tv Documentary RT November 25, 2017 8:30pm-9:01pm EST
8:30 pm
as dozens of office full study trucks. to attract students these miracle pills have even been renamed study. in order to get hold of them a simple phone call will do. what. i mean it's all. good the police have been looking at these new internet dealers book 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 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 not the psychiatrist you know what is it you know before i take a test or something and i pretend to be
8:31 pm
a student who is having difficulties over. the years would trigger would say. exactly. no no health scan no verification of my student status instead of any medical examination he just hands me a sheet. of red with. this is do you have problems organizing yourself or concentrating do you have memory problems that you know that this questionnaire put together by the world health organization helps diagnose attention deficit disorders among adults. a two also works as a medical guarantee for this doctor is that you will be able to text with say read your report but there's a software that will take a break and return to a large intestine yeah exactly this with goals or.
8:32 pm
to protect himself from any possible prosecution the psychiatry's made to sign a disclaimer. that would support for ok. as 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 the 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 victorian like buildings are home to the famous fraternities on the front of each building greek letters identify them. 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
8:33 pm
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 them. it's rush week the week for selecting new members and tonight it's operation charm at the sigma alpha epsilon house. so the owners can see. the aim to find future flatmates for this brand new house located in the heart of campus inside there's a fireplace a club armchair paintings of the former alumni you could almost forget their students live here only a time so these are of any real changes. 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
8:34 pm
ritual well. with house events are there also events. we store in a short history. there you go. the atmosphere is rather relaxed everybody's trying to make a good impression you just want to take a look at the house your coffee goes together for you. good for the 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 but for how far down the street they're building this new house it's going to feel like one hundred square feet here in ars 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
8:35 pm
it's kind of like a swede almost for two people but. benefactors who will become sponsors of the students who once graduated sal this is a fraternity's main strength building a professional network to get re going door to here so there's 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 spensieri. very bad ways but hey yeah yeah. this student in the red shirt gets a slightly warmer welcome spencer is a different kind of candidate to the other it's. no 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.
8:36 pm
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. if you prefer. their preferences. or its turf. 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. what's up. for in that 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 they need more pitchers
8:37 pm
. delta is 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. it certainly was a great joy. it is it was second best was made it is better says i i knew that it was just this little. booklet for turning he gets around and we chant this song and yeah y'all russian foreign oil oh. yeah but it's welcome like really well you know how it's. all these much obituaries have only one objective she not the potus for life who i would push you might say he wasn't up by a good five guys was. because even though i would go forward it was.
8:38 pm
aside from the camaraderie the fraternities also have another purpose too and i will die members to me go. this is mary gearin she's about to murder with two balls . their favorite targets aren't waitresses but sorority students the female equivalent of fraternities on campus you move nine pm in the dell to set 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. was our doing. thank you i was. with on campus fraternities and sororities form a single community one big dating club the students from good families where anything
8:39 pm
goes was with that what happens here stays here was thank i was 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 all free how i how i'd cooperate that's like the only guys who really associates are here in a sorority you pretty much only talk to rationally boys yeah yeah i'm. sure he'll give this year a new email events with them and your friends are dating guys who answer paternity you say like that's just actually do but then we'll make fun. now we can make fun
8:40 pm
of like yeah if you are going to certainly have the name of g.-d. i would just means i mean depending. on american campuses academic success relies on integration into these elite societies to get in some students will do everything even the most barbaric a freshet initiation. they could be a useful idiot i'm useful idiot you called me a useful idiot a useful idiot useful idiots go expressing my opinions on t.v. there's two things missed doing it behind his record is the same strategy we attack persons instead of talking about the org what's next why stop bill will ban me from
8:41 pm
getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink one or stretch build the right i should be sent to the town one because i'm to try to break me on the wheel i have put up with a long time with this sort of nonsense you don't scare me one skill and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out i'm in good company i'm in good company you going with me you want to do this because we're a free thinker. scene years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better luck with that iron i think they are and hurting when i buy my babies says my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoffa million americans have been killed by far all of the us side on how to thought to me as i did this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was
8:42 pm
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 photographed those years of god i don't know this but we are not. in the culture is good to be fiction but it's. a real business which we need to maintain we need to know what but just know all the facts of the profit so the more we go forth with the dross with the automotive g.p.s. tracked most of the machines will have less and less people so the fact that we easily get to the show business just so the rest of the waters get a little bit. with it with the go.
8:43 pm
we had to have open on the east coast of. united states. here 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 and brother before him. let's start. over here too so actually every time every time i want to go to sleep
8:44 pm
it's like underneath. the former student isn't bitter however his initiation in he killed him for 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 in the winter. in contrast to the principle of support among fraternities hazing fresh initiation is a time of and this humiliation about the vomit a couple pledges vomit into a pan and one of the touch chairs 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
8:45 pm
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 people it was like a shock people vomited in and people. people are jocular. the year before someone defra kid the pleasures were swim around and that's you're like baptized. 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 the money it's you know there were the nine who give the most you know a lot of them are in for tourney's 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.
8:46 pm
and you left out months 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 came to court to indicate my son's 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 for getting good. that they're going to be. live down the plants for whatever damage that we can. get the jurors to work. for the loss of their son the parte millions are claiming damages against the paternity as president as well as
8:47 pm
to 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 jack a merriam's remarriage. this is just before he went to college and the long hair 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 history mz were crushed his hazing turned into a tragedy after he was very very drunk. and that he was trying to stop drinking that kept. pouring but about a stroke that's one. part of the spend that they took my simple already had passed and they took him up to the house and. did the just they were
8:48 pm
lifting there. just. 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 but. this is. just full of 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 arman 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
8:49 pm
married and have kids and already run. and have kids downstairs that have been longer there they don't know this is so the parte immune spada 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. drinking heavily a vet student discovers the joys of spring break for the first time we've learned during the weirdest your little way because. the girls are going to show you.
8:50 pm
what's in store for them dance competitions and drinking again. american students forget the pressure of the upcoming exams in the meantime anything goes further showing the very show their greed 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 meters from the beach there or be hydrated their drugs and this body later. accustomed to such depaul cheree the state of texas is not to me with its resources 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
8:51 pm
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 care and here in the past. we've got to keep going rowdy and out and have their own technique from the beach they came in here in stop drinking if they were you can't drinking then they would have been and they were going to party and just like us. for these students spring break rewards 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 are here five days a week. and again tonight the team
8:52 pm
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. 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. his ability to 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 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
8:53 pm
a camera all the way around we can actually and you can still make pretty close. mike has just received a call from the tower an individual has been spotted dealing cannabis. these are the roads for you right here the tower allows my two rescued ensue 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 what he was sort of. this student has a fake id. he's pretending to be the legal age for drinking alcohol. and brain injury. so rowdy as managed to get past the barry unlike
8:54 pm
these under-age girls. it turns out that he and out and have been planning this for a long time like this. thirty. 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 to keep. anything to. a. lot of. basically. every year spring break brings in around one billion dollars for the american economy. after several hours of partying rowdy 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 up the stove but i'm sure you believe they're paying to train every really here.
8:55 pm
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 a nun miscible event on the schedules of american students tomorrow we get up early we go fish and we continue to just hardly get any. like cool spring break is rowdy and alden 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. please please. please.
8:56 pm
please. please let the war hawks sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles that don't. produce talks product tell you that what we gossip a couple of us fell for the most important news today. while i'm off the bat has been telling me you are not cool enough and let's not fight their products. these are the hawks to me along the border we'll watch. it. would not be surprised if ideal 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 up to the name of jobs and global harmony and this is i think what we're can expect in the next few years because the u.s.
8:57 pm
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 on some of the u.s. debt like cars like government guaranteed fannie mae freddie macas all the people who have parling money on those games today they've got chinese landlords that's the move along because. i simply. didn't have ten months from now to the independent with that with. the counselors if. we were meeting they. i would wish to sit in my life who speculate hint that me or the jamie have a hunk on those. i know it's a five. but because a lot of money for that matter i see let him get maybe forty m.
8:58 pm
it would be in the mail to have one thing closer got bigger and make the so c. he said no when i would. collect she has been nicknamed sleepy hollow because for some unknown reason residents have formed victim to sleep with him. or do we just being able to actually. move you should you change you how you raise your issue. or two more concern that separate the most attention and sort of but i'm also going on with the question you're still talking. to go back to the fisherman if so. from where did you do what we have i
8:59 pm
9:00 pm
but. i. didn't day slavery in libya triggers protests in several european capitals look at what's led to such a diet humanitarian situation in the country. brussels the protest against slavery descends into riots and looting with almost one hundred people arrested. also saw washington apparently promises to cut weapon supplies to the scottish allies. fighting i saw in syria what's seen as a move to appease turkey white house though it was reluctant to give any details. and number of deaths in an attack on a mosque in egypt rises to over three hundred with the government saying the gunmen at work carrying i still flying.
31 Views
Uploaded by TV Archive on
