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in the stadium parking lot many supporters teds have been set up. fans of all ages from all over kentucky support the wildcats. to feel the. beginning of what we will bring. to. the fans are very loyal and also very generous. tickets sales related merchandise supporter donations. inside the stadium the great event of the sports business has begun. the brass ballet is a rifle. twenty two year old frenchman tom giambi has a front row seat. 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 to say
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the wild. things. the frenchman was awarded a sports scholarship which allows him to study for free today's his moment of glory . another 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. eighty thousand dollars
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a year so when students don't receive scholarships like tom they take on 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. or to take the first few hundred dollars. aside openly matches of generous donors with indebted students and so the controversy breaks out . you are a prostitute and you are a mit educated person. 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 in. the fraternities are symbol of prestige in american universities they attract students who want to be part of the
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elite. to 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 a swimming pool free of charge also know that there are goals 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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university adapts to his sports schedule. one here in intervals of your active directory ideally password. thomas and his final year of communication studies so 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 as for the spirit official university sponsored event yeah 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 we can do that. because at lexington the campus lends itself to sport 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.
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almost twelve million dollars of scholarship money is shared out every year. georgia to. thank. your brain on average for four hours a day to strengthen their teams and. the contract is simple they have to wait for the destruction. 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 i spoke. with the. children or their. families on american campuses the athletes are not quite like the others. you didn't. every year they bring in about one hundred
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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 and flexible agile here cheerleaders are reluctant. curie 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 it's official photo day these photos will grace the posters on the calendars for the upcoming season. therefore wants to look perfect so you're actually the image of the school we are we are us along with the wildcat so the mask that there's
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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. do worry not allow them to. facebook and although they sound as if it's something that you wouldn't want your grandma to see then don't post it that's the best way that there 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 a day and they're not allowed to make mistakes i think it's a serious. threat to the for. i always thought you'd be surprised like
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a game of cricket you're watching around and playing around or getting e-mail about it those guys reaction to it never fails. to not just to hear right there good catch but you always project the best image of yourself so as to not tarnish the university's reputation and that's even sure 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. to see what you just made dissolve his emotions. is all but always emotions are in the life they're all just out there in your face you understand what he's trying to express. it like can't even funny you know unless someone's reason you want to get out of a suit that was really here but it's about it this time it's handling cheerleaders
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are you 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. but still have done much with. the so c. is when i would try babies says my book will we got this official uniform for rather provocative t. shirt. to show. our. lives. this will soon be useful. to know. within barely an hour these two students will have consumed almost two teachers a strong alcohol.
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as for tom he knows that he is 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 ok. in april two thousand and twelve the amount of american student debt reach a significant high of one billion dollars in new york hundreds of students demonstrate to the media relate that and the potential of the economically lost generation and the average dad would see right now is over twenty five thousand dollars. and with the same for the rights. and among the victims the president of the united states and sell the show and we know about this
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person this is not something i read in a briefing book we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago think about that the present the united states. was 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 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 sky couldn't find work her debt skyrocketed so i started at thirty two thousand nine hundred sixty. dollars and today oh one hundred twenty seven
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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 sky's debt has tripled the accumulation continues to grow havea by one thousand dollars a month. erica husband has to cover the household costs one is owed no bank will open a current account for his wife. for all her purchases sky has to use her husband's debit card. even worse due to her debt no employer wants to risk taking her own. now hundreds of job applications and got a couple called out but i have been treated like a criminal yes i. call the 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.
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faced with this dead end 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 these. are the cases that a one word against the third party collection agency representing sallie mae. sky has sued them for harrison and 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 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. other
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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. 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
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lunch. 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 a uniform it's very detached from emotion. who knows she doesn't i mean there is little time any. time 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
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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 new offers so you can see one offered to take me out first take two hundred dollars one for one fifty six like good stuff or 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 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 day this is your first experience here i don't
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want any problems i have a girlfriend. should kill me if she knew i was seeing other girls doesn't interest me 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 he ended it. 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 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
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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 watched 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. in way the site's founder defends himself as providing a very valuable service that people need you are a prostitute and you are 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
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. 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 they. mean yeah i'm going to get 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 where my looking forward is expect we might expect to look at that and what are less is looking for is a new benefactor this young woman has just started a course in ascetic 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
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supposed to better you it's not it's not helping on a college brazil. are you know worth a dollar a day so i have no qualms with holding a woman to get through college one of the islands is there neither of them feels as though it's prostitution even in discussions. that i feel like other things like your getting pizza have stags but a lot of times it's not just by. it is only a double late. sex is indeed part of the contract not an obvious close to a suit. child. since the other. have all these. like it's me. but out so your body under my current two separate place in. your mind is not. body. that. her best friend trish is one of the only people she's told it does sound like crap
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. coming. down. or it might seem to come out of finances or it that the contact. full has studies l.s.s. paid a high price but this was some unknown reason to how you handle your issue assuring sort of but also go along with the course in your story for peaceful people it's a super thin you've got to go there more deeply the amount of sweat. and r.v. . this is my buddy max the famous financial guru well she's a little bit different. to the owner windows up with the brood have fun meet everyday americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people.
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look welcome to the wonderful world of blood donation out i come here every three weeks to get my transfusion to be specific i receive immunoglobulin that my body gets and some bodies that i cannot produce itself around the world giving blood is seen as a symbol of general. no one does this because it helps people it's just that one of the side effects is that in this. book burning people put money on your car radio we don't have all plasma based drugs today come from private companies and are produced from paid plasma as well as. you know a murder of. one of the risks of paid donation in it then is proof that the frequency of pathology is much higher paid. in it.
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