it's given out by baylor university. you can nominate you, students can nominate you, other professors can nominate you. the committee eventually judges the finalists and decides who will win the award based on their ability to convey information to students. >> ken starr is the president of baylor university now. it's located in waco, texas. you wrote about the three contestants. roger rosenblatt and two other gentlemen. mr. edward berger. >> he was the eventual winner. >> and another from the university of arkansas. i went to see west and berger in person. west is not dry, but he sort of is telling a story. he has been telling the story about american history many years. there are not a lot of shenanigans going on in his classroom. an audience of 200 people and the only visual aids that used were some slides of historical photographs. everyone was still sitting there listening to him because he knew how to tell a story. there was a lot of information being conveyed. it was not reading of notes and just staring down lik

they have to come to baylor to teach. the reason i highlighted this was that when people are talking about why we judge professors by publications and not by teaching, the first response is you cannot measure teaching. teaching is subjective. you know good teaching when you see it. i do not think that is true. i think that is a total, about. these are professors who -- there are ways of measuring everything from the lecture style to grading. when somebody gives you back a paper, does it just have a great job at the end, or is it all marked up? are you grammatical mistakes corrected? is there a sense of the professor is engaged in the process, or are they going through the motion? >> how old are your kids? >> two and four. >> do you think by the time they are old enough you will think it is a good idea of going to college? a school is now $60,000 a year in tuition. >> i think if you pick and choose wisely it is possible to get a decent college education, but you have to be really careful. it begins with the process of choo

paul froze is a sociology professor at baylor and co-authored that survey.et me ask you, if there is a significant number of people out there think the economy works because god wants it to work, how do these people explain what we're seeing today? the reasoning behind such a horrible economy. is it that god is punishing us? >> that's a good question. complicated question. the baylor religion surveys are great because they have lots of questions about god and what we're finding, as you said, about a fifth think that god is guiding the economy. but those fifth also think that god is an economic conservative. so that god favors the free market, lack of government regulation, low taxation. so, it could be that these people also believe that when the market is not doing well, that there's something going on with the government interfering in this. for these people, god's plan is for the economy to do well. >> now, economic conservatism, as you say, becoming a matter of faith. how did this all begin? >> that's a very complicated question. >> am i asking too many

quarterback threw 5 touch down passes for the baylor.ad then hang on for dear life and late field goal. baylor over tcu. 50-48. as we mention first big weekend of the college season. stanford will host the walsh legacy game facing san jose state. mark the start of the heismann campaign. cardinal 12 and 1 and won orange bowl last year the spartan were 1 and 12. stanford l a favorite. second season in the south by. shaw the first year as head coach at stanford. big question for mcintire how do you stop andrew lock. >> maybe he will twist the ankle get off the bus. the only way to stop him. make sure you don't let the running game get cranked up lake last yaivrment well trained. well coached. give us a few wrinkle i'm sure that we have to be ready for. as i said earlier we'll count on every team we may this year to be better than a year ago. >> cal bears want to erase the memory of first losing season. open tomorrow against fresno state at can stick park. 5 and 7 last year. lost the last 3 games when they had a bowl game within reach. jeff

baylor beats tcu50-48. let the party begin. and at number one, back to at&t park. cody ross had a big play of the night with the diving catch in foul territory. the giants won a series opener for the first time since mid july and are now just five games back and ken you said it earlier. >> got them right where they want them. >> you don't want it to be over. >> you can wait until the last day of the regular season to make the playoffs and it works out just fine. >> we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

bill: currently baylor employees are not forced to quit but it's going to cost if you continue.up their health insurance surcharge from $50 to about $650 per year. martha: all right. with more of the must-see moments from last night's debate, the $64,000 question, who would you pick as your vice presidential running mate from the folks who are on the stage with you right now, if you were to win the republican nomination. watch: >> if you had to choose one of your opponents to be your running mate for the 2012 election, who would you choose and why? >> i don't know how you would do this, but if you could take herman cain and mate him up with newt gingrich, i think you would have a couple of really interesting guys to work with! >> governor romney, an answer? >> there are a couple of images i'm going to have a hard time getting out of my mind. >> [laughter] >> martha: very snappy comeback from mitt romney on that one. joined by juan williams and brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to president skwrorbgs w. bush. hello gentlemen, good morning to you. >> good morning, martha. mar

twenty two percent of americans want god's invisible hand to guide the economy so according to a baylorniversity study forty point nine percent of americans believe that god has a plan for me now and me but. the study also found from these people also tend to earn less money and have less education god has a plan for most americans to work on a plantation picking cotton and playing video games for companies like zynga that's god's plan for you well i think it's a sign of the financial propaganda the likes that paul mason is unwittingly is missing too that they operate on behalf of those guys like lloyd blankfein they push lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs his message out saying that bankers are doing god's work they see we can we can go faster than the limits of god the speed of light the speed of sound we can go faster well the markets ultimately will smite the high frequency traders in the form of a global insurrection against banker occupation get your gear teen sharp and hard global financial apocalypse phantasmagorical stacy herbert thanks so much for being on the kaiser report than

baylor is a very good team. you saw kansas state beat miami on the road today.easy schedule. they'll be favored, i think, in every one of those games the rest of the way. >> matt: they're going to snap it to justin blackmon and let him run around for five seconds. >> referee: number 14, five-yard penalty. fourth down. >> matt: he'd better be careful. if he gets tackled. they've got to kick the field goal. >> sean: i would hope these coaches would get after him. >> matt: come hard off the edge. >> sean: oklahoma state uses another time-out. wouldn't think it would be this hard. they have to be careful. they don't want to punt, risk a bad snap or a block. >> matt: blackmon's got to be careful. five seconds goes a lot slower than you think. >> sean: they're going to take a safety on the last play of the game. >> matt: end of the game. that was smart football. >> sean: so a terrific come from behind win for mike gundy and the cowboys. oklahoma state 4-0 in a huge win in the big 12 opener. they emerge as the favorite in the conference now with oklahoma and an opening

another game making headlines, a high scoring battle between baylor and tcu. 50-48 upset win for bayloray's game. >>> did china sell arms to libya during the final days of the gadhafi regime? we'll tell you about some documents that have surfaced in tripoli right after the break. stay with us. >>> now to globe t some intriguing documents that turned up in libya. they suggest that china may have sold arms to libya during the waning days of moammar gadhafi's rule despite a u.n. ban. ben weeder man is in tripoli. ben, you've seen the documents. what do they say? >> yes. here are the documents found by a reporter for the daily globe and mail of canada in the trash in tripoli. what it is is a trip report by a retired colonel of the libyan army who was dispatched to beijing with a long shopping list of weapons and ammunition, including 150 million bullets that the libyans wanted to buy from chinese state arms manufacturers. now, this trip took place in the middle of the july. it is not clear and the chinese are saying they did not sign any contracts, even though they acknowledge the visit did

he went off to baylor which is where all baptist kids went at that particular time and did his undergraduate work and graduated with honors, and can then he went to the seminary in louisville, kentucky, and began to take his place as one more baptist preacher in america. but he was a gifted person. he was a person who was fiercely ambitious, he was the perpetual or the prototypical, i should say, young man in a hurry. and he caught the notice of some big denominational leaders in the southern baptist world which was a big orbit even back then. and at a young age was tasked because of his writing skills with being the editor of a major baptist periodical in the country that is still publishing today called "the baptist standard," or "the texas baptist standard." and it's during this particular time that he develops a flair for public controversy. he decides to write a series of articles against race track gambling in dallas and in fort worth. and he's credited for leading the way to see gambling banned in most of texas for the next 20-30 years. and he likes that crusading kind of stuff. well,

it was given out by baylor university. students can nominate you. there is a committee that judges the finalists and judges who will win this award based on their ability to convey information to the students. >> ken starr is the president now. but is in waco taxes. you heard about the three that were the contestants. two other gentlemen. >> he was eventually the winner. i actually went to see them in person. they are very different styles of teaching. he is not dry. he was telling a story. he has been telling the story for many years. they're not a lot of fireworks going on in his classroom. i was sitting in the audience. the only visual aid he is putting up was the historical photos. everywoman's listening to him. he knew how to tell this story. he was not reading. he is engaging with the audience. not a lot of fireworks. he did a speech he's the best professor in america. he is teaching kids who are not necessarily interested in these subjects. >> let me ask about the best teacher in america. he said that when people are talking about why we judg

the baylor health care systems says it will no longer hire smokers, saying they drive up health carehether this is legal. employment experts say it is, but many smokers are crying foul. those are your headlines. >> thank you, alisyn camerota. >> you're welcome. let's check in with rick reichmuth and find out what's going on in the weather. >> dave: where is it ricky? he's outside. >> kind after nice day, if you don't want fall to end and clearly-- or summer to send, i should say, clearly alisyn doesn't, it's nice here, across the eastern seaboard, showers on and off. the temps waking up. 70's across the eastern seaboard and we have some really high temperatures we're going to talk about in a second. not the case across areas of minnesota, northern missouri right now as you're waking up, not that bad. take a look the at the forecast for today. this is how is shapes up, the eastern seaboard, kind of warm and muggy and feels a little like a nice summer day, tampa you're at 90 and we'll he see pretty significant rain the next couple of days across much of florida and coastal areas of car

he went off to baylor university, which were a baptist kids went at that time he did his undergraduate work and graduated with honors in many which the seminary in louisville kentucky and began to take its place as one more baptist preacher in america. but he was a gifted person. he was a person who is fiercely ambitious. he was a perpetual -- are prototypical young man in a hurry. he called the notices something nomination are leaders in the southern part to spread. at a young age, was passed because of his writing skills to the editor of a major baptist periodical that is still publishing today called the baptist standard. and it's during this particular time he develops a flyer for a public controversy and he decides to write a series of articles against racetrack gambling in dallas and fort worth and is credited for leading the way to see gambling banned in most of texas for the next 20 to 30 years. and he likes that crusading kind of stuff. he becomes a pastor of a church that was a celebrated church called the first baptist church in fort worth texas in 1909, one of the wealthies

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brian wilson, brit hume, the late great ed bradley, don baylor and john miller, could you guys give ite had as correspondence that morning and the mornings after 9/11? >> i have always thought that people personalize newscasts, even before the age of the shows, which are all about one person, but even in the days when it was hotly and brinkley or the cbs evening ruse what walter cronkite. -- the cbs evening news with walter cronkite. people tend to think of the anchor. but i always thought whoever is in the anchor chair benefited from the fine work that was being done by everyone, including the correspondents. everybody admirers walter cronkite, and i am not disputing that, but walter cronkite was backed out by marvin kalb, and ps ofnd a cor correspondence to up until that moment had no equal. that is what made it will cronkite what he was. he was good at his work, but what a cast. what i would say about any news organization, if your an anchor and you have a lick of sense, you are very appreciative of the work done by your correspondence. >> dan, i have a feeling you agree? >> absolut

you really care about what happened to my loved one, you will carry on the mission that they gave baylor -- their life for hoare were seriously wounded. we owe it to those who paid this price to continue the hard work of doing this right here in protecting our country. i would also like to close by recognizing the man sitting next to me, mike mullen. he has worked tirelessly and successfully to advocate effective operations in afghanistan and iraq and the strategy that is now bearing fruit owes much to his vision and his determination. i know that all of you and that all of america join me in thanking him for his decades of dedicated service and his extraordinary work on behalf of our country and our men and women in uniform. mike has set a standard for responsibilities and performance of chairman that will forever be his legacy, and i am deeply grateful for his service and his french. thank you. >> thank you, mr. secretary. admiral molullen. >> as he said, most likely, i like senator mccain's characterization, that it definitely will be my last hearing. this will be my last time that i