The Hunting Ground Page #3
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.
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?
- I mean, we just hit it off.
- Oh, my gosh.
She, till this day, has been
Are you in a place... Do you feel
comfortable talking about it, or...?
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.
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.
and then it just continues
and it makes you wonder,
what is it gonna take?
And we started working
with Dean Melinda Manning,
who was somebody who a lot of survivors
have worked with and trusted.
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 100.
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.
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.
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.
It seemed like prime hunting ground
for someone like him.
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.
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.
The vast majority of men
don't rape, won't rape, haven't raped,
so when you start looking at the rapists
who are committing these crimes,
it is the repeat offenders
who are the core of this problem.
I was incarcerated for six
and a half years for sexual assault.
I... 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 doin' wrong.
The really practiced sex offenders
identify groups of people
who are more vulnerable.
College is a place where
lots of alcohol's consumed,
and the number of victims is endless.
These men
It could be a bar.
It could be a fraternity party
where people are drinking.
At the parties, like, frat parties,
I mean, people are getting wasted.
So it's not like... A lot of the time,
dependin' on who they're with,
nobody, um, keeps an eye on them.
The alcohol is
essentially a weapon
that is used to render somebody
extremely vulnerable.
Alcohol definitely makes it
easier to overpower a victim.
If they're inebriated or under
the influence, less struggle, for sure.
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.
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
And even if there is a 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,
to protect their other students,
with or without the police.
No more violence!
No more rape!
No more silence! No more hate!
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.
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.
they call 'em 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?
out of every four female college students
will be the victim of a rape
The first national study was done...
published in 1987.
Mary Koss's survey
of colleges around the country.
replicated over and over again.
Good evening.
As troubling as your statistics,
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.
We had been trying
to change the university for years,
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