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the house is reserved it's a family heirloom. here. very secure. you prefer. their preferences. or its characteristics. at the university of kentucky twenty five fraternities shared the campus and the pick of the students quite apart from their power to be to some they also indulge in fierce competition in terms of pot and alcohol. what's up. or and this is what gives a fraternity its reputation these nights of heavy drinking at the end of the afternoon and on a campus delta sigma fi house has already started to copy thirty more pitchers. delta saying this is a new channel twenty two he's organizing the feeling he's in charge of the
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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. certainly was great joy thirty. eight is it was a good bet it was the met is best says i i knew that it was just a little opens up a little booklet for turning he gets a rally and we chant this song and yeah y'all rushing forward hello. yeah but it's welcome like well well you know how it's good. for these much obituaries have only one objective tonight the brothers for life who i would close in might say he wasn't up by a good five guys my mom and even though of course he would do the same. aside from the camera. the fraternities also have another purpose too and i will
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die members to meet joe. this is mary gearin she's about to murder with two balls. their favorite targets aren't waitresses but so far two students the female equivalent to fraternities on campus. of the of nine pm in the delta is at a house the party is in full swing. it was a monk the thirty was so excited goes we see luciano delta six party guy. he's come on a scouting mission was you know the gods are doing. thanks to was the of the on campus fraternities and sororities form a single community one big dating club the students from good families where anything goes was one of the of that what happens here
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stays here was thank i was like you normally it's the fraternities 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 told her it was like the only guys we really associate with here in this are pretty much only talk to her right really boys yeah yeah i'm. sure he'll give this year a new email events and your friends are dating guys who answered paternity you say like that's just actually do but then we'll make fun of can we can make fun of like yeah people who are injured they have a name oh g.-d. i which is. means i mean depending. on american campuses academic
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success relies on integration into these elite societies to get in some students will do everything even the most barbaric afresh the initiations. with the old make us manufacture consensus instead of public wealth. when the right wing plus a some protect themselves. with the financial merry go round the sun be the one percent so. we can all middle of the room sick. to leave the room when the real news is real. so they have all the same news and there's a way to practice is they don't pressure oppressive measures being deployed against
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the palestinian people everywhere on the set of colonialism the fat spoke of the land and the many many. you know there's a stating things that there are so many ways of doing of course the cold. and uprising. we had to have no film the east coast of the united states. here we have to document one of the oldest american universities. upon leaving its graduates all among the country's top six highest salaries. and promotional images of an elite campus without history where one out of every two students is a member of a fraternity. and juno's was one of them just like his grandfather a brother before him let's start with right there and then over here to. so
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actually like every time every time i want to go to sleep it's like underneath. the former student isn't bitter however his initiation nearly killed him. 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 chug a lot of six cups of beer you know you know as fast as you can the first person who gets into the russian loses and then the winner bomber on the research head in contrast to the principle of support among fraternities hazing or fresh initiation is a time of and this humiliation about the vomit couple pledges vomit into a pan and one of the pleasures cracked you know eggs and cheese and big in the oven in the pledge. and you're a snow angel he has inflicted upon others the very same tortures he did out says before daring to testify about them in one of america's biggest magazines rolling
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stone confessions of an ivy frat boy among these confessions there is something that nobody has forgotten when i first saw the kiddie pool it was like a shot 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 you know it is the money it's you know the what the alumni 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. andrew left dartmouth before graduating even though he survived the fraternity
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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 going to get. that they're going to be. live down the line 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
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two 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 i 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 his dreams were crushed his hazing turned into a tragedy after he was very very drunk and that he was trying to stop drinking they kept. pouring bucket down the stroke that's when the. party disband that they took my simple already had passed out and they took him up to the house and. put him to bed. behavior and they just they waited in their left in there and he
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just i. but i almost thought. the next morning the police discovered our mums 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. its worth is. just for the 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 and sister and a sign of impunity of these fraternities weekends in jail going on friday to come out and suddenly didn't even make any sense you know but now they can organize and get married and have kids and do whatever to not. have kids downstairs. they don't
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know this is so the parte means filed a 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 been drinking heavily student discovers the joys of spring break for the first time we. were really killed very quickly the girls are going to read. what's in store for them dance
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competitions and drinking. american students forget the pressure of the upcoming exams in the mean time anything goes for good or for showing for a show their greed to get him 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 the medical tent set up a few metres from the beach there or be hydrated there drop in this barge later. accustomed to such depaul cheree the state of texas is not to mean with its resources that two hundred first aid workers are hired so that the party does not turn into a tragedy in charge of the 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
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any problems you. know all but in the girls' room some haven't stomach the alcohol so well they go through drunk at the beach for their care and here in the old way of life i'm going to keep going rowdy go out and have their own technique from the beach they came in here in stop drinking if they really can't drinking then they would have been and they were going to party and just like us. for these students spring break records the effort they've made throughout the year. so they party day and night. a few hours later the girls get to second with. emily and cherie are two students from dallas with a clear objective means we're out here fighting maybe. again tonight the team gets going. headed to was one of the biggest nightclubs on
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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 by his ability from 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 which located on top. of the tower what does it all train about three hundred sixty degrees i think you have here play station actually we can move a camera all the way around we can actually if you can show me pretty close. mike
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has just received a call from the tower an individual has been spotted dealing cannabis by these are you ready for it right. the tower allows mike to rest you don't sue infringe that will. take you in two thousand and thirteen the south padre island police make 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 eighty four he was sort of the catalyst for this student has a fake id he's pretending to be the legal age for drinking alcohol. free entry. rowdiest managed to get past that barry and like these underage girls. it turns out that he an out and have been planning this for
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a long time. and like this. search. 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. by twenty six years to. a. lot of. the silly. every year spring break brings in around one billion dollars for the american economy. after several hours of partying roundy 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 at the stove want to share and learn to use their pain to train everybody here.
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every evening these volunteers prepare more than six thousand pancakes to help the party goes to 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 with good food and we continue to just party unity. like cool spring break is rowdy and old and 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. but
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laugh just. surf i want to do things that show these days you would be very clear place go away go to. management. and they are they they when they up and they have a bad thing. you need to feel. something yeah i'm them what do you have to become a something like your body do you want. to make a living that would diminish you still want to talk more next time.
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breaking news this hour an international plane with. iran. this week saw one of the worst. u.s. history when a former student went on a shooting rampage in florida killing seventeen the authorities have admitted of receiving about the danger posed by the gunman years before. but struggling to find a solution on how to deal with. already countries need to reach. deal with them using the rule of law should not.
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go on this sunday we start the program with breaking news for you plane with sixty six people on board has crashed in central iran it's feared there are no survivors local media site eyewitness reports saying the plane was trying to make an emergency landing the crash site is located. in a. reports say i'm going to reach it as it's in a mountainous area and we understand one emergency helicopter was also on able to land. now the plane was all. this is the third largest carrier in iran operates domestic and regional services and the plane is
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a french short haul aircraft the mall. well first introduced to the end of the eighty's the last time an arson airlines plane crash was twenty four years ago back then the plane suffered a sudden loss of power sixty six people were also killed in that disaster well here in r.c. international when we get the updates on this breaking news you get all of them immediately. are a fact is a weekly now wednesday saw one of the deadliest school shootings in u.s. history a former student of marjorie stoneman douglas high school in parkland florida went on a gun run page killing seventeen and injuring a dozen more. he saw wife dead body there on the floor and blood all over on the floor how many people like five on the third floor. ok look like students it was one teacher and four students. so they do call the fire drill you want to side
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boom boom boom boom marriage gunshot i doze firecrackers but at their last child like oh. my god i. don't like to come in bring a gun to shoot at school you like start taking young family i love you because you never know a biggish are killed the is the word that can describe how you feel because at that moment you're wondering if it's my kid is he ok z. safe was. during the shooting many of the students were holed up inside classrooms posting distressing messages online we managed to speak to police
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a line a student who was in the school at the time. world around blake about to leave school supposed to end years before the bell rang supposed to ring. but the final lot of and we're starting to a little clouds but the school of the bullets. and high because it's not a fire drill it goes school grad and it just like everybody still thought it's going to feel like they grew out of that they do in the schools but then we just here are the people second talking about life. is short you know like in the next meal is doing. the school stuff i already got killed and this is serious. world as it all those will be on the floor like so nobody can see us and all that stuff like not to be on our phones and. also when they
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realize this for real and they would just like it waiting at some point and they came and they told us like like thirty minutes later this all goes like everything's clear around but like we're not going to let you out like right now because we still don't break you know the school everybody was just trying to reach out of their friends and their family. world a much harm i just like feel very kind of lost because like i don't know what will i call it sort of like it's all stuff because like it's just never happened so me and i just don't think they're going to school is going to be like the same up there with the fun. police have identified the suspect as nicholas cruz a nineteen year old former student of the school who was expelled for disciplinary reasons police said he was armed with a semiautomatic rifle and had multiple magazines crucis told police that he was the
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one who carried out the shooting meantime he has been charged with seventeen counts of premeditated murder and students at the school described the subject as troubled or it's been reported teachers were warned about him some time ago given his enthusiasm for firearms in his free time and significantly the f.b.i. and the police have admitted that they had received tip offs about the gunman years before the attack but somehow officials failed to investigate. we have on target at the broward sheriff's office where we've had approximately twenty calls for service over the last two years regarding the killer the f.b.i. has a term and their protocol was not. the information was not provided by me but. in no further investigation was conducted that. we've seen time and time again over
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the last few years our intelligence agencies across the west dropping the ball in terms of getting tips being aware of potential threats and not following up on those threats and. taking out fences measures it seems lessons not being learned they need to have a proper view about you know what exactly are the threats what are they trying to do how can they best protect the people of their country to protect against these threats and that doesn't seem to be done. in france intelligence sources say that almost two thousand citizens known to have trouble to join islamic state in the middle east sixty seven came from one particular paris suburb shiela do with the reports from that. a short trade right from paris is trapped on the surface there's nothing much to set it aside from the thousands of other towns in the country but you don't have to scratch very deep to see that trend is very different where you would see any. butcher shops there were i think at the moment over fifteen hundred
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prayer rooms and five musts if you look at people on the street you won't see couples holding hands you'll see the women are dressed in strict islamic dress. there's a lot of home schooling so you couldn't really consider trap you know the typical french town anymore it's a little bit like a state within the state for decades it's been considered a magnet for muslim fundamentalists hardline salafism and one hobby is a widely practiced and trap has become student. animists with jihadism. and dozens of people. islamic state i was how carried out attacks on french soil have been linked. in paris in two thousand and fifty while with her right appears to. think that. there is some plain white pride remaining bad but your heart is only
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a matter of time before we have another attack the basic problem is that the ideology that's driving this and this goes much deeper than terrorist cells planning and executing attacks that ideology is so ingrained that last year a poll of french high school students revealed thirty two percent of muslim students believed islamic doctrine was superior to scientific fact another in two thousand and sixteen showed that sixty eight percent believed islamic law was superior to french law there's also concern that in an area like this that was once granted. by the authorities that sharia is becoming the lands. of. the full veil covering has been banned from e.t.s. yet the police are often reluctant to intervene of the riots in two thousand and thirteen when officers try to i.d.
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a woman who is fully covered it's a very very fragile situation which the government doesn't want to provoke urban riots which would quickly spread like wildfire all over france. president mccord says he wants to reorganize islam in a bid to fight fundamentalism but some experts say that's a pipe dream radicalization in places like this they say it's already far too deep rooted to take out jollity pinski party trap. the u.s. is joining in the chorus of growing concern coming out of europe over foreign i still fight is returning to their countries of residence washington has urged its allies particularly britain to pay more attention to citizens who fled europe to join the terrorist organization earlier the u.k. defense secretary said they should not be allowed to return i don't think they should.
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