The Women's Student Union is screening, “The Hunting Ground,” a new film about campus sexual assault, on April 21 at 7:30 p.m. in McEwen Hall Room 202.
After the screening, there will be an audience discussion facilitated by a panel of speakers including Chief Diversity Office William Boerner, Julie Bezek of Counseling Services, Amanda Thornton of FredASSIST, Brie Covington of S.T.E.P.S. and Courtney Loiacono of the Women's Student Union.The film is for mature audiences and presents an in-depth look at sexual assault and violence.
The New York Times noted, "The Hunting Ground is a documentary shocker about rape on American college campuses, goes right for the gut. A blunt instrument of a movie, it derives its power largely from the many young women and some men recounting on camera how they were raped at their schools and then subsequently denied justice by those same schools. Their stories — delivered in sorrow and rage, with misting eyes and squared jaws — make this imperfect movie a must-watch work of cine-activism, one that should be seen by anyone headed to college and by those already on campus."
