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wesleyan university in connecticut has largely had a peaceful and came in so far. there has been some vandalism and significant tensions but not at the level we have seen in other schools. michael roth is the president of wesleyan and joins us now. thank you for being with us. why hasn't wesleyan seen level of disruption, certainly not the level of violence, that we have seen on other campuses? what accounts for that? >> it makes me nervous to hear you say that because it just takes a few bozos to turn a peaceful protest into something else. at other schools, to has been on students and people looking for a fight or confrontation who turn things toward mayhem were violent themselves. we have been fortunate wesleyan that the students protesting want to engage in discussions with their fellow students, sometimes even with me, although they want me to do stuff i don't agree with. they want the university to divest from companies that do business with israel. i do not think that is sensible but having more conversations about what we can do to bring peace to the middle
wesleyan university in connecticut has largely had a peaceful and came in so far. there has been some vandalism and significant tensions but not at the level we have seen in other schools. michael roth is the president of wesleyan and joins us now. thank you for being with us. why hasn't wesleyan seen level of disruption, certainly not the level of violence, that we have seen on other campuses? what accounts for that? >> it makes me nervous to hear you say that because it just takes a few...
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but wesleyan university in connecticut has largely had a peaceful encampment so far. there has been some vandalism and significant tensions on campus, but not at the level we've seen at some other schools. michael s. roth is the president of wesleyan university and joins us now. thank you for being with us. why hasn't wesley and seen the level of disruption, certainly not the level of violence we've seen on other campuses. what accounts for that, and how are you approaching this? >> it makes me nervous to hear you say that. it just takes a few bozos to turn a peaceful protest into something else many of these other schools, it has been non-students and people who are looking for fight or for confrontation to turn things toward mayhem or disorder. in the case of ucla, counter protests that were violent themselves. students are protesting our bearing witness to a disaster in gaza, wanting to engage in discussions with their fellow students, with their faculty and staff members. sometimes even with me, although they want me to do stuff i don't agree with. they want the u
but wesleyan university in connecticut has largely had a peaceful encampment so far. there has been some vandalism and significant tensions on campus, but not at the level we've seen at some other schools. michael s. roth is the president of wesleyan university and joins us now. thank you for being with us. why hasn't wesley and seen the level of disruption, certainly not the level of violence we've seen on other campuses. what accounts for that, and how are you approaching this? >> it...
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calls me as they did yesterday and said, i'm upset that the students at wesleyan are chanting from the ravages and see palestine must be free. i'm upset. i said, i'm sorry, you're upset. >> but you're going to have to deal with that or they'll say genocide, you can hide from genocide. >> that's offensive to you as someone who supports israel or has affection for israel but that doesn't mean they can't say those things if they say jews must die, we must kill jews. >> then i'll have them removed from campus. and i should mention that right now the house has actually approved a bill kind of expanding the definition of anti-semitism and the ability to go after school through the department of education. so this issue who isn't going to go away i also spoke to a student named cross samir stay cough. who at pomona university. he was one of the students who was arrested for storming the president's office, which the school says, look, that was not civil disobedience, so that was not a peaceful protests here's how he justified it. and i think it's good to hear in the context of these protests,
calls me as they did yesterday and said, i'm upset that the students at wesleyan are chanting from the ravages and see palestine must be free. i'm upset. i said, i'm sorry, you're upset. >> but you're going to have to deal with that or they'll say genocide, you can hide from genocide. >> that's offensive to you as someone who supports israel or has affection for israel but that doesn't mean they can't say those things if they say jews must die, we must kill jews. >> then i'll...
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let's get the views of masami imai, professor of economics at wesleyan university in connecticut. give us your take on whyjapan is struggling? i give us your take on why japan is struggling?— is struggling? i think what she was talking — is struggling? i think what she was talking about _ is struggling? i think what she was talking about was - is struggling? i think what she was talking about was quite i was talking about was quite correct, japan and its economy is struggling this quarter partly because the consumer demand was quite weak. that is because real wages which is adjusted for inflation has been declining for two years, so that would dampen consumer appetite to spend. and so that is part of the primary reason why the japanese economy is quite fragile at this point. we did see recently the wage row negotiations coming out very positively, in terms of increasing wages injapan? positively, in terms of increasing wages in japan? yes, that is why _ increasing wages in japan? yes, that is why the _ increasing wages in japan? yes, that is why the forecast - increasing wages
let's get the views of masami imai, professor of economics at wesleyan university in connecticut. give us your take on whyjapan is struggling? i give us your take on why japan is struggling?— is struggling? i think what she was talking — is struggling? i think what she was talking about _ is struggling? i think what she was talking about was - is struggling? i think what she was talking about was quite i was talking about was quite correct, japan and its economy is struggling this quarter...
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at wesleyan university whose president said the protest that was non-violent and nondisruptive, adding as long as it continues in this way, the university will not attempt to clear the incumbent. these universities crucially have reiterated their important existing rules against anti- semitic invective and harassment, certainly, while also protecting assembly which seems sensible. also out of step with what you are seeing elsewhere. because ever since october 7th, when hamas committed atrocities in israel, there has been this obsessive media focus on college campuses. and that is true, partly because there are genuine issues worth debating, including the degree in which universities are creating spaces that are hostile to israel jewish students where they feel under threat or universities to the degree to which they are suppressing pro- palestinian speech. those issues really do matter. but the way that so many prominent voices have focused so exclusively on colleges feels honestly a bit decadent to me. like we are doing a paper doll version of the conflict because the actual reality,
at wesleyan university whose president said the protest that was non-violent and nondisruptive, adding as long as it continues in this way, the university will not attempt to clear the incumbent. these universities crucially have reiterated their important existing rules against anti- semitic invective and harassment, certainly, while also protecting assembly which seems sensible. also out of step with what you are seeing elsewhere. because ever since october 7th, when hamas committed...
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in the early 1900s, 19 offer to be precise, branch rickey was, coach of a baseball team, the wesleyan and these his team was going to play notre dame in south bend, indiana. when the team gets to south bend and pull into their lodging space for the day, charlie thomas was denied lodging with his his teammates. it's black the only black athlete on the team is denied lodging. the experience is set to have so upset branch rickey that he said if he ever got in position to so he would make sure that that never happened again that no african american player would ever have to suffer that type of disgrace. okay it make sense. okay. all right. that's now that story comes to us from branch rickey, this other story also comes to us from branch. and you can label this sort untapped reservoir, untapped reservoir, the and the quote that is attributed to branch rickey, president, the brooklyn dodgers believed that, quote, african-americans represented the greatest untapped reservoir and history of major league baseball. okay. profit markets, expansion markets. you introduce african-americans to the
in the early 1900s, 19 offer to be precise, branch rickey was, coach of a baseball team, the wesleyan and these his team was going to play notre dame in south bend, indiana. when the team gets to south bend and pull into their lodging space for the day, charlie thomas was denied lodging with his his teammates. it's black the only black athlete on the team is denied lodging. the experience is set to have so upset branch rickey that he said if he ever got in position to so he would make sure that...
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i spoke at pepperdine, wheatland college, and delivered theddress at wesleyan just a few weeks ago. i will be at stanford later this week. in two weeks, i will make my fourth solidarity visit to israel already this year. on my visits, . at the end of every day in jerusalem, i visit the kotel. in january that meant after an emotional shabbat dinner, it tested my commitment. i wanted to go to sleep and i was very far away. the gps is scrambled in israel. it takes a while. as an evangelical, i couldn't imagine not going to the kotel to pray for israel at a moment like you that i may spend more time in the middle east than most, i am not unusual. every leader in my to do something to help israel and the jewish community since october 7. i do not know a single evangelical leader who has bowed under the pressure to abandon israel or to make excuses for anti-semitism exploding on our streets. [applause] our faith doesn't ure says, our christian new testament, if you people, you cannot be a servantns to this, but generally we can't blink. we must hold our ground. courageous against all the
i spoke at pepperdine, wheatland college, and delivered theddress at wesleyan just a few weeks ago. i will be at stanford later this week. in two weeks, i will make my fourth solidarity visit to israel already this year. on my visits, . at the end of every day in jerusalem, i visit the kotel. in january that meant after an emotional shabbat dinner, it tested my commitment. i wanted to go to sleep and i was very far away. the gps is scrambled in israel. it takes a while. as an evangelical, i...
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spoken at pepperdine university, wheaton college, and delivered the commencement address at indiana wesleyan university a few days ago. i will be a stanford later this week. in two weeks io will make my fourth solidarity visit to israel already this year. and on my visits i have a habit. at the end of every day, if i'm staying in jerusalem, i visit the codel. and in january that meant that after long shabbat dinner, after an emotional visit to the gaza envelope, it was after midnight when the dinner was done and tested my commitment. i want to go sleep and i was very, very far away, and the gps is costly scrambled in israel. you cannot get a map. -- it's true, it takes a while. but as an evangelical, i couldn't imagine not going to the kotel to pray for israel at a moment like this. and i'm a here to tell you that while i may spend more time in middle east than most, i am not an usual. every leader in my community that i know has tried to do something to help israel and the community since october 7. i do not know a single evangelical leader who has bowed under the pressure to abandon israel
spoken at pepperdine university, wheaton college, and delivered the commencement address at indiana wesleyan university a few days ago. i will be a stanford later this week. in two weeks io will make my fourth solidarity visit to israel already this year. and on my visits i have a habit. at the end of every day, if i'm staying in jerusalem, i visit the codel. and in january that meant that after long shabbat dinner, after an emotional visit to the gaza envelope, it was after midnight when the...
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we always talk about the bad examples, but i'm also looking at north northwestern and brown and wesleyan and other schools that are engaging students, allowing them to protest, making sure that other students are safe and secure, having appropriate time and place restrictions protecting graduation, which is key for all of us and where that's not occurring to utilize law enforcement in a manner that is that is tiered and i think that's what we saw last night and what we're seeing now it's interesting to see the choice that some of those law enforcement officers are making not wearing helmets as they stand on the front line there. that does appear to be an attempt to de-escalate at least the appearance of what's going on. julia, don't go far. were you continue to monitor the situation? can in madison as there was a brief burst of tension of activity of conflict between law enforcement and protested. we don't know what precipitated the action right there we'll stay on that. we have our eye on college campuses around the country. it's a cnn special. i've got every piece of evidence tells a s
we always talk about the bad examples, but i'm also looking at north northwestern and brown and wesleyan and other schools that are engaging students, allowing them to protest, making sure that other students are safe and secure, having appropriate time and place restrictions protecting graduation, which is key for all of us and where that's not occurring to utilize law enforcement in a manner that is that is tiered and i think that's what we saw last night and what we're seeing now it's...
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universities are giving students off ramps and engaging they deescalate it, it and you look at the wesleyan is the browns northwestern's others and so as a national phenomenon, we are we are, we are looking at sort of the attempts to isolate the problem at columbia. and then for the non-students, which it seems to me schools have got to get better about access control. it's ridiculous that you have so many non-students able to penetrate these colleges and universities that they're under this threat environment and to arrest those. but i don't i don't love any of this, but in terms of what i like, what i'm seeing they started with dsp. de-escalation dispersed. you saw students disbursing. they did not want to get arrested and now you've limited the pool of people or students, or non-students that the police have to interact with its in my world, you're just looking for better news over bad news. and so far the dispersal of this is going as we would anticipate, which is, which is sort of a do not escalate too soon. this is what the police did a couple of weeks ago and we're seeing a sort of l
universities are giving students off ramps and engaging they deescalate it, it and you look at the wesleyan is the browns northwestern's others and so as a national phenomenon, we are we are, we are looking at sort of the attempts to isolate the problem at columbia. and then for the non-students, which it seems to me schools have got to get better about access control. it's ridiculous that you have so many non-students able to penetrate these colleges and universities that they're under this...
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the director of financial aid at nebraska wesleyan said that the nebraska problem is forcing them to condense what would normally be a seven-month financial aid process down to only three months. the chancellor who overseas financial assistance at the university of nebraska in omaha said they're, quote, way behind. each additional blender by the department of education puts them even further behind. he said they're going to have an adjust their decision, orientation and onboarding processes all balls of fafsa -- all because of fafsa. so how do we get to this point? i would say, in short, it's due to political pandering. the department of education put fafsa on the backburner because they wanted to prop up biden administration's financial student loan scheme. we know all about it. there was the supreme court challenge to the president's 400 billion }dollar student loan giveaway. the proposal was nonsensical and it was deeply, deeply unfair. it forced american taxpayers to bear the burden of loans that they never took out. sources told the publication snyder higher he'd -- insider high
the director of financial aid at nebraska wesleyan said that the nebraska problem is forcing them to condense what would normally be a seven-month financial aid process down to only three months. the chancellor who overseas financial assistance at the university of nebraska in omaha said they're, quote, way behind. each additional blender by the department of education puts them even further behind. he said they're going to have an adjust their decision, orientation and onboarding processes all...