The Hunting Ground Pulls Back the Curtain on Campus Sexual Assault
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Each heart is pounding, dizzy with nerves. Then, elation. The young women are joyously, openly weeping. They’re flanked by shrieking moms, dads, sisters, brothers and best friends. It’s assuredly the best day of their young lives, they’ve been admitted to college: This is how The Hunting Ground, a documentary on the epidemic of sexual assault on campus, begins. The mood doesn’t last.
The film is an unrelenting indictment of the way American universities adjudicate sexual assault, by way of countless sobering testimonials from campus rape survivors who tried in vain to get their institutions to hear them. According to the film, only 2 to 8 percent of sexual assault reports are false. But Huffington Post found that fewer than one-third of reported sexual assaults ever result in expulsion.