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other than the campus supporters. in the stadium parking lot many supporters tents have been set up. fans of all ages from all over kentucky support the wildcats. to feel. any. legal. the fans are very loyal and also very generous. tickets sales related merchandise supported 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 provided a great show. for the play it's a rifle. that cheered on by a crowd of sixty thousand supporters.
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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. we think. the frenchman was awarded a sports scholarship which allows him to study for free today's his moment of glory . and none attainable treats for the majority of students because behind all the show and the it in. merican universities hide
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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 a debt in order to finance their studies. thirty two thousand. two hundred twenty. two get by financially something male students like it don't hesitate to look for support. or to take the first few 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. on campus the pressure to succeed is so high that american students
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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 a symbol of prestige in american universities they attract students who want to be part of the 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 the eagles to those in need. or keep.
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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 university adapts to his sports schedule. while here you interrupt your active directory i password for 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. if this is . all right is 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 or. work with them in their schedule we can do that.
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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. almost twelve million dollars of scholarship money is shared out every year. students are still sleeping with thomas back at the changing. of. the world. with a new university term new supplies await him in his. business. joyce it's a. terrific looking. a few.
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gifts bearing the acronym of a big sports equipment brand the university's official sponsor. of the moon the more than. or larger. your eyes are just for the for your. clear on 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 we told you about. 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 just talking. to the beautiful. and the university of kentucky certainly provides the means. there are almost two hundred people to ensure the welfare of the athletes footballers basketball players
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tennis players after training that all meet in the state of the art care facility. with a mandatory dip in the i spot. even a serious issue in the northern. league 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 accolades. kiri is twenty two years old she's one of the team captains. like tom no school. these are completely covered so this young woman likes to get
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things right. today is official photo day these photos will grace the posters on the calendars for the upcoming season. therefore wants to look perfect so your 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 so we have to really really watch it given our coaches watch what we. like tweet and facebook and what we post in. the can although they tell us if it's something that you wouldn't want your grandma
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to see then don't post it that's the best way to fix 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 the american campuses twenty four hours a day and they're not allowed to make mistakes i think to not see everything. around to go for it always so you'd be surprised like a big names like the one washing around and playing around or getting email about it supplies reaction to it never fails. it's not just a here right there are others out there in your face you understand what you said expressed. it like can't even talk to you know the most and most reason you want to get out of assuming it was really your buts about it this time is handling cheerleaders are you so that this combination of show and business is perfect. or the university athletes must obey very strict rules. in their official activities
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a cool split also outside the stadiums. and the culture is good out of the big picture but it's it's a girl for real business which we need to maintain we need to what but it's no the fact of the prospects that the more we go forward with the drawings with the automotive g.p.s. track trucks other machines will have less and less people employed so the fact that we easily get the c.e.o. the business just shows how the rest of the waters get rid of those bits. with it with the go. hey everybody i'm stephen baldwin task hollywood guy you'll suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v.
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i'm through sixth this is my buddy max famous financial guru well just a little bit different i thought of going to the well you know with no doubt with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road have fun meet every day americans come home and look for the store to bridge the gap this is the great american people. on. the village of collect she has been nicknamed sleepy hollow because for some unknown reason it's local residents have formed victim to sleep epidemic. or the over the was hysterical to join a group if she would use a future how did i get the. want to know all the goodness in that sense but also
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he's showing a sort of but i'm also going on with the question are stored on peaceful people or it's a super sin you've got to go back to the shipment of sweet. smell that we should because actually growing grass from where did you do what we have our do agree. that though it's the wolf. this with all. the working for me for. my children they're good you're both those they're of the gods. was your old you're right you're well let's do it here first of all that i think. it's eleven pm on a saturday night tom the french tennis player has gone out. with a few friends but going to a student night in a nearby house. two nights of the athlete has swapped his official
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uniform for rather provocative t. shirt. shop. the price of fame on the system he at the athletes of celebrities tom invites people to take photos. good luck. to sports stars have to be exemplary. while the other students let them sound sleep. on the go as well to be outdone. lives are struggling. to structure would like to still. work up. within barely an hour these two students will have consumed almost to date as a strong alcoholic. i asked to tom he knows that he is closely monitored. in front of our camera the
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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 the potential of this economically last generation and the average dad probably 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 person this is not something i read in a briefing book we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago
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think about it i'm the president the united states. and 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 to buy 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 four dollars and today zero one hundred twenty seven thousand eight hundred eighty dollars. so it's thirty seven thousand dollars
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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 on his own 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 i've 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 who you are based off of that sheet of paper. faced with this debt and sky has decided to fight this morning she is going to
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a solicitor to file a complaint against her old school who forced her to borrow. and this is not her first attempt plan these. 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 this conversation. 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 out with twenty five thousand dollars a month. or. one . of the solutions have been suggested to her they were quite surprising.
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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 lunch at noon with one guy and i'll probably go home and do some homework and then
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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. because you know that's what they're paid 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 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
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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 offered to take me out first take two hundred dollars one for one fifty click except for if it was the offer was too low. i can count them and i usually do for mark to try and get more money in one week at least can earn up to one thousand five hundred dollars and that's not counting all the free meals i am pretty hungry no but i don't have seen any of my own things 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 interested 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 want any problems i have a girl in the united states the sight you will feel is that people need you to you
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are a mighty educated pimp. 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 earns six hundred thousand dollars a year or around thirty thousand pounds a month that he's made a lifestyle out of the speak straight day. yeah i'm going to get it for three years go through their years in the. house and so i get. to be different beautiful whether we get to know each other what is she looking for in the world and i look at what is expected in my expectation that what eles is
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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 are called sugar daddies he has enough money problems going on in life that financial data he says the first school that was supposed to better you it's not. it's not healthy for. you the world to. live. to get through college one of the most of our lives is that neither of them feels as though it's prostitution even in disguise good feeling and things like your getting people to have sex but a lot of times it's not just black and white it is only a double layer. sex is indeed part of the contract not an obvious close to a. child. sex other place. i've
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always. liked it to be. but out so your body undermined her in several places. your mind is like. driving. her best friend trish is one of the only people she's told it does not make. comments coming out. it might change someone else's finances or. full house studies paid a high price but this obsession with success is not just a matter of money. she'll
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be a. student that's been my love for most. of those that love will eat there. that to cope with. the counselor's epicenter i went up at a sauna we will meet today. with the set of my lemon who speculate hint that me or the now with jamie has a hunk on the road. now it's a bad day because hell i got money but that never. seemed like him to make the point i made for the on the metro have one thing close i gave up they got me as the so see you so when i went to.
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pay everybody i'm stephen ball. test hollywood guy you know suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v. news this is my buddy famous financial guru just a little bit different. in a manner with with all the drama happening in our country i'm sure the brood have to meet everyday americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people. welcome to the wonderful world of blood donation i come here every three weeks to
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get my transfusion to be specific i receive immunoglobulin that my body gets and support is that it cannot produce itself around the world giving blood is seen as a symbol of generosity knowing does this because it helps people it's just that one of the side effects is that it. applies more. to put the. me on your car immediately. half of all plasma based drugs today come from private companies and are produced from paid plasma the smallest compromise of their own murder car and. one of the risks of a donation in it then is proof that the frequency of pathology is much higher in paid donations and it. if i was lying when i. was over two years old he will go in the money using the drills and who runs the blood business.
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