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Like, I already know. Like...
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I got in. I got in, I got in!
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Oh, my God! I got in!
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Okay.
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- What? Denied?
- I got in!
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Yes! Yes!
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Boo-yah! Boo-yah!
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Boo-yah! Yes!
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"Application status
decision made. "
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I'm sorry, Janelle.
Admitted!
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- Oh, my God!
- Yes, yes, yes!
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Whoo!
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New students,
as I look out on you today,
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I recognize that you must be
feeling incredible excitement,
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anticipation, and perhaps
a little relief as well.
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This is the day.
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As your parents learned when
they dropped you off today,
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what happens in college
stays in college.
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Most of the time.
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Few things are more worthy
of celebration
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than the entry of a new class
of students into the university.
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You have strengths
and skills and smarts
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that you don't yet even realize.
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Our Kansas State University
new undergraduate students today
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are indeed the next generation
of leaders
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on whom we will all rely.
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Let us, the faculty, know what
we can do to help you reach that goal.
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We will be there to advise you,
to support you, to guide you,
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to point you to vast resources
and opportunities on your way.
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To our new treasured students,
this is your moment.
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Ah. You see? Ah...
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Does it get any higher?
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Ha-ha!
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Growing up in inner-city Miami,
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people like me don't really go anywhere.
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My dad came over from Cuba,
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and then my mom is second
generation Cuban-American.
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I really wanted to get out of Miami
and do something different.
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I'm the first person of my family
to ever leave the state and go to college.
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I was actually valedictorian
in high school.
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One of my favorite trips was coming
to D.C. when I was eight,
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and I cried when I saw
the Declaration of Independence.
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I've always been really fascinated
with the law and politics
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and just, like, our country's history.
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And I knew I wanted to go
to a school that had that history.
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And UNC was the first public school,
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and they had so much
in its history, you know,
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of activism and social justice,
and I just knew I belonged.
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I grew up in Raleigh,
North Carolina, kind of in suburbia.
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High school I actually
had a great time in.
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I was athletic.
I played a lot of sports.
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I was the first female
in my class to letter.
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I lettered in cross country.
And then I played soccer.
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I was basically a straight-A student,
graduated third in my class.
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For college, I thought
I would go somewhere in state,
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and UNC was the best school.
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I really had a good time there.
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I learned a lot.
I loved my professors.
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The first few weeks,
I made some of my best friends,
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and we're still really,
really close to this day.
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But two of us were sexually assaulted
before classes had even started.
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It was at night.
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We were dancing.
I was out with some friends.
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People were drinking,
but nobody was ridiculously drunk.
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And I got pulled outside
and banged my head against a wall
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and was raped.
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I physically fought
and got away and ran,
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and then went to the bathroom
and, like, I still remember
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just putting my hands on the sink
and just looking at myself in the mirror,
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shaking, like,
"What just happened?"
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My sophomore year,
right after spring break,
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a really good friend of mine said,
"Hey, you wanna go to this party?"
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And it was pretty late in the night.
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I started dancing with this guy.
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He was really attractive
and a really, really great dancer
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and just a really good person.
At least, I thought he was.
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It all happened really quickly.
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I was actually a virgin,
so that adds a bit to it,
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but he just started kind of, like,
pulling me towards the bathroom.
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He grabbed my head
by the side of my ear
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and slammed it
against the bathroom tile.
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And it didn't stop.
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I couldn't move.
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I could hear the laughter
outside the door.
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I could hear people dancing.
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And it made me wonder,
why does nobody see me?
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Why has nobody come
to the bathroom?
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Why am I not screaming?
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When you're scared, when you don't know
what's happening to you,
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you just stay there,
and you hope that you don't die.
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And that's what I was hoping, that
I had more than just 20 years to live.
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We've known
for probably 25 years now
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that the problem of sexual assault
on college campuses is enormous.
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On college campuses, it is not
the person jumping out of the bushes
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or in the parking lot, who is going
to rape or sexually assault you.
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It is the person whom you know,
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the person you may have classes with,
the person you see at a party.
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You think about... It's, you know,
it's the people we don't know
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that we should be worried about, but
it's really the people that you do know
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that you should be worried about.
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But I think a lot of parents think,
"Well, we'll drop our daughter off,
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she'll have
a great college experience,
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and everything will be fine
because the college has a reputation
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for being a safe place. "
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Um... it's not.
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I learned later on that I wasn't
the only one who was raped that weekend.
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But at the time,
we didn't talk about it
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because it was something
that nobody talked about.
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Rape's a scary word.
You don't wanna fall into a category.
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You don't wanna
be called the victim.
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I did not want to admit
that it happened to me.
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I didn't tell anybody
for a really long time.
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I went to classes, um...
did everything kind of normally,
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and it was just...
something in the back of my mind,
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and it really started to affect me.
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And I was like,
"I need to do something about this. "
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And it actually wasn't until one of my
other friends came to me and said,
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"I was assaulted at a fraternity.
How do I report?"
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And I said,
"Actually, I don't know. "
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And I disclosed to her
that I was assaulted as well,
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and we sat down
and just pulled up Google
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and started looking up
how to report at UNC.
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I knew I was more comfortable
reporting than she was.
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So I said, "Okay, I'm gonna go report
and then I'll figure out how to do it,
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and then I'll tell you,
and then you can do it too. "
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So I told this administrator
I was violently raped,
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and we're sitting down at this point,
and she looks at me and she's like,
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"Rape is like a football game, Annie,
and if you look back on the game,
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what would you do differently
in that situation?"
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I was expecting resources.
I was expecting support.
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And instead she gives me
this metaphor that rape is football.
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And it made no sense.
And I ask her... I was just,
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"No, rape is not like football at all!"
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And she's like,
"Well, you know, were you drunk?"
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And, "What would you
have done differently
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if you could replay
the situation again?"
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And I was just getting blamed
and blamed and blamed for this.
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They kept asking me,
like, "What were you wearing?
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What were you drinking?
How much did you have to drink?
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Did you pregame?"
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He kind of just lectured us about
how we shouldn't go out in short skirts.
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And we shouldn't drink because,
I mean, that's our fault.
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"Did you say no? How many times
did you say no? How did you say it?
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Okay, what were you wearing?"
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There was no response.
There was no response for seven months.
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I thought that if I told them, like,
they would take action.
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But the only action
they took was against me.
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After I was sexually assaulted,
they said I should just drop out
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until everything blows over.
Out of school.
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I went back into her office,
and I asked her what happened.
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She looked me right in the eye
and told me that she forgot.
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The school's response
always seemed like
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they were more concerned
about him and his needs.
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She said, "You don't know what he's
going through right now and neither do I.
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He could be really having a hard time. "
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They also told me,
despite the fact that I had
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a written admission of guilt from him,
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that I didn't have enough evidence
and that, in fact,
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what I'd presented to them, um,
could only prove that he loved me.
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There's a lot of victim blaming
with this crime,
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which has a silencing
effect on survivors.
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If a student comes
to an administrator with a problem,
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it's not as if the administrator
wants that student to be harmed.
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It's not as if the administrator wants
the harm to be perpetuated,
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but their first job is to protect
the institution from harm,
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not the student from harm.
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What you do is you make it difficult
for students to report,
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so you don't have 200
or a thousand reported assaults,
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or whatever the number
would be on that campus.
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So you can artificially
keep your numbers low.
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One really easy way,
when a lot of students report,
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they very much discourage them
from going to the police.
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And that's because
if it goes to the police,
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then it's more likely to end up
as a public record.
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Colleges have been mandated
for a long time to report the crimes
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that occur on campus
to the federal government.
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But it is in the interest of the college
to actually suppress
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all knowledge that
that rape has happened.
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There is a desire to have this
addressed internally.
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And part of that is silencing
the kind of problem.
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It's viewed as a public relations
management kind of a problem, I would say.
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Universities are protecting a brand.
They're selling a product.
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I got a call from
the Dean of Admissions first, asking,
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you know, "If you were to get
into Harvard, would you accept?"
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And I said yes because I knew my mom
would kill me if I said anything else.
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But...
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I had mentioned a little pressure.
Just a little.
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You know, I saw it
as a great opportunity.
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You know, a Harvard Law degree. Wow.
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I saw the inside of a court room
during my second year of law school.
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It was insanely stressful,
but also super rewarding.
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So, yeah, I really loved
my second year there.
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It was during the winter term
of my third year.
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I knew him really well.
We'd met a couple of years earlier.
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The guy and my girlfriend who was over,
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we all met at my apartment
to have some drinks beforehand,
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and then we went out to this bar.
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He continued to
buy us both more drinks.
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Half an hour into it, I noticed
my girlfriend seemed wasted.
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People started to comment on
how drunk my friend seemed.
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Almost instantly
after we got into the taxi,
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I just felt this extremely
heavy feeling come over me.
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My friend, she was just
kind of passed out completely.
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It was, like, a maybe ten-minute
ride back to my place.
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Me and my girlfriend kind of just
flopped down, face first on my bed.
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The next thing I remember,
he, um, was on top of me,
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and he had a hand
inside of my underwear,
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and he was trying to put
a finger inside of me.
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I yanked him by the hair, and I looked
over, and I just saw her naked back,
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and I know that she'd fallen asleep
with all of her clothes on.
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And so my next question was,
"Why is she naked?" Um...
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And he smiled as he was still on top
of me, fondling me with one hand,
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and he reached out
and pet her naked belly and said,
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"I did that. I undressed her. "
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And I asked, you know,
"And you took off her bra?"
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Then, um, he...
he touched her naked breast,
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while she was still totally unconscious,
and said, "Yeah, I did that too. "
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And the next day he texted me.
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And I said something
very casually like,
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"Am I gonna have to tell her
that she needs a pregnancy test?"
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And he said in the text message,
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"No, we didn't do anything serious.
Maybe I put a finger in her V at most. "
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It seemed pretty clear
that he had assaulted both of them
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while they were unconscious.
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I absolutely presumed
that Harvard would do right by Kamilah.
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I went to
the Dean of Students' office,
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and she said, "I just want
to make sure, above all else,
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that you don't talk
to anyone about this.
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It could be bad for everyone
if people started rallying around, like,
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having him removed from campus. "
And I was like, "Well, he's a predator,
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and he's dangerous and actually
that's exactly what I want. "
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We both had the right
to legal representation.
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My lawyer was pro bono.
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She was a phenomenal client.
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She really told her story
with a great deal of confidence.
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I went into the hearing,
and even the professors were like,
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did I give him the wrong message
with our friendship,
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and that he misunderstood our friendship.
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My response was like,
"No, because, you know,
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sex was never part of that friendship.
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And if it were ever
going to be introduced,
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when I was awake
would be a good time for that. "
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I'm getting questions like,
"Why didn't you fight him?"
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And he's like, I think,
like 6' 3", over 200 pounds.
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I was unconscious
or just coming to.
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I, like, could barely
take control of my own body.
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But, "Why didn't you fight him?"
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There was this extreme
reluctance to believe me.
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Campus administrators are
overly concerned about false reporting.
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You look at statistics
on false reporting.
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It's much, much smaller
than what people estimate it to be.
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The data about false rape claims
is that they're a tiny minority
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of all reports ever made.
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Rape and sexual assault have
the same percentage of false reports
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that any other crime has
in our country.
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The best research
from around the world
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would put the percentage of false reports
somewhere between two and eight percent.
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Which means 90 percent,
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but more likely 95 to 98 percent
of reports, are not false.
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We got done with the hearing
probably at 4:30 or 5:00.
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And they came back very quickly.
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They'd found that
he had assaulted me.
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When we got the call that he was
expelled, she was in utter disbelief.
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And that doesn't come very often
with these college cases.
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The next September,
I came back to Cambridge,
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and I got a Facebook message
from the Dean of Students.
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She said that the assailant,
he could appeal the ad board's decision,
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and they voted again on whether
to uphold the decision to remove him
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and decided to let him back in.
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The message is clear.
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It's, "Don't proceed through
these disciplinary hearings.
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No matter what you do,
you're not gonna win. "
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I was like, well,
you know what? I'm okay,
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and I've never had anything
happen to me and I'm fine.
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I'm gonna get through this.
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But I started feeling different.
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Not only was my mind in a place
of turmoil, my body was as well.
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I had nightmares that were so vivid
that I would wake up
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and my neck was bleeding
of how much I was scratching off
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that invisible rapist
on my neck again.
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So finally, when it became
very overwhelming,
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I knew that I couldn't
keep denying it anymore.
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So actually the first person
I told was Annie Clark.
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She was a senior
when I was a first year.
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I kind of Facebooked her,
and I said, you know,
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"Can I talk to you about something?"
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Hey, it's Annie.
Yeah, how are you doing?
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- I mean, we just hit it off.
- Oh, my gosh.
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She, till this day, has been
my greatest support system.
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Are you in a place... Do you feel
comfortable talking about it, or...?
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After I spoke to Annie,
I came out publicly to the entire campus
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in October of my sophomore year
with a project called The Courage Project,
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which was a photo project
of survivors on campus.
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As I became more public,
I became kind of that gateway for people
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to actually start talking about
what had happened to them.
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Within four weeks,
I met nine rape survivors at UNC.
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My school needed to know
this was a problem,
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and I thought that
they honestly just didn't know.
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I made meetings with the Vice Chancellor,
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and I made meetings
with the Dean of Students,
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and they were passed off
and ignored and delayed.
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And I kept saying,
"UNC has a problem with sexual assault. "
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I had the same meeting
with the Chancellor four years ago,
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and it's like, as soon as there's
a new cycle of students,
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there's no institutional memory,
and the problem starts all over again.
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And so unless you have...
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To see it happen with my friends
going through the same thing
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I experienced six years ago,
it's heartbreaking.
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And it's... That has affected me
more than my own rape.
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People stop talking about it,
and then it just continues
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and it makes you wonder,
what is it gonna take?
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And we started working
with Dean Melinda Manning,
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who was somebody who a lot of survivors
have worked with and trusted.
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So in your time at UNC,
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how many students came to you
and said they'd been assaulted?
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Um... yeah, it's hard
to put a number on it, so...
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At least 100.
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And of the hundred,
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how many of the perpetrators
were removed from campus?
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From what I remember,
no one was expelled during that time.
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So these guys
could just get away with it?
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Absolutely. Absolutely.
And people could commit it repeatedly.
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I was certainly aware of some individuals
who had committed it repeatedly.
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A survivor
at Occidental College contacted me.
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I noticed that her rapist's name
matched the name of two other cases.
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So, she was the third student
to be raped by this student.
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And the most troubling aspect
of this case
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is that he was allowed back,
or is allowed to come back onto campus.
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I thought it was only one,
but now I know there's two other women.
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And who knows who else
who just wasn't able to step forward.
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It seemed like prime hunting ground
for someone like him.
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My assailant,
he's done much worse to other people.
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He has assaulted at least four different
women. That's just who I know of.
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About two weeks after I reported,
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I got a call from the detective,
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saying that they found two other girls
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that he had previously raped.
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And they were both
University of Tulsa students,
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and they had both reported to the school.
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The vast majority of men
don't rape, won't rape, haven't raped,
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so when you start looking at the rapists
who are committing these crimes,
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it is the repeat offenders
who are the core of this problem.
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I was incarcerated for six
and a half years for sexual assault.
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I... I know I was at fault.
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You know, like I said, I guess the reason
I really wanted to do this interview
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was to maybe help someone else out.
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You know, maybe have them
become aware of,
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you know,
what they're doin' wrong.
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The really practiced sex offenders
identify groups of people
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who are more vulnerable.
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College is a place where
lots of alcohol's consumed,
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and the number of victims is endless.
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These men
select victims ahead of time.
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It could be a bar.
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It could be a fraternity party
where people are drinking.
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At the parties, like, frat parties,
I mean, people are getting wasted.
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So it's not like... A lot of the time,
dependin' on who they're with,
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nobody, um, keeps an eye on them.
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The alcohol is
essentially a weapon
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that is used to render somebody
extremely vulnerable.
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Alcohol definitely makes it
easier to overpower a victim.
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If they're inebriated or under
the influence, less struggle, for sure.
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And then there's
an isolation phase.
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So, you know, somebody who has
deliberately gotten this young woman
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extremely intoxicated,
and at some point he says to her,
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"I'll walk you back to your room. "
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or, "You can sleep it off if you want.
We have a bed upstairs. "
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And that's where
the assault occurs.
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A lot of people say, "Why don't
they just have students go to the police?"
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I have a lot of good friends who are
police officers, and I love them dearly,
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but they have some work to do.
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Even if law enforcement
does do a good job,
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a lot of district attorneys
don't wanna take these cases.
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And even if there is a prosecution,
it takes a long time.
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It takes a year, two years.
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In the meantime, that alleged perpetrator
could do it again and again and again.
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So universities,
if they have good evidence
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that somebody is perpetrating
that crime on that campus,
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they should remove them
to protect their other students,
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with or without the police.
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No more violence!
No more rape!
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No more silence! No more hate!
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What we're seeing today
has been going on
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for a very long time
on college campuses.
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Sexual violence has always been
part of the college experience.
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Here at Brown University,
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names of men accused of rape
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appeared on bathroom walls
all over the campus.
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The administration
called the tactic vigilantism.
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One student had a word
for the women who did it:
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Idiots. I have a lot
of friends on the list,
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and by no means are they rapists.
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They might be aggressive
at parties, flirtatious.
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And if girls carry a grudge,
they call 'em rapists.
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And to be saying that just because
a woman says no and because you have sex,
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those are the two facts.
The woman said no and you had sex.
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Then are you a rapist
automatically because of that?
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A national study says one
out of every four female college students
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will be the victim of a rape
or attempted sexual assault.
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The first national study was done...
published in 1987.
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Mary Koss's survey
of colleges around the country.
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And those numbers have been
replicated over and over again.
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Good evening.
As troubling as your statistics,
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are charges that this date
or acquaintance rape
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is being hidden
by universities and colleges
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in order to protect their image among
prospective students and their families.
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00:30:31,663 --> 00:30:35,395
We had been trying
to change the university for years,
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00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:37,594
and nothing was getting any better.
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And so we started looking to do
something to force them or shame them
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into doing the right thing.
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We started digging and doing
months and months of research
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on sexual harassment law,
on rape statutes.
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And then I read about Title IX.
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Title IX is a gender equity law.
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And it guarantees anyone
the right to an equal education.
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When perpetrators are allowed to remain
on campus, and schools don't expel them,
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00:31:07,198 --> 00:31:10,965
even when they're found responsible,
then they're in violation of Title IX
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for contributing to a hostile environment.
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If a school is found
in violation of Title IX,
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the government has the power
to revoke all federal funds,
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00:31:19,878 --> 00:31:22,814
which would hopefully force
a school to be in compliance.
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Title IX and the pending Campus Save Act
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00:31:25,583 --> 00:31:27,279
and now this law? Like, what?
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00:31:27,385 --> 00:31:28,546
And so,
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we decided to file a Title IX complaint.
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You basically write
to the Department of Education,
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00:31:33,658 --> 00:31:36,787
and you not only explain
what happened to you,
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00:31:36,895 --> 00:31:40,229
but you also explain how
it's a violation of Title IX.
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00:31:41,165 --> 00:31:43,896
So it is Thursday night,
and instead of going out,
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00:31:44,002 --> 00:31:47,268
we are in, learning case law
until we know Title IX
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00:31:47,405 --> 00:31:50,000
and the case law
like the back of our hands.
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00:31:50,108 --> 00:31:53,135
I had earbuds in.
If I was walking, if I was, you know,
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00:31:53,244 --> 00:31:54,303
going on a run or whatever,
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00:31:54,412 --> 00:31:56,313
instead of music
there were Supreme Court cases.
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00:31:56,414 --> 00:32:00,977
I read all the case law
on all existing Title IX cases.
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00:32:01,085 --> 00:32:04,021
Like, we're sleeping in shifts.
I would write for three hours
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00:32:04,122 --> 00:32:07,923
and then sleep for three hours,
and she would do the same.
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00:32:07,992 --> 00:32:10,757
And I learned that
you don't have to be a lawyer to file it,
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00:32:10,828 --> 00:32:14,924
that you could be 20
and take on a 200-year-old university.
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00:32:15,934 --> 00:32:17,163
We didn't know how to file.
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00:32:17,268 --> 00:32:21,467
So we faxed it, we emailed it,
and we mailed it.
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00:32:21,606 --> 00:32:23,006
We didn't know what to expect,
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00:32:23,107 --> 00:32:26,703
and so I go into
my university mail office one day,
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00:32:26,811 --> 00:32:30,009
and I have this big envelope
from the Department of Education,
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00:32:30,114 --> 00:32:32,948
and I'm just, like, freaking out.
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00:32:33,051 --> 00:32:36,146
I'm, like, crying, I'm calling
Drea, Melinda. I'm just like,
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00:32:36,287 --> 00:32:39,121
"They took our case.
They took our case. "
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00:32:41,159 --> 00:32:44,618
Flat out denial.
Leaders at UNC say accusations
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00:32:44,729 --> 00:32:48,131
that the university underreported
sexual assault cases is false.
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UNC Chapel Hill
General Council Leslie Strohm pointed out
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00:32:51,536 --> 00:32:54,631
what a false claim can do
to a university's reputation.
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00:32:54,739 --> 00:33:00,576
The allegations are false. They are
untrue. And they are just plain wrong.
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00:33:02,914 --> 00:33:07,682
"False. Untrue.
And just plain wrong. "
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That resonates in my head.
I hear that when I sleep.
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To say, "None of this happened.
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We're not underreporting.
We didn't mess up,"
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00:33:15,526 --> 00:33:16,824
it's just betrayal.
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Schools are actively and aggressively
not wanting to tell the truth
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00:33:23,668 --> 00:33:25,534
about what's going on on their campuses
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because the first campuses
to do so will be,
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you know, kind of known as
the rape campuses,
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where they actually have a rape problem.
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00:33:31,709 --> 00:33:34,736
But, you know, rape is happening
at all college campuses,
464
00:33:34,846 --> 00:33:37,281
and there are perverse economic
and reputational incentives
465
00:33:37,382 --> 00:33:38,748
to hide those numbers.
466
00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:42,787
I analogize it to getting a letter.
467
00:33:42,887 --> 00:33:47,018
So you're a parent, and you get a letter
in the middle of the summer,
468
00:33:47,125 --> 00:33:49,685
and it says,
"Dear Mr. and Mrs. Schultz,
469
00:33:49,794 --> 00:33:52,286
we're so happy that Johnny
is going to be a freshman,
470
00:33:52,397 --> 00:33:55,765
and we thought we might need
to let you know
471
00:33:55,867 --> 00:33:58,803
that there's a one-in-four or five chance
that while Johnny's here,
472
00:33:58,903 --> 00:34:02,431
he's going to be the victim
of a drive-by shooting.
473
00:34:02,540 --> 00:34:07,535
What's so vexing about this problem
is that the shooters are other students.
474
00:34:07,612 --> 00:34:09,706
Thank you so much
for your tuition money.
475
00:34:09,781 --> 00:34:13,479
We so look forward
to welcoming Johnny in the fall. "
476
00:34:13,584 --> 00:34:16,918
Would any parent send
his or her child there?
477
00:34:17,055 --> 00:34:19,615
They protect perpetrators,
I think, across the board
478
00:34:19,724 --> 00:34:22,216
because they have
a financial incentive to do so.
479
00:34:22,293 --> 00:34:25,286
Perpetrators who are found responsible
for rape are much more likely
480
00:34:25,396 --> 00:34:28,298
to sue institutions than survivors are,
481
00:34:28,399 --> 00:34:30,630
and institutions like to avoid lawsuits.
482
00:34:30,735 --> 00:34:33,830
And so in an effort
to avoid lawsuits,
483
00:34:33,938 --> 00:34:37,431
they pretty much do whatever they can
to give them a slap on the wrist.
484
00:34:38,576 --> 00:34:42,013
What to expect
if you are accused of a sexual assault.
485
00:34:42,747 --> 00:34:44,943
If you are found responsible,
you may be...
486
00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:47,742
suspended for one semester...
487
00:34:48,686 --> 00:34:50,917
suspended over summer vacation...
488
00:34:51,856 --> 00:34:53,848
suspended for one day...
489
00:34:54,792 --> 00:34:57,091
given a $75 fine...
490
00:34:58,196 --> 00:35:00,131
given a $25 fine...
491
00:35:00,765 --> 00:35:02,700
given a warning...
492
00:35:03,601 --> 00:35:06,628
assigned a paper
to reflect on your experience...
493
00:35:07,839 --> 00:35:09,637
required to construct a poster board,
494
00:35:09,707 --> 00:35:12,506
listing ten ways to approach
a girl you like...
495
00:35:14,045 --> 00:35:19,450
assigned 50 hours of community service
at a rape crisis center.
496
00:35:21,519 --> 00:35:23,215
Any allegation
of sexual assault is something
497
00:35:23,321 --> 00:35:25,051
that we at the university
take very seriously.
498
00:35:25,156 --> 00:35:28,354
ASU issued a statement
saying in part, "Arizona State University
499
00:35:28,459 --> 00:35:31,122
takes all sexual misconduct
complaints very seriously. "
500
00:35:31,195 --> 00:35:35,155
The university says it's taking
these allegations very seriously.
501
00:35:35,299 --> 00:35:37,325
We take all incidents very seriously.
502
00:35:37,468 --> 00:35:39,528
We take
these accusations very seriously.
503
00:35:39,637 --> 00:35:41,731
We take
reports like this very seriously.
504
00:35:41,839 --> 00:35:44,308
They take all reports very seriously.
505
00:35:44,375 --> 00:35:45,968
James Madison University
506
00:35:46,043 --> 00:35:47,841
takes the safety and well-being
507
00:35:47,912 --> 00:35:49,676
of our students very seriously.
508
00:35:49,814 --> 00:35:52,249
So... So what's the punishment?
509
00:35:52,350 --> 00:35:54,979
All three students responsible
510
00:35:55,086 --> 00:35:57,715
for sexual assault and harassment,
511
00:35:57,822 --> 00:36:00,519
expelled upon graduation.
512
00:36:00,658 --> 00:36:03,992
Yes! Justice! Unbe... Wait a minute.
513
00:36:05,229 --> 00:36:08,597
Expelled upon graduation?
514
00:36:11,269 --> 00:36:12,931
Isn't that...
515
00:36:13,037 --> 00:36:14,562
graduation?
516
00:36:23,347 --> 00:36:25,077
We will strive to build
517
00:36:25,183 --> 00:36:29,951
a community where education,
inquiry, and faith combine
518
00:36:30,054 --> 00:36:33,024
to respond to the demands of justice.
519
00:36:35,059 --> 00:36:37,255
This is our goal,
520
00:36:37,361 --> 00:36:40,957
that no one ever say
that we dreamed too small.
521
00:36:44,702 --> 00:36:47,866
My career
in law enforcement started in 1969
522
00:36:47,939 --> 00:36:51,205
from the South Bend
Police Department and then went
523
00:36:51,275 --> 00:36:53,073
to the University of Notre Dame
Police Department.
524
00:36:53,211 --> 00:36:58,149
University students are...
they're just wonderful kids.
525
00:36:58,249 --> 00:37:01,777
But there's... just like anywhere,
there's a percentage
526
00:37:01,886 --> 00:37:05,948
of, um, of...
527
00:37:06,057 --> 00:37:09,960
absolutely horrible people, too.
528
00:37:10,061 --> 00:37:13,259
You know. And, of course,
I had to deal with that too.
529
00:37:17,335 --> 00:37:20,965
Saint Mary's is
the sister school to Notre Dame.
530
00:37:21,072 --> 00:37:24,167
It's one of the best Catholic
all-women's colleges in the nation,
531
00:37:24,275 --> 00:37:26,801
and I was proud to go there.
532
00:37:28,312 --> 00:37:32,841
I was really happy.
I was part of Campus Ministries.
533
00:37:32,950 --> 00:37:36,318
I decided to be a biology major.
534
00:37:36,420 --> 00:37:39,754
I had a dream of going
to medical school.
535
00:37:40,625 --> 00:37:43,254
Compared to my sister,
I'm more of a book person,
536
00:37:43,327 --> 00:37:48,265
and she kinda always made fun of me
'cause I liked to stay in on the weekends,
537
00:37:48,332 --> 00:37:52,963
and she'd kinda say I was a party pooper
and want me to come out and stuff.
538
00:37:53,104 --> 00:37:55,505
And I did go out. And it was fun.
539
00:37:57,341 --> 00:37:59,333
It was Halloween.
540
00:38:00,845 --> 00:38:03,838
A call came in on my phone.
541
00:38:03,948 --> 00:38:07,214
It was from someone I knew
who went to Notre Dame.
542
00:38:07,318 --> 00:38:11,312
He's like, "You have to come
to a Halloween party. "
543
00:38:12,223 --> 00:38:16,126
You know, I trust people.
I trusted what he said.
544
00:38:17,461 --> 00:38:20,454
So, you know,
I just went along with it.
545
00:38:21,899 --> 00:38:24,198
We got to his dorm.
546
00:38:24,302 --> 00:38:26,897
You know, I asked him,
"Well, where is everyone else?"
547
00:38:27,004 --> 00:38:29,530
And he's like,
"Oh, they're coming. "
548
00:38:30,675 --> 00:38:34,806
And eventually
his friends left,
549
00:38:34,879 --> 00:38:36,575
and it was just me and him.
550
00:38:42,853 --> 00:38:44,822
And that's when it happened.
551
00:38:47,658 --> 00:38:50,423
She, of course, said, "No. "
552
00:38:50,528 --> 00:38:53,054
You know, tryin' to keep him
from doin' what he was doin'.
553
00:38:53,164 --> 00:38:58,228
And then he eventually just forced her
and... and raped her.
554
00:39:02,006 --> 00:39:04,566
Lieutenant Cottrell interviewed
all the people that,
555
00:39:04,675 --> 00:39:07,076
you know, I had known
that were involved.
556
00:39:07,178 --> 00:39:09,841
In my opinion,
I had a conspiracy
557
00:39:09,914 --> 00:39:15,751
of not only the suspect that was involved
in... in raping the victim,
558
00:39:15,853 --> 00:39:21,190
but I also had friends of his
that helped convince her
559
00:39:21,258 --> 00:39:23,625
that there was a party
that she was going to.
560
00:39:26,263 --> 00:39:29,597
The university had
their judicial hearing.
561
00:39:31,602 --> 00:39:36,438
I had this idealistic view
that if I was telling the truth
562
00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:41,911
that they would support me.
And, um... they didn't.
563
00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:47,652
They preferred to have the crime stats
564
00:39:47,752 --> 00:39:52,622
as low as possible,
so that, you know,
565
00:39:52,723 --> 00:39:58,560
it doesn't detract
from applicants to the university.
566
00:40:00,231 --> 00:40:04,794
I met with the president
of Saint Mary's, Dr. Mooney.
567
00:40:06,971 --> 00:40:11,067
Hello, I'm Carol Ann Mooney,
President of Saint Mary's College.
568
00:40:11,909 --> 00:40:16,404
Saint Mary's must always be committed
to providing our students
569
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:20,918
with an excellent intellectual
and academic experience.
570
00:40:20,985 --> 00:40:24,581
She kind of blew it off
and didn't take it seriously, you know.
571
00:40:25,923 --> 00:40:29,257
She said, "Well, these things
don't happen here. "
572
00:40:33,030 --> 00:40:38,367
It got worse and worse for me
as the years went along.
573
00:40:38,469 --> 00:40:43,670
Um... not only dealing with
what happened to the victim,
574
00:40:44,775 --> 00:40:50,180
but also dealing with
what the university did.
575
00:40:50,281 --> 00:40:54,946
My bosses were saying that they had
576
00:40:55,019 --> 00:40:58,956
empathy for victims of crimes,
577
00:40:59,056 --> 00:41:04,791
but it was like
I told them, that... that
578
00:41:04,862 --> 00:41:06,353
"Talk is cheap.
579
00:41:06,464 --> 00:41:09,832
And that's all it is
with you guys is talk.
580
00:41:09,967 --> 00:41:12,801
You don't really support
victims of crimes.
581
00:41:12,870 --> 00:41:14,634
I do.
582
00:41:15,973 --> 00:41:17,532
And I can't work
for you any longer. "
583
00:41:22,012 --> 00:41:24,072
I didn't really talk about it.
584
00:41:24,181 --> 00:41:25,513
I kinda just...
585
00:41:26,684 --> 00:41:31,349
stayed in my room
for a couple months until Christmas.
586
00:41:32,656 --> 00:41:35,216
And I didn't sleep.
587
00:41:35,326 --> 00:41:38,228
My nights and days
were mixed up. Um...
588
00:41:38,329 --> 00:41:41,891
I had to, um...
couldn't go to class,
589
00:41:41,999 --> 00:41:44,059
and so I cut down.
590
00:41:44,168 --> 00:41:47,935
I just completely changed
as a person.
591
00:41:52,176 --> 00:41:56,079
I think the biggest reason
why it's so hard to be on a college campus
592
00:41:56,180 --> 00:42:00,345
after you've been raped or sexually
assaulted is that it's a small place,
593
00:42:00,451 --> 00:42:02,511
right, where everything is structured.
594
00:42:02,586 --> 00:42:05,021
Your living space is structured,
your eating space is structured,
595
00:42:05,089 --> 00:42:06,751
so you're gonna run into your rapist.
596
00:42:06,857 --> 00:42:10,794
I couldn't go out.
Like, I couldn't mingle with strangers.
597
00:42:10,895 --> 00:42:14,024
I felt the campus getting
smaller and smaller to me.
598
00:42:14,098 --> 00:42:16,294
There were less and less places
I felt comfortable going.
599
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:21,964
I walk around with my pepper spray
on my keys, and I'm always just on edge.
600
00:42:24,275 --> 00:42:27,040
There's a whole
physiological side to PTSD.
601
00:42:27,111 --> 00:42:29,546
When you experience
a traumatic event like this,
602
00:42:29,613 --> 00:42:35,382
your nervous system, um,
tends to get very reactive.
603
00:42:35,486 --> 00:42:37,887
I started having more panic attacks.
604
00:42:37,988 --> 00:42:40,719
When I was in my depressed state,
I just slept all day long.
605
00:42:40,824 --> 00:42:44,886
I couldn't stop crying. I couldn't stop
thinking about it. I self-harmed.
606
00:42:46,163 --> 00:42:50,760
During the vacation between, I guess,
semester one and semester two,
607
00:42:50,901 --> 00:42:52,665
I tried to kill myself.
608
00:42:54,071 --> 00:42:58,441
I had a lot of, I mean, of course,
depression, suicidal thoughts.
609
00:42:58,576 --> 00:43:02,013
Trey Malone took his own life last June.
610
00:43:02,112 --> 00:43:06,072
In his suicide note, Malone wrote
about being sexually abused
611
00:43:06,150 --> 00:43:10,645
while a student at Amherst College
and the school's lack of response.
612
00:43:11,255 --> 00:43:12,814
Men are sexually assaulted.
613
00:43:12,923 --> 00:43:16,189
And typically that is
perpetrated by other men.
614
00:43:16,293 --> 00:43:20,128
And I think for a lot of male survivors
who are sexually assaulted,
615
00:43:20,264 --> 00:43:23,666
it challenges many beliefs
that they have about themselves.
616
00:43:23,767 --> 00:43:25,599
Men aren't supposed to become vulnerable.
617
00:43:25,669 --> 00:43:28,332
They always say, "You allowed
yourself to do it. Why did you do it?
618
00:43:28,439 --> 00:43:29,600
Why didn't you fight them off?"
619
00:43:29,673 --> 00:43:33,201
Men have to be strong, and men
wouldn't let this happen to them.
620
00:43:33,310 --> 00:43:39,308
Because of the emphasis there is
on it being a crime against females,
621
00:43:40,384 --> 00:43:43,377
men feel less comfortable
coming forward with it.
622
00:43:43,487 --> 00:43:47,720
Reporting rates amongst men
are just so infinitesimal
623
00:43:47,825 --> 00:43:50,818
that it actually makes it very hard
to do research on this,
624
00:43:50,961 --> 00:43:56,832
let alone to get a real understanding
of the scope of the problem.
625
00:44:11,982 --> 00:44:16,044
You are built
from the ground as a Tar Heel...
626
00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:21,649
as a member of a community
that is so much bigger than you.
627
00:44:22,660 --> 00:44:24,526
I was directly going against it.
628
00:44:26,664 --> 00:44:30,226
Tonight the U.S. Department of Education
has launched its own investigation
629
00:44:30,334 --> 00:44:35,068
into how UNC Chapel Hill has been handling
sexual assault cases on campus.
630
00:44:36,674 --> 00:44:40,668
It wasn't until we filed the
complaint that the retaliation started.
631
00:44:40,744 --> 00:44:42,372
And it's been bad.
632
00:44:45,049 --> 00:44:47,450
I've gotten death threats,
I've gotten rape threats.
633
00:44:47,551 --> 00:44:49,918
Of course, Internet trolls
are always there.
634
00:44:50,020 --> 00:44:54,515
But I had one in-person threat,
which was kind of scary. Um...
635
00:44:54,625 --> 00:44:56,594
"Bang-bang, bitch. Die. "
636
00:44:56,694 --> 00:45:01,257
My residence hall was broken into,
and it was completely vandalized.
637
00:45:01,365 --> 00:45:04,927
Spray paint everywhere,
a knife was left behind.
638
00:45:05,035 --> 00:45:07,061
And messages were painted all over.
639
00:45:10,607 --> 00:45:13,975
I felt like
I was in danger all the time,
640
00:45:14,078 --> 00:45:16,741
and that's what I thought of
when I went to classes.
641
00:45:17,915 --> 00:45:20,783
I went, you know,
from being valedictorian in high school
642
00:45:20,884 --> 00:45:23,718
and then, you know,
struggling to finish my classes.
643
00:45:23,787 --> 00:45:26,552
And not knowing how to tell my parents,
which I never did.
644
00:45:30,627 --> 00:45:32,562
Can you talk a little bit
about what it was like
645
00:45:32,629 --> 00:45:34,825
when your parents found out?
646
00:45:34,932 --> 00:45:36,764
- They still don't know.
- They still don't know.
647
00:45:36,900 --> 00:45:39,096
Yeah. Um...
648
00:45:40,938 --> 00:45:45,603
I thought about telling them
many, many times.
649
00:45:45,743 --> 00:45:49,305
And I didn't tell my parents
until a couple days later,
650
00:45:49,446 --> 00:45:53,747
which was probably, like, the hardest
thing I've ever had to do, ever.
651
00:45:53,817 --> 00:45:54,944
Um...
652
00:45:56,353 --> 00:45:59,118
- Now I'm gonna start crying.
- It's okay, you can cry.
653
00:45:59,256 --> 00:46:03,284
- You don't have to hold it in.
- Like, I remember Skyping my dad...
654
00:46:06,463 --> 00:46:08,955
What worries you
about telling them?
655
00:46:09,032 --> 00:46:12,161
The conversation afterwards.
656
00:46:13,203 --> 00:46:14,796
I worry that they'd
look at me differently.
657
00:46:18,041 --> 00:46:20,670
I'm worried that they'd want
to talk about it again.
658
00:46:24,481 --> 00:46:26,643
And just the fact
that they would know.
659
00:46:29,987 --> 00:46:32,980
That it would just be there in their minds
when they looked at me.
660
00:46:34,158 --> 00:46:37,890
Just to hear my mom's voice on the phone,
her feeling so helpless in that moment,
661
00:46:37,995 --> 00:46:41,227
is probably one of the worst aspects
of this entire ordeal,
662
00:46:41,331 --> 00:46:43,664
which probably makes me
the most angry at my assailant.
663
00:46:44,368 --> 00:46:47,497
My mom was on the plane
the next day after I told her.
664
00:46:54,344 --> 00:46:58,907
My dad, he wears
his Notre Dame ring every day.
665
00:46:59,016 --> 00:47:03,181
I've never seen him take it off, and
he didn't... he wasn't wearing it anymore.
666
00:47:03,253 --> 00:47:07,884
His finger that has
a permanent mark from his ring
667
00:47:08,025 --> 00:47:11,928
didn't have his ring on.
And it just...
668
00:47:12,029 --> 00:47:15,864
It was even more heartbreaking
for me to watch my dad.
669
00:47:15,933 --> 00:47:20,064
I call her from a thousand miles away
and tell her this.
670
00:47:21,738 --> 00:47:24,708
And I just wanted
her to be there.
671
00:47:32,950 --> 00:47:38,048
Lizzy always had this big,
beautiful, radiant smile.
672
00:47:38,188 --> 00:47:42,182
It was electric, and it... it... it
made other people happy.
673
00:47:43,927 --> 00:47:47,091
We had 11 family members
attend Notre Dame
674
00:47:47,197 --> 00:47:50,224
and two family members, including Lizzy,
that went to Saint Mary's.
675
00:47:50,300 --> 00:47:56,206
And she, I think, really felt affirmed
that this was the right choice.
676
00:47:56,273 --> 00:48:00,608
She was really,
really happy to be there.
677
00:48:02,079 --> 00:48:04,378
And a little bit of chicken fry
678
00:48:04,448 --> 00:48:08,385
She went over
on August 31st with a friend
679
00:48:08,452 --> 00:48:10,978
to attend an activities fair
at Notre Dame,
680
00:48:11,088 --> 00:48:14,058
and that evening they went back
681
00:48:14,124 --> 00:48:18,653
to, um, this football player's room.
682
00:48:22,099 --> 00:48:23,965
It was four of 'em in there.
683
00:48:24,101 --> 00:48:26,798
The football player and his friend
and Lizzy and her friend.
684
00:48:26,937 --> 00:48:29,133
And... And, um...
685
00:48:29,273 --> 00:48:30,969
I guess, rather suddenly,
686
00:48:31,108 --> 00:48:34,977
the... the... the other two left the room
687
00:48:35,112 --> 00:48:37,445
and left Lizzy alone
with this football player.
688
00:48:37,514 --> 00:48:40,450
And then he basically jumps her.
689
00:48:40,517 --> 00:48:44,249
He pulls her on top of him
690
00:48:44,321 --> 00:48:48,850
and... and removes her shirt,
um, and bra,
691
00:48:48,959 --> 00:48:52,623
and then also begins to try
to take off her pants.
692
00:48:54,798 --> 00:48:57,495
And the next day Lizzy reports.
693
00:48:57,634 --> 00:49:00,297
It never crossed our mind
that they wouldn't do right.
694
00:49:02,606 --> 00:49:06,668
The accused, they couldn't find him.
They had difficulty locating him.
695
00:49:08,011 --> 00:49:12,676
Everyone knows where this individual is.
Certainly the athletic department knows.
696
00:49:12,783 --> 00:49:16,686
He played two home football games
before he was interviewed.
697
00:49:16,787 --> 00:49:20,189
Notre Dame stadium holds 80,000 people,
698
00:49:20,324 --> 00:49:24,386
so that's times two, 160,000 people
knew where this guy was
699
00:49:24,494 --> 00:49:27,828
before the Notre Dame
Security Police could find him.
700
00:49:28,899 --> 00:49:34,167
There was a directive
that the campus police
701
00:49:34,237 --> 00:49:37,332
cannot contact an athlete
702
00:49:37,407 --> 00:49:40,241
at any athletic facility...
703
00:49:41,578 --> 00:49:46,209
and we cannot contact
any athletic employee
704
00:49:46,350 --> 00:49:52,153
to assist us in contacting the athlete
that we would be looking for.
705
00:49:52,222 --> 00:49:54,157
So what was the point of that?
706
00:49:56,226 --> 00:49:59,719
I guess just to...
707
00:49:59,863 --> 00:50:04,198
keep us away
from student athletes.
708
00:50:04,334 --> 00:50:07,600
So Lizzy ends this exchange
of intimidating texts
709
00:50:07,704 --> 00:50:10,333
from the football player's friend,
710
00:50:10,407 --> 00:50:13,172
and he comes at her with a text,
711
00:50:13,243 --> 00:50:15,235
"Don't do anything you would regret.
712
00:50:15,379 --> 00:50:18,508
Messing with Notre Dame football
is a bad idea. "
713
00:50:19,216 --> 00:50:20,844
And then Lizzy takes that message
714
00:50:20,917 --> 00:50:24,445
and immediately forwards it
to the detective in charge.
715
00:50:24,554 --> 00:50:28,719
And later the county prosecutor said
that they would not be filing any charges
716
00:50:28,792 --> 00:50:33,162
on that particular complaint
and saying that it wasn't a threat
717
00:50:33,230 --> 00:50:36,496
because the individual who sent it
718
00:50:36,566 --> 00:50:41,971
believed he was trying to prevent
someone from filing a false report.
719
00:50:45,575 --> 00:50:49,569
She was becoming very anxious
about this... this whole situation.
720
00:50:50,580 --> 00:50:53,744
One of her friends is quoted
as saying that she said, you know,
721
00:50:53,884 --> 00:50:55,716
"He's gonna get away with it. "
722
00:50:55,886 --> 00:50:57,582
He denied everything,
723
00:50:57,654 --> 00:51:00,624
and made comments like,
"She was the aggressor. "
724
00:51:02,492 --> 00:51:06,224
Friday evening,
I finally looked at my phone,
725
00:51:06,296 --> 00:51:11,098
and I saw a text
from my wife's best friend, saying,
726
00:51:11,234 --> 00:51:13,635
"You need to call right away. "
727
00:51:13,770 --> 00:51:18,902
And... And I remember
the words in it was, uh,
728
00:51:18,975 --> 00:51:21,638
"It's bad. It's bad.
729
00:51:22,813 --> 00:51:24,441
Lizzy took her life today.
730
00:51:28,118 --> 00:51:29,950
She's gone. "
731
00:51:40,964 --> 00:51:44,628
You know, it's... brutal.
732
00:51:44,768 --> 00:51:48,466
It's just really profoundly sad
in those moments
733
00:51:48,538 --> 00:51:51,633
when you just think,
she's not here with us.
734
00:52:00,150 --> 00:52:01,812
Is it just students?
Is it everybody?
735
00:52:09,826 --> 00:52:11,294
So I'm in Oregon.
736
00:52:11,361 --> 00:52:14,695
'Drea ends up moving to Oregon
and taking the semester off.
737
00:52:18,502 --> 00:52:23,236
Every place I've separated
with a semicolon is a different...
738
00:52:23,340 --> 00:52:25,969
She and I started talking. We're like,
"Okay, we're gonna keep doing this.
739
00:52:26,042 --> 00:52:28,534
Don't know how we're gonna fund it,
but we're gonna do something. "
740
00:52:28,678 --> 00:52:30,374
We called everybody.
741
00:52:30,514 --> 00:52:32,983
Most people totally laughed it off.
742
00:52:33,049 --> 00:52:37,316
Just looking at rape reporting
in general, it's really low...
743
00:52:37,387 --> 00:52:40,846
But one of the people who we had
reached out to about the UNC case
744
00:52:40,924 --> 00:52:43,689
was at The New York Times.
And he's like, "Oh, that's interesting. "
745
00:52:43,827 --> 00:52:45,989
It ended up becoming a front page
New York Times story.
746
00:52:48,532 --> 00:52:53,596
That's when we got a flood
of emails, Facebook, tweets.
747
00:52:53,703 --> 00:52:57,196
Like, somebody tweeted at me,
"Me too. It happened to me too. "
748
00:52:57,274 --> 00:53:00,108
This is Annie.
And Andrea's here with me.
749
00:53:00,210 --> 00:53:03,874
Do you see a button in the middle
of your screen? It says "start video. "
750
00:53:05,048 --> 00:53:06,277
- Yay!
- Oh, look at that.
751
00:53:06,383 --> 00:53:10,013
It was my freshman year.
I'd been at school for a couple of weeks.
752
00:53:10,086 --> 00:53:11,918
I'd made friends
in some frat houses.
753
00:53:12,055 --> 00:53:13,887
People reached out
through all these different mediums.
754
00:53:14,024 --> 00:53:15,856
A lot of Facebook. A lot of emails.
755
00:53:15,926 --> 00:53:18,225
"I froze and couldn't fight back. "
756
00:53:18,361 --> 00:53:22,025
"I don't know if it's appropriate to have
told this story to you without asking,
757
00:53:22,098 --> 00:53:27,730
and I'm sorry if it's been harmful to you
in any way, but it needs to stop. "
758
00:53:28,905 --> 00:53:30,430
Wow.
759
00:53:30,574 --> 00:53:33,408
I remember I was in one meeting
after some story broke,
760
00:53:33,543 --> 00:53:36,877
and I had 50 calls in an hour.
I had 50 calls.
761
00:53:36,947 --> 00:53:40,543
I've never heard
of a case that has gone
762
00:53:40,617 --> 00:53:43,587
- in, like, the survivor's favor.
- I mean, he admitted it.
763
00:53:43,720 --> 00:53:46,155
He admitted to sexual assault
and got an eight-week suspension.
764
00:53:46,256 --> 00:53:47,087
Mm-hmm.
765
00:53:47,224 --> 00:53:50,160
The Dean of Students
accused me of being drunk
766
00:53:50,260 --> 00:53:52,820
and told me that I had,
like, a serious problem.
767
00:53:52,929 --> 00:53:55,262
So many of the survivors
coming forward were saying,
768
00:53:55,332 --> 00:53:56,459
"My rape was bad,
769
00:53:56,566 --> 00:53:58,432
but the way I was treated was worse. "
770
00:53:58,568 --> 00:54:01,402
I was raped in the Honors Dorm
771
00:54:01,471 --> 00:54:04,464
above the department's office.
772
00:54:04,608 --> 00:54:08,306
And the department office took
my scholarship. It just doesn't...
773
00:54:08,411 --> 00:54:10,607
I was up working at four,
and then I'd go to work,
774
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,149
and then I come back
and sometimes there'd be survivors
775
00:54:13,283 --> 00:54:15,582
in my apartment that needed to talk.
776
00:54:15,652 --> 00:54:18,144
You probably hear
stories like this all the time.
777
00:54:18,255 --> 00:54:20,349
I know, but it doesn't make it any better.
778
00:54:20,457 --> 00:54:25,361
Now I'm realizing, like, how much better
I feel from talking about it.
779
00:54:25,462 --> 00:54:29,160
You're not alone. You're not alone.
And no matter how many awful things...
780
00:54:29,266 --> 00:54:30,700
I basically had to make a choice
781
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,167
if I wanted to continue
to support survivors
782
00:54:33,270 --> 00:54:37,037
or have my actual administrative job
at a university.
783
00:54:37,140 --> 00:54:41,305
I figured I could do more good
this way, so I resigned.
784
00:54:42,812 --> 00:54:46,613
- On our to-do list, we have Vanderbilt.
- Yep.
785
00:54:46,683 --> 00:54:48,549
- Um...
- UConn.
786
00:54:48,652 --> 00:54:50,382
Formalizing a national network
787
00:54:50,487 --> 00:54:52,820
- is on our to-do list.
- That's pending.
788
00:54:52,956 --> 00:54:54,720
I found my paychecks.
789
00:54:59,162 --> 00:55:02,894
What Drea and I are looking
to see is how do we show that UNC,
790
00:55:02,999 --> 00:55:05,161
it's not in isolation?
791
00:55:06,670 --> 00:55:10,198
We started seeing, you know, what was
happening at campuses across the country.
792
00:55:13,343 --> 00:55:18,008
We look at all the cases we've heard,
then we make this map,
793
00:55:18,081 --> 00:55:21,540
and every time another school called
or whatever, we put a dot on the map.
794
00:55:21,685 --> 00:55:26,089
I remember talking to Drea, and I'm like,
"Why has no one connected the dots before?
795
00:55:26,189 --> 00:55:30,490
We have a case at Amherst, Yale,
Penn State, Berkeley, Oxy, UNC,
796
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:33,428
and nobody said,
'I think we should connect these dots
797
00:55:33,530 --> 00:55:36,989
'cause there might be something
going on here bigger than one problem. "
798
00:55:37,067 --> 00:55:41,004
And you see how many people
are being impacted by them,
799
00:55:41,071 --> 00:55:43,666
and every one of those dots
being more than one story.
800
00:55:44,674 --> 00:55:47,234
You start to see it as an epidemic.
801
00:55:47,377 --> 00:55:49,539
What if we could build a network?
802
00:55:49,679 --> 00:55:52,547
What if we could connect our stories?
803
00:55:52,682 --> 00:55:57,211
We could actually make campus rape
a problem that people cared about.
804
00:56:03,226 --> 00:56:04,387
Hi, Sofie!
805
00:56:05,895 --> 00:56:07,124
Hello.
806
00:56:07,230 --> 00:56:09,199
Hi!
807
00:56:09,265 --> 00:56:10,893
Do you wanna see Drea?
808
00:56:12,469 --> 00:56:15,633
- Can you see?
- Drea!
809
00:56:16,573 --> 00:56:19,099
Sofie was one
of the first activists who reached out,
810
00:56:19,242 --> 00:56:20,870
and she was from Berkeley.
811
00:56:20,944 --> 00:56:23,413
There's been an increase
in the number
812
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:26,279
of sexual assaults
that have happened.
813
00:56:26,416 --> 00:56:28,749
She's like, "This is exactly
what's happening at Berkeley.
814
00:56:28,818 --> 00:56:30,616
I know so many other people
that are dealing with this.
815
00:56:30,754 --> 00:56:32,552
How can we do what you did?"
816
00:56:32,622 --> 00:56:34,955
And so we started working together.
817
00:56:37,293 --> 00:56:39,421
- Annie!
- Hi!
818
00:56:43,066 --> 00:56:44,500
- How are you?
- Hi!
819
00:56:44,601 --> 00:56:46,331
- Oh!
- Hi, how was your trip?
820
00:56:46,436 --> 00:56:49,235
- Are you scared of retaliation at all?
- Yeah.
821
00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:54,644
So far, the students who know
have been really, really supportive.
822
00:56:54,778 --> 00:56:58,442
I think that once maybe
the fraternities find out,
823
00:56:58,581 --> 00:57:02,279
then that could be bad.
824
00:57:02,419 --> 00:57:06,618
It's called Collegiate ACB,
and there are all of these fraternities
825
00:57:06,689 --> 00:57:09,625
that post on it about, like,
"Oh, who's the most attractive?
826
00:57:09,692 --> 00:57:12,594
Which house is the best house?"
Or people that say,
827
00:57:12,662 --> 00:57:16,531
"I was raped at Sigma Chi last weekend. "
Or "I was raped at Teke once. "
828
00:57:17,634 --> 00:57:19,330
Why is your name in it?
829
00:57:19,469 --> 00:57:21,301
Oh, my God.
I don't know.
830
00:57:21,371 --> 00:57:24,535
I did not think I was gonna be
on this stupid site.
831
00:57:24,641 --> 00:57:26,610
Well, also how
they spelled your name, though.
832
00:57:26,676 --> 00:57:29,544
I know.
"Sofiem Karasekem"?
833
00:57:29,646 --> 00:57:31,808
- Whatever that means.
- They wrote my name...
834
00:57:31,881 --> 00:57:33,509
They wrote it in Latin.
I don't understand.
835
00:57:33,650 --> 00:57:34,640
Probably search it?
836
00:57:40,490 --> 00:57:41,651
Interesting.
837
00:57:57,207 --> 00:57:58,903
Whoo!
838
00:58:03,213 --> 00:58:07,674
The American fraternity industry
spans thousands of American colleges,
839
00:58:07,750 --> 00:58:11,380
from the most elite,
private Ivy League institutions
840
00:58:11,488 --> 00:58:12,854
to small regional colleges.
841
00:58:15,825 --> 00:58:18,989
We all know about
inflicted trauma from hazing.
842
00:58:19,062 --> 00:58:21,725
But it's a matter of public record
843
00:58:21,865 --> 00:58:25,324
that the second most common
type of insurance claim
844
00:58:25,401 --> 00:58:26,562
against the fraternity industry
845
00:58:26,703 --> 00:58:28,604
is from sexual assault.
846
00:58:28,705 --> 00:58:30,401
I don't wanna
single out fraternities
847
00:58:30,540 --> 00:58:32,338
because it's actually
a minority of fraternities,
848
00:58:32,408 --> 00:58:35,037
but what you inevitably get
are certain fraternities
849
00:58:35,111 --> 00:58:38,411
where the sexual assault
is really rampant.
850
00:58:38,548 --> 00:58:40,744
Within just, say,
the last five to ten years,
851
00:58:40,884 --> 00:58:43,183
Sigma Alpha Epsilon's
had a number of problems.
852
00:58:43,253 --> 00:58:47,088
SAE is known at a lot of places
as "Sexual Assault Expected. "
853
00:58:47,223 --> 00:58:50,785
- Sexual Assault Expected.
- Sexual Assault Expected.
854
00:58:50,894 --> 00:58:52,692
SAE. Sexual Assault Expected.
855
00:58:52,762 --> 00:58:55,630
Is there any, like, parties or
places that you've been warned not to go?
856
00:58:55,732 --> 00:58:58,896
- Yes, SAE.
- Sexual Assault Expected.
857
00:59:00,236 --> 00:59:03,229
Sigma Nu. SAE.
Deke, at the very top.
858
00:59:03,373 --> 00:59:05,467
Those are, like, the main ones,
where as a freshman you're told,
859
00:59:05,575 --> 00:59:06,565
like, "Don't go there. "
860
00:59:06,643 --> 00:59:10,603
There's one fraternity on campus
that is called "the date rape frat. "
861
00:59:10,713 --> 00:59:12,705
DKE is known as the roofie frat.
862
00:59:12,782 --> 00:59:15,115
There is one
that was called the rape dungeon.
863
00:59:16,986 --> 00:59:20,286
Once you get a group
of people like this in that kind of
864
00:59:20,390 --> 00:59:23,622
synergistic kind of culture forming,
865
00:59:23,726 --> 00:59:26,423
it intensifies this problem.
866
00:59:26,930 --> 00:59:30,958
Pledges at a fraternity at Yale
surrounded the dorm
867
00:59:31,100 --> 00:59:34,969
where many of the freshman girls lived,
at night, shouting...
868
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:41,270
"No" means "yes!"
"Yes" means "anal!"
869
00:59:43,179 --> 00:59:45,080
"No" means "yes!"
"Yes" means "anal!"
870
00:59:45,148 --> 00:59:47,845
I ended up pledging SAE,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
871
00:59:47,951 --> 00:59:50,819
It's one of the largest
national fraternities
872
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:54,288
somewhat notorious
for its bad reputation.
873
00:59:55,124 --> 00:59:57,821
Every Wednesday night we would have
what we would call meetings
874
00:59:57,961 --> 01:00:01,921
where all the brothers, usually about 70
if all were in attendance,
875
01:00:01,998 --> 01:00:05,765
would gather in the basement
and begin a highly structured ritual
876
01:00:05,835 --> 01:00:09,499
exchanging stories of sexual conquest.
877
01:00:09,606 --> 01:00:13,839
If a brother had had anal sex
with a woman, that would be mentioned,
878
01:00:13,977 --> 01:00:16,037
and that would be a kind of
a pat-on-the-back moment.
879
01:00:16,145 --> 01:00:18,705
And I think that that's something
that the women at Dartmouth
880
01:00:18,815 --> 01:00:21,808
who hooked up with the fraternity brothers
didn't really know.
881
01:00:21,951 --> 01:00:25,888
That guy who tried
to sexually assault me at ATO,
882
01:00:25,989 --> 01:00:30,017
he was a pledge at the time, right?
And so all the pledges had to, like,
883
01:00:30,159 --> 01:00:34,995
photograph girls without
anything on their tops, right?
884
01:00:35,131 --> 01:00:36,724
- What?
- Had to photograph shirtless girls.
885
01:00:36,833 --> 01:00:38,825
- I hate that.
- And so apparently in the basement
886
01:00:38,901 --> 01:00:43,566
there were pictures of girls
and just, like, their tits.
887
01:00:43,673 --> 01:00:47,667
And apparently this kid...
this kid who was, like, so pushy with me,
888
01:00:47,810 --> 01:00:51,406
he had, like, the most pictures of girls.
So when he comes at me,
889
01:00:51,514 --> 01:00:53,073
his behavior of being
sexually aggressive
890
01:00:53,182 --> 01:00:54,241
gets rewarded by his brothers.
891
01:01:00,857 --> 01:01:03,417
Fraternities are
essentially unregulated bars.
892
01:01:03,526 --> 01:01:06,928
And the individuals that are responsible
for managing that alcohol
893
01:01:07,030 --> 01:01:09,693
are themselves
legally incapable of consuming it.
894
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:12,696
Most sororities
don't throw parties
895
01:01:12,835 --> 01:01:16,704
because you can't have alcohol at all
on the premises, even if you're over 21.
896
01:01:16,773 --> 01:01:20,574
So if sorority women want to drink
or go to a party even, at all,
897
01:01:20,710 --> 01:01:22,201
they have to do it at a fraternity
898
01:01:22,278 --> 01:01:26,215
where the fraternity brothers control
the dispersion of alcohol.
899
01:01:26,349 --> 01:01:29,251
Usually the drinks
had Everclear in them.
900
01:01:29,352 --> 01:01:30,945
What's Everclear?
901
01:01:31,054 --> 01:01:33,956
It's a very strong form of alcohol,
902
01:01:34,057 --> 01:01:35,855
and I...
903
01:01:35,925 --> 01:01:38,952
The reason why they put it in there
is because it would get you drunk quickly.
904
01:01:39,062 --> 01:01:42,555
The idea would be to get everyone
so incredibly intoxicated, you know,
905
01:01:42,699 --> 01:01:44,895
blackout drunk,
that would increase the chances
906
01:01:44,967 --> 01:01:46,868
that people would be getting laid.
907
01:01:47,904 --> 01:01:50,601
There was certainly something
predatory about it.
908
01:01:51,107 --> 01:01:54,737
The fraternity brothers took great pride
in having a predator/prey relationship
909
01:01:54,811 --> 01:01:56,871
with the women that would come
to these parties.
910
01:01:59,048 --> 01:02:02,143
- I was at a fraternity party.
- I went to a fraternity.
911
01:02:02,251 --> 01:02:05,551
I went to a fraternity party at MIT.
912
01:02:05,621 --> 01:02:09,991
I'd never really, I guess,
been in a situation like that.
913
01:02:12,428 --> 01:02:15,159
He came up to me
and we started talking.
914
01:02:15,264 --> 01:02:18,462
He was just this guy I thought was cute,
and then we were just dancing at FIJI.
915
01:02:18,601 --> 01:02:22,003
This big frat brother came up to me,
and he put his arm around me
916
01:02:22,105 --> 01:02:25,439
and he took me away from my friends,
but he was really nice.
917
01:02:25,575 --> 01:02:30,309
A friend at the time, um,
really fed me a lot of drinks.
918
01:02:30,446 --> 01:02:33,644
He said, "Why don't we go outside?"
919
01:02:33,783 --> 01:02:35,274
He asked if I wanted to go upstairs.
920
01:02:35,418 --> 01:02:38,582
- We went upstairs.
- And he invited me to go into a room.
921
01:02:38,654 --> 01:02:40,282
He took me downstairs
to their basement.
922
01:02:42,091 --> 01:02:47,860
He pinned me against the wall
and took off my clothes and assaulted me.
923
01:02:47,964 --> 01:02:51,128
That's when they both assaulted me.
924
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:53,601
I was assaulted by at least
two members of their fraternity.
925
01:02:57,206 --> 01:03:00,472
It's extremely difficult,
if not impossible,
926
01:03:00,610 --> 01:03:04,980
to get accurate information about whether
or not there have been sexual assaults
927
01:03:05,047 --> 01:03:07,676
in a particular...
particular fraternity house.
928
01:03:07,817 --> 01:03:10,810
What you find in many
circumstances that universities
929
01:03:10,887 --> 01:03:14,153
have created contractual
relationships with fraternities
930
01:03:14,223 --> 01:03:17,057
that involve them
promoting the fraternities,
931
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:21,689
but not then also disclosing the risks
that they've had with those fraternities.
932
01:03:21,798 --> 01:03:23,892
On the Johns Hopkins University
campus today,
933
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:27,334
following allegations of a gang rape
at an off-campus fraternity.
934
01:03:27,470 --> 01:03:31,032
Students say the university failed
to tell students about the investigation.
935
01:03:31,174 --> 01:03:33,473
Problem after problem after problem
936
01:03:33,543 --> 01:03:37,173
for the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity at UNM.
937
01:03:37,313 --> 01:03:40,147
And that was before
a new claim of rape.
938
01:03:40,216 --> 01:03:43,084
Digging for answers
after the same Yale frat house
939
01:03:43,186 --> 01:03:45,246
has had a whole bunch of problems.
940
01:03:45,888 --> 01:03:49,086
I'm telling you, almost every time
there's a rape in a fraternity chapter,
941
01:03:49,192 --> 01:03:52,162
there's someone at the university,
certainly the person who's
942
01:03:52,228 --> 01:03:55,198
in the Office of Greek Residence Life,
who's paid for by the university,
943
01:03:55,264 --> 01:04:00,100
he or she knew that that chapter
was likely to have a rape sometime.
944
01:04:00,203 --> 01:04:02,195
But they won't tell the young women.
945
01:04:02,271 --> 01:04:06,072
Or if they do, there's hell to pay
for these college presidents.
946
01:04:06,209 --> 01:04:10,237
It happened at Wesleyan. There was
a problem fraternity, Beta Theta Pi.
947
01:04:10,379 --> 01:04:13,941
The university sent a letter in the
spring to all students and all parents.
948
01:04:22,058 --> 01:04:24,289
The fraternity went ballistic.
949
01:04:24,393 --> 01:04:27,192
The parents of the fraternity brothers
went ballistic,
950
01:04:27,263 --> 01:04:29,926
and the new class of freshman women
came in, and they didn't send the warning
951
01:04:30,066 --> 01:04:32,695
to the new class of freshman women.
It was Halloween weekend
952
01:04:32,768 --> 01:04:35,033
before a girl
was violently raped upstairs.
953
01:04:35,104 --> 01:04:36,732
Frat house
at Wesleyan University
954
01:04:36,873 --> 01:04:39,809
is facing a lawsuit by a student
who claims she was raped.
955
01:04:39,909 --> 01:04:42,902
And this isn't the first time
that frat has come under fire.
956
01:04:44,914 --> 01:04:47,145
After that rape,
a young woman shows up
957
01:04:47,250 --> 01:04:49,446
at an emergency room
in Middletown, Connecticut.
958
01:04:49,585 --> 01:04:52,054
"I was assaulted at Beta Theta Pi. "
959
01:04:54,624 --> 01:04:58,891
It's, to me, outrageous the extent
that our colleges and universities
960
01:04:58,961 --> 01:05:04,093
are complicit in the sexual assault
of young women at these fraternity houses.
961
01:05:04,233 --> 01:05:06,964
So why don't the schools
just disassociate themselves
962
01:05:07,103 --> 01:05:10,505
from the fraternities
and kick them off campus?
963
01:05:10,606 --> 01:05:14,065
Right. Well, the colleges
and universities have much more to gain
964
01:05:14,143 --> 01:05:16,408
from the fraternities
than the fraternities have to gain
965
01:05:16,479 --> 01:05:17,947
from the colleges and universities.
966
01:05:22,018 --> 01:05:26,114
One out of every eight college students
living on campus lives in Greek housing.
967
01:05:26,188 --> 01:05:28,657
That's a tremendous amount
of housing stock
968
01:05:28,791 --> 01:05:31,659
the colleges don't have to pay for,
don't have to supervise.
969
01:05:31,794 --> 01:05:36,789
You also have to remember you tie alumni
to your campus in a very powerful way
970
01:05:36,933 --> 01:05:38,026
when you have a fraternity system.
971
01:05:40,803 --> 01:05:43,830
Alumni giving is a massive part
of your annual giving,
972
01:05:43,973 --> 01:05:46,602
and a large part of that
is fraternity membership.
973
01:05:54,483 --> 01:05:57,783
It's a deeply powerful industry.
974
01:05:57,853 --> 01:06:01,312
You start tracing back,
and you find out they're pouring money
975
01:06:01,457 --> 01:06:05,895
into political campaigns,
and they're hugely overrepresented.
976
01:06:05,995 --> 01:06:09,488
There's no college or university
or type of college or university
977
01:06:09,565 --> 01:06:14,526
that's more represented within Congress
than the fraternity system itself is.
978
01:06:15,571 --> 01:06:17,802
So people are very loath
to get involved
979
01:06:17,873 --> 01:06:20,866
and very loath to come up
against the fraternity system.
980
01:06:24,180 --> 01:06:26,672
- Checklist? Phone charger?
- Mm-hmm.
981
01:06:26,749 --> 01:06:27,842
- Laptop?
- Mm-hmm.
982
01:06:36,058 --> 01:06:38,892
It's not a coincidence that you
can fly to Boston and fly to California
983
01:06:39,028 --> 01:06:40,860
and hear the same stories.
984
01:06:42,565 --> 01:06:44,830
We started visiting
other campuses.
985
01:06:44,900 --> 01:06:47,768
We felt that if we created a model
for how to file a Title IX complaint,
986
01:06:47,870 --> 01:06:49,532
others would do it.
987
01:07:01,217 --> 01:07:05,348
These are our two fraternities
where a student was sexually assaulted.
988
01:07:05,421 --> 01:07:08,914
And it was going there
and being walked to the fraternities
989
01:07:09,025 --> 01:07:11,893
and being walked to where
their assaults had happened.
990
01:07:11,961 --> 01:07:14,521
You know, details that were critical
for every single case.
991
01:07:15,798 --> 01:07:16,788
Weird, right?
992
01:07:18,134 --> 01:07:20,933
So, for the email I'm just gonna...
993
01:07:21,070 --> 01:07:23,904
So we move forward with
this model, saying, "Here's a complaint.
994
01:07:23,973 --> 01:07:26,067
Here's how this process works. "
995
01:07:26,976 --> 01:07:30,105
My 21st birthday,
I was helping students at Swarthmore
996
01:07:30,246 --> 01:07:31,942
file a Title IX complaint.
997
01:07:41,490 --> 01:07:43,789
So I think I went to Columbia
twice before they filed.
998
01:07:43,926 --> 01:07:45,986
Just sat with a group of students
and talked them through
999
01:07:46,095 --> 01:07:47,825
how to file a complaint.
1000
01:07:47,930 --> 01:07:51,332
If people are going to talk publicly,
1001
01:07:51,434 --> 01:07:54,063
then it needs to be about
their treatment here at Columbia.
1002
01:07:54,136 --> 01:07:55,832
- Focus on Columbia.
- Yeah.
1003
01:07:55,938 --> 01:07:59,602
We don't have lawyers.
You have 18, 19-year-old students
1004
01:07:59,742 --> 01:08:02,678
who are standing up
to their institutions.
1005
01:08:02,778 --> 01:08:06,340
We are at Amherst
and we found a place to stay.
1006
01:08:07,783 --> 01:08:09,752
Hi, Drea.
1007
01:08:09,819 --> 01:08:14,086
- Where we sleeping tonight?
- Out on the least terrifying parking lot.
1008
01:08:15,357 --> 01:08:19,488
And we are changing and doing stuff
in a Wendy's bathroom. Yay!
1009
01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:36,635
I found politicizing my own experience
to be actually the most helpful step.
1010
01:08:37,480 --> 01:08:41,042
It's really exciting to actually
get to meet the other activists.
1011
01:08:41,150 --> 01:08:44,552
I had felt so cared for,
until I actually needed Yale,
1012
01:08:44,653 --> 01:08:47,179
at which point I became this,
like, administrative matter.
1013
01:08:47,289 --> 01:08:51,693
The administration kept telling us
to "take our foot off the pedal. "
1014
01:09:03,038 --> 01:09:05,473
- Hi.
- Hi.
1015
01:09:05,541 --> 01:09:08,705
- Nice to meet you. I'm Annie.
- I'm Rachel. Nice to meet you.
1016
01:09:08,811 --> 01:09:13,010
I just decided to take some time off,
kind of... I moved here with my sister,
1017
01:09:13,082 --> 01:09:15,142
and I've been a nanny,
1018
01:09:15,217 --> 01:09:18,085
- and it's the most amazing thing, so...
- That's so cool. Yeah.
1019
01:09:18,187 --> 01:09:23,558
And, uh, seeing the two little girls
that I nanny for, I like...
1020
01:09:23,659 --> 01:09:27,027
One of the reasons I've wanted
to do this is, like, I never want...
1021
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:35,064
them to ever have to deal
with something like this.
1022
01:09:37,540 --> 01:09:42,946
So it's really late, and we have
a survivor who's cutting,
1023
01:09:44,046 --> 01:09:46,743
and, um, she doesn't know
if she can stop.
1024
01:09:50,219 --> 01:09:52,620
The worst part for me
has been having to relive
1025
01:09:52,721 --> 01:09:54,622
the experience of everybody else.
1026
01:09:54,723 --> 01:09:58,125
This vicarious trauma
that I couldn't process anymore.
1027
01:09:58,227 --> 01:10:02,221
It's just not fair.
It's really not fair.
1028
01:10:04,533 --> 01:10:06,900
But it's the only way
I get up in the morning.
1029
01:10:08,070 --> 01:10:10,437
I would've given anything to have had
someone who believed me,
1030
01:10:10,573 --> 01:10:12,235
someone who supported me.
1031
01:10:19,415 --> 01:10:22,112
- Hi!
- Hi!
1032
01:10:22,251 --> 01:10:23,719
- Hi, I'm Andrea.
- I'm Abby.
1033
01:10:23,786 --> 01:10:25,311
- Nice to meet you, Abby.
- Nice to meet you.
1034
01:10:25,421 --> 01:10:27,390
- Andrea. Nice to meet you.
- Hi. Good to meet you.
1035
01:10:28,390 --> 01:10:32,418
I was raped by a basketball player
at the University of Tulsa.
1036
01:10:32,561 --> 01:10:36,396
And I felt like,
because he was an athlete,
1037
01:10:36,465 --> 01:10:42,097
everyone was acting like he's worth
more than I am because he's an athlete.
1038
01:10:42,238 --> 01:10:44,935
And that's what happens
over and over and over again.
1039
01:10:45,074 --> 01:10:47,509
It's like you need to re-read
your mission statement.
1040
01:10:47,610 --> 01:10:50,774
Are you here to play sports? Or are you
here to educate and protect your students?
1041
01:10:52,748 --> 01:10:56,116
An alleged sexual assault case
involving three basketball players.
1042
01:10:56,252 --> 01:11:00,019
Four former Vanderbilt University
football players are charged with rape.
1043
01:11:00,122 --> 01:11:03,684
Derrick Washington
already had a documented history
1044
01:11:03,792 --> 01:11:05,693
of violence against women at Missouri.
1045
01:11:05,794 --> 01:11:08,491
It was former
Michigan kicker Brendan Gibbons
1046
01:11:08,631 --> 01:11:12,500
involved in the alleged sexual assault
of a woman back in 2009.
1047
01:11:12,635 --> 01:11:16,470
This is the fifth student athlete to be
accused of sexual assault on campus.
1048
01:11:24,980 --> 01:11:27,540
I really do believe
the vast majority of student athletes
1049
01:11:27,650 --> 01:11:28,845
are worthy of our admiration.
1050
01:11:28,951 --> 01:11:31,284
I think they're mostly,
for the most part,
1051
01:11:31,353 --> 01:11:33,481
a lot of good people out there
who are trying to do the right thing.
1052
01:11:34,523 --> 01:11:39,484
But when you have 18 to 22-year-old kids
who are celebrities,
1053
01:11:39,628 --> 01:11:44,396
it creates a toxic environment
for a lot of bad behavior.
1054
01:11:45,167 --> 01:11:48,160
When they walk across campus,
it's not like any other student
1055
01:11:48,304 --> 01:11:49,670
walking across campus.
1056
01:11:49,805 --> 01:11:54,004
There's a multi-billion dollar industry
that wraps around these young men,
1057
01:11:54,076 --> 01:11:57,012
and if you don't think that they're
part of a culture of entitlement,
1058
01:11:57,079 --> 01:11:59,514
just look at the fanfare
that's around college football.
1059
01:12:19,368 --> 01:12:21,360
I grew up in Zephyrhills, Florida.
1060
01:12:21,503 --> 01:12:24,996
It's a small town,
so everybody does know everybody.
1061
01:12:25,074 --> 01:12:27,009
I've lived there my entire life.
1062
01:12:28,043 --> 01:12:31,946
I did very well in high school.
I graduated with honors.
1063
01:12:32,047 --> 01:12:35,017
I took a lot of AP and honors classes.
1064
01:12:36,218 --> 01:12:39,552
When I was younger,
a family friend of ours
1065
01:12:39,688 --> 01:12:42,419
gave me a Florida State
cheerleading uniform,
1066
01:12:42,558 --> 01:12:44,254
and it came with pom-poms.
1067
01:12:44,393 --> 01:12:49,024
She was the best child
any father could have.
1068
01:12:49,098 --> 01:12:53,866
She was fabulous. Never any problems.
Always had a great smile.
1069
01:12:53,936 --> 01:12:56,405
Just a joy to be around.
1070
01:12:56,472 --> 01:13:00,466
She kept saying she was going
to FSU, going to FSU,
1071
01:13:00,576 --> 01:13:02,545
and then when she first got there,
1072
01:13:02,611 --> 01:13:05,376
I knew she made the right choice.
1073
01:13:06,915 --> 01:13:10,079
My first semester was really...
It was a lot of science classes.
1074
01:13:10,152 --> 01:13:14,590
I was in six classes.
I wanted to go to med school.
1075
01:13:14,656 --> 01:13:18,252
I didn't go out a lot just because
I was in a lot of classes.
1076
01:13:20,095 --> 01:13:25,966
So it was the week before finals,
and we drove to Potbelly's,
1077
01:13:26,101 --> 01:13:28,661
and we were just hanging out.
1078
01:13:28,771 --> 01:13:31,263
This guy started following me around,
1079
01:13:31,407 --> 01:13:35,276
and I, like, said to him, "What...? Stop. "
You know? "Stop following us. "
1080
01:13:35,411 --> 01:13:38,472
And a man standing at the bar
1081
01:13:38,614 --> 01:13:42,449
saw that I was uncomfortable
with this guy following me,
1082
01:13:42,584 --> 01:13:45,349
and so he kind of like,
grabbed me and was like,
1083
01:13:45,454 --> 01:13:48,151
"This is my girlfriend.
Leave her alone. "
1084
01:13:48,290 --> 01:13:50,282
And I was like, "Thank you. "
Like, the guy left,
1085
01:13:50,426 --> 01:13:51,792
and I was just like, "Thank you. "
1086
01:13:51,927 --> 01:13:55,295
And he's like, "Do you wanna take a shot?"
And I said, "Sure. "
1087
01:13:55,431 --> 01:13:58,458
So I turned around, like,
to make sure that this guy was gone,
1088
01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:01,468
and when I turned back around
he handed me a shot.
1089
01:14:04,473 --> 01:14:08,137
I'm fairly certain that there was
something in that drink.
1090
01:14:08,210 --> 01:14:11,180
As a college student,
I had been drunk before,
1091
01:14:11,313 --> 01:14:13,942
and I had not drank nearly enough
1092
01:14:14,016 --> 01:14:17,509
to become drunk
and incompetent that night.
1093
01:14:19,721 --> 01:14:24,659
I remember being in a cab,
and there were three guys in the cab also.
1094
01:14:25,828 --> 01:14:29,856
Anyone you ask would tell you, like,
I never would go home with a guy, period,
1095
01:14:29,998 --> 01:14:33,298
and especially not three people
that I didn't know.
1096
01:14:34,169 --> 01:14:37,230
I remember specific things after that.
1097
01:14:37,339 --> 01:14:40,036
I was in, like, an apartment,
1098
01:14:40,175 --> 01:14:43,668
and this guy was...
1099
01:14:43,812 --> 01:14:47,374
sexually assaulting me.
He was raping me.
1100
01:14:47,516 --> 01:14:50,350
He was on top of me,
and I couldn't really breathe that much,
1101
01:14:50,486 --> 01:14:53,479
but I was saying,
"Please stop. Stop. "
1102
01:14:53,555 --> 01:14:58,721
Like, I remember his roommate,
or whoever this other guy was,
1103
01:14:58,861 --> 01:15:02,559
came in and he was saying,
"Dude, stop. Like, what are you doing?
1104
01:15:02,698 --> 01:15:05,361
She's telling you to stop. "
1105
01:15:05,501 --> 01:15:07,902
Since his door
to the bedroom wouldn't lock,
1106
01:15:08,036 --> 01:15:12,371
he picked me up
and he carried me into the bathroom.
1107
01:15:12,441 --> 01:15:15,605
He said, "The door will lock in here. "
1108
01:15:15,711 --> 01:15:19,580
He put me on the tile bathroom floor.
1109
01:15:19,715 --> 01:15:24,847
I was trying to, like, push him off
and kick him off, but he was just too big.
1110
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:28,186
And I said, "Please stop"
multiple times, and I said "no. "
1111
01:15:28,257 --> 01:15:33,958
Eventually he pushed his hand over my face
and, like, pushed my face into the floor.
1112
01:15:34,062 --> 01:15:35,553
Um...
1113
01:15:35,631 --> 01:15:39,090
And he just continued to rape me.
1114
01:15:40,903 --> 01:15:46,468
He finished and then he put my clothes
back on, and he said, "You can leave now. "
1115
01:15:47,576 --> 01:15:50,637
And then he's like,
"I'll take you home on my scooter. "
1116
01:15:50,746 --> 01:15:54,376
I mean... okay.
I had no idea where I was.
1117
01:15:54,449 --> 01:15:56,315
I didn't know how else
I was supposed to get home.
1118
01:15:56,418 --> 01:15:59,217
I wanted to get out of there.
1119
01:16:00,756 --> 01:16:05,421
This was the worst feeling because
I didn't wanna hold onto him, you know?
1120
01:16:05,561 --> 01:16:09,589
But I was afraid
that I was gonna fall off of the scooter.
1121
01:16:09,665 --> 01:16:12,430
He dropped me off
at the intersection where I told him
1122
01:16:12,501 --> 01:16:15,061
because I didn't want him
to know where I lived.
1123
01:16:15,137 --> 01:16:19,268
I didn't know really
what I was supposed to do.
1124
01:16:20,809 --> 01:16:23,608
I tweeted, "Someone help me. "
1125
01:16:25,681 --> 01:16:27,582
My friend responded, and she was like,
1126
01:16:27,649 --> 01:16:29,140
"Well, tell me what happened. "
1127
01:16:29,751 --> 01:16:30,912
And we decided that
1128
01:16:30,986 --> 01:16:32,352
we need to call the police.
1129
01:16:32,621 --> 01:16:35,250
- You said she was raped?
- Yeah.
1130
01:16:35,324 --> 01:16:38,522
- Okay, so she did not know the person.
- No.
1131
01:16:39,995 --> 01:16:42,521
The Florida State University
Police took me
1132
01:16:42,631 --> 01:16:45,999
in the back of a police car
to the hospital.
1133
01:16:46,134 --> 01:16:51,368
I got all of the, um... the blood work
and the rape kit and everything.
1134
01:16:51,473 --> 01:16:55,001
They were watching bruises appear
as I was laying in the hospital bed.
1135
01:16:55,143 --> 01:16:59,444
We got a call about three in the morning.
We grabbed some stuff,
1136
01:16:59,514 --> 01:17:01,380
and we jumped in the car
1137
01:17:01,483 --> 01:17:04,282
and started heading to FSU
as quick as we could.
1138
01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:08,984
She was laying in the hospital bed,
and we each went to one side,
1139
01:17:09,057 --> 01:17:14,223
and we just held her, and all three of us
laid there... sat there, and cried.
1140
01:17:16,365 --> 01:17:19,995
That's when
Investigator Angulo came in.
1141
01:17:20,068 --> 01:17:22,367
And I told him kind of everything.
1142
01:17:23,739 --> 01:17:26,038
I'm very pro law enforcement.
1143
01:17:26,174 --> 01:17:31,340
And Tallahassee PD was there, and we
assumed they were taking care of things.
1144
01:17:59,741 --> 01:18:02,540
I went back
in the beginning of January.
1145
01:18:02,678 --> 01:18:07,446
It was my first class on Tuesday,
and I see him walk into the class.
1146
01:18:07,549 --> 01:18:09,518
And I knew.
I was like, "That's him. "
1147
01:18:10,886 --> 01:18:14,186
They were about to take attendance,
and that's what... I needed to stay calm
1148
01:18:14,256 --> 01:18:17,090
and just kind of wait it out.
1149
01:18:17,192 --> 01:18:19,957
He was one of the very last names
that they called,
1150
01:18:20,062 --> 01:18:22,054
and, um...
1151
01:18:22,130 --> 01:18:25,225
my teacher said, "Jameis Winston?"
And he raised his hand.
1152
01:18:25,300 --> 01:18:27,735
I didn't know who he was.
1153
01:18:27,803 --> 01:18:30,272
The nation's
number one high school quarterback,
1154
01:18:30,405 --> 01:18:34,308
Jameis Winston, won Gatorade State
Player of the Year this past season.
1155
01:18:34,409 --> 01:18:36,708
Jameis, tell me why
you chose Florida State.
1156
01:18:36,778 --> 01:18:39,475
Just because we're trying to build
a tradition there,
1157
01:18:39,581 --> 01:18:41,607
and hopefully we can get
a few national championships
1158
01:18:41,750 --> 01:18:42,911
and hopefully a Heisman Trophy.
1159
01:18:42,984 --> 01:18:46,819
I notified
Investigator Angulo of who it was.
1160
01:18:46,922 --> 01:18:51,758
I think at that point he knew that
he was gonna be the big football star.
1161
01:18:51,827 --> 01:18:53,989
He said,
"This is a huge football town.
1162
01:18:54,096 --> 01:18:56,224
You really should think long and hard
1163
01:18:56,298 --> 01:18:59,291
about whether you want
to press charges or not. "
1164
01:19:05,440 --> 01:19:07,341
It didn't make sense to me, really.
1165
01:19:07,442 --> 01:19:11,846
I... I just thought,
like, you know, that's his job.
1166
01:19:11,947 --> 01:19:14,678
Why isn't he...?
Why is he not gonna do it?
1167
01:19:30,165 --> 01:19:31,633
The hype for Jameis Winston is
1168
01:19:31,700 --> 01:19:34,499
as much as I've ever seen
for a first-year starting quarterback.
1169
01:19:34,603 --> 01:19:36,765
Winston, Winston! Winston!
1170
01:19:36,838 --> 01:19:38,704
Into the end zone!
Touchdown, Florida State.
1171
01:19:41,810 --> 01:19:45,474
Sports teams are the business
on these campuses.
1172
01:19:46,381 --> 01:19:50,341
When you build stadiums
that cost 200, 300 million dollars,
1173
01:19:50,485 --> 01:19:53,512
when you build athletic facilities
that can get up into that range as well,
1174
01:19:53,655 --> 01:19:56,819
and then you look at the
multibillion dollar television contracts.
1175
01:19:56,892 --> 01:19:59,020
When you're talking
about that kind of money,
1176
01:19:59,161 --> 01:20:01,892
there's an enormous investment
in a student athlete
1177
01:20:01,997 --> 01:20:06,025
who may be a quarterback
on a top 20 team
1178
01:20:06,168 --> 01:20:09,161
that's pulling in hundreds of millions
of dollars in revenue.
1179
01:20:09,304 --> 01:20:11,364
Nineteen-year-old Winston is on the verge
1180
01:20:11,506 --> 01:20:13,907
of leading his team
to the ultimate victory.
1181
01:20:14,009 --> 01:20:16,740
Our main goal is to win
a national championship.
1182
01:20:16,845 --> 01:20:19,007
He's had a meteoric rise to fame,
1183
01:20:19,147 --> 01:20:21,514
becoming the starting quarterback
as a freshman.
1184
01:20:22,184 --> 01:20:24,881
He's a star on the team,
and that doesn't mean he's guilty,
1185
01:20:25,020 --> 01:20:28,889
but the point is you have to treat
that person like you would
1186
01:20:29,024 --> 01:20:32,859
anyone else in these cases,
and that didn't happen here.
1187
01:20:32,994 --> 01:20:36,590
Poised to play in and possibly win
the national championship,
1188
01:20:36,698 --> 01:20:38,599
a frontrunner
for the Heisman Trophy award,
1189
01:20:38,700 --> 01:20:40,862
Florida State quarterback,
Jameis Winston,
1190
01:20:41,002 --> 01:20:44,097
now possibly finds himself
in some hot water.
1191
01:20:44,206 --> 01:20:46,869
Winston is part
of an ongoing investigation
1192
01:20:46,942 --> 01:20:50,208
into a sexual assault complaint
filed nearly a year ago,
1193
01:20:50,345 --> 01:20:52,940
but today was turned over
to the state attorney.
1194
01:20:53,048 --> 01:20:55,608
As soon as I saw this story break,
1195
01:20:55,717 --> 01:21:00,781
I thought how terribly, terribly unfair
it is to this young man.
1196
01:21:00,889 --> 01:21:03,791
I think it's very, very unfortunate
that this young dude
1197
01:21:03,892 --> 01:21:08,626
with this Magic Johnson caliber smile
and a level of production
1198
01:21:08,730 --> 01:21:12,428
and the things that he has done en route
to pursuing a national championship,
1199
01:21:12,567 --> 01:21:16,561
and the Heisman Trophy,
and now it comes out?
1200
01:21:16,705 --> 01:21:18,435
It just stinks to me.
1201
01:21:24,246 --> 01:21:28,775
DNA analysis confirmed
the DNA provided by Winston
1202
01:21:28,917 --> 01:21:31,716
matched that sample
taken from the accuser.
1203
01:21:33,255 --> 01:21:36,555
Although he has never spoken directly
to cops or prosecutors,
1204
01:21:36,625 --> 01:21:40,255
Jameis Winston, through his attorneys,
maintains his innocence
1205
01:21:40,328 --> 01:21:42,729
and says any sex was consensual.
1206
01:21:43,298 --> 01:21:46,462
Jameis Winston!
He's into the promised land!
1207
01:21:46,601 --> 01:21:48,263
Touchdown, FSU!
1208
01:21:48,403 --> 01:21:51,601
His voice, his way, his team.
1209
01:21:52,507 --> 01:21:55,671
Our football team
kept winning games.
1210
01:21:55,777 --> 01:21:58,406
We were gonna play
in the national championship.
1211
01:21:59,614 --> 01:22:02,311
All these people were praising him.
1212
01:22:02,417 --> 01:22:06,513
People were just calling me names;
a slut, a whore.
1213
01:22:07,455 --> 01:22:08,855
I got a tweet
1214
01:22:08,957 --> 01:22:11,950
from a girl who I didn't know.
1215
01:22:12,027 --> 01:22:14,519
The tweet was like, "Why would you blame
1216
01:22:14,629 --> 01:22:17,531
such a good guy for doing this?"
1217
01:22:17,632 --> 01:22:22,093
People were threatening me, my family.
1218
01:22:22,170 --> 01:22:25,504
And there was other people
that were threatening my sorority,
1219
01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:28,132
saying, "We're gonna
burn down their house. "
1220
01:22:29,477 --> 01:22:32,470
Jameis Winston
will not be charged with the rape
1221
01:22:32,614 --> 01:22:35,379
that allegedly happened
exactly a year ago.
1222
01:22:35,483 --> 01:22:39,648
Here's prosecutor
and FSU alumni Willie Meggs.
1223
01:22:39,788 --> 01:22:42,348
We've carefully examined
all the evidence in this case
1224
01:22:42,490 --> 01:22:48,021
and have concluded that no charges
will be filed against anyone in this case.
1225
01:22:49,164 --> 01:22:52,328
Do you think
Jameis Winston raped that girl?
1226
01:22:52,467 --> 01:22:57,167
Uh... I think I did not have
sufficient evidence
1227
01:22:57,305 --> 01:23:02,334
to prove that he sexually assaulted her
against her will.
1228
01:23:03,311 --> 01:23:04,574
Uh...
1229
01:23:04,679 --> 01:23:10,084
I think things that happened there
that night were... not good.
1230
01:23:10,919 --> 01:23:13,218
As FSU fights for the national title,
1231
01:23:13,355 --> 01:23:15,051
the alleged victim drops out of school.
1232
01:23:15,156 --> 01:23:19,025
FSU football fans are
predictably delighted by this result.
1233
01:23:21,062 --> 01:23:23,361
Florida State! Whoo!
1234
01:23:25,567 --> 01:23:28,093
- Jameis Winston.
- He's amazing! What a great guy.
1235
01:23:28,203 --> 01:23:30,866
Jameis Christ. That's it.
1236
01:23:30,939 --> 01:23:34,535
The justice system was proved right.
Right? It worked.
1237
01:23:34,676 --> 01:23:39,740
Every school in the country
that's a big time powerhouse football team
1238
01:23:39,881 --> 01:23:41,850
has players dealing with this shit.
1239
01:23:41,916 --> 01:23:46,217
Some girl got jealous and wanted to be
like, a part of the scene, you know.
1240
01:23:46,354 --> 01:23:48,846
She was a liar.
1241
01:23:50,191 --> 01:23:52,558
Football star, Jameis Winston,
Florida State quarterback,
1242
01:23:52,694 --> 01:23:54,526
had the game
of his young life Monday,
1243
01:23:54,596 --> 01:23:57,065
when he led the Seminoles
to the national championship.
1244
01:24:23,658 --> 01:24:26,560
Sexual assault cases
are always tough.
1245
01:24:26,628 --> 01:24:29,962
Probably the first time
someone is apprehended
1246
01:24:30,098 --> 01:24:33,159
is not the first time that they have...
1247
01:24:33,268 --> 01:24:36,932
engaged in forceful conduct on someone.
1248
01:24:37,005 --> 01:24:42,945
I went to see my victim's advocate.
And in that meeting, we were just talking.
1249
01:24:43,078 --> 01:24:48,073
She was like, "We just wanna let you know,
like, there's another victim from him. "
1250
01:24:49,951 --> 01:24:54,912
It's my pleasure to announce
the 2013 Heisman Memorial Trophy winner.
1251
01:24:54,989 --> 01:24:57,857
Jameis Winston,
Florida State University!
1252
01:25:04,299 --> 01:25:07,360
Is it hard for you to believe
that this all has happened?
1253
01:25:11,206 --> 01:25:13,801
I kinda just wanna know, like...
1254
01:25:15,877 --> 01:25:17,311
why me?
1255
01:25:31,226 --> 01:25:33,559
It doesn't really make sense.
1256
01:25:38,533 --> 01:25:40,399
He won the Heisman Trophy,
1257
01:25:40,502 --> 01:25:43,836
and the sad thing about that
is that the world of college football
1258
01:25:43,905 --> 01:25:46,704
didn't hold him accountable for the kind
of person that he is off the field.
1259
01:25:49,177 --> 01:25:52,079
The system is based
largely on money.
1260
01:25:52,847 --> 01:25:55,180
And it's not just revenue
in terms of TV revenue,
1261
01:25:55,316 --> 01:25:59,014
but it's also revenue
in terms of alumni and trustees.
1262
01:25:59,821 --> 01:26:03,519
We need to remember where
the power really lies on these campuses.
1263
01:26:03,658 --> 01:26:06,218
Presidents hire athletic directors.
1264
01:26:06,327 --> 01:26:08,694
Athletic directors hire coaches.
1265
01:26:08,763 --> 01:26:11,995
Coaches then receive salaries
that are higher than the president.
1266
01:26:12,066 --> 01:26:14,900
- Tell me your title.
- President of Florida State University.
1267
01:26:15,003 --> 01:26:17,666
Wow! So you've got to be
the happiest man on earth.
1268
01:26:17,739 --> 01:26:22,768
You know what? I think it's hard to find
a happier person. No doubt about it.
1269
01:26:22,877 --> 01:26:26,041
These cases are nightmares
for college presidents.
1270
01:26:26,714 --> 01:26:30,549
This is college presidents
who hold their nose and cover their ears
1271
01:26:30,618 --> 01:26:33,349
because they know that this
is part of what comes
1272
01:26:33,421 --> 01:26:35,720
with the big business of college sports.
1273
01:26:35,790 --> 01:26:38,760
There is a great fear
among many presidents
1274
01:26:38,893 --> 01:26:43,228
of alienating
important influential people.
1275
01:26:44,566 --> 01:26:49,368
What's the number one responsibility
of a college president? Fundraising.
1276
01:26:49,437 --> 01:26:51,929
One hundred million dollars
to UC San Diego,
1277
01:26:52,073 --> 01:26:54,099
the second largest gift
in the school's history.
1278
01:26:54,242 --> 01:26:56,404
Two hundred million dollars.
1279
01:26:56,544 --> 01:27:00,572
That's the gift University of Michigan
alum Stephen Ross has given to the school.
1280
01:27:00,715 --> 01:27:04,880
Harvard University has received the
largest donation in the school's history,
1281
01:27:04,953 --> 01:27:07,218
350 million dollars.
1282
01:27:07,288 --> 01:27:09,120
Good lord, that's a lot of money.
1283
01:27:10,658 --> 01:27:11,887
Colleges are big business.
1284
01:27:11,960 --> 01:27:15,226
They have boards that are trying
to maintain their endowments,
1285
01:27:15,296 --> 01:27:17,231
and they don't want anything
that's going to touch that.
1286
01:27:17,298 --> 01:27:21,235
This is about millions and billions
of dollars being spent every year
1287
01:27:21,302 --> 01:27:22,895
to keep this institution running.
1288
01:27:22,971 --> 01:27:28,308
Harvard is in the midst
of a six billion dollar capital campaign.
1289
01:27:29,677 --> 01:27:32,442
Donors might be troubled
if they understood the magnitude
1290
01:27:32,513 --> 01:27:34,812
of sexual assault on the campus.
1291
01:27:34,949 --> 01:27:38,283
I think that's part of the effort
to silence the problem.
1292
01:27:40,622 --> 01:27:45,583
Numerous times I was taken aside
by a senior tenured female faculty person
1293
01:27:45,660 --> 01:27:48,494
and told the way to make it at Harvard
is by being a dutiful daughter.
1294
01:27:48,630 --> 01:27:51,691
If you hear it, pretend you didn't.
1295
01:27:51,799 --> 01:27:54,701
If you see it, you shut up about it.
1296
01:27:54,802 --> 01:27:56,134
Silence.
1297
01:28:19,193 --> 01:28:22,061
There's a reason we haven't seen
more faculty involved.
1298
01:28:22,163 --> 01:28:26,066
It does harm your career
in ways that you can't even predict.
1299
01:28:26,167 --> 01:28:28,864
Certainly if you're untenured,
but even if you are tenured,
1300
01:28:28,970 --> 01:28:31,804
it makes it much more difficult
to move from one institution to the next
1301
01:28:31,873 --> 01:28:34,206
if you've been branded
an activist or a troublemaker.
1302
01:28:34,309 --> 01:28:35,743
I've had the honor
to work with students
1303
01:28:35,843 --> 01:28:37,402
who've been asking
these kinds of questions
1304
01:28:37,512 --> 01:28:39,674
for the five years
that I've been here.
1305
01:28:39,747 --> 01:28:41,579
We heard that things
were gonna happen,
1306
01:28:41,683 --> 01:28:43,709
but then there was
no conversation about it.
1307
01:28:43,851 --> 01:28:46,411
And I think there's a huge gap
in between that still needs to,
1308
01:28:46,521 --> 01:28:49,685
A, be bridged,
and to be discussed more publicly.
1309
01:29:08,609 --> 01:29:13,707
I feel like there's this moral high ground
in higher education
1310
01:29:13,781 --> 01:29:15,750
that is just sitting vacant.
1311
01:29:15,850 --> 01:29:19,548
What I haven't yet seen
anywhere, that I'm aware of,
1312
01:29:19,620 --> 01:29:23,682
is a president who has decided
1313
01:29:23,758 --> 01:29:28,219
that whatever it takes,
it has to be done.
1314
01:29:28,296 --> 01:29:29,855
And that's what leadership is.
1315
01:29:29,931 --> 01:29:33,368
...that we would tolerate
for one moment
1316
01:29:33,434 --> 01:29:36,734
sexual violence and intimidation
on our campus.
1317
01:29:36,804 --> 01:29:39,638
These assumptions are patently false,
1318
01:29:39,741 --> 01:29:43,576
and such speculations are
very, very inappropriate.
1319
01:30:46,607 --> 01:30:49,702
At the end of the day,
I think we share all the same goals,
1320
01:30:49,811 --> 01:30:54,476
which is to create a safe place
where all our students can thrive.
1321
01:31:07,161 --> 01:31:12,122
Of your 25 possible complainants,
how many of them are survivors?
1322
01:31:12,200 --> 01:31:13,361
Twenty.
1323
01:31:14,702 --> 01:31:16,330
How many are willing to go public?
1324
01:31:17,839 --> 01:31:20,968
Um, probably five.
1325
01:31:21,042 --> 01:31:22,806
So what about
just a press conference?
1326
01:31:22,877 --> 01:31:24,675
Yeah. That, I think could be good.
1327
01:31:36,657 --> 01:31:40,355
Good morning and thank you for
your attendance at this important event.
1328
01:31:40,495 --> 01:31:42,862
My name is Sofie Karasek,
and I'm a third year student
1329
01:31:42,997 --> 01:31:44,693
here at the University
of California Berkeley.
1330
01:31:44,832 --> 01:31:46,391
My name is Meghan Warner.
1331
01:31:46,501 --> 01:31:47,901
My name is Iman Stenson.
1332
01:31:48,002 --> 01:31:50,267
My name is Shannon Thomas,
and I'm a proud fourth year,
1333
01:31:50,371 --> 01:31:51,771
soon to be graduate,
of UC Berkeley.
1334
01:31:51,873 --> 01:31:55,776
I'm a survivor of a sexual assault
that occurred less than a year ago.
1335
01:31:55,877 --> 01:31:58,108
I didn't realize at the time
that the nightmare I was in
1336
01:31:58,212 --> 01:32:00,374
was not limited
to the night of the assault.
1337
01:32:00,515 --> 01:32:04,111
The process that followed is far
more upsetting than the assault itself.
1338
01:32:04,218 --> 01:32:06,449
When I looked at resources
from the university online,
1339
01:32:06,587 --> 01:32:08,385
I saw that most were
for the perpetrator,
1340
01:32:08,456 --> 01:32:11,290
including an info graphic
for what to do if you're accused,
1341
01:32:11,392 --> 01:32:13,258
not what to do
if you're a survivor seeking help.
1342
01:32:13,361 --> 01:32:15,887
She made me feel like
what happened to me wasn't real,
1343
01:32:15,963 --> 01:32:18,455
like it wasn't a big deal,
like it was my fault.
1344
01:32:18,566 --> 01:32:19,761
- My fault.
- My fault.
1345
01:32:19,867 --> 01:32:22,098
Sexual assault at UC Berkley
is an epidemic.
1346
01:32:23,437 --> 01:32:26,532
Several female students
say they were sexually assaulted
1347
01:32:26,607 --> 01:32:30,544
on the University of California campus,
but they weren't taken seriously.
1348
01:32:31,879 --> 01:32:35,043
We were tracking the media frame
and how it changed and where it spiked
1349
01:32:35,116 --> 01:32:36,948
and what articles worked and what didn't.
1350
01:32:37,051 --> 01:32:40,283
These students who spoke today
went from sexual assault victims
1351
01:32:40,388 --> 01:32:42,880
to survivors and now activists.
1352
01:32:42,957 --> 01:32:44,619
Their efforts are gaining
the attention...
1353
01:32:44,725 --> 01:32:47,661
We saw what was effective,
and that was personal narrative
1354
01:32:47,762 --> 01:32:50,561
and putting a face
and a name to the issues.
1355
01:32:51,732 --> 01:32:53,394
My name is Carolyn Luby.
1356
01:32:53,467 --> 01:32:55,493
My name is Alexa Schwartz.
1357
01:32:55,603 --> 01:32:59,005
My name is Ari Mostov,
and I would like to provide you
1358
01:32:59,106 --> 01:33:02,008
with a more personal account
of the kind of abuses that occurred here
1359
01:33:02,109 --> 01:33:04,340
at the University of Southern California.
1360
01:33:04,445 --> 01:33:07,904
My name is Hope Brinn.
I'm a sophomore at Swarthmore.
1361
01:33:07,982 --> 01:33:11,646
I was sexually assaulted and stalked
by fellow students on this campus.
1362
01:33:11,752 --> 01:33:14,119
I was raped during
my freshman year at Occidental.
1363
01:33:14,188 --> 01:33:18,819
I wish that I had not been discouraged
by a dean from reporting my rape.
1364
01:33:18,926 --> 01:33:21,953
I'm filing as the lead complainant
against the University of Connecticut.
1365
01:33:22,029 --> 01:33:24,828
- Against UC Berkeley.
- Against the institution that I love.
1366
01:33:28,002 --> 01:33:31,166
Okay, let's go!
1367
01:33:48,122 --> 01:33:51,183
Seeing students
over the last year to two years
1368
01:33:51,292 --> 01:33:53,625
almost taking control of this...
1369
01:33:54,629 --> 01:33:57,121
for me it's been
a miraculous thing to witness.
1370
01:33:58,299 --> 01:34:00,791
For my senior thesis,
I will be carrying the mattress with me
1371
01:34:00,868 --> 01:34:03,133
as long as he's still on this campus.
1372
01:34:04,305 --> 01:34:07,537
Our individual stories
are what makes this a story.
1373
01:34:07,642 --> 01:34:11,170
Here is the experience
of 700 survivors,
1374
01:34:11,245 --> 01:34:15,080
and unless something happens,
it's not going to change.
1375
01:34:15,182 --> 01:34:19,085
There is a revolution
happening on campuses across the country,
1376
01:34:19,186 --> 01:34:23,590
and I'm very hopeful that this really is
our watershed moment.
1377
01:34:27,728 --> 01:34:30,493
We are fed up!
1378
01:34:30,564 --> 01:34:33,159
- With your university!
- Dartmouth has a problem!
1379
01:34:33,234 --> 01:34:34,930
Dartmouth has a problem!
1380
01:34:35,036 --> 01:34:38,438
...of assault and harassment, and today we
decide that we will no longer tolerate it.
1381
01:34:38,539 --> 01:34:40,098
- What do we want?!
- A safe campus!
1382
01:34:40,207 --> 01:34:42,176
- When do we want it?!
- Now!
1383
01:34:42,243 --> 01:34:45,839
We're watching! We're here!
We've made ourselves clear!
1384
01:34:47,014 --> 01:34:48,846
It was happening so quickly.
1385
01:34:49,717 --> 01:34:52,118
I mean, within a year
of our complaint against UNC,
1386
01:34:52,219 --> 01:34:55,087
the issue had shot
to the top of the national agenda.
1387
01:34:55,189 --> 01:34:57,351
Thank you so much
for coming to my office.
1388
01:34:57,425 --> 01:34:59,189
What else do you
think we need to do?
1389
01:34:59,260 --> 01:35:00,922
Do you wanna run
through some of those items
1390
01:35:01,028 --> 01:35:02,087
on the list that we marked off?
1391
01:35:02,196 --> 01:35:04,222
Yeah. Sure, sure, sure.
Yeah, I have my list.
1392
01:35:04,365 --> 01:35:08,268
The week before my senior finals,
I was in D.C. talking to senators.
1393
01:35:08,369 --> 01:35:10,031
We have seen an inspiring wave
1394
01:35:10,104 --> 01:35:12,369
of student-led activism
and a growing number of students
1395
01:35:12,440 --> 01:35:15,137
who found the courage
to come forward and report attacks.
1396
01:35:15,743 --> 01:35:19,111
We owe all these brave young people
an extraordinary debt of gratitude,
1397
01:35:19,213 --> 01:35:22,081
but we cannot stop there.
1398
01:35:22,149 --> 01:35:26,109
I still hear stories from survivors
whose experiences reporting to the school
1399
01:35:26,220 --> 01:35:28,587
sound exactly like mine.
1400
01:35:28,656 --> 01:35:31,649
Activists all around the country
were speaking out on this issue.
1401
01:35:31,759 --> 01:35:35,059
Stand up for justice. Don't let
other students go what I went through.
1402
01:35:35,129 --> 01:35:37,894
It used to be that
the Department of Education
1403
01:35:37,965 --> 01:35:41,129
didn't release names
of who was under investigation,
1404
01:35:41,235 --> 01:35:44,637
but after pressure from a lot of student
activists, they've begun to do that.
1405
01:35:44,739 --> 01:35:47,265
Fifty-five colleges and universities
1406
01:35:47,341 --> 01:35:50,470
facing a Title IX
sexual abuse investigation.
1407
01:35:50,578 --> 01:35:53,844
Sixty universities have been put on notice
by the Department of Education.
1408
01:35:53,948 --> 01:35:56,918
More than 70 schools
nationwide are now under investigation.
1409
01:36:19,273 --> 01:36:22,675
We have over 70
that are currently being investigated.
1410
01:36:23,277 --> 01:36:25,610
When they released
that list of schools,
1411
01:36:25,679 --> 01:36:30,515
that map of where they pinpointed it
matched our map.
1412
01:36:56,577 --> 01:36:58,637
I wanna do a close-up.
1413
01:37:01,015 --> 01:37:02,142
Okay.
1414
01:37:13,394 --> 01:37:17,195
Welcome to the 2014
spring commencement
1415
01:37:17,264 --> 01:37:21,201
at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
1416
01:37:31,111 --> 01:37:35,572
Here at Notre Dame, we wanna be
not just another Harvard or Oxford,
1417
01:37:35,683 --> 01:37:40,883
but a Bethlehem, a Nazareth, a Calvary,
a Cana, the upper room at Pentecost.
1418
01:37:42,923 --> 01:37:46,018
You know,
I'm still practicing my faith.
1419
01:37:46,093 --> 01:37:51,031
But something I believed in so long
and had so much trust in just failed.
1420
01:37:51,098 --> 01:37:55,900
I have to remind myself
that people sin and people aren't good.
1421
01:37:55,970 --> 01:37:59,463
And so I just have
to remind myself that.
1422
01:38:07,147 --> 01:38:10,914
What do universities owe the future?
1423
01:38:11,886 --> 01:38:14,822
We owe the future meaning.
1424
01:38:14,922 --> 01:38:18,552
Universities must nurture
the ability to interpret,
1425
01:38:18,626 --> 01:38:20,492
to make critical judgments,
1426
01:38:20,594 --> 01:38:23,223
to dare to ask
the biggest questions.
1427
01:38:23,297 --> 01:38:25,789
What is good? What is just?
1428
01:38:27,968 --> 01:38:30,767
You know, I'll see someone
who looks like him on the street,
1429
01:38:30,838 --> 01:38:34,070
and I don't want to say
that I'm afraid of him,
1430
01:38:34,141 --> 01:38:38,135
but, um, yeah, it's shocking.
1431
01:38:38,245 --> 01:38:42,114
It was three years ago,
and it's, um...
1432
01:38:42,182 --> 01:38:43,844
it's still right up here.
1433
01:38:59,833 --> 01:39:05,033
Your reputation is what you have
when you come into Florida State.
1434
01:39:05,139 --> 01:39:08,439
Your character is what you have
when you leave Florida State.
1435
01:39:12,446 --> 01:39:15,314
I know that it was the right
thing to do, to come forward.
1436
01:39:15,382 --> 01:39:18,648
But Investigator Angulo
was right whenever he said
1437
01:39:18,719 --> 01:39:23,214
that I would be driven out
of Tallahassee.
1438
01:39:40,908 --> 01:39:43,309
Andrea Lynn Pino.
1439
01:40:05,032 --> 01:40:08,560
Yeah, my name's Mike,
and my daughter was raped
1440
01:40:08,669 --> 01:40:12,436
at the University of California
Santa Barbara a week and a half ago.
1441
01:40:13,507 --> 01:40:17,000
After they were done with her,
they just dumped her.
1442
01:40:18,345 --> 01:40:21,076
When she got back from the hospital,
she called the school
1443
01:40:21,181 --> 01:40:24,083
and told them that
she wanted to go forward.
1444
01:40:25,119 --> 01:40:29,580
From there it has been
an absolute joke.
1445
01:40:29,690 --> 01:40:32,683
Nobody up there wants to help us.