Fraternity culture and college rape
BBC News
30 September 2014
Fraternity culture and college rape
The BBC Pop Up team has spent September living in a house on the edge of the Boulder campus of the University of Colorado. The issue of sexual assaults at US colleges was raised repeatedly by students we met.
It is a national problem, with studies suggesting one in five women will be victims during their time at university.
And it is a serious problem at CU-Boulder too. The college is on the White House's list of schools suspected of Title IX violations - that's a law guaranteeing that women in federally-funded universities won't face discrimination due to their gender.
More than 70 schools including CU-Boulder are accused of having improperly dealt with sexual assault cases, and are now the target of a federal investigation....
Video at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29433262
(Just a note here: the interviewer spoke with such a pronounced accent and at such a clip there were times it was difficult for me to follow just what he was saying.)