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Transcripts and they had tapes of all of the hearings. it was a fair decision. and you can see that by the proceedings that happened. you are wrong if you think this was unfair. >> mr. zalkind we appreciate you being on to share that side of the story. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> for the record, the accused, brandon winston, did participate in harvards appeals process. he gave live testimony, via skype, and filed written objections. the acus coo ucuexcusexcuse cam nothing. requ...

Controversial sections of "the hunting ground" takes place at harvard law school, where one student, camilla willingham, accused another, brandon winston of sexual assault. >> i went into the hearing and professors were like, did i give him the wrong message with the friendship. did he misunderstand the friendship. no, because sex was never part of the friendship, and if were ever going to be introduced, when he was awake would be a good time for that. >> in the days leading to the premiere of t...

Sundance premiere. we didnt want to go out to somebody if they werent going to be in the film. the other thing thats key, other than jameis winston, whose name is public we didnt name any of the accused. we knew their names were not going to be out there. >> and yet, some of the stories are in the public record. some did go through investigations, as well as even court cases. why didnt you include, even if they rejected wanting to be interviewed on camera, why didnt you include their version tha...

Charges that he used force, no evidence whatsoever introduced at trial that he was the one responsible for the inebriated state for the women portrayed in the film as victim nor was anybody vested with final decision making authority persuaded that mr. winston was guilty of any sexual assault offense at all. mr. winston was subjected to a long, harmful ordeal for no good reason. >> well, lets start from the beginning. the film does not say that brandon winston used force. the fact that these -- ...

People are coming forward for sel self-grandizing. theyre coming forward because theyre trying to stop a crime being commit the on someone else. thats what i think the film shows. no one is coming forward for any other reason but just to try to have justice served and have someone not perpetrate this crime on someone else. >> right. >> why didnt you reach out to get the mens side of the story, those accused? >> we did reach out, and most of them, i think, all of them, refused to speak. >> all of...

Do that. >> reporter: in campus hearings guilt has a lower bar. its not beyond a reasonable doubt but for most universities the standard is weather the accused is more likely than not responsible. in thus case, the ucsd hearing panel found the accuser was credible in her assertion he tried to digitally penetrate her and he ignored her objections. they ruled that, more likely than not, he violated the student code for sexual misconduct. every time he appealed his punishment was increased, with no...

Said, sexual harassment of students, which includes abilities of sexual violence is, is a form of sex discrimination, prohibited by title ix. schools must adjudicate cases her risk losing federal funding. >> universities running scared theyre going to be investigated by the department of education or found to have violated title ix. >> reporter: even advocates of the tribunals, like allison kiss, say that schools need to invest more time and money into training the people who are handling these ...