![]() ![]() "University efforts include robust investigations, cross campus collaboration by students, faculty and staff to raise awareness through programs and events, require bystander training for all incoming students, and provide comprehensive support to victims. ![]() The kind of discussions generated by the film help bring out of the shadows a subject that was too often taboo," Browne said. "Historically, sexual assaults have been underreported regardless of where they occur. Browne, a spokesman for Notre Dame, issued a statement late Thursday. Saint Mary's President Carol Ann Mooney said Thursday after the film, to the audience, that she declined to be interviewed because of a desire for student privacy. Her father, Tom Seeberg, spoke about the case and how he felt the school didn't follow through.Īdministrators from Notre Dame and Saint Mary's declined to be interviewed for the documentary. She committed suicide in September 2010, just a few weeks after the alleged incident. Seeberg, a Saint Mary's freshman, reported a sexual assault just a few days into her first year at college. The case of Lizzy Seeberg was also a focal point. "They preferred to have the crime stats as low as possible," Cottrell said in the film.Ĭottrell also said that security officers were not allowed to contact any student athletes at any athletic facility, or contact any athletic employee to find the student. He said the administration wasn't supportive of investigating or pursuing sexual assault reports. She arrived in the dorm to find just one person - a male acquaintance who raped her, she said.Ĭottrell said he investigated Hudak's complaint, and found that there was a conspiracy between the acquaintance and his friends to get Hudak to his dorm room. ![]() One victim, Rachel Hudak, said she was raped in a dorm after she was asked to come to campus under the pretense of a party. Pat Cottrell, a former security officer at Notre Dame, said he worked on several sexual assault cases, but was unsatisfied with how the university responded to the victims. Three cases of sexual assault involving students from Saint Mary's and Notre Dame were highlighted in the film. Students and faculty at Saint Mary's College saw a screening of "The Hunting Ground" on Thursday evening at the O'Laughlin Auditorium. This event open to the public and it is free of charge.SOUTH BEND - A former University of Notre Dame Security Police officer claimed he was limited in how he could question student athletes in regard to sexual assault reports in an interview from "The Hunting Ground," a documentary focusing on sexual assault on college campuses. The showing of the documentary is sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs, the Women’s Center and the Women’s Studies program in observance of sexual assault month. Weaving together verité footage and first-person testimonies, the film foregrounds the efforts of survivors as they attempt to pursue-despite incredible pushback, harassment and traumatic aftermath-both their education and justice. The students featured in the film took action in order to break the silence about sexual assault on college campuses and to force their universities to hold perpetrators accountable and to put services in place to support survivors. The documentary “The Hunting Ground” will be shown at East Stroudsburg University on Monday, February 29 in Stroud Hall 113 at 7 p.m. Over 100 students were interviewed nationally in a film that tells individual stories of sexual assault on college campuses.
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