The Hunting Ground | movie | 2015 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A startling expose of rape crimes on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on s | dG1fMW44UDhLZXpGbDQ

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00:00I got a call from the Dean of Admissions asking if you were to get in to Harvard, would you accept?

00:12And I said yes, because I knew my mom would kill me if I said anything else.

00:18The first few weeks I made some of my best friends,

00:21but two of us were sexually assaulted before classes had even started.

00:25I went to the Dean of Students office and she said,

00:28I just want to make sure that you don't talk to anyone about this.

00:33They protect perpetrators because they have a financial incentive to do so.

00:39The problem of sexual assault on campuses is enormous.

00:42I think it's fair to say that they cover these crimes up.

00:45There's a lot of victim blaming.

00:46He lectured us about how we shouldn't go out in short skirts.

00:50They told me despite the fact that I had a written admission of guilt

00:53that I presented to them could only prove that he loved me.

00:57They discouraged them from going to the police.

00:59If it goes to the police then it's more likely to end up as a public record.

01:03Universities are protecting a brand.

01:05Campus police cannot contact an athlete.

01:08He won the Heisman Trophy with his DNA rape kit.

01:11Just sit down with the students and ask them, where are the hot spots?

01:14SAE, sexual assault expected.

01:16The second most common type of insurance claim against the paternity industry is for rape.

01:21Her rapist's name matched the name of two other cases.

01:24And he was allowed back on campus.

01:26The message is clear.

01:27You're not going to win.

01:28We started seeing, you know, what was happening at campuses across the country.

01:33Hi.

01:34Hi.

01:35Hi.

01:36Has no one connected the dots before?

01:38These students went from sexual assault victims to survivors and now activists.

01:43This is a national problem.

01:52I was getting threatened.

01:55It was working in their favor to silence me.

01:57I was terrified.

01:58I thought if I told them they would take action, but the only action they took was against me.

02:02We've got a lot further to go.

02:05We've got a lot further to go.