The Hunting Ground

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1. A scene that really got to me was a scene towards the beginning with the Harvard Law student. Kamilah Willingham was sexually assaulted by a fellow student at Harvard that she called her friend. He assaulted her and her friend after a night of drinking, and Kamilah tells the story of that night and how when she started to wake up the man was on top of her and her friend was next to them on the bed naked and unconscious. This story angers me because the school did wrong by Kamilah. During the disciplinary hearing that Harvard conducted the man was guilty of assaulting Kamilah and he was expelled. The next September Kamilah got a Facebook message from the Dean of Students at Harvard. When talking to the Dean of Students Kamilah was told that he could appell the decision that was made and they had to vote on whether to uphold the decision to remove him, and ended up letting the man back in. When he appealed the school had no intention of letting Kamilah know and by doing that the set a statement saying they don't care about her or what he did, they just wanted to keep sexual assault statistics down for them.

2. What surprised me during this film was the statistics used to help tell the story. Also going along with the statistics was that universities are afraid of false reporting. When data shows that the percentage of false reporting is somewhere between 2-8%, which means that 92-98% of the reports are not false. Yet most universities believe that women come to them constantly about sexual assaults that they think are fake.

3. One thing that lingers with me is when will this end, when will all sexual assaults that land on an administrators desk be taken seriously. When will administrators stop worrying about statistics and their prospective student view of the safety of the school and start worrying about the students that go there now and protect them instead of ignoring them like they've been doing.

4.One problematic things that I can see have mostly to do with the statistics used throughout the film. Another would be is the experts that they used and previous administrators of schools they talked about. The last thing that I can think of is why did they only use certain school. They chose large universities that are well know, why not pick a small school that this problem also affects, I get that at these large school sexual assaults happen a lot more then at a smaller school, but why not also show that side?