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Trendy Drugs Shatters hopes, dreams, innocence
The News investigates the use of GHB. First known as a "date-rape" drug, it is gaining in popularity with casual users in Michigan and across the country. Cohen finds the results of using GHB are unpredictable, there is little difference between a dose that gets a user high, and a dose that kills.
Tags: drug use; GHB; metro detroit; teens
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1999 IRE National Conference Show and Tell Tape #2
1999 IRE National Conference (Kansas City) Show and Tell Tape #2 is the second in a nine-part series. This tape includes: 1.) Bill Gephardt/Angela Hunter (KUTV-Salt Lake City) 1-Tracking down deadbeat tenants. 2.-Testing the dog-chaser...a device meant to keep dogs from attacking. 2.)Tony Pipitone (WKMG-Orlando) State employees found using office computers to view and sell pornography. 3.)Jennifer Snell (WTXF-Fox Philadelphia) "Troubled Transit" Investigation into the unreliable service of the transit system reveals dangerous mechanical problems with buses. The reason: mechanics sleeping in buses during shifts instead of making repairs...but reporting the problems as fixed. Buses break down and strand passengers. 4.) Drew Griffin (KCBS-Los Angeles) "The Real ConAir" Investigation reveals department of corrections transporting convicts on commercial flights. Passengers are not told who's sitting beside them. Planes are forced to land because of disturbances during the flight. A girl is sexually assaulted by one of these convicts. 5.) Christina Punza (KCOP-Los Angeles) Uncovers plan to reuse radioactive metals from U.S. nuclear power plants. The metal will be made into household items such as silverware. Experts say the metal can never be entirely cleaned of its radioactive contents. 6.) Morgan Loew (KOLD-Tuscon) Investigation on the black- market sale of Rohypnol, "the date-rape drug." 7.)Hoffer/Glemosky (WABC-New York City) "Dispensing Danger" Investigates pharmacies dispensing drugs without required prescriptions. 8.) Ray Parisi (WNYW-New York City) Travelling to foreign destinations for sex with kids.
Tags: TAPE; Kansas City; conference; no transcripts; IRE
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1992 IRE TV Award Winners and Finalists Tape
The 1992 IRE TV Award Winners and Finalists Tape is a compilation of 5 investigative stories. 1.) "Food Lion," Prime Time Live, ABC News researches the Food Lion grocery store chain and finds that employees of the store are put under pressure to meet profit quotas, which caused them to put out spoiled food with new expiration dates. Including Food Lion fighting back and ABC apologizing for confusion. See # 9392. 2.) "To Prove Them Innocent," ABC News 20/20 (New York) reports on three men who were convicted of rape in a small town in Pennsylvania, where the local people fought for three years to gain their release and prove their innocence. An investigation finds that on the night in question the men were 50 miles from where the rape occurred, and could not have committed the crime. See # 9398. 3.) "Abuse For Sale," WCCO, Minneapolis documents the explosion of the home-made pornography industry, made possible by the increase in popularity of home video cameras and VCRs. An investigation finds that home-made child pornography is sold through national distributors and at adult video stores across the country. See # 9068. 4.) "Cops and Robbers," WMAQ, Chicago finds that the Chicago Police Department violates its own rules by hiring people with criminal records. Of those officers with criminal records, the ones with battery convictions are also the officers most criticized for police brutality. See # 9221. 5.) "Carol Mosely Braun," WMAQ, Chicago breaks the case of Carol Mosely Braun and the mishandling of a large sum of money given to her mother. Braun allegedly attempted to hide the money so that her mother's Medicaid care would not be cut. See # 9222.
Tags: TAPE; meat processing; crime; cop; police; Medicare; health care.
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No Sea Una Victima Mas/Don't Become Another Victim
This three-part series focuses on rape prevention. KDTV-TV wanted to break the stereotype of the rapist as the unknown man in the dark and educate viewers on the different kinds of rapes, such as date rape or family rape.
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Brown University Faces New Accusations that it Mishandles Sex Offenses
The story looks closely at two incidents at Brown: 1) a Brown committee's decision to dismiss a date-rape charge against a student who is a Jordanian Prince and has ties to Brown trustees, and 2) Brown's decision not to fire a male professor despite credible reports that he had harassed more than one female student. The university's provost indicated that the professor's race played a role in the university's decision not to act. These two incidents -- along with a story by the same author in November, 1996, that examined Brown's suspension of a male student for having sex with a drunk woman who initiated the intercourse -- suggest a pattern of the university placing its own interests above its students.
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Brown University's Handling of Date-Rade Case Leaves Many Questioning Campus Policies
Brown University, like many other colleges, has enacted a conduct code that punishes students for sexual conduct that would not be illegal in a court of law. The codes have been praised for making women feel safer on campuses. But some say the codes have gone to far, and they point to Adam Lack as a case in point. In unrefuted testimony, Mr. Lack said he had sex with a female student who initiated the sex. Nonetheless, Mr. Lack was punished by Brown, and his reputation was tarnished when the student newspaper named him as the guilty party. This story looks at whether college attempts to regulate sexual conduct deny due process to men, and are based on patronizing assumptions about women. (October 11, 1996)
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No title (id: 10811)
This three part series on sexual assault examined that university's refusal to release public infromation on the attack, looked at the punishments handed down by the school's Judicail Board, and reviewed how other campuses are handling date rape.
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No title (id: 10573)
The Daily Eastern News, a student paper at Eastern Illinois University, examines the issue of date rape on campus, finding that the authorities are reluctant to make police reports public. The three-part series also examines the kind of punishment meted out to students charged with rape, Sept. 1994.
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No title (id: 7963)
Village Voice (New York) examines the changing attitudes toward sexual relations on college and university campuses; reports on the rise in reported cases of date rape, sexual harassment and assault, April 9, 1991.
Tags: NY Drooler Dartmouth
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No title (id: 6926)
Columbia Missourian looks at gang rape and date rape in the fraternity system, including the role of alcohol and of the "little sister" program; discusses reactions of victims and ways women can protect themselves, Oct. 23, 1988.