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the streets of lexington the behavior of these young men doesn't seem to shock anyone you go the way. these 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 there was a default down through to hammer though like a resident as long as you can see. the gold rush or somebody on university match days anything goes for almost anything. 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
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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 tense have been set up. fans of all ages from all over kentucky support the wildcats. is beyond me this weekend. but we will bring. it to. 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. if. the play is a rifle. that cheered on by
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a crowd of sixty thousand supporters. 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 so i think. it was one thing. the frenchman was awarded a sports scholarship which allows him to study for free today's his moment of glory .
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a nun attainable treats 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 a debt in order to finance their studies. thirty two thousand. two hundred twenty seven. to get by financially some female students like at least don't hesitate to look full support. first. sight openly matches of generous donors with indebted students. and so the
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controversy breaks out. you are a prostitute and you are a mighty 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 in. the fraternities are 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
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tennis teams mainstays and thanks to this he lives in this residence with the swimming pool free of charge also known for the eagles and 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 university adapts to his sport schedule. while here in the interest of your active directory i asked for. thomas in his final year of communication studies now with the many matches he has scheduled for the season he would often be absent with such students the university asked that the teachers are flexible. or something if this is. all right. in
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a 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 believe 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 expect copied. almost twelve million dollars of scholarship money is shared out every year. but the schedules of the school students are not restful in the slightest. most students are still sleeping with thomas back at the changing. so bored. with the new university term new supplies await
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him in his locker. to georgia to. those who think like you few. will do. this it is. tom and his eleven team members train on average for four hours a day man city. 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 another beautiful. and the university of kentucky certainly provides the means. there are almost two hundred. people to ensure the welfare of
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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. to be a serious. noise. 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 and flexible agile here cheerleaders are reluctant. curie is twenty two years old she's one of the team captains. like tom no school
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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 carrie 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 on. persia 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 did. and so this means that cheerleaders are four hours a day. and then also allowed to make mistakes and i think to not see everything. to
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. be always so you'd be surprised like a. thank you washing around and playing around or getting email about it those supplies reaction to never fails. to not just to hear right there. gotcha but 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. to see if you just eat meat does all those emotions. it's all it always emotions are in the life they're all just out there in your face you understand what he's trying to express. that i can't even talk to you you know the most the most recent you
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want to get out of assuming it was really here but about it this time his handler cheerleaders are you so 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. geysers financial survival. when customers go buy your stuff. didn't help well reduce some lower. that's undercutting but what's good for the market is back here to the global economy. the village of collect she has been nicknamed
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sleepy hollow because for some unknown reason its local residents have found victim to sleep pathetic. troll this move. over the course has been committed to a group if she would use if you chance you how you're here to share. what you've seen with a concern that simple to mostly mission is sort of going to also go along with the question are still talking superthin you've got to go back to the position of sweet . smell. gradually grass from where did you do what we have are doing to. the wall. this with all. my seal in there did your boss tells you of the. first boy didn't think.
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i says was it to. americans by it is right is unfortunately by financial support of something. contrary in there. for making unsafe you. for you it's eleven pm on a saturday night tom the french tennis player has gone out. with a few friends going to a student night in
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a nearby house. tonight to the athlete has swapped his official uniform for a rather provocative t. shirt. to show. the price of fame on the system here the athletes are celebrities tom invites people to take photos. of. the sports stars have to be exemplary. while the other students let themselves use. and the girls will be outdone. lives during. what is wrong for. one of them. within barely an hour these two students will have consumed almost two teachers of strong alcohol.
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i asked to 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 real luxury to out as three students have to borrow money. in april two thousand and twelve the amount of american student debt. reach a significant high over one billion dollars in new york hundreds of students demonstrate to the media relate that and what's the potential of the economically loss in the regime and the dad would feel right now over twenty five thousand dollars if the parents were just there 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 financial pain or first student loans about eight years ago 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 i couldn't find work her debt skyrocketed so i started at thirty two thousand nine hundred sixty four dollars and today zero one hundred
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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 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. town hundreds of job applications and got a couple callbacks but i have been treated like a criminal yes so 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 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 plenty of these. cases that a one word against the third party collection agencies 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 cooled 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
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. 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. 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 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. 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. to know that 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
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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 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 could counter them easily do for work 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 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 this is your first experience here i don't want
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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 and it's. but sometimes you guys and over something like this. stuff it inside. or 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 her income kelly's won't settle for just having lunch with lowly 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 hits the headlines of your piece to. june two thousand and twelve on the dr phil show one of the most watched programs across the atlantic. called 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 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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. left. 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 both during their years in the. house and so i get to date around their . different beautiful weather and we get to know each other what is she looking for my looking forward to expect the money expect to come down what eles is looking for is a new benefactor this young woman has just started of course in a setting 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
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not it's not healthy not the cars brazil. are you know worth the dollar bill well with. a woman to get through college one of the lenses there neither of them feels as though it's prostitution even in discussions. that 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. sex is indeed part of the contract not an obvious close to a suit. to challenge that since the other players. have always. liked it so he said. that out so your buddy undermined her in several places that. your mind is not. riding. that. her best friend trish is one of the only people she's told it does sound like
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that. comment coming out of. the. great great chain that without finances that contact. full house studies l.s.s. paid a high price but this obsession with success is not just a matter of money. welcome to the wonderful world of blood donation i come here every three weeks to get my transfusion to be specific i receive immunoglobulin my body gets and some bodies that i cannot produce itself around the world giving blood is seen as a symbol of generosity and does this because it helps people it's just that one of the side effects is that it. applies more. to put the money on your car immediately okupe you don't half of all plasma based drugs today come from
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private companies and are produced from paid plasma as well. you know. one of the risks of a donation in there is proof that the frequency of pathology is much higher in paid donations. if i would fly. over to. years old he will go over to get the money using the drugs and who runs the blood business. and the culture is good out of the big picture but it's. real business which we need to maintain we need to what but just know all the facts all the prospects at the moment go forward with the draw with the automotive g.p.s. g m a tractor or some other machines will have less and less people employed so the fact that we easily get to the show business just shows how the rest of the world
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is getting rid of those bits. with it with each of. the village of collect she has been nicknamed sleepy hollow because for some unknown reason its local residents have found victim to sleep at ten. over the course just vancouver to chile i think we should be chance you how do you think your issue. what to do with the good of some that's it but also initiating a sort of but i'm also going with the question are stored all peaceful people or it's a super thin you've got to go with them had to put in the position of sweet. granny grass from where did you do what we have are the working. the wall for. this with
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all. the work in. my cylinder did you have both styles there of the. right you will lead to the first hole in a piece. in the stories that shaped the week with islamic state on the verge of total collapse in syria russia and its regional allies lay out plans for establishing a lasting peace in the country. also this hour on settling time for germany. leaving question marks over her future as leader. russia's most notorious
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