Tiffany Reese

Every day on college campuses across the United States, students wake up hoping to learn, grow, and redefine who they are, often living away from home for the first time.

But for far too many young people, these same campuses become the site of trauma that will alter the course of their lives forever.

Sexual violence on college campuses is sadly not a new issue.

It is not rare.

And despite decades of advocacy, federal reform, educational campaigns, and supposed institutional safeguards, students continue to be harmed at staggering rates.

Yet the systems we are told will protect students — Title IX offices, student conduct boards, campus police, and administrators — often end up protecting institutions, not survivors.

This season of Something Was Wrong is one of the most urgent investigations we've ever produced.

Because behind every statistic is a young person, someone's child, navigating one of the most vulnerable moments in their life in a system that was supposed to protect them and didn't.

We've spent months speaking with students, parents, witnesses, professors, and experts, reviewing transcripts, Title IX documents, legal filings, and university communications.

What we found was not a series of isolated incidents, but a pattern.

A pattern of minimization, of institutional self-protection, of re-traumatization disguised as procedure, of students being harmed not only by their perpetrators, but by the very systems designed to ensure their safety.

And when survivors did come forward, many faced scrutiny, disbelief, or retaliation, while the alleged perpetrators faced little to no accountability.

Something Was Wrong Season 25 is about what happens when universities fail to uphold civil rights protections.

It's about what happens when young survivors try to do everything right and are still left to fight alone.

It's about the parents who receive the call that they often feared and the systems that responded with bureaucracy instead of care.

It's also about the power of speaking up and the courage it takes to do so when the cost is high.

But before we begin this season, it's important to understand the law that sits at the center of so many of these stories, Title IX.

Title IX was passed in 1972 as part of the Education Amendments.

The law states, quote,

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