The Hunting Ground Page #8

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 loath

to get involved

and very loath to come up

against the fraternity system.

- Checklist? Phone charger?

- Mm-hmm.

- Laptop?

- Mm-hmm.

It's not a coincidence that you

can fly to Boston and fly to California

and hear the same stories.

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.

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?

So, for the email I'm just gonna...

So we move forward with

this model, saying, "Here's a complaint.

Here's how this process works. "

My 21st birthday,

I was helping students at Swarthmore

file a Title IX complaint.

So I think I went to Columbia

twice before they filed.

Just sat 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.

- Yeah.

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.

Hi, Drea.

- Where we sleeping tonight?

- Out on the least terrifying parking lot.

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.

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.

- Hi.

- Nice to meet you. I'm Annie.

- I'm Rachel. 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...

- That's so cool. Yeah.

And, uh, 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 we have

a survivor who's cutting,

and, um, she doesn't know

if she can stop.

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.

- Hi!

- 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.

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.

Derrick Washington

already had a documented history

of violence against women at Missouri.

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.

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.

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.

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. "

Like, 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, like, 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.

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