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Used to put people under general anesthesia for surgery. >> what exactly is it that you lose your memory? in other words are the people awake? >> well, when it comes to roughies basically it makes you forget memory from that point on. it takes about 20 to 30 minutes after about two hours maximum effect and can last for 8 to 12 hours. >> scary. >> i want to distinguish. i want to disagree with what gavin said in the last block. there are 100,000 students women a year sexually assaulted. date rape...

Gavin said. there are 100,000 women a year sexually assaulted. date rape means you dont say no. you dont say -- a woman gets to say no at the beginning, the middle -- >> he wasnt saying. that. he disagreed with the numbers. >> its 100,000 a year, college students. the reason is because alcohol is the number one date rape drug. alcohol is number one. >> how many women are in college every year? got to be in the millions, right? >> so its not one in four. >> okay. >> but -- >> that was his point. ...

Is pimps and hos offensive? >> it is cultural appropriation because none of the people involved are pimps are hos. >> they could be. did you see risky business? >> what they wear are uniforms and not outfits. they are not costumes. here is what i think. the fraternities have two choices. except the fact that things that were historically fine are not considered fine anymore. or they go out of business. more and more schools are going to start banning them. they are looking for an excuse to ban t...

Media environment were in which is so more immediate and people wanting information quicker? >> theres something to be said about sensationalism. about looking for the most extreme version of a story you can tell. unfortunately, date rape and acquaintance rape is actually common on campuses like uva. there are a lot of stories you could tell about that. but instead, this writer wanted to find frankly a more horrific, more appalling, more shocking example. she ended up going with the story about ...

This and jackies request we not talk to the assail i cants? that creates an unbelievable situation which fights the claims of people who say women are making this stuff up. >> right. it was a 9,000 word story. the report is a 12,000 word story. speaking to student alex pink lton. her concern now is peoples impressions are still when they think about rape they think about the rape that jackie alleged which is a horrific gang rape over a course of hours. as opposed to the date rape. she said there...

Wrong. >> the really practice sex offenders groups of people who are more vulnerable. >> college is the place where lots of alcohol is consumed and the number of victims is endless. >> so that is chilling. how do you combat that and what are students doing when their universitys fail them? >> im so glad you showed that clip because what it does is it changes the discussion from bad hookups, messy communication, you know, date rape to target rape. and what we found this is not a situation of a he...

The most successful woman in radio, laura ingraham, joins us. >> first of all, whoever did that montage did great. >> how has uva handled this? >> look, i think the charges were so explosive and in a university setting where theres such heightened concern now in most cases about date rape, the way women are treated, title ix, i think initially everybody freaked out. fraternity brothers were trembling a little bit on camera and the university pledged to get to the bottom of things. but i think in...

>> sabrina erdely will or will not survive this as a reporter. so far "rolling stone" is standing behind her reporting and saying they did try to reach these people, the young men involved, but i think the issue itself of date rape and the fact that in many campuses were hearing the opposite, that is that the people being accused of carrying out a rape dont have rights and are being kind of railroaded into admitting things they didnt even do. i mean, this is a hot topic that requires really thou...

That room, i dont know. >> well, reporters all the time, as judy knows and you know, jon, youre not there. its incumbent on the reporter to figure it out and in a credible and, given that its "rolling stone" and they were not under a deadline pressure and this was a story of choice not of need, its just tragic that you take this very, very serious issue of date rape and rape on campuses and now have to have some fog over it because the author didnt do all her work. and one thing that i found mos...

See that, i worry that, that date rape and that offenses that are not necessarily gang rape are going to be seen as, as not, not that its not quite as bad, but im worried that students are going to miss the point. i think everyone can agree that gang rape is horrible. but a lot of the offenses occurring at colleges are stickier situations. and im worried that students are going to not see them. >> its teaching people and not just young people, all people, how to respect what the gray areas are, ...