Friends become assail ants, what the schools have and havent done to stop it. And in mexico, the disappearance of dozens of College Students south of mexico city and horrific study of the search for them. And one by one they string together a future. This is a mother of four. Has goats and pigs and really done quite well. How a simple project became an opportunity for African Women to build more opportunities for themselves. And good evening, thanks for joining us. Im joie chen. We began talking about this a year ago and it is still shocking. America tonights indepth study of students on campus, after our series launched a Major Initiative by Vice President biden. Stopping sex crimes on campus. Campus. Its friday night. Ampus. Its friday night. Homecoming at the campus and the partys just getting started. We saw it last year. Having so much fun, everyones so drunk. America tonight was invited into the house party scene at ku. Plenty of booze and no inhibitions. We drink and bring them home and break up the next morning and take them out to breakfast and we move on with our day party. This is rebecca. Not her real name. A ku sophomore who said her world changed last fall when a guy she met on campus raped her. We met at school, we instantly had a connection. It was on another party night. She remembers that walking home was a struggle, embarrassing. He handed her one red solo cup after another. At the party i had at least eight beers. At least. And then i had a vodka cocktail and a few shots of just straight vodka, as well. As it so often does, the booze took over. Alcohol fuels hall o half of all assaults on campus. I remember waking up and he was kissing me and before i knew it he was trying to have sex with me and i tried to push him off. But i was so weak, because of how intoxicated i was, it obviously wasnt effective and i told him no and to stop and that i couldnt do this. The Justice Department estimates one in five women will be sexually assaulted in college. Most dont have the courage to do what rebecca did tell the cops. Shes never been able to see the complete Police Report but in it according to rebeccas lawyer who has seen it, the attacker admits having sex with her long after she said no. He fully admitted to continuing to have sex with me after i said no. It is against the law. It is against the law to have sex with someone who cant give consent. Yes. The University StudentAffairs Office found him guilty of the assault. They kicked him out of his dorm but not out of the school. What should the university have done . I. I feel they should have at least suspended him. Rebecca says his punishment for rape was merely a slap on the wrist. It wasnt just Sexual Assault, theres a confession to the Sexual Assault. Thats staggering. Found victimizers rarely face expulsion. Just 10 to 20 of the time. Even when the University Rules they are culpable in the sex assault as rebeccas attacker was. Told rebeccas family there just wasnt enough evidence to press charges. Floored, the family sought out another avenue. For justice. We began just to think you know, really, something 92ed to be done to remove this young man from this campus. They fount it in the america tonight series, sex crimes on campus. We had seen Al Jazeera Americas expose last year, about the title nine cases and the yuck unwomen who were coming forward and confronting the universities. It was very interesting when we watched because it was ten days after this occurred. Schools that get federal money protect their students from Sexual Assault and fully investigate abuse claims. Did you know that title 9 could be applied, that university could be held responsible . I had never even heard about title 9. I was one of those people that thought its never going to happen to me. But it did. The university found rebeccas title 9 credibility and is now of kansas. In the years since the series aired, the number have tripled and 89 schools and universities are under investigation and for the first time the u. S. Education department is public workly identifying the list of schools which are under investigation. Its up to all of us to put an end to Sexual Assault. As the Obama Administration urges more talk about sex crimes on campus. This is on all of us, every one of us to find campus Sexual Assault. Two states took more direct approach. Under the yes means yes law, students must get a clear yes before following on with sex. The Sexual Assault thing is an epidemic. And Sexual Assault victims are increasingly. All three of my rapists are on campus. Students here charge columbia failed to protect them and are dragging door mattresses across campus. A symbol they carry as survivors of campus sex assault. Columbia junior says she has been assaulted twice. Its not easy for her to tell her story or forget the pain. What i need to heal, thats just more time, and thats hard to do. When your school allows your rapist to be on campus. Thats hard to heal. Thats hard to move forward. So i would say time. Time and a commitment to making a difference. Speaking out to keep others safe. Some students dont realize that someone they know might be a rapist. Their vision of rape and Sexual Assault is more of the common, you know, a dark alley and someone grabs them. They dont realize their fellow students are rapist. Over the last two years more women have come forward seeking justice. Sex assaults are up 61 at americas universities. And over the last two years, more women are coming forward seeking justice. Sexual assaults are up 21 at americas top colleges and universities. This is just the beginning. It is part of a bigger conversation on Sexual Assault across campuses. The d. A. In rebeccas case is reconsidering his decision not prosecute. Her university wouldnt discuss her case but the title 9 administrator at the university of kansas says theyre committed to do the right thing. We sit down with each survivor, each victim and discuss the appropriate discipline or consequences in each case. But rebecca says that didnt happen, her attacker was not disciplined and she fears they too will be at risk. Going out somewhere and partying with guys they trust and it will be okay . Yes, absolutely. Rapes arents happen alleys in back alleys. It happens by people you love and trust. Just days after we visited, rebeccas fears were realized. Two people were assaulted. Kaitlin flannagan spent a year investigating, the dark power of fraternities was published in the atlantic. Kaitlin, you say theres evidence of the volume of sex crimes occurring in the Fraternity System in the claims made against them. Its hard to know exactly how many crimes are occurring at universities. The number 2 kind of claim is for Sexual Assault, far more than hazing, which we fell was the most important source of injuries at universities. But insurance claims show there are an awful lot of young women who are coming forward and saying, i was swealt sexually assaulted at a Fraternity House. That rape cultural has culture has actually been established within the greek system . You know, when you go on, you dont have these kinds of problems. But every single campus in america that has a greek system has at least one Fraternity House about which everyone on campus, right up to the president of the university or college knows is a really bad operator. And on that kind of a chapter you absolutely have what unambiguously i would call a rape culture. Planned party and events in which women are going to have sexual acts committed against them, against those womens consent or willingness. The very slow process by which universities and National Organizations will cut those fraternities off is part of the problem and i think its rising to a level of a scandal in american Higher Education right now. Im curious because i hear from these young women that weve interviewed in the course of our reporting, they often dont what is happening against them is rape. Do the young men necessarily view what they have done as rape, or maybe something of an entitlement . Well, this is part of a broader conversation i think we are all having as a nation and partly it becomes generational. In my generation, we wouldnt have thought to call it rape, and the authorities wouldnt call it rape, and the expanded definition of rape is a very controversial issue for some people. I know when it comes to young women at Fraternity Houses, there is often a big cultural backlash against a woman who would report rape, there will be people who say, what was she thinking of going to that Fraternity House . She knows what goes on at the fraternities. But she got letters over the summer before she started college telling her about the history of the greek system and how great these universities are. There are active presence on campus. Theyre not just on houses off campus. They are promoted to the student union, heres the cafeteria, heres ten tables of greek organizations promoting themselves. So these women have a big presentation , their college thinks its a place for them to conduct their social lives, given the fact they do have what i call a rape culture within them. Thank you, kate flannagan, her investigation into the dark power of fraternities. Next time on america tonight his view of sex was it a misunderstand or a false accusation . I was just confused. So she looked at me and said, you know, its nothing, i freaked out, im sorry, it was just a misunderstanding. The grand jury said there was no rape, but on campus the accusation stuck and ruined his dream. Our Christof Putzel with the story of the reaction to rape and how the universities responded, his story, tomorrow on america tonight. Next up this hour. Gruesome discoveries and suspicions. What now a new wave of protesters from the devastating climates. If we dont get rain well be in dire straits. Scientists fighting back. Weve created groundhog day here. Hitech led farming. We always get perfect plants everyday. Feeding the world. This opens up whole new possibilities. Tech knows team of experts show you how the miracles of science. This is my selfie, what can you tell me about my future . Can effect and surprise us. Dont try this at home. Tech know, where Technology Meets humanity only on Al Jazeera America there is shock, anguish and anger in mexico where Authorities Say they believe that dozens of College Students that went missing six weeks ago are dead. Their bodies tossed and burned in a mass grave. Government buildings have been fire bombed, even the National Palace where the president maintained an office was attacked. Al Jazeera America correspondent disoorm takes us there. These are the faces that have inspired outrage. The faces of 43 missing students, corrupt cops and cartel gunmen. Their disappearance a potent reminder that mexicos drug war has not abated. Far from the screams of anger, scenes of sadness. Magdalina oliveras, a mother of one of the students, cannot make sense of her sons disappearance. The government made their confession but she cant understand until the government has confirmed their identity of the remains. Reporter this is where 20yearold antonio studied, slept and dreamed of a better life as a teacher. As she cares for the youngest of her four boys she cant stop thinking of where her oldest might be. She has yet to tell his brothers that antonio is missing. Life is on hold at the school. Classes are cancelled, families are camped out, at the school, in limbo, waiting for developing news. Images of the missing are everywhere. Authorities try to wait for the lucha, the organization of the. Organizers tell them what action will be taken. And where they will demonstrate next. Among them are survivors of the attack, like ernesto guerrero. He is trying to come to terms with what has happen. Reporter add this teachers college, they follow a leftist tradition. Steeped in tradition. The night they disappeared, they were march honoring mexicos worst massacre, that of an estimated hundreds of students. The normalistas as theyre known are famous for direct confrontation. They have long been a thorn in the side of authority. But on that friday night, their action was met with unexpected force. Police and masked gunmen opened fire on the buses. Six people were killed, many of the students fled, and the 43 were forced into police vehicles. According to the attorney general, they were handed over to guerrors unido,s. Dos. At a recent press conference he showed video of the students reenacting the crimes. Reporter this is igwala, the town where the traj city happened. Tragedy happened. It looks like a normal city and is known by mexicans as the birth place of the countrys flag. Now it is known for something else. This is fraught with danger. As you spend time in igwala, as we have this past month, you realize people are afraid they dont want to talk and they dont know who to trust. And when they do speak out they say they could be targeted. They say no one is immune from the threat of kidnapping. Most of those taken, never return. The Guerreros Unidos were allegedly in league with the local mayor and his wife. Investigators say jose luis ibarca, the mayor, ordered the attack on the normalistas, finally under arrest hes joined dozens in custody. Hes become a symbol where not people say he is just an example of system rotten to the crime. Where not only the politicians are turning a blind eye to crime theyve become the criminals themselves. In a town struggling to come to terms with its now open secrets the people just want to purge the evil to igwala. This is the message that was broadcast at the local church. But the mass held by the local priest, francisco tehada, the mass was full. Unearthing the truth, thats what this case has become about. With no faith in their leaders, parents and vigilantes have been searching themselves. Officially, the government has found 11 mass graves with 38 bodies. Volunteers say they have found many more and wont stop until the full number of igwalas are known. So far, the government says none of the bodies match those of the students. So who are they . Will they ever be identified . 30,000 are missing in mexico, and many believe the government would prefer to leave the dead in the ground. These are some of the first graves discovered outside of igwala. Those who live nearby say the drug gangs have used this property for years to dump bodies. Reporter i asked a federal policeman on duty if he had heard the same stories. That this had always been a place where cartels bury their victims. Reporter now, police wont let us go any further, beyond this point. But some of the graves found here outside of igwala are about two kilometers up this road. And locals tell us at any time day or night for years, they would see cars go up the hill, quite full, and when they came down, they would be pretty much empty. This man has lived here for decades, he sleeps on a dirt floor. He would rather do so than be part of the gangs. Reporter many with few prospects do take the offer. But he couldnt be one of them. Three of his 97 fuse have been missing for years. He often writes poetry to deal with the pain amidst so much death. His latest poems are honoring the missing 43 students. Reporter the fate of the students is still unknown. Their parents unwilling to consider the real possibility that they were indeed surprised by death that night. More than a month after their disappearance, finally, the mexican president granted them an audience. He is yet to travel to guerrero but it was a sign for this very telegenic president , hailed by the International Media as the savior of his country, that this time speeches and sound bites wont be enough to satisfy mexicans. Speaking after the release of the news that the students were foun located. Reporter magdaleina oliveras is not satisfied. Her view of the community has been turned upside down. Reporter in mexico, clarity siems neve sometimes ne. Just what happens that night in iguala is still unclear. It may never be. Despite almost daily protests on the streets. For now, the only decision she can make is, when she can tell her other children that her brother may never come home. Adam rainey joins us from mexico city. This is not the first time we have heard about the pervasiveness of drug crime in mexico but why this time has it caused so much rage in the communities . Reporter well, joie, to begin with, these are students all between ages of about 18 and 22. Their faces are plastered everywhere in this country. And its reality inspired outrage because people see them as utterly innocent, despite the fact that these schools where they studied have a leftist and confrontation tradition, its the idea that they would be shot and handed to a drug gang is just infuriating to this country that has as you said seen so much voyages and on top of that, the federal government even though its giving nearly daily press conferences, didnt come to this case right away, only when guerrero state, a state racked with corruption, rotten to the core by many observers observation, and the country here is just fed up. They want to live in a place where they can rely on the government providing the most basic blanket of security and they say they just cannot hold their government account to provide that for them at this time. Al jazeeras adam rainey reporting for us from mexico city, thanks. When we return, call it what you want. But a vicious and early bite of winter heads south. 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