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(EXHALES)

Like, I already

know. Like...

(GASPS) I got in.

I got in, I got in! (SCREAMS)

(WOMAN LAUGHING)

Oh, my God!

I got in!

Ahhh! Ha-ha!

(SCREAMS)

WOMAN 1: Okay.

(SOBS)

What? Denied?

I got in! (SOBS)

(SHOUTING TRIUMPHANTLY)

Yes! Yes!

Booyah! Booyah! Booyah!

Yes!

MAN 1: "Application Status,

decision made."

I'm sorry, Janelle.

(SHOUTS) Admitted!

(ALL CHEERING)

Oh, my God!

(SCREAMS) Yes, yes, yes!

(INAUDIBLE)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(STUDENTS LAUGH)

(CHEERING)

PROFESSOR 1: New students,

as I look out on you today,

I recognize that

you must be feeling

incredible excitement,

anticipation, and perhaps

a little relief, as well.

This is the day.

PROFESSOR 2: As your parents

learned when they

dropped you off today,

what happens in

college stays in college.

Most of the time.

(STUDENTS CHEER AND CLAP)

PROFESSOR 3:

Few things are more

worthy of celebration

than the entry of

a new class of students

into the university.

You have strengths

and skills and smarts

that you don't

yet even realize.

Our Kansas

State University

new undergraduate

students today

are indeed the next

generation of leaders

on whom we

will all rely.

PROFESSOR 4:

Let us, the faculty,

know what we can do

to help you reach that goal.

We will be there

to advise you,

to support you,

to guide you,

to point you to

vast resources

and opportunities

on your way.

To our new

treasured students,

this is your moment.

Ah, you see? Ah!

Does it get

any higher?

WOMAN 2: No. No.

Aha! (LAUGHS)

ANDREA PINO: Growing up in

inner-city Miami,

people like me don't

really go anywhere.

My dad came over from Cuba,

and then my mom is

second generation

Cuban-American.

I really wanted

to get out of Miami

and do something different.

I'm the first

person in my family

to ever leave the state

and go to college.

(CHEERING AND CLAPPING)

I was actually valedictorian

in high school.

One of my favorite

trips was coming to DC

when I was eight,

and I cried

when I saw

the Declaration

of Independence. (LAUGHS)

I've always been

really fascinated

with the law and politics

and just, like,

our country's history.

And I knew I

wanted to go to a school

that had that history.

And, you know, UNC was

the first public school,

and they had so much in its

history, you know,

of activism and

social justice,

and I just knew

I belonged.

ANNIE CLARK:

I grew up in Raleigh,

North Carolina,

kind of in suburbia.

(CHUCKLES)

High school I actually had

a great time in.

I was athletic.

I played a lot of sports.

I was the first female

in my class to letter.

I lettered in cross country.

And then I played soccer.

I was basically

a straight-A student,

graduated third

in my class.

For college, I thought

I would go somewhere in-state,

and, um, UNC

was the best school.

I really had

a good time there.

I learned a lot.

I loved my professors.

The first few weeks,

I made some of

my best friends,

and we're still really,

really close

to this day.

But two of us were

sexually assaulted

before classes

had even started.

It was at night, um...

We were dancing.

I was out with some friends.

People were drinking,

but nobody was

ridiculously drunk.

And I got pulled

outside and, um,

banged my head

against a wall,

and was raped.

I physically fought

and got away and ran,

and then went to

the bathroom and,

like, I still remember

just putting my

hands on the sink

and just looking at

myself in the mirror,

shaking, like,

"What just happened?"

ANDREA: My sophomore year,

right after spring break,

a really good

friend of mine said,

"You want to go

to this party?"

and it was pretty

late in the night.

I started dancing

with this guy.

He was

really attractive

and a really, really

great dancer

and just a really

good person.

At least,

I thought he was.

It all happened

really quickly.

I was actually a virgin,

so that adds a bit to it,

but, um, he just

started kind of, like,

pulling me

towards the bathroom.

He grabbed my head

by the side of my ear

and slammed it

against the bathroom tile.

And it didn't stop.

I couldn't move.

I could hear the laughter

outside the door.

I could hear

the people dancing.

And it made me wonder,

why does nobody see me?

Why has nobody

come to the bathroom?

Why am I not screaming?

When you're scared,

when you don't know

what's happening to you,

you just stay there

and you hope

that you don't die.

And that's what

I was hoping,

that I had more

than just 20 years to live.

We've known for

probably 25 years now

that the problem

of sexual assault

on college

campuses is enormous.

DANIELLE DIRKS: On college

campuses, it is not the person

jumping out of the bushes

or in the parking

lot who is going to

rape or sexually assault you.

It is the person

whom you know,

the person you may

have classes with,

the person you

see at a party.

You think about

it's the people

we don't know

that we should

be worried about,

but it's really

the people you do know

that you should

be worried about.

JOHN FOUBERT: But I think

a lot of parents think,

"Well, we'll drop

our daughter off,

"she'll have a great

college experience,

"and everything will

be fine because the

college has a reputation

"for being a safe place."

Um...

It's not.

ANDREA: I learned later

on that I wasn't the only

one who was

raped that weekend.

But at the time,

we didn't talk about it

because it was something

that nobody talked about.

Rape's a scary word.

You don't want to

fall into a category.

You don't want to

be called the victim.

I did not want to admit

that it happened to me.

ANNIE: I didn't tell anybody

for a really long time.

I went to classes, um,

did everything

kind of normally,

and it was just something

in the back of my mind

and it really

started to affect me.

And I was like,

"I need to do

something about this."

And it actually

wasn't until one of my

other friends

came to me and said,

"I was assaulted

at a fraternity.

How do I report?"

And I said,

"Actually, I don't know."

And I disclosed to her

that I was assaulted, as well,

and we sat down and

just pulled up Google

and started looking up

how to report at UNC.

I knew I was more comfortable

reporting than she was.

So, I said,

"Okay, I'm gonna go report,

"and then I'll

figure out how to do it,

"and then I'll tell you,

and then you can do it too."

So, I told this administrator

I was violently raped,

and we're sitting

down at this point,

and she looks at

me and she's like,

"Rape is like

a football game, Annie,

"and if you look

back on the game,

"what would you do differently

in that situation?"

I was expecting resources.

I was expecting support.

And instead she gives me

this metaphor that

rape is football.

And it made no sense.

And I ask her... I was just,

"No, rape is not

like football at all!"

And she's like, "Well,

you know, were you drunk?"

And, "What would you

have done differently

"if you could replay

the situation again?"

And I was just getting blamed

and blamed and

blamed for this.

CRYTAL GIOKAS:

They kept asking me, like,

"What were you wearing?

"What were you drinking? How

much did you have to drink?

Did you pregame?"

He kind of just

lectured us about

how we shouldn't go

out in short skirts.

And we shouldn't drink

because, I mean, that's

our fault.

"Did you say no?

"How many times

did you say no?

How did you say it?

"Okay, what were you wearing?"

There was no response.

There was no response

for seven months.

I thought that if I told them,

they would take action.

But the only action

they took was against me.

After I was

sexually assaulted,

they said I

should just drop out

until everything blows over.

Out of school.

I went back into her office,

and I asked her what happened.

She looked me right in the eye

and told me that she forgot.

The school's response

always seemed like

they were more concerned

about him and his needs.

She said, uh,

"You don't know what

he's going through right now

"He could be really

having a hard time."

They also told me,

despite the fact that I had

a written admission

of guilt from him,

that I didn't have enough

evidence and that, in fact,

what I'd presented to them

could only prove

that he loved me.

There's a lot of

victim-blaming

with this crime,

which has a silencing

effect on survivors.

If a student comes

to an administrator

with a problem,

it's not as if

the administrator

wants that

student to be harmed.

It's not as if

the administrator

wants the harm

to be perpetuated,

but their first job is to

protect the institution

from harm,

not the student from harm.

What you do is you

make it difficult

for students to report,

so you don't have 200

or a thousand

reported assaults,

or whatever the number

would be on that campus.

So, you can artificially keep

your numbers low.

One really easy way,

when a lot of students report,

they very much discourage them

from going to the police.

And that's because

if it goes to the police,

then it's more likely to

end up as a public record.

CLAIRE BOND POTTER:

Colleges have been

mandated for a long

time to report the crimes

that occur on campus

to the federal government.

But it is in

the interest of the college

to actually suppress

all knowledge that

that rape has happened.

There is a desire to have this

addressed internally.

And part of that is silencing

the kind of problem.

It's viewed as

a public relations

management kind of a problem,

I would say.

Universities are

protecting a brand.

They're selling a product.

(DANCE MUSIC PLAYING)

KAMILAH WILLINGHAM:

I got a call from

the Dean of Admissions first,

asking, you know...

"If you were to

get into Harvard,

would you accept?"

And I said yes

because I knew my mom

would kill me if I

said anything else.

But... (LAUGHS)

I had mentioned

a little pressure.

Just a little.

You know, I saw it as

a great opportunity.

You know,

a Harvard law degree. Wow.

KAMILAH WILLINGHAM:

I saw the inside

of a court room

during my second

year of law school.

It was insanely stressful,

but also super rewarding.

So, yeah, I really loved

my second year there.

It was during the winter term

of my third year.

I knew him really well.

We'd met a couple

of years earlier.

The guy, and my

girlfriend who was over,

we all met at my apartment

to have some

drinks beforehand,

and then we went

out to this bar.

He continued to buy

us both more drinks.

Half an hour

into it, I noticed

my girlfriend seemed wasted.

(LAUGHS)

People started to comment on

how drunk my friend seemed.

Almost instantly

after we got into the taxi,

I just felt this extremely

heavy feeling come over me.

My friend, she was just

kind of passed out completely.

It was,

like, a maybe 10-minute

ride back to my place.

Me and my girlfriend

kind of just flopped down,

face first on my bed.

The next thing I remember,

he, um, was on top of me

and he had a hand

inside of my underwear

and he was trying to put

a finger inside of me.

I yanked him by the hair,

and I looked

over and I just

saw her naked back,

and I know that

she'd fallen asleep

with all of her clothes on.

And so, my next question was,

"Why is she naked?"

Um...

And he smiled as he was

still on top of me,

fondling me with one hand,

and he reached out

and pet her

naked belly and said,

"I did that. I undressed her."

And I asked, you know,

"You took off her bra?"

Then, he...

He touched her naked breast,

while she was still

totally unconscious,

and said,

"Yeah, I did that, too."

And the next day he texted me.

And I said something

very casually, like,

"Am I gonna have to tell her

that she needs

a pregnancy test?"

And he said in

the text message,

"No, we didn't do

anything serious.

"Maybe I put

a finger in her v at most."

APRIL: It seemed pretty

clear that he had

assaulted both of them

while they were unconscious.

I absolutely

presumed that Harvard

would do right by Kamilah.

I went to the Dean

of Students' office,

and she said,

"I just want to make sure,

above all else,

"that you don't talk

to anyone about this.

"It could be bad for everyone

if people

started rallying around

"having him

removed from campus."

I was like... (LAUGHS)

"Well, he's a predator,

"and he's dangerous,

and actually that's

exactly what I want."

KAMILAH: We both had the right

to legal representation.

My lawyer was pro bono.

COLBY BRUNO:

She was a phenomenal client.

She really told her story

with a great

deal of confidence.

KAMILAH:

I went into the hearing

and even

the professors were like,

"Did I give him

the wrong message

with our friendship

"and that he misunderstood

our friendship."

My response was like,

"No, because, you know,

"sex was never part

of that friendship.

"And if it were ever going

to be introduced,

"when I was awake

would be a good

time for that."

I'm getting questions like,

"Why didn't you fight him?"

And he's like,

I think like 6'3",

over 200 pounds.

I was unconscious

or just coming to.

I, like, could barely

take control of my own body.

But,

"Why didn't you fight him?"

There was this extreme

reluctance to believe me.

DANIELLE: Campus

administrators are overly

concerned about

false reporting.

You look at

statistics on false reporting.

It's much, much smaller than

what people estimate it to be.

The data about

false rape claims

is that they're

a tiny minority

of all reports ever made.

Rape and sexual assault

have the same

percentage of false reports

that any other crime

has in our country.

The best research

from around the world

would put the percentage

of false reports

somewhere between two and 8%.

Which means 90%

but more likely 95

to 98% of reports,

are not false.

We got done with the hearing

probably at 4:30 or 5:00.

And they came

back very quickly.

They'd found that

he had assaulted me.

COLBY: When we got the call

that he was expelled,

she was in utter disbelief.

And that doesn't

come very often

with these college cases.

KAMILAH: The next September,

I came back to Cambridge,

and I got a Facebook message

from the Dean of Students.

She said that the assailant,

he could appeal

the ad board's decision,

and they voted again

on whether to uphold

the decision to remove him

and decided to

let him back in.

COLBY: The message is clear.

It's, "Don't proceed through

these disciplinary hearings.

"No matter what you do,

you're not gonna win."

ANDREA: I was like,

"Well, you know what?

I'm okay.

"And I've never had

anything happen to me,

and I'm fine.

"I'm gonna get through this."

But I started

feeling different.

Not only was my mind

in a place of turmoil,

my body was, as well.

I had nightmares

that were so vivid

that I would wake up

and my neck was

bleeding of how much

I was scratching off

that invisible

rapist on my neck again.

So, finally, when it became

very overwhelming,

I knew that I couldn't

keep denying it anymore.

So, actually,

the first person I told

was Annie Clark.

She was a senior

when I was a first year.

I kind of facebooked her

and I said, you know,

"Can I talk to you

about something?"

Hey, it's Annie.

Yeah, how are you doing?

ANDREA:

I mean, we just hit it off.

Oh, my gosh.

ANDREA: She,

till this day, has been my

greatest support system.

Are you in a place...

Do you feel comfortable

talking about it, or...

ANDREA:

After I spoke to Annie,

I came out publicly

to the entire campus

in October of

my sophomore year

with a project called

the Courage Project,

which was a photo project

of survivors on campus.

As I became more public,

I became kind of

that gateway for people

to actually

start talking about

what had happened to them.

Within four weeks,

I met nine rape

survivors at UNC.

My school needed to know

this was a problem,

and I thought

that they honestly

just didn't know.

I made meetings with

the Vice-Chancellor,

and I made meetings

with the Dean of Students,

and they were passed off

and ignored and delayed.

And I kept saying,

"UNC has a problem

with sexual assault."

I had the same meeting with

the Chancellor four years ago,

and it's like as

soon as there's

a new cycle of students,

there's no

institutional memory,

and the problem

starts all over again.

And so, unless you have...

To see it happen

with my friends

going through the same thing

I experienced six years ago,

it's heartbreaking.

And it's...

That has affected me

more than my own rape.

People stop talking about it,

and then it just continues

and then it makes you wonder,

what is it gonna take?

ANNIE: And we started working

with Dean Melinda Manning,

who was somebody

who a lot of survivors

have worked with and trusted.

INTERVIEWER:

So, in your time at UNC,

how many students came to you

and said they'd

been assaulted?

Um...

Yeah, it's hard to put

a number on it, so...

At least a hundred.

INTERVIEWER:

And of the hundred,

how many of the perpetrators

were removed from campus?

From what I remember,

no one was

expelled during that time.

So, these guys could

just get away with it?

Absolutely. Absolutely.

And people could

commit it repeatedly.

I was certainly

aware of some individuals

who had committed it

repeatedly.

CAROLINE HELDMAN:

A survivor at Occidental

College contacted me.

I noticed that her

rapist's name matched

the name of two other cases.

So, she was the third student

to be raped by this student.

Um, and the most

troubling aspect of this case

is that he was allowed back,

or is allowed to

come back onto campus.

I thought it was only one,

but now I know

there's two other women.

And who knows who else

who just wasn't

able to step forward.

LEAH TRUJILLO: It seemed like

prime hunting ground

for someone like him.

HOPE BRINN:

My assailant, he's done

much worse to other people.

He has assaulted

at least four different women.

That's just who I know of.

(SCOFFS)

About two weeks

after I reported,

I got a call from

the detective saying

that they found

two other girls

that he had previously raped.

And they were both

University of Tulsa students,

and they had both

reported to the school.

DAVID LISAK: The vast

majority of men don't rape,

won't rape, haven't raped.

So, when you start

looking at then

the rapists who are

committing these crimes,

it is the repeat offenders

who are the core

of this problem.

MAN 2: I was incarcerated

for six and a half

years for sexual assault.

I know I was at fault.

You know, like I said, I guess

the reason I really

wanted to do this interview

was to maybe help

someone else out.

You know, maybe have

them become aware of,

you know,

what they're doing wrong.

DAVID: The really

practiced sex offenders

identify groups of people

who are more vulnerable.

College is a place where

lots of alcohol's consumed

and, uh, the number

of victims is endless.

DAVID: These men select

victims ahead of time.

It could be a bar.

It could be a fraternity party

where people are drinking.

MAN 2: At the parties,

like, frat parties,

I mean,

people are getting wasted.

So, it's not like

a lot of the time,

depending on who they're with,

nobody, um, keeps

an eye on them.

DAVID: The alcohol is

essentially a weapon

that is used to

render somebody

extremely vulnerable.

MAN 2: Alcohol

definitely makes it easier

to overpower a victim.

If they're inebriated

or under the influence,

less struggle, for sure.

DAVID: And then

there's an isolation phase.

So, you know, somebody who

has deliberately

gotten this young woman

extremely intoxicated,

and at some

point he says to her,

"I'll walk you

back to your room."

Or, "You can sleep

it off if you want.

We have a bed upstairs."

And that's where

the assault occurs.

MELINDA: A lot of people say,

"Why don't they

just have students

go to the police?"

I have a lot of good friends

who are police officers,

and I love them dearly,

but they have some work to do.

Even if law enforcement

does do a good job,

a lot of district attorneys

don't want to

take these cases.

And even if

there is prosecution,

it takes a long time.

It takes a year, two years.

In the meantime,

that alleged perpetrator

could do it again

and again and again.

So, universities,

if they have good evidence

that somebody is perpetrating

that crime on that campus,

they should remove them

to protect their

other students,

with or without the police.

WOMAN 3: No more violence!

ALL: No more rape!

ALL: No more silence!

No more hate!

(CHEERING)

CAROL TRACY: What we're seeing

today has been going on

for a very long time

on college campuses.

Sexual violence has always

been part of

the college experience.

(BELL TOLLS)

REPORTER 1:

Here at Brown University,

names of men accused of rape

appeared on bathroom walls

all over the campus.

The administration

called the tactic vigilantism.

One student had a word

for the women who did it.

Idiots.

I have a lot of

friends on the list,

and by no means

are they rapists.

They might be aggressive

at parties, flirtatious.

And if girls carry a grudge,

they call them rapists.

And to be saying that

just because a woman says "no"

and because you have sex,

those are the two facts.

The woman said

"no" and you had sex.

Then are you a rapist

automatically because of that?

REPORTER 2: A national

study says one out of

every four female

college students

will be the victim of a rape

or attempted sexual assault.

The first national

study was done...

Published in 1987.

Mary Koss' survey of colleges

around the country.

And those numbers

have been replicated

over and over again.

Good evening.

As troubling as

your statistics, Garick,

are charges that this date

or acquaintance rape

is being hidden

by universities and colleges

in order to

protect their image

among prospective students

and their families.

ANNIE:

We had been trying to change

the university for years,

and nothing was

getting any better.

And so, we started

looking to do something

to force them or shame them

into doing the right thing.

ANDREA: We started digging

and doing months

and months of research.

ANNIE: On sexual harassment

law, on rape statutes.

ANDREA: And then I read

about Title IX.

ANNIE: Title IX is

a gender equity law.

And it guarantees

anyone the right

to an equal education.

When perpetrators

are allowed to remain

on campus and

schools don't expel them,

even when they're

found responsible,

then they're in

violation of Title IX

for contributing to

a hostile environment.

If a school is found in

violation of Title IX,

the government has the power

to revoke all federal funds,

which would hopefully

force a school to

be in compliance.

Title IX and

the pending Campus Save Act

and now this law? Like, what?

ANNIE: And so, we decided to

file a Title IX Complaint.

You basically write

to the Department of Education

and you not only explain

what happened to you,

but you also explain

how it's

a violation of Title IX.

So, it is Thursday night,

and instead of going out,

we are in, learning case law

until we know Title IX

and the case law

like the back of our hands.

I had earbuds in.

If I was walking,

if I was, you know,

going on a run or whatever,

instead of music

there were

supreme court cases.

ANDREA:

I read all the case law

on all existing

Title IX cases.

ANNIE: Like,

we're sleeping in shifts.

I would write for three hours

and then sleep

for three hours,

and she would do the same.

ANDREA: And I learned that you

don't have to be

a lawyer to file it,

that you could

be 20 and take on

a 200-year-old university.

ANNIE:

We didn't know how to file.

So, we faxed it, we emailed

it, and we mailed it.

We didn't know what to expect,

and so, I go into

my university

mail office one day,

and I have this big

envelope from

the Department of Education,

and I'm just,

like, freaking out.

I'm, like,

crying, I'm calling Drea,

Melinda, I'm just like,

"They took our case.

They took our case."

REPORTER 3: Flat out denial.

Leaders at UNC say accusations

that the university

underreported sexual

assault cases is false.

REPORTER 4: UNC Chapel Hill

General Council,

Leslie Strohm,

pointed out what a false

claim can do to

a university's reputation.

The allegations are false.

They are untrue.

And they are just plain wrong.

ANNIE: "False. Untrue.

And just plain wrong."

That resonates in my head.

I hear that when I sleep.

To say,

"None of this happened.

"We're not underreporting.

We didn't mess up."

It's just betrayal.

DANIELLE: Schools are

actively and aggressively

not wanting to

tell the truth about

what's going on

in their campuses

because the first campuses

to do so will be,

you know, kind of known as

the rape campuses,

where they actually

have a rape problem.

But, you know, rape

is happening on all

college campuses,

and there are

perverse economic

and reputational incentives

to hide those numbers.

I analogize it to

getting a letter.

So, you're a parent

and you get a letter

in the middle of the summer,

and it says, "Dear Mr.

and Mrs. Schultz,

"we're so happy that Johnny

is going to be a freshman,

"and we thought we might

need to let you know

"that there's

a one-in-four or five chance

that while Johnny's here,

"he's going to be the victim

of a drive-by shooting."

What's so vexing

about this problem

is that the shooters

are other students.

"Thank you so much

for your tuition money.

"We so look

forward to welcoming

Johnny in the fall."

Would any parent send

his or her child there?

They protect perpetrators,

I think, across the board

because they have

a financial

incentive to do so.

Perpetrators who are found

responsible for rape

are much more likely

to sue institutions

than survivors are,

and institutions

like to avoid lawsuits.

And so, in an effort

to avoid lawsuits,

they pretty much

do whatever they can

to give them

a slap on the wrist.

(NARRATOR READING)

(GASPING)

Any allegation of

sexual assault is something

that we at the university

take very seriously.

REPORTER 5:

ASU issued a statement

saying in part,

"Arizona State University

"takes all sexual misconduct

complaints very seriously."

The University

says it's taking

these allegations

very seriously.

We take all

incidents very seriously.

JIM MORA:

"We take these accusations

very seriously."

WOMAN 4: "We take reports

like this very seriously."

They take all

reports very seriously.

MAN 3: "James Madison

University takes

the safety and well being

"of our students

very seriously."

So, what's the punishment?

MAN 3: All three

students responsible

for sexual

assault and harassment,

expelled upon graduation.

Yes! Justice!

(CROWD LAUGHS)

Unbe... Wait a minute.

Expelled upon graduation?

Isn't that graduation?

(BELL TOLLING)

MAN 4: We will strive to

build a community

where education, inquiry,

and faith combine

to respond to

the demands of justice.

This is our goal,

that no one ever say

that we dreamed too small.

PAT COTTRELL: My career in law

enforcement started in 1969

from the South

Bend Police Department

and then went to

the University of

Notre Dame Police Department.

University students are...

They're just wonderful kids.

But there's...

Just like anywhere,

there's a percentage

of, um, absolutely horrible

people too, you know.

And, of course,

I had to deal with that, too.

RACHEL HUDAK:

Saint Mary's is the

sister school to Notre Dame.

It's one of the best

catholic all-women's

colleges in the nation,

and I was proud to go there.

I was really

happy I was part of

campus ministries.

I decided to be

a biology major.

I had a dream of

going to medical school.

Compared to my sister,

I'm more of a book person,

and she kind of

always made fun of me

'cause I liked to

stay in on the weekends,

and she'd kind of say

I was a party pooper

and want me to

come out and stuff.

And I did go out.

And it was fun.

It was Halloween.

A call came in on my phone.

It was from someone I knew

who went to Notre Dame.

He's like, "You have to come

to a Halloween party."

You know, I trust people.

I trusted what he said.

So, you know,

I just went along with it.

We got to his dorm.

You know, I asked him, "Well,

where is everyone else?"

And he's like,

"Oh, they're coming."

And eventually

his friends left,

and it was just me and him.

(CRYING) And

that's when it happened.

She, of course, said, "No."

You know, trying to keep him

from doing what he was doing.

And then he eventually

just forced her

and raped her.

Lieutenant

Cottrell interviewed

all the people that,

you know, I had

known that were involved.

In my opinion,

I had a conspiracy

of not only

the suspect that was involved

in raping the victim,

but I also had friends of his

that helped convince her

that there was a party

that she was going to.

PAT: The University had

their judicial hearing.

I had this idealistic view

that if I was

telling the truth

that they would support me.

And, um...

They didn't.

(CHUCKLES)

They preferred to

have the crime stats

as low as possible

so that, you know,

it doesn't

detract from applicants

to the University.

RACHEL: I met with the

president of Saint Mary's,

Dr. Mooney.

Hello, I'm Carol Ann Mooney,

President of

Saint Mary's college.

Saint Mary's must

always be committed

to providing our students

with an excellent intellectual

and academic experience.

She kind of blew it off

and didn't take it seriously,

you know.

RACHEL: She said,

"Well, these things

don't happen here."

PAT:

It got worse and worse for me

as the years went along.

Um...

Not only dealing with what

happened to the victim,

but also dealing with

what the university did.

My bosses were

saying that they

had empathy for

victims of crimes,

but it was like I told them,

that "Talk is cheap.

"And that's all it is

with you guys is talk.

"You don't really

support victims of crimes.

"I do.

"And I can't work

for you any longer."

RACHEL: I didn't

really talk about it.

I kind of just...

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

...stayed in my room

for a couple months

until Christmas.

And I didn't sleep.

My nights and

days were mixed up.

I had to, um...

Couldn't go to class,

and so I cut down.

I just completely

changed as a person.

CAROLINE: I think

the biggest reason

why it's so hard

to be on a college campus

after you've been raped

or sexually assaulted

is that it's

a small place, right,

where everything

is structured.

Your living

space is structured,

your eating

space is structured,

so, you're gonna

run into your rapist.

I couldn't go out.

Like, I couldn't

mingle with strangers.

I felt the campus getting

smaller and smaller to me.

There were less

and less places

I felt comfortable going.

I walk around with

my pepper spray on my keys,

and I'm always just on edge.

DAVID: There's a whole

physiological side to PTSD.

When you experience

a traumatic event like this,

your nervous system,

tends to get very reactive.

I started having

more panic attacks.

When I was in my

depressed state,

I just slept all day long.

I couldn't stop crying.

I couldn't stop

thinking about it.

I self-harmed.

During the vacation between

I guess, semester

one and semester two,

I tried to kill myself.

I had a lot of,

I mean, of course depression,

suicidal thoughts.

REPORTER 6: Trey Malone took

his own life last June.

In his suicide note,

Malone wrote

about being sexually abused

while a student

at Amherst College,

and the school's

lack of response.

Men are sexually assaulted.

And typically that is

perpetrated by other men.

And I think for

a lot of male survivors

who are sexually assaulted,

it challenges many beliefs

that they have

about themselves.

Men aren't supposed

to become vulnerable.

They always say,

"You allowed yourself

to do it. Why did you do it?

"Why didn't you

fight them off?"

Men have to be strong,

and men wouldn't let

this happen to them.

Because of

the emphasis there is

on it being

a crime against females,

men feel less comfortable

coming forward with it.

Reporting rates amongst men

are just so infinitesimal

that it actually

makes it very hard

to do research on this,

let alone to get

a real understanding

of the scope of the problem.

ANDREA:

You are built from the ground

as a Tar Heel,

as a member of a community

that is so much

bigger than you.

I was directly

going against it.

Tonight the US

Department of Education

has launched its

own investigation

into how UNC

Chapel Hill has been

handling sexual

assault cases on campus.

ANNIE: It wasn't until

we filed the complaint

that the retaliation started.

And it's been bad.

I've gotten death threats,

I've gotten rape threats.

Of course, Internet trolls

are always there.

But I had one

in-person threat,

which was kind of scary. Um...

"Bang-bang, bitch. Die."

ANDREA: My residence

hall was broken into,

and it was

completely vandalized.

Spray paint everywhere,

a knife was left behind.

And messages were

painted all over.

I felt like I was in

danger all the time,

and that's what I thought of

when I went to classes.

I went, you know, from being

valedictorian in high school

and then, you know,

struggling to

finish my classes.

And not knowing how

to tell my parents,

which I never did.

INTERVIEWER:

Can you talk a little bit

about what it was like

when your parents found out?

They still don't know.

INTERVIEWER:

They still don't know.

Yeah.

Um... (CHUCKLES)

I thought about telling them

many, many times.

And I didn't tell my parents

until a couple days later,

which was probably,

like, the hardest

thing I've ever

had to do, ever.

Now I'm gonna start crying.

INTERVIEWER:

It's okay, you can cry.

You don't have to hold it in.

Like,

I remember skyping my dad...

INTERVIEWER: What worries

you about telling them?

The conversation afterwards.

I worry that they'd

look at me differently.

I'm worried that they'd

want to talk about it again.

And just the fact

that they would know.

That it would just be

there in their minds

when they looked at me.

Just to hear my

mom's voice on the phone,

her feeling so

helpless in that moment,

is probably one of

the worst aspects

of this entire ordeal,

which probably makes me

the most angry

at my assailant.

(CHUCKLES) My mom

was on the plane

the next day after I told her.

(SOBS)

My dad, he wears

his Notre Dame ring every day.

I've never seen

him take it off,

and he didn't...

He wasn't wearing it anymore.

His finger that

has a permanent mark

from his ring

and didn't have his ring on.

And it just...

It was even more heartbreaking

for me to watch my dad.

I call her from

a thousand miles away

and tell her this.

And I just wanted

her to be there.

TOM SEEBERG:

Lizzy always had this

big, beautiful, radiant smile.

It was electric, and it made

other people happy.

We had 11 family

members attend Notre Dame

and two family members,

including Lizzy,

that went to Saint Mary's.

And she, I think,

really felt affirmed

that this was

the right choice.

She was really,

really happy to be there.

(COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING)

♪ And a little bit

of chicken fried ♪

She went over on

August 31st with a friend

to attend an activities fair

at Notre Dame,

and that

evening they went back

to this

football player's room.

It was four of them in there.

The football

player and his friend

and Lizzy and her friend.

And then...

I guess, rather suddenly,

the... The, uh...

The other two left the room

and left Lizzy alone

with this football player.

And then he

basically jumps her.

He pulls her on top of him

and removes her shirt,

and bra,

and then also begins

to try to take off her pants.

And the next

day Lizzy reports.

It never crossed our mind

that they wouldn't do right.

The accused,

they couldn't find him.

They had

difficulty locating him.

Everyone knows where

this individual is.

Certainly

the athletic department knows.

He played two

home football games

before he was interviewed.

Notre Dame Stadium

holds 80,000 people,

so, that's times two,

160,000 people

knew where this guy was

before the Notre

Dame Security Police

could find him.

There was a directive

that the campus police

cannot contact an athlete

at any athletic facility,

and we cannot contact

any athletic employee

to assist us in

contacting the athlete

that we would be looking for.

INTERVIEWER: So, what was

the point of that?

I guess just to...

(INHALES DEEPLY)

...keep us away

from student athletes.

So, Lizzy ends this exchange

of intimidating texts

from the football

player's friend,

and he comes at

her with a text,

(TOM READING)

And then Lizzy

takes that message

and immediately forwards it

to the detective in charge.

And later

the county prosecutor said

that they would not

be filing any charges

on that particular complaint

and saying that

it wasn't a threat

because

the individual who sent it

believed he was

trying to prevent someone

from filing a false report.

She was becoming very anxious

about this whole situation.

One of her friends

is quoted as saying

that she said, you know,

"He's gonna get away with it."

He denied everything,

and made comments like,

"She was the aggressor."

Friday evening,

I finally looked at my phone,

and I saw a text from

my wife's best friend saying,

"You need to call right away."

And I remember

the words in it was,

"It's bad. It's bad.

"Lizzy took her life today.

"She's gone."

You know, it's brutal.

It's just

really profoundly sad

in those moments

when you just think,

she's not here with us.

ANNIE: Is it just students?

Is it everybody?

ANDREA: Um, students

and university,

community members.

So, I'm in Oregon.

Drea ends up moving to Oregon

and taking the semester off.

"Every place I've separated

with a semicolon

is a different..."

She and I started talking.

We're like, okay,

"We're gonna keep doing this.

"Don't know how

we're gonna fund it,

but we're gonna do something."

We called everybody.

Most people

totally laughed it off.

Just looking at rape reporting

in general, it's really low...

But one of

the people who we had

reached out to

about the UNC case

was at the New York Times.

And he's like,

"Oh, that's interesting."

It ended up

becoming a front page

New York Times story.

That's when we got a flood of

emails, Facebook, tweets.

Like, somebody tweeted at me,

"Me, too.

It happened to me, too."

This is Annie.

And Andrea's here with me.

Do you see

a button in the middle

of your screen?

It says "start video."

Yay!

Cool. Look at that.

It was my freshman year.

I'd been at school

for a couple of weeks.

I'd made friends

in some frat houses.

ANNIE:

People reached out through

all these different mediums.

A lot of Facebook.

A lot of emails.

"I froze and

couldn't fight back."

"I don't know if

it's appropriate to have

"told this story to

you without asking,

"and I'm sorry if it's been

harmful to you in any way,

"but it needs to stop."

Wow.

I remember I was

in one meeting

after some story broke,

and I had 50 calls in an hour.

I had 50 calls.

WOMAN 5: I've never heard of

a case that has gone

in, like,

the survivor's favor.

I mean, he admitted it.

He admitted to sexual assault

and got

an eight-week suspension.

Mmm-hmm.

The Dean of Students

accused me of being drunk

and told me that I had,

like, a serious problem.

ANNIE:

So, many of the survivors

coming forward were saying,

"My rape was bad,

but the way I was

treated was worse."

I was raped in the Honors Dorm

above the Department's Office.

And the Department Office

took my scholarship.

It just doesn't...

ANNIE:

I was up working at 4:00,

and then I'd go to work,

and then I come back

and sometimes

there'd be survivors

in my apartment

that needed to talk.

WOMAN 6: (LAUGHS) You

probably hear stories

like this all the time.

I know, but it

doesn't make it any better.

Now I'm realizing

how much better I feel

from talking about it.

You're not alone.

You're not alone.

And no matter how

many awful things...

ANNIE: I basically had

to make a choice if I

wanted to continue

to support survivors

or have my actual

administrative

job at a university.

I figured I could do

more good this way,

so I resigned.

On our to-do list,

we have Vanderbilt.

Yep.

Um...

U-Conn.

Formalizing a national network

is on our to-do list.

(GIGGLES)

That's pending.

I found my paychecks.

ANNIE: What Drea and

I are looking to see

is how do we show that UNC,

it's not in isolation.

We started seeing,

you know, what was happening

at campuses

across the country.

We look at all

the cases we've heard,

then we make this map,

and every time another school

called or whatever,

we put a dot on the map.

And I remember

talking to Drea, and I'm like,

"Why has no one

connected the dots before?"

We have a case

at Amherst, Yale,

Penn State,

Berkeley, Oxy, UNC,

and nobody said,

"I think we should

connect these dots

"'cause there

might be something

"going on here,

bigger than one problem."

ANDREA:

And you see how many people

are being impacted by them,

and every one of those dots

being more than one story.

You start to see

it as an epidemic.

What if we could

build a network?

What if we could

connect our stories?

We could actually

make campus rape

a problem that

people cared about.

(INCOMING SKYPE RING)

(HUMMING SKYPE RING)

Hi, Sofie!

Hello.

ANNIE: Hi! (GIGGLES)

Do you want to see Drea?

Can you see?

Drea!

ANNIE: Sofie was one of

the first activists

who reached out,

and she was from Berkeley.

There's been

an increase in the number

of sexual assaults

that have happened.

ANNIE:

She's like, "This is exactly

what's happening at Berkeley.

"I know so many other people

that are dealing with this.

"How can we do what you did?"

And so, we started

working together.

(YELLS) Annie!

Hi! (LAUGHING)

How are you?

Hi!

ANNIE: Hi, how was your trip?

Are you scared of

retaliation at all?

Yeah.

So far, the students who know

have been really,

really supportive.

I think that once maybe

the fraternities find out,

then that could be bad.

It's called Collegiate ACB,

and there are all

of these fraternities

that post on it about, like,

"Who's the most attractive?

"Which house is

the best house?"

Or people that say,

"I was raped at

Sigma Chi last weekend."

Or "I was raped at Tke once."

ANNIE: Why is your name in it?

SOFIE KARASEK: Oh, my God.

I don't know.

I did not think I was gonna be

on this stupid site.

Well, also how they

spelled your name, though.

I know. "Sofiem Karasekem"?

(ALL LAUGHING)

Whatever that means.

They wrote my name...

They wrote it in Latin.

I don't understand.

Probably search it?

SOFIE: Interesting.

CAITLIN FLANAGAN: The American

fraternity industry spans

thousands of

American colleges,

from the most elite,

private ivy

league institutions

to small regional colleges.

We all know about

inflicted trauma from hazing.

But it's a matter

of public record

that the second

most common type

of insurance claim against

the fraternity industry

is for sexual assault.

I don't want to

single out fraternities

because it's actually

a minority of fraternities,

but what you inevitably get

are certain fraternities

where the sexual assault

is really rampant.

MAN 5: Within just, say,

the last five to 10 years,

Sigma Alpha Epsilon's

had a number of problems.

SAE is known at

a lot of places

as "Sexual Assault Expected."

Sexual Assault Expected.

Sexual Assault Expected.

SAE. Sexual Assault Expected.

Is there any,

like, parties or places

that you've been

warned not to go?

Yes, SAE.

ALL: Sexual Assault Expected.

(LAUGHS)

WOMAN 6: Sigma Nu.

SAE. Dke, at the very top.

Those are, like, the main ones

where as a freshman

you're told, like,

"Don't go there."

There's one

fraternity on campus

that is called

"The Date Rape Frat."

Dke is known as

the Roofie Frat.

GIRL:

There is one that was called

the Rape Dungeon.

Once you get a group

of people like this

in that kind of

synergistic kind

of culture forming,

it intensifies this problem.

Pledges at

a fraternity at Yale

surrounded the dorm

where many of the freshman

girls lived,

at night, shouting...

(MALE STUDENTS CHANTING)

MALE STUDENTS:

"No" means "yes!"

"Yes" means "anal!"

(CHANTING CONTINUES)

ALL: "No" means "yes!"

"Yes" means "anal!"

I ended up pledging SAE,

Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

It's one of the largest

national fraternities,

somewhat notorious

for its bad reputation.

Every Wednesday

night we would have

what we would call meetings

where all the brothers,

usually about 70 if

all were in attendance,

would gather in the basement

and begin a highly

structured ritual

exchanging stories

of sexual conquest.

If a brother had had

anal sex with a woman,

that would be mentioned,

and that would be a kind of

a pat-on-the-back moment.

And I think that

that's something

that the women at Dartmouth

who hooked up with

the fraternity brothers

didn't really know.

That guy who tried

to sexually assault me at ATO,

he was a pledge

at the time, right?

And so, all the pledges

had to, like,

photograph girls without

anything on their tops, right?

WOMAN 7: What?

Had to photograph

shirtless girls.

I hate that.

And so,

apparently in the basement

there were pictures of girls

and just, like, their tits.

And apparently

this kid who was,

like, so pushy with me,

he had, like,

the most pictures of girls.

So, when he comes at me,

his behavior of

being sexually aggressive

gets rewarded by his brothers.

DOUG FIERBERG:

Fraternities are essentially

unregulated bars.

And the individuals

that are responsible

for managing that alcohol

are themselves legally

incapable of consuming it.

Most sororities

don't throw parties,

because you can't

have alcohol at all

on the premises,

even if you're over 21.

So, if sorority

women want to drink

or go to a party even, at all,

they have to do

it at a fraternity

where the fraternity

brothers control

the dispersion of alcohol.

Usually, the drinks

had Everclear in them.

INTERVIEWER: What's Everclear?

It's a very strong

form of alcohol, and I...

The reason why they

put it in there is

because it would

get you drunk quickly.

The idea would

be to get everyone

so incredibly intoxicated,

you know,

blackout drunk,

that would increase the

chances that people

would be getting laid.

There was certainly something

predatory about it.

The fraternity

brothers took great pride

in having

a predator/prey relationship

with the women that would come

to these parties.

So, I was at

a fraternity party.

I went to a fraternity.

I went to

a fraternity party at MIT.

I'd never really, I guess,

been in a situation like that.

He came up to me and

we started talking.

He was just this guy

I thought was cute,

and then we were

just dancing at Fiji.

This big frat

brother came up to me

and he put his arm around me,

and he took me

away from my friends,

but he was really nice.

A friend, at the time, um,

really fed me a lot of drinks.

He said,

"Why don't we go outside?"

He asked if I

wanted to go upstairs.

We went upstairs.

And he invited me

to go into a room.

He took me

downstairs to their basement.

He pinned me against the wall,

and took off my clothes,

and assaulted me.

That's when they

both assaulted me.

I was assaulted by

at least two members

of their fraternity.

It's extremely difficult,

if not impossible,

to get accurate information

about whether or

not there have been

sexual assaults

in a particular

fraternity house.

What you find in many

circumstances is that

universities have

created contractual

relationships

with fraternities

that involve them

promoting the fraternities,

but not then also disclosing

the risks that they've had

with those fraternities.

On the Johns Hopkins

University campus today,

following

allegations of a gang rape

at an off campus fraternity.

Students say the university

failed to tell students

about the investigation.

Problem after

problem after problem

for the Sigma Alpha

Epsilon fraternity at UNM.

And that was before

a new claim of rape.

REPORTER 7: Digging for

answers after the same

Yale frat house

has had a whole

bunch of problems.

I'm telling you,

almost every time

there's a rape in

a fraternity chapter,

there's someone

at the university,

certainly the person

who's in the office of

Greek residence life,

who's paid for

by the university,

he or she knew

that that chapter was likely

to have a rape sometime.

But they won't

tell the young women.

Or if they do,

there's hell to pay

for these college presidents.

It's happened at Wesleyan.

There was

a problem fraternity,

Beta Theta Pi.

The university sent

a letter in the spring

to all students

and all parents.

The fraternity went ballistic.

The parents of

the fraternity brothers

went ballistic,

and the new class of

freshman women came in,

and they didn't

send the warning to

the new class of

freshman women.

It was Halloween weekend

before a girl was

violently raped upstairs.

Frat house at

Wesleyan University

is facing

a lawsuit by a student

who claims she was raped.

And this isn't the first time

that frat has come under fire.

CAITLIN: After that rape,

a young woman shows up

at an emergency room

in Middletown, Connecticut.

"I was assaulted

at Beta Theta Pi."

It's to me

outrageous the extent

that our colleges

and universities

are complicit in

the sexual assault

of young women at

these fraternity houses.

INTERVIEWER:

So, why don't the schools

just disassociate themselves

from the fraternities

and kick them off campus?

Right. Well,

the colleges and universities

have much more to gain

from the fraternities

than the fraternities

have to gain

from the colleges

and universities.

One out of every

eight college students

living on campus

lives in Greek housing.

That's a tremendous

amount of housing stock

the colleges

don't have to pay for,

don't have to supervise.

You also have to remember

you tie alumni to your campus

in a very powerful way

when you have

a fraternity system.

(BOTH YELLING IN EXCITEMENT)

Alumni giving

is a massive part

of your annual giving,

and a large part of that

is fraternity membership.

CAITLIN: It's a deeply

powerful industry.

You start tracing

back and you find out

they're pouring money

into political campaigns,

and they're

hugely overrepresented.

There's no

college or university,

or type of

college or university

that's more

represented within Congress

than the fraternity

system itself is.

So, people are very

loathed to get involved

and very loathed to come up

against the fraternity system.

ANNIE: Checklist?

Phone charger?

ANDREA: Mmm-hmm.

ANNIE: Laptop?

ANDREA: Mmm-hmm.

ANNIE: It's not

a coincidence that you can

fly to Boston and

fly to California

and hear the same stories.

ANDREA: We started

visiting other campuses.

We felt that if

we created a model

for how to file

a Title IX Complaint,

others would do it.

These are our two fraternities

where a student was

sexually assaulted.

ANDREA: And it was going there

and being walked

to the fraternities

and being walked to where

their assaults had happened.

You know,

details that were critical

for every single case.

Weird, right?

WOMAN 8: So, for the email

I'm just gonna...

ANNIE: So we move forward

with this model saying,

"Here's a complaint.

"Here's how this

process works."

ANDREA: My 21st birthday,

I was helping

students at Swarthmore

file a Title IX Complaint.

ANNIE: So, I think,

I went to Columbia twice

before they filed.

Just sat down with

a group of students

and talked them through

how to file a complaint.

If people are

going to talk publicly,

then it needs

to be about their

treatment here at Columbia.

Focus on Columbia.

WOMAN 9: Yeah.

ANNIE: We don't have lawyers.

You have

18-19-year-old students

who are standing up

to their institutions.

We are at Amherst,

and we found a place to stay.

(LAUGHS)

Hi, Drea.

Where we sleeping tonight?

Out on the least

terrifying parking lot.

(ANNIE LAUGHS)

And we are

changing and doing stuff

in a Wendy's bathroom. Yay.

I found politicizing

my own experience

to be actually

the most helpful step.

SOFIE: It's really

exciting to actually get to

meet the other activists.

I had felt so cared for,

until I actually needed Yale,

at which point I became this,

like, administrative matter.

The administration

kept telling us to,

"Take our foot off the pedal."

Hi.

ANNIE: Hi.

Nice to meet you. I'm Annie.

I'm Rachel. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

I just decided to

take some time off, kind of.

I moved here with my sister,

and I've been a nanny

and it's the most

amazing thing, so...

ANNIE: That's so cool. Yeah.

And, seeing the two

little girls

that I nanny for, I like...

One of the reasons

I've wanted to do this

is, like, I never want...

Them to ever have to deal with

something like this.

So, it's really late,

and, um, we have

a survivor who's cutting,

and she doesn't

know if she can stop.

(WOMAN ON PHONE SOBBING)

ANDREA: The worst

part for me has been

having to

relive the experience

of everybody else.

This vicarious

trauma that I couldn't

process anymore.

It's just not fair.

It's really not fair.

But it's the only way

I get up in the morning.

I would've given

anything to have had

someone who believed me,

someone who supported me.

ANDREA: Hi!

ABBY: Hi!

Hi, I'm Andrea.

I'm Abby.

Nice to meet you, Abby.

Nice to meet you.

Andrea. Nice to meet you.

Hi. Good to meet you.

I was raped by

a basketball player

at the University of Tulsa.

And I felt like

because he was an athlete,

everyone was

acting like he's worth

more than I am

because he's an athlete.

And that's what happens

over and over and over again.

It's, like, you need

to re-read your

mission statement.

Like, "Are you here

to play sports?

"Or are you here to educate

and protect your students?"

An alleged sexual assault case

involving three

basketball players.

Four former

Vanderbilt University

football players

are charged with rape.

REPORTER 8: Derrick

Washington already had

a documented history

of violence against

women at Missouri.

REPORTER 9:

It was former Michigan kicker

Brendan Gibbons

involved in

the alleged sexual assault

of a woman back in 2009.

This is the fifth

student athlete

to be accused of

sexual assault on campus.

DON MCPHERSON: I really do

believe the vast majority

of student athletes

are worthy of our admiration.

I think they're mostly,

for the most part,

a lot of good people out there

who are trying to

do the right thing.

But when you have

18 to 22-year-old

kids who are celebrities,

it creates a toxic environment

for a lot of bad behavior.

When they walk across campus,

it's not like

any other student

walking across campus.

There's a multi-billion-dollar

industry

that wraps around

these young men,

and if you don't

think that they're part

of a culture of entitlement,

just look at the fanfare

that's around

college football.

(CHEERING)

ERICA KINSMAN: I grew up

in Zephyrhills, Florida.

It's a small town,

so everybody

does know everybody.

I've lived there

my entire life.

I did very well

in high school.

I graduated with honors.

I took a lot of AP

and honors classes.

When I was younger,

a family friend

of ours gave me

a Florida State

cheerleading uniform,

and it came with pom-poms.

JOHN KINSMAN:

She was the best child

any father could have.

She was fabulous.

Never any problems.

Always had a great smile.

Just a joy to be around.

She kept saying she was going

to FSU, going to FSU,

and then when she

first got there,

I knew she made

the right choice.

My first

semester was really...

It was a lot of

science classes.

I was in six classes.

I wanted to go to med school.

I didn't go out a lot

just because I was

in a lot of classes.

So, it was

the week before finals,

and we drove to Potbelly's,

and we were just hanging out.

This guy started

following me around,

and I, like,

said to him, "What? Stop."

You know, "Stop following us."

And a man standing at the bar

saw that I was uncomfortable

with this guy following me,

and so, he kind of like,

grabbed me and was like,

"This is my girlfriend.

Leave her alone."

And I was like, "Thank you."

The guy left,

and I was just like,

"Thank you."

And he's like,

"Do you wanna take a shot?"

And I said, "Sure."

So, I turned around, like,

to make sure that

this guy was gone

and when I turned back around

he handed me a shot.

I'm fairly

certain that there was

something in that drink.

As a college student,

I had been drunk before,

and I had not

drank nearly enough

to become drunk

and incompetent that night.

I remember being in a cab,

and there were three

guys in the cab also.

Anyone you ask

would tell you, like,

I never would go

home with a guy, period,

and especially

not three people

that I didn't know.

I remember specific

things after that.

I was in an apartment,

and this guy was...

Sexually assaulting me.

He was raping me.

He was on top of me,

and I couldn't

really breathe that much,

but I was saying,

"Please stop. Stop."

Like, I remember his roommate

or whoever this other guy was,

came in and he was saying,

"Dude, stop.

Like, what are you doing?

"She's telling you to stop."

Since his door to the bedroom

wouldn't lock,

he picked me up

and he carried me

into the bathroom.

He said,

"The door will lock in here."

He put me on

the tile bathroom floor.

I was trying to, like,

push him off,

and kick him off,

but he was just too big.

And I said, "Please stop,"

multiple times,

and I said, "No".

Eventually he pushed

his hand over my face

and pushed my

face into the floor.

And he just

continued to rape me.

He finished and then he put

my clothes back on,

and he said,

"You can leave now."

And then he's like,

"I'll take you

home on my scooter."

I mean, okay.

I had no idea where I was.

I didn't know how else

I was supposed to get home.

I wanted to get out of there.

This was the worst

feeling because

I didn't wanna hold

onto him, you know?

But I was afraid that I was

gonna fall off of the scooter.

He dropped me off

at the intersection

where I told him

because I didn't

want him to know

where I lived.

I didn't know, really,

what I was supposed to do.

I tweeted, "Someone help me."

My friend responded,

and she was like,

"Well, tell me what happened."

And we decided that

we need to call the police.

(TALKING OVER THE PHONE)

The Florida State

University police

took me in

the back of a police car

to the hospital.

I got all of the blood work,

and the rape kit,

and everything.

They were

watching bruises appear

as I was laying in

the hospital bed.

We got a call about

3:00 in the morning.

We grabbed some stuff

and we jumped in the car

and started heading to FSU

as quick as we could.

She was laying in

the hospital bed,

and we each went to one side,

and we just held

her and all three

of us laid there,

or sat there and cried.

ERICA: That's when

investigator Angulo came in.

And I told him

kind of everything.

I'm very pro law enforcement.

And Tallahassee PD was there,

and we assumed they were

taking care of things.

ERICA: I went back

in the beginning of January.

It was my first

class on Tuesday,

and I see him

walk into the class.

And I knew.

I was like, "That's him."

They were about

to take attendance

and that's what...

I needed to stay calm

and just kind of wait it out.

He was one of

the very last names

that they called,

and, um, my teacher said,

"Jameis Winston?"

and he raised his hand.

I didn't know who he was.

REPORTER 10:

The nation's number one

high school quarterback,

Jameis Winston,

won Gatorade State

Player of the Year

this past season.

Jameis, tell me why

you chose Florida State.

Just because we're trying to

build a tradition there

and hopefully we can get

a few national championships

and hopefully

a Heisman Trophy.

ERICA: I notified

Investigator

Angulo of who it was.

I think at that

point he knew that

he was gonna be

the big football star.

He said, "This is

a huge football town.

"You really should

think long and hard about

"whether you want to

press charges or not."

It didn't make

sense to me, really.

I... I just thought, like,

"You know, that's his job.

"Why isn't he...

Why is he not gonna do it?"

COMMENTATOR 1: The hype for

Jameis Winston is as

much as I've ever seen

for a first year

starting quarterback.

Winston, Winston!

Winston into the end zone!

Touchdown, Florida State.

(CROWD CHEERING)

Sports teams are the business

on these campuses.

When you build stadiums

that cost $200, $300 million,

when you build

athletic facilities

that can get up into

that range, as well,

and then you look at the

multi-billion-dollar

television contracts.

When you're talking

about that kind of money,

there's an enormous investment

in a student

athlete who may be

a quarterback on a top 20 team

that's pulling in hundreds

of millions of

dollars in revenue.

REPORTER 11:

Nineteen-year-old Winston

is on the verge

of leading his team

to the ultimate victory.

Our main goal is to

win a national championship.

REPORTER 11: He's had

a meteoric rise to fame,

becoming

the starting quarterback

as a freshman.

He's a star on the team,

and that doesn't

mean he's guilty,

but the point is

you have to treat that person

like you would anyone

else in these cases,

and that didn't happen here.

Poised to play in and possibly

win the national championship,

a frontrunner for

the Heisman Trophy award,

Florida State quarterback,

Jameis Winston,

now possibly finds himself

in some hot water.

Winston is part of

an ongoing investigation

into a sexual

assault complaint

filed nearly a year ago,

but today was turned over

to the State Attorney.

As soon as I saw

this story break,

I thought how terribly,

terribly unfair it

is to this young man.

I think it's very,

very unfortunate

that this young dude

with this Magic

Johnson caliber smile...

MAN 6: Yup.

...and a level of production,

and the things

that he has done

en route to pursuing

a national championship,

and the Heisman Trophy,

and now it comes out?

It just stinks to me.

DNA analysis confirmed

the DNA provided by Winston

matched that sample

taken from the accuser.

Although,

he has never spoken directly

to cops or prosecutors,

Jameis Winston,

through his attorneys,

maintains his innocence

and says any sex

was consensual.

COMMENTATOR 2: Jameis Winston!

He's into the promised land!

Touchdown, FSU!

REPORTER 12:

His voice, his way, his team.

ERICA: Our football team

kept winning games.

We were gonna play

in the national championship.

All these people

were praising him.

People were just

calling me names,

a slut, a whore.

I got a tweet

from a girl who I didn't know.

The tweet was like,

"Why would you blame

such a good guy

for doing this?"

People were

threatening me, my family.

And there was other people

that were

threatening my sorority,

saying, "We're gonna burn down

their house."

REPORTER 13:

Jameis Winston will not be

charged with the rape

that allegedly happened

exactly a year ago.

Here's prosecutor

and FSU alumni Willie Meggs.

We've carefully examined

all the evidence in this case

and have

concluded that no charges

will be filed against

anyone in this case.

INTERVIEWER: Do you think

Jameis Winston

raped that girl?

Uh...

I think I did not

have sufficient evidence

to prove that he

sexually assaulted her

against her will.

I think things

that happened there

that night were not good.

REPORTER 13: As FSU fights

for the national title,

the alleged victim

drops out of school.

FSU football

fans all predictably

delighted by this result.

(CHEERING)

Florida State! Whoo!

(CHEERING)

MAN 7: Jameis Winston.

He's amazing!

What a great guy.

Jameis Christ.

That's it.

The justice system

was proved right.

Right? It worked.

Every school in

the country that's a big-time

powerhouse football team

has players

dealing with that shit.

Some girl got jealous

and wanted to be

a part of the scene, you know.

She was a liar.

Football star, Jameis Winston,

Florida state quarterback,

had the game of

his young life Monday

when he led the Seminoles

to the national championship.

(CHEERING)

WILLIE MEGGS:

Sexual assault cases

are always tough.

Probably the first time

someone is apprehended

is not the first

time that they have, uh...

Engaged in forceful

conduct on someone.

I went to see my

victim's advocate.

And in that meeting

we were just talking.

She was like,

"We just wanna let you know

there's another

victim from him."

(CHEERING)

MAN 8:

It's my pleasure to announce

the 2013 Heisman

Memorial Trophy winner.

Jameis Winston,

Florida State University!

(CHEERING)

INTERVIEWER:

Is it hard for you to believe

that this has all happened?

I kind of just

wanna know, like...

(SNIFFLES)

Why me?

It doesn't really make sense.

(APPLAUSE)

He won the Heisman Trophy,

and the sad thing about that

is that the world

of college football

didn't hold him accountable

for the kind of person

that he is off the field.

The system is

based largely on money.

And it's not just revenue

in terms of TV revenue,

but it's also

revenue in terms of

alumni and trustees.

JEFF BENEDICT:

We need to remember

where the power really lies

on these campuses.

Presidents hire

athletic directors.

Athletic

directors hire coaches.

Coaches then receive salaries

that are higher

than the president.

Tell me your title.

President of

Florida State University.

Wow!

So, you've got to be

the happiest man on earth.

You know what?

I think it's hard to

find a happier person.

No doubt about it.

JEFF:

These cases are nightmares

for college presidents.

This is college presidents

who hold their nose

and cover their ears

because they know

that this is

part of what comes

with the big

business of college sports.

There is a great fear

among many presidents

of alienating important,

influential people.

What's the number

one responsibility

of a college president?

Fundraising.

$100 million to UC San Diego,

the second largest gift

in the school's history.

$200 million.

That's the gift

University of Michigan

alum Stephen Ross has

given to the school.

Harvard

University has received

the largest donation

in the school's history,

$350 million.

Good Lord,

that's a lot of money, Joe.

DANIELLE DIRKS:

Colleges are big business.

They have boards

that are trying to

maintain their endowments,

and they don't want anything

that's going to touch that.

This is about

millions and billions

of dollars being

spent every year

to keep this

institution running.

Harvard is in the midst

of a $6 billion

capital campaign.

Donors might be

troubled if they understood

the magnitude

of sexual assault

on the campus.

I think that's

part of the effort to

silence the problem.

Numerous times

I was taken aside

by a senior tenured

female faculty person

and told the way to

make it at Harvard

is by being

a dutiful daughter.

"If you hear it,

pretend you didn't.

"If you see it,

you shut up about it.

"Silence."

There's a reason

we haven't seen

more faculty involved.

It does harm your career

in ways that you

can't even predict.

Certainly if you're untenured,

but even if you are tenured,

it makes it

much more difficult

to move from one

institution to the next

if you've been branded

an activist or a troublemaker.

I've had the honor

to work with students

who've been asking

these kinds of questions

for the five years

that I've been here.

We heard that

things were gonna happen,

but then there was

no conversation about it.

And I think there's a huge gap

in between that

still needs to,

A, be bridged, and to be

discussed more publicly.

I feel like there's

this moral high ground

in higher education

that is just sitting vacant.

What I haven't yet seen

anywhere, that I'm aware of,

is a president who has decided

that whatever it takes,

it has to be done.

And that's what leadership is.

...that we would

tolerate for one moment

sexual violence and

intimidation on our campus.

These assumptions

are patently false,

and such speculations

are very, very inappropriate.

At the end of the day,

I think we share

all the same goals,

which is to

create a safe place

where all our

students can thrive.

Of your 25

possible complainants,

how many of

them are survivors?

Twenty.

ANNIE: How many are

willing to go public?

Um, probably five.

So, what about just

a press conference?

Yeah. That I think

could be good.

(WOMEN LAUGHING)

(INDISTINCT TALKING)

SOFIE:

Good morning, and thank you

for your attendance

at this important event.

My name is Sofie Karasek,

and I'm a third year student

here at the University of

California, Berkeley.

My name is Meghan Warner.

My name is Iman Stenson.

My name is Shannon Thomas,

and I'm a proud fourth-year,

soon to be graduate,

of UC Berkeley.

I'm a survivor of

a sexual assault

that occurred

less than a year ago.

"I didn't realize at the time

that the nightmare I was in

"was not limited to

the night of the assault."

"The process that

followed is far more

"upsetting than

the assault itself."

"When I looked at resources

from the university online,

"I saw that most were

for the perpetrator,

"including an infographic

for what to do

if you're accused,

"not what to do if you're

a survivor seeking help."

"She made me feel like

what happened to

me wasn't real,

"like it wasn't a big deal,

like it was my fault."

"My fault."

"My fault."

"Sexual assault at UC Berkeley

is an epidemic."

REPORTER 14:

Several female students say

they were sexually assaulted

on the University

of California campus,

but they weren't

taken seriously.

ANNIE: We were tracking

the media frame

and how it changed,

and where it spiked,

and what articles worked,

and what didn't.

These students who spoke today

went from sexual

assault victims

to survivors

and now activists.

Their efforts are

gaining the attention...

ANNIE: We saw what was

effective, and that was

personal narrative,

and putting a face

and a name to the issues.

My name is Carolyn Luby.

My name is Alexa Schwartz.

My name is Ari Mostov,

and I would

like to provide you

with a more personal account

of the kind of

abuses that occurred here

at the University of

Southern California.

My name is Hope Brinn.

I'm a sophomore at Swarthmore.

I was sexually

assaulted and stalked

by fellow

students on this campus.

I was raped

during my freshman year

at Occidental.

I wish that I had

not been discouraged

by a dean from

reporting my rape.

I'm filing as

the lead complainant

against

the University of Connecticut.

Against UC Berkeley.

Against

the institution that I love.

Okay, let's go!

(CHEERING)

MAN 9:

Seeing students over the last

year to two years

almost taking control of this,

for me it's been

a miraculous thing to witness.

For my senior thesis,

I will be carrying

the mattress with me

as long as he is

still on this campus.

ANNIE: Our individual stories

are what makes this a story.

Here is the experience

of 700 survivors.

ANDREA: And unless

something happens,

it's not going to change.

There is

a revolution happening

on campuses

across the country,

and I'm very hopeful

that this really is our

watershed moment.

We are fed up!

(CROWD REPEATS)

With your university!

STUDENT 1:

Dartmouth has a problem!

ALL: Dartmouth has a problem!

...assault and harassment,

and today we decide

that we will no

longer tolerate it.

STUDENT 2: What do we want?

ALL: A safe campus!

STUDENT 2: When do we want it?

ALL: Now!

ALL: We're watching!

We're here!

We've made ourselves clear!

ANNIE:

It was happening so quickly.

I mean, within a year

of our complaint against UNC,

the issue had

shot to the top of

the national agenda.

KIRSTEN: Thank you so much

for coming to my office.

What else do you

think we need to do?

ANNIE: Do you wanna

run through

some of those items

on the list

that we marked off?

Yeah. Sure, sure, sure.

Yeah, I have my list.

ANDREA: The week

before my senior finals,

I was in DC,

talking to senators.

BARACK OBAMA: We have seen

an inspiring wave

of student-led activism

and a growing

number of students

who found the courage

to come forward

and report attacks.

We owe all these

brave young people

an extraordinary

debt of gratitude,

but we cannot stop there.

I still hear

stories from survivors

whose experiences reporting

to the school sound

exactly like mine.

Activists all

around the country

were speaking

out on this issue.

"Stand up for justice.

"Don't let other students go

what I went through."

(INDISTINCT CHANTING)

ANNIE: It used to be that

the department of education

didn't release

names of who was

under investigation,

but after

pressure from a lot of

student activists,

they've begun to do that.

Fifty-five

colleges and universities

facing a Title IX

sexual abuse investigation.

Sixty universities

have been put on notice

by the Department

of Education.

REPORTER 15: More than

70 schools nationwide

are now under investigation.

ANDREA: We have over 70

that are currently

being investigated.

ANNIE: When they released

that list of schools,

that map of where

they pinpointed it

matched our map.

(INDISTINCT TALKING)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(CAMERA CLICKS)

I wanna do a close-up.

Okay.

Welcome to the 2014

spring commencement

at the University

of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill.

Here at Notre Dame,

we wanna be

not just another

Harvard or Oxford,

but a Bethlehem,

a Nazareth, a Calvary,

a Cana, the upper room

at Pentecost.

RACHEL: You know,

I'm still practicing my faith.

But something I

believed in so long

and had so much

trust in just failed.

I have to remind myself that

people sin and

people aren't good.

And so, I just have

to remind myself that.

DREW FAUST: What do

universities owe the future?

We owe the future meaning.

Universities must nurture

the ability to interpret,

to make critical judgments,

to dare to ask

the biggest questions.

What is good? What is just?

You know, I'll see someone

who looks like

him on the street,

and I don't want to say that

I'm afraid of him,

but, um, yeah, it's shocking.

It was three years ago,

and it's still right up here.

Your reputation

is what you have

when you come

into Florida state.

Your character

is what you have

when you leave Florida State.

ERICA: I know that was

the right thing to do,

to come forward.

But Investigator

Angulo was right

whenever he said

that I would be

driven out of Tallahassee.

ANNOUNCER: Andrea Lynn Pino.

(CLAPPING)

Yeah, my name's Mike,

and my daughter was raped

at the University

of California

Santa Barbara

a week and a half ago.

After they were done with her,

they just dumped her.

When she got back

from the hospital,

she called the school

and told them that

she wanted to go forward.

From there it has

been an absolute joke.

Nobody up there

wants to help us.