Transcripts For RT Documentary 20180213

Going to get. Ten percent of students who take drugs become addicted. Lunch fats is very familiar with this phenomenon a journalist at the New York Times he was one of the first people to raise the alarm. But i have to succeed i have to get an a i have to get into the best law school i have to be in the in the cream of the problem if average is no longer acceptable were all in very big trouble among the most fragile students these pills can cause violence elucidations and suicidal thoughts. Despite the risks a real traffic of these drugs has developed over the internet. This classified ad site well known by americans has dozens of office full study trucks. To attract students these miracle pill. Have even been renamed study. In order to get hold of them a simple phone call will do. What. I mean its all. Good the police have been looking at these new internet delist book quite some time. Oktober two thousand and twelve operation dot com led to the arrest of twenty one new yorkers who were operating on this site. Among them a student at n. Y. U. The aim of the authorities is to break up any traffic where doctors may be involved. On campus the addresses of these specialists are being exchanged illicitly we went to interview one of them. And it was not the psychiatrist you know what is it you know before i take a test or something and i pretend to be a student who is having difficulties over. The years would trigger that said exactly. No no health scan no verification of my student status instead of any medical examination he just hands me a sheet. Of red with a. Distance do you have problems organizing yourself or concentrating do you have memory problems that you know that this questionnaire put together by the World Health Organization helps diagnose attention deficit disorders among adults. It was so works as a medical guarantee for this doctor is that you will be able to text with say read your report by through to the so that we will take a break and return to a large intestine yeah exactly this with goals. To protect himself from any possible prosecution the psychiatry is made to sign a disclaimer. Would fall for it ok doris there was a question. In two thousand and nine almost six million prescriptions like this were issued to Young Americans every month in four years this figure has more than double the to succeed other students hedge their bets on another system of coworking which has stood the test of time. Back at the university of kentucky. These great victorian like buildings are home to the famous Fraternity House on the front of each building week letters identified. Ronald Reagan George w. Bush Steven Spielberg Mark Zuckerberg all of them have been through these exclusively male secret brotherhoods. Although they encourage support loyalty and integration as a code of conduct Many Americans consider them as violent and sectarian. After a few weeks of negotiations some of them allowed us to film them. Its rush week the week for selecting new members and tonight its operation charm at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house. So they are just so this is. The aim to find future flatmates for this brand new house located in the heart of campus inside theres a fireplace a club arm chair paintings of the former alumni you could almost forget their students live here is really a time so these are of any real changes. Tonight the fraternity will only be create the universitys best pedigrees. Graham has been an essay member since two thousand and ten and he knows the selection ritual well. For those of us are also events. There is a short history. There you go. The atmosphere is rather relaxed everybodys trying to make a good impression youre going to take away the house in a couple guys together although youre. Good for their candidates the first visit is only the beginning of a long process selection hazing initiations to get a place here they will have to get through what are sometimes violent challenges but not tonight discouraging the contenders is out of the question their attack is still focused on the competing for eternity but for how far down the street their goal in this new house its going to feel like one hundred square feet here in ours just to be bigger than ours but theyre doing it like a two Million Dollars budget restricted here to for eternity is operate with huge budgets entry for the sposi students cost between one thousand to three thousand euros a year. The wealth of these fraternities is mainly gifted to them by former members its you know kind of like a suite almost for two people but. Benefactors who will become sponsors of these students one scratch away to this is a fraternities main strength building a professional network to get radio in jordan. So i think theres a presence around thats kind of his role model. These fraternities are mainly hope to young white anglosaxon americans. Its a great way of continuing a system of the elite and privileges spencer the town where a very bad place but hey yeah yeah. This student in the red shirt gets a slightly warmer welcome spencer is a different kind of candidate to be at this. Now i mean you know that i mean this idea of a big head. You know. You know its. Right there at the s. A. E. House spencer is already a little at home. His place in the high. His reserved its a family heirloom. Here. Very secure. You prefer. Their preferences. Or its courtesy. At the university of kentucky twenty five fraternities shared the campus and the pick of the students quite apart from their parent teaches him they also indulge in fierce competition in terms of pot and alcohol. Whats up. For and this is what gives a fraternity its reputation these nights of heavy drinking at the end of the afternoon and of on a campus delta sigma fi house has already started to party we need more pitchers. Delta saying this is your channel twenty two hes organizing the feeling hes in charge of the fraternity social life his mission for the days to motivate those who are choosing the new members and they begin by going over the classics. Certainly done great joy. Was a good investment the net is the best is i know that it was yes there was a little booklet for turning it gets around and we chant this song and yet all over the all russian cornello. Yeah but its welcome like really well you know how its good. For these much obituaries have only one objective she not the potus for life who i would post it might say he wasnt up by a good life ice cream i was even though i doubt he would do this if. Aside from the camaraderie. The fraternity also have another purpose too and i will die members to me go. This is mary gearin shes about to murder with two balls. Their favorite targets arent waitresses but so far two students the female equivalent to fraternities on campus. Of the new nine pm in the delta is at a house the party is in full swing. It was among the thirty or so excited goes we see Luciano Delta six party guy. Hes come on a scouting mission thanks to all the gods are doing. Thanks to was. The on campus fraternities and sororities form a Single Community one big dating club the students from good families where anything goes was of that of that what happens here stays here was i think i was like you normally its the fraternities that host the sorority so that these young ladies dont have to pay each Fraternity Member contributes two hundred dollars perturb it is all done to encourage making connections times with frat parties its all free however how you id told her it was like the only guys who really associate hearing us are pretty much only talk to her right really boys yeah yeah im. Sure hell give us your new email events and your friends are dating guys who answer and paternity you say like thats just actually do but then well make fun of can we can make fun of like yeah people who are interested they have a name oh g. D. I which is means. I mean depending. On american campuses academic success relies on integration into these elite societies to get in some students want to add to even the most barbaric afresh at initiations. Join me every thursday on the i like simon short and ill be speaking to get us to the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you that. Seemed wrong. Roles just dont call. Me lol but you get to say proud disdain comes out today and in games from an equal speed trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Level was telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings promised to the Chicken Hawks forcing you to fight the battles they dont need. To do sox try to tell you that every gossip and public by file for the most Important News today. Off about her husband tells me you are not cool enough and lets go buy their product. All the hawks that we along with are on the watch. I. Think i use for most losing the means by smelling things. Just music to stay in the room with this stuff which is really none of the noise. I. Smile for. You know that some of it was just almost intolerable. To put dont play i promise it to gather some odd time and all this. I. Had to hand over on the east coast of the United States. Here we have to document one of the oldest american universities. Based upon leaving its graduates all among the countrys top six highest salaries. That promotional images of an elite campus without history where one out of every two students is a member of a fraternity. And junos was one of them just like his grandfather a brother before him lets start with right there and then over here too so actually like every time every time i want to go to sleep its like underneath it says. The former student isnt bitta however his initiation nearly killed him. They spared him nothing this was actually the night the night of rush everyone gets kidnapped and taken to this other spot where they dont know where they arent. Well we do charge a lot of six cups of beer you know as fast as you can the first person who gets into the trash can loses and then the winner can bomb around the wizards head in contrast to the principle of support among fraternities hazing or fresh the initiation is a time of and this humiliation about the vomit couple pledges vomit into a pan and one of the touch chairs cracked you know eggs and cheese and big in the oven and on the plate just out to eat. And juris no eggs he has inflicted upon others the very same tortures he did out says before daring to testify about them in one of americas biggest magazines Rolling Stone confessions of an ivy frat boy among these confessions there is something that nobody has forgotten when i first saw the kiddie pool it was like a shock people vomited in and people. People are jocular. The year before someone defra kid the pleasures were swimming around in that youre like baptized. At dartmouth his confession exploded like a bomb that once the scandal was over the university tried to bury the matter i tried to get them to investigate and they never did and the real way if you really want to know what i think you know it is the money its you know there were the alumni who give the most you know a lot of them are in for tourneys and a lot of them are well some of them are on the board of trustees or were on the board of trustees and. You know millions of dollars changes hands and you left out months before graduating. Even though he survived the fraternity violence others werent so lucky. Youre ten am at the long island courthouse. Jack omarion pate meehan have chosen to break the law of silence by pressing charges against their sons fraternity came to court to indicate my sons that stays. There until he died from alcohol poisoning. This civil trial marks the end of four years of relentless legal battle according to their lawyer this tragedy should serve as an example for going to get. That theyre going to be. Live on the lancet for whatever damage that we can. Get the cure is to work. For the loss of their son the parte means are claiming damages against the paternity as president as well as to other frat boys who were present on the evening of the hazing. The university itself is not involved the tragedy took place off campus. A man was nineteen years old he was the only child from jack a merriams remarriage. And this is just before i went to college and the long hair was an a student. He was very smart very capable. A man wanted to be a doctor but on the twenty eighth of february two thousand and nine his dreams were crushed his hazing turned into a tragedy after he was very very drunk. And that he was trying to stop drinking that kept pouring but about a stroke thats one. Part of the span that they took my simple already had passed and they took him up to the house and. Put him to bed did they hear me im just going to let them theyre. Just i. But i almost thought. The next morning the police discovered our moms lifeless body the alcohol content in his body was seven times the legal limit. Since the tragedy time has stood still at the parte means house but. This was. Just putting stuff in here right now so i just cant bring myself to take it out than. The poor of. The first char saw the three students sentenced to a weekend in prison an injustice for nicole and sister and a sign of impunity of these fraternities weekends in jail or going and very becoming and certainly didnt even make any sense you know but now they can organize and get married and have kids and do whatever they want. To have kids downstairs hernando that they dont know this is so that parte me inspired a civil lawsuit to get compensation. The culprits were finally sentenced to pay a fine of millions of dollars in damages. On american campuses alcohol has become a real problem. Once a year students from across the whole country gather for a heavy drinking session. We are in South Padre Island texas the spring break template. Sixty thousand students meet here every year its three pm on the largest beach of the island rowdy has been drinking heavily student discovers the joys of spring break for the first time we. Were really cute little. Girls are going to read. Whats in store for them dance competitions and drinking. American students forget the pressure of the upcoming exams in the meantime anything goes for good or for showing the very show their breeds are going to show up. From their families and what they used to these youngsters no longer know their lives due to drugs and alcohol many of them finished their afternoon in a medical tent set up a few metres from the beach there or be hydrated their drugs and this body later. Accustomed to such depaul cheree the state of texas is not to mean with its resources that two hundred first aid workers are hired so that the party does not turn into a tragedy in charge of the fire chief bernie the sad sad sad bring regular course like we have a disaster is controlled chaos. Every day one hundred spring breakers are admitted to this field hospital. Today about he has managed to get back to his hotel without any problems you. Know all but in the girls room some havent stomach the alcohol so well they get through drunk at the beach for their care and here in the past. Weve got to keep going rowdy and out and have that technique from abuse they came in here in stop drinking if they want to cant drink when they want to be and they were going to party and just like us. For these students spring break records the effort theyve made throughout the year. So they party day and night. A few hours later the show is going to second when. Emily and cherie are two students from dallas with a clear objective means we are here for the baby. And again tonight the team gets going. Headed to was one of the biggest nightclubs on the island thats loose in the city spring breakers are the cause of many out to the sheriff mike is the tense this period of the year right now we just want to make sure that were in the park and watch were going to try to make sure that. The wires you cars are trying to break into the steal cars. Since last year mike has been able to rely on a very special form of support to help them control the situation feels. His ability to up there to watch things that people dont think about. A control tower several meters from the ground and downed with night vision cameras we have one can manage to locate it on top. Of the tower what is it all frame around three hundred sixty degrees which i think you have here play station actually we can move the camera all the way around we can actually if you can show me pretty close. Mike has just received a call from the tower and individual has been spotted dealing cannabis. Use or do you go for it right. The tower allows mike to rest you dont sue infringe that will. Take you in two thousand and thirteen the South Padre Island police makes three hundred and forty five arrests over eight days. We find rowdy in the queue for the nightclub tonight hes planning to dance and drink all night hes out for a night. The problem is hes only eighteen when he was going to. See this student has a fake id hes pretending to be the legal age for drinking alcohol. Free entry. Rowdy has managed to get past the barry unlike these underage girls. It turns out that he an out and have been planning this for a long time. And like this. Picture. On a sixty dollars to. Have a great night out these two boys have saved up almost five hundred dollars the equivalent of two months of student job salary. But plenty to. A. Lot of. The silly stuff. Every year spring break brings in around one billion dollars for the american economy. After several hours of partying rowdy and allergen our little hungry and just as well because outside a pancake stand awaits that and there are catholics from all over texas cooking at the stove. To learn to use their hand to train every really here. Every evening these volunteers prepare more than six thousand pancakes to help the party goes absorb some of the alcohol theyve been drinking. In ten years spring break has become a non miscible events on the schedules of American Students tomorrow we get up early with good food and we continue to just party unity. Like cool spring break is rowdy and old and will be going back to campus to take their exams. But there have to knuckle down in the United States one out of every two students leaves University Without a degree. Just. Certain i want to do things that show the phrase really really be very clear like go away go to. Management. And they on they they when they up and they have. Skimmed you need you feel the. Sun yeah im them what do you how to become a something let your body love do you wonder. If this. All mean that within those you still want to talk more like a passion. And is Getting International recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos and member wolf it was dismissive to do it looking for you like you know that this isnt my cup of tea is going i know phil saviano may be a bit. Old john no doubt a tough job but they should be the only palestinians who gets the most help from his jerusalem counterparts i dont think theres some of those who in the world under the oak vision theyre not going to go through this. And know it is all off out there its got to this lady of the most of the jihad i dont think itll be a muslim seem to do more in the middle sauced dont put this off. Theory. Germanys social democratic leader Martin Scholtz resigns after having recently agreed to form a socalled grand coalition with chancellor angela merkel. And on to another resignation in europe the foreign minister of the netherlands quits after admitting he lied about a meeting with Vladimir Putin and the russian leaders intentions to forge a greater russia. In an exclusive interview with our t. V. Head of the court of arbitration for sport stiffens the olympic committees decision to exclude russian athletes which the court itself had already cleared of doping allegations. 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