This is a shocking expose of how, for decades, colleges have ignored sexual assaults of their students. If the true number of rapes on campus were known, the school would suffer tremendous financial repercussions. For starters, who wants to send their daughter to a college with high rape rate. Then the school wants to protect the student athletes from responsibility to keep the lucrative sports programs successful, and finally, they need to keep the fraternity system going so need to ignore rapes there. It turns out that all colleges have a high rape rates, the stats are just falsified. About 100,000 college students will be sexually assaulted this coming school year if things don't change.
It's also the story of two very brave young women who are changing things. After their sexual assault complaints were ignored by the University of North Carolina, they dedicate themselves to giving victims / survivors at colleges throughout country a voice. That voice is the filing of Title IX complaints. First they file their own, and then they go on the road, helping students at colleges around the country file their own Title IX complaints. Without the assistance of lawyers, these 20 year old young women are really helping change the whole system.
Since all the colleges apparently care about is finances, this turns out to be brilliant because the penalty if the college is found responsible is the loss of its federal funding. Now almost 100 colleges are under investigation by the Department of Education for violations of Title IX and thanks to pressure from these same women the Department of Education has released the list of the colleges under investigation. Rape victims are suddenly a lot more important to colleges. These young women are doing great, important work even as they are being re-traumatized by repeatedly having to hear other victims stories, not to mention the threats they have to repeatedly endure. There were at least two moments in the film where I had goose bumps because of what was being presented, which I can't say happens in every documentary, so it was very riveting as well.
It's also the story of two very brave young women who are changing things. After their sexual assault complaints were ignored by the University of North Carolina, they dedicate themselves to giving victims / survivors at colleges throughout country a voice. That voice is the filing of Title IX complaints. First they file their own, and then they go on the road, helping students at colleges around the country file their own Title IX complaints. Without the assistance of lawyers, these 20 year old young women are really helping change the whole system.
Since all the colleges apparently care about is finances, this turns out to be brilliant because the penalty if the college is found responsible is the loss of its federal funding. Now almost 100 colleges are under investigation by the Department of Education for violations of Title IX and thanks to pressure from these same women the Department of Education has released the list of the colleges under investigation. Rape victims are suddenly a lot more important to colleges. These young women are doing great, important work even as they are being re-traumatized by repeatedly having to hear other victims stories, not to mention the threats they have to repeatedly endure. There were at least two moments in the film where I had goose bumps because of what was being presented, which I can't say happens in every documentary, so it was very riveting as well.