Documentary Reflection Questions

1)    One scene that got to me was when Tom Seeberg, the father of Lizzy Seeberg, shared the terrible news of how she took her own life. Lizzie was assaulted and raped by a football player at Notre Dame. She filed a complaint report to the University the next morning, but they never attempted to locate him for questioning. The school claimed they simply “could not locate the individual. Only to know that he was a starting football player for the team, so they knew exactly where he was. Tom explains how no one from the University attempted to help her or investigate her case, which inadvertently led to her suicide. This boils my blood. I was in awe watching this scene. I felt anger and sever empathy for Tom. Watching how political and corrupt college campuses are for protecting student athletes because of money over students’ lives is just extremely unacceptable. If this were to occur in the Middle Ages, perpetrators would be hung in the middle of a town for everyone to see.

2)    I was surprised by the bravery of all these women coming forward and not only women. Men also come forward that were sexually assaulted which is rare in a sense because most men that are sexually assaulted, don’t want to speak up because men are stereotypically seen as “able to stick up for themselves”. Rape can happen to anyone and affect anyone the same terrible way.


3)    My biggest question after viewing this documentary is, why is money more important than lives? Just why? I feel anger and confusion after watching this and all I want is answers from every single one of these schools that claim, “they know how to handle these situations”. They have no single clue what they’re doing. I have only had this situation pop-up once in my life to someone close to me. I wasn’t able to help in any way, but I just hope if I happen to cross a situation again, I will pray that I will have the tools I need to make a difference.

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