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One image juxtaposes the number of sexual-assault complaints at various universities with the lack of expulsions. The doc supplements the interviews with some startling graphics.
CNN FILMS THE HUNTING GROUND MOVIE
(Most stats helpfully include citations.) Late in the film, the movie charges that an officer and prosecutor’s loyalty to their alma mater’s football team may have prevented them from aggressively pursuing a case. According to the movie, only 26% of rape reports lead to arrest, the sort of flyby statistic that cries out for more elaboration.
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A partial list of universities whose presidents declined to be interviewed is buried in the end credits. Athletes, who according to the percentages cited constitute a disproportionate number of assaulters, seem to get special protection, perhaps because athletics are a major source of money. Caitlin Flanagan of the Atlantic provides an explanation for why colleges might protect fraternities, whose members form strong institutional bonds and become a source of future donations. It’s suggested that universities avoid going to the authorities because police reports create a public record of the incident. As in “The Invisible War,” one by one women (and occasional men) appear on camera with eerily similar stories, of how colleges downplayed the crimes’ severity or of the peer intimidation that followed after they came forward.įormer faculty members talk of the pressures to be loyal to the institution. Harvard law student Kamilah Willingham recalls seeing the man she accused expelled and then reinstated. The women recount their own experiences of sexual assault: Clark says her rape was compared by an administrator to a football game that she should have played differently. The film’s central figures are Andrea Pino and Annie Clark, students-turned-activists who led a campaign to file a civil rights complaint against U.