming up this hour washington a partly problem says to cut weapons supplies to its kurdish allies fighting in syria in what's seen as a move to appease turkey but the white house is reluctant to give any details. on the number of deaths in a mosque in egypt rises to over three.

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