The Hunting Ground Page #6

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.

So what was the point of that?

I guess just to...

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,

"Don't do anything you would regret.

Messing with Notre Dame football

is a bad idea. "

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... 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... And I remember

the words in it was, uh,

"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.

Is it just students?

Is it everybody?

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!

- Oh, 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.

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.

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.

Mm-hmm.

The Dean of Students

accused me of being drunk

and told me that I had,

like, a serious problem.

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...

I was up working at four,

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.

You probably hear

stories like this all the time.

I know, but it doesn't make it any better.

Now I'm realizing, like, how much better

I feel from talking about it.

You're not alone. You're not alone.

And no matter how many awful things...

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...

- UConn.

Formalizing a national network

- is on our to-do list.

- That's pending.

I found my paychecks.

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.

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. "

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.

Hi, Sofie!

Hello.

Hi!

Do you wanna see Drea?

- Can you see?

- Drea!

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.

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.

- Annie!

- Hi!

- How are you?

- Hi!

- Oh!

- 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,

"Oh, 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 Teke once. "

Why is your name in it?

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"?

- Whatever that means.

- They wrote my name...

They wrote it in Latin.

I don't understand.

Probably search it?

Interesting.

Whoo!

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 from sexual assault.

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