long chain of universes. multiple universes with multiple beginnings. is this science? or science losing its moorings? because multiple universes can never be observed. still at the fqxi conference - and still at sea - figuratively as well as literally - i meet a cosmologist who has a different approach to the early universe, lots of people have theories about how the universe began ...what state it must be in to start with and they argue with each other and they, one, everyone thinks their theory is the best. it occurred to me that there's a totally different way that's much better to think about these things and that's to exploit the idea of equilibrium. we know lot's of things that are in equilibrium in the world around us...a glass of water, a room full of air, can be in equilibrium. lots of things are in equilibrium and it means basically physics his taken however it got started and settled into one particular state. ....and it stays there. and it stays there. so what if we could describe the universe as

what does the university of texas, the university of texas think about those questions?is the critical mass for the university of texas dependent on the breakdown of the population of texas? >> no. it's not at all. it's not at all. it's looking to the education benefits of diversity on campus. i think we actually agree on what that means and what grutter said it meant -- >> could you explain, i think you were trying to before, it seems to me the critical question in this case, why idn't the 10% solution suffice ? there are a substantial number of minority members admitted as a result of the 10% solution. for sn't that enough diversity. >> let me make a couple points, your honor. first, if you look at the numbers, we don't think it's the numbers, but if you looked at the numbers after seven years, it had remained stagnant or worse. 2002 african-american enrollment had actually dropped to 3%. that's one part of it. the other part of it is if you look at the admissions under the top 10% plan, taking the top 10% of a racially identifiable high school may get you diversity th

that the universe starts with the big bang theory but he also said instead of saying that all the universe started in one big bang, he said the universe is always the same will always stay the same and is in a steady state. so i'll everything appears to change, it is the universe at large. and he knew that the universe has expanded. he knew that because in the late 1920s, how can it stay the same. it was very slow, one they couldn't measure. and in the big bang, he wanted everything to be created at once. it is amazing how they quantified how what no one else wanted to quantify. i think when you are a child, anything that cost more than $7 as a million dollars to you. >> host: is nebulous, it has no meaning. yet many of these scientists attempted to do calculations on the change of energy and the size of the universe is a common driver and many of them may be giant blunder as you pointed out in your book. we are talking to mario livio, author of "brilliant blunders: from darwin to einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe." aft

in the universe at large stays the same. now he nailed that the universe has expanded. he knew that because we knew that since the late 1920s so you cannot, how can it stay the same? matter gets diluted and density goes down. he invented for that something that he said actually matter gets created. in a very slow rate one could measure, about one atom per century and that the volume like the empire state building. matter is created. you would say this is great. it creates matter out of nothing? you know what fred hoyle would say to that? and the big bang he wanted everything to be created at once. i was just one atom in the size of the empire state building. >> host: it's amazing how these minds try to quantify what no one else ever tried had ever tried to quantify. i think when you're a child anything that costs more than $7 as a million dollars. it's nebulous. it's abstract, it has no meaning get many of these scientists attempted to do calculations on the change in energy and the size of the universe, the age of the earth

universities. if something were to come out of this they go sheesh and or beatings, -- from this negotiation or beatings. they are offering high education postgraduate degrees in english. usually the language barrier is a problem. for the taiwanese to go into oman, it can also be -- we welcome them for sure. oman is a high education system. fate. -- education system full of faith. if there is any taiwanese willing to go to a different country other than australia or somewhere, they can maybe try to go to oman. and they can enroll in universities that are affiliated with australian or american universities. >> let me ask you, do most often young students look forward to studying abroad? maybe not necessarily to taiwan, but today go to universities in europe or north america? what is the percentage of younger oman that look forward to studying overseas. >> it has become easier. we have a lot of students studying abroad. we still have a few of them that are insisting to go abroad. we have a lot of stu

>> university of colorado has similar experience. /ph*dz m.d. also is partnered with public policy professor to provide additional background and evaluation of the results. both universities intend to actually send graduate students to out here for minimum one semester to assist in the data collection and interviews of the project participants so they will have some on site capability for the main parts of the study. >> thanks. >> any other speakers? i too, um, was surprised the university of maryland being awarded -- potentially awarding this contract. was there an rfp project? was there a competitive bid process. >> there was. we solicited /staeupltds of interest with qualifications. we re/saoefed six of those from universities all around the country. then we followed that up by inviting all six which we found qualified to submit proposals. >> which were the six that responded? >> i don't have the full list, but i can recall that we had maryland and colorado as a partnership, u washington partnered with -- stan /tpard university and i can't re

but the university was in place. how can they not move. this universe is going to collapse under its own weight and basically it is what we would call today a fad factor and this was the term in the equation but that introduced this force which precisely balanced gravity at every point late in the 1920s, he discovered that the university has expanded. they said wait a second, if everything is not part of expending, i don't need this because all that gravity is going to do now is slow down the expansion the gravity of the earth slows them down. >> this is one of the terms in the equation that describes this. they entered another term and now he said that i don't need this because we have all of our gravity is slowing expansion down and we took it out. in 1998 we discovered that not only is her universe expanding, but it is speeding up accelerating. what is it that prepares and acceleration. we thought it should be slowing down. instead it is beating up. you know what propels a? we think now that einstein status. so he had a real blunder tha

a prestigious university. first-rate academic program. there they go. this may be part of the future. a few of the fact that we put and that have come from the book would be blood found interesting deciding the ones that people have commented on. they did not know these. tweeted not needed until we did our research. 43 percent of students under the age of 25 have student debt. the average total amount for that age group is around $20,000 which is tough which would -- when you're just getting out. there are 150,000 janitors with a bachelor's degree the united states. the study academically and draft found that 45 percent of college students made no statistically significant gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing skills in their first three years of college. what are you actually paying for? that's the big paint -- question. what is the value added here. academic study also found the average college student did only 12 to 13 hours per week. whether they doing? don't answer that. when i was secretary of education i went to france and met

she also said she wants to hear from the university directly.ear from her. >> i would like to prevent other rapes from occurring on my campus while i'm still here, while i can create change. we want to work with usc. we would love to work with usc to create a safer campus. >> we did confirm with the department of education they have other universities that they are investigating as far as these rape charges. but because these investigations are open, pamela, they are not giving us any further details. >> thank you so much for that report. >>> these are serious accusations with serious implications for usc and other colleges and universities because of the federal title 9 law. we will talk about this and bring in our legal team in new york. attorney and former criminal prosecutor faith jenkins. in los angeles, attorney brian, nice to see you both again. >> thank you. >> faith, let's start with you. you have prosecuted similar sexual assault cases. if these allegations are true the universities are not thoroughly investigating these claims by thes

university avenue will be closed, as well. you need to detour this area. no word as to when this will be cleared. i can show you what the drive looks like on 80 away from albany to the maze, we see a sea of headlights from the bay bridge which is loaded up from emeryville to san francisco. >> breaking news from the peninsula, firefighters responding to a san mateo apartment complex overnight following a three-alarm fire. abc7 news reporter joins us from the seen. >> the road opened up on bridgepointe parkway at the bridge point mall and firefighters are on the scene. firefighters arrived to find smoke but it erupted into flames with 100 evacuated from the bridgepointe apartments. most of them are back in. it started in a dryer. the apartments are new with a fire alarm system alerting the residents. >> i didn't know what it was but it was the fire alarm if the whole complex. everyone has them in the apartments but they are so loud you cannot stand to be in your apartment. >> tire got in a mechanical area running between the first and third floors and we hav

you can get off at university avenue and go east on university. you won't be able to access the freeway from university avenue. you can't drive and get on the freeway from university avenue. you'll have to use gilman and ashby at this point. >> reporter: are police officers directing people to detour? >> yes. we have officers posted at 6th street and west frontage to let people know the freeway is closed and to let them nope the alternative -- let them know the alternative root. >> reporter: thank you. the investigation team will be here for the next couple of hours. make sure if you are trying to get on 80, avoid university avenue. reporting live from berkeley, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you, janine. >>> 7:03. turning to our other top story -- the acquittal of george zimmerman in florida led to more violence and vandalism in oakland. 2500 miles away. ktvu's alex savidge is getting a look at some of the damage and he joins us now from downtown oakland. good morning, alex. >> reporter: well, good morning to you. quite a bit of

so while everything appears to change the universe at large stays the same. he knew the universe was expanding we knew that from the late 1920's how can it stayed the same? of the universe is expanding for sure the matter gets diluted that he invented something for that. now an a very slow way he could not measure in the volume of the empire state building but you would say this is crazy to create matter out of nothing? and then in the big bang you wanted everything to be created. >> it is amazing how the minds try to quantify what know what else had ever tried to quantify. i think when you are a child anything within $7 is a million dollars in its abstract with new meaning but many of these attempted to do calculations of the change of energy and the size of the universe and the age of the years and it seems like that is one common driver a and yet as you pointed out in your book. we're talking to mario livio and after the break we will talk about albert einstein and what happened over his life that led to his theory. >> host: back with dr. dr. mario livio.

i go to an elite university. let's say i go to your harvards or your m.i.t.s or berkeleys, i get to say i went to harvard. that's half of what you're paying for. you wouldn't say i went to harvard. you would say i went to a small college in the boston area. >> (laughing) stephen: but aren't you taking away some of the specialness of going to college? >> i think we should be very careful to distinguish campus from online. my colleague said there's campus magic. campus education is different from on-line education. campus students have things like, they interact with each other. they learn the rhetoric. they have discussions. work with professors get inspired by professors >> stephen: homo erotic frat hazing. online, no one is going to ask you to pass a grease 45 record from butt cheek to butt cheek before they'll call you brother. >> or $40,000 stephen: exactly. how many people are online in the ed-x right now? >> ed-x dot-org you can sign up very easily. we have over a million students from every single country i

if this university cannot protect us, i don't know who can. >> stanford university would not go on camera but they released a statement reading in part, we are not aware of any protected health information or social security numbers being compromised, and stanford does not conduct classified research. but, at the same time, stanford admits it does not fully know the scope of this hacking incident but the university is working with information security and law enforcement to get to the bottom of this. >> thank you, katie. we have breaking news from campbell. a car has crashed into a hair salon. look at this. police say this morning a 92-year-old woman accidentally hit the gas rather than the brake and slammed into the salon at the campbell shopping center. there were four people in the salon. no one was hurt. when the crews removed the car the woman drove away. police did not cite her. >> and now the food trend is landing at sfo kicking off a few minutes ago at the airport and abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield is there. amy? >> we are getting a lot of questions about how will this work. as

weight create the universe. michael holmes as how do you reconcile faith and science why i don't recognize belief in science i think belief is a cover up for insecurity you only believe in things that you're not sure it will hurt but faith is the willingness to step into the unknown and that in fact is the basis of science well said gate on facebook i'd like to know where he believes spirits go after death you believe something leaves your body i think the body leaves your spirit. the spirit is always there just like if this room was destroyed nothing would happen to the space but the room would lose its appearance so the spirit doesn't leave the body moves. making sense you know that the source of the source never goes anywhere it's just stops they do say what happens to the movie when the television set is destroyed not prince is still there. maggie simian on facebook wants to know if you believe karma is god's justice no curve is a good line of. coma is just the consequence of our actions every action has a c

the way create the universe. michael holmes as how do you reconcile faith and science why i don't recognize belief in science i think belief is a cover up for insecurity you only believe in things that you're not sure it will hurt but faith is the willingness to step into the unknown and that in fact is the basis of science well said gate on facebook i'd like to know where he believes spirits go after death you believe something leaves your body i think the body leaves your spirit. the spirit is always there just like if this room was destroyed nothing would happen to the space but the room would lose its appearance so the spirit doesn't leave the body moves. making sense you know that the source of the source never goes in the woods just stops they do say what happens to the movie when the television set is destroyed not prince it's still there. maggie simian on facebook wants to know if you believe karma is god's justice no karma is a good line of. coma is just the consequence of our actions every action has a

to the access to university. twenty percent in five years that means young people understand that even if they go to university they would not find a job propped up on the scaffolding art history student and restore to reset continues from work even during our interview for her long working hours aren't a burden but a blessing. it's very difficult to combine work and school i used to spend four hours just getting to work but i can't complain i'm actually very lucky that i got this opportunity because it's hard to find a job as it is and situation fees have gone up i have to have a job otherwise it's impossible to continue with school although it's only and are considered to be synonymous with one another teresa says an art historian like her is likely to be doing something entirely different after graduation i meant that he might have been this my specialty is restoration i'm going to get a diploma yet i will look for a job in other fields as it's hardly possible to get a job in this area there is a very slim cha

universities diapers so basically all universities are significantly subsidized by public funds and student loan programs are subsidized by public funds there are also other programs to support students such as tuitions tax credits but basically we put more public money in now what we're seeing right now in the u.s. is i had alluded to is this a doubling in interest rates when it comes to stafford loans now as you have mentioned one of the problems possibly of the u.s. one of the possible cons out we're seeing right now is that many universities in the u.s. are run as a business like kind of model so do you think that that is the sole reason why we are seeing so much competition so much talk over these interest rates gobbling right now as a barrier to access to education it's probably not the sole reason i don't know enough about the american situation to say but what i would say about two ition and accessibility is. internationally is that the issue is not so much borling or the cost of borrowing but how boring fits into the whole pattern of financing post-secondary education for s

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it is a university that engages leaders in common dialogue.inues to produce the future leaders of our profession and our nation. this year we mark the occasion of our 50th anniversary by being recognized by the nation's most senior leadership for not only the high quality of the education offered, but for the joint nature of that education. this past october, general dempsey named niu a joint professiona military education professional military education phase one accreditation program, the first to receive such approval since before september 11. completion of military education is important for some our military officers and necessary for future promotions and assignments into our joint force. this past february, as the impact was highlighting to director clapper, he took similar action by designating those that are attending the full-time master's program as joint duty and joint duty qualifying for civilians. this is a big deal. it is a tremendous opportunity for the workforce as they advance through their careers. without that accreditatio

so they came and arrested me >>host: we at the university or at home? >>guest: at the time i was the minister of education. they caught me at the university. >>host: and the shah minister? >>guest: yes. and then soon to become the prime minister. halfway through regatta call that my name has come up but i was about to leave the ministry to make sure that you do not bite the cyanide pill it is more popular than unpopular. but then they took me to a place and they spent six months there in prison. >>host: wear your tortured -- where all were you tortured? >> solitary confinement for about a month and beat up a couple of times it jimmy carter was elected and overnight you could see how the borders had come down and i almost got pneumonia after 48 hours it took me to the hospital in the prison and is the best in the worst of humanity. and they still do have friends from prison but in my case a couple of beatings and solitary confinement and the rest of their life -- and arrested my wife. bedded is what the regime engaged in afterwards which was massive what

now thanks to these students coming out not at this university but answer many other universities aroundit seems there is a discussion on the rape culture that is happening. >> this is sick, nonsensical bull crap. i'm a recent graduate, and when one in four women experiencing sexual assault this makes college attendance itself a reason to have a risk factor for sexual assault. that's just not okay. school is no long arrest safe haven. >> cenk: you would think that college campuses would be the most vigilant to make sure that it doesn't happen. >> it's hard enough to deal with the sexual assault. from what everybody has said, reports, just personal experience with talking with people in general it's hard enough to deal with the sexual assault without the university, the police where place where you live, where you're supposed to be having the best years of your life, without the institution making it worse for you. >> this is a big story in the military, and there was a tsunami of rape case there is, and the way that government and the military handled it, it's interesting. these institut

they're not universal.ly, there remain cultural communities they're dependent upon region. they're dependent upon ethnicity. so there's contingencies there. there's a diversity in the cultures of black america, but they do still exist. there's still black institutions that are in place and functioning. the number of black people attending church may be lower, but it is not the case that they don't still exist. >> eddie, you can jump in here. >> i think it's important for us not to overstate the racial shifts. of course there will be shifts in the way that we understand how culture works, how people find their feet within any cultural spaces. how deidentities are formed butt doesn't follow from that the cultural markers whether it be black churches, a forum, a culinary practice, or simply just a style, that the degree to which it is ascribed to by younger generations via the older generations doesn't mean it's no longer a culture or fragmented in a way that it's no longer recognizable. just as people would s

he has taught at boston university and the university of texas and harvard and served as secretary of education under president reagan. he is america's first to serve fighting drugs under president george w. bush. he is the host of bill bennett's morning in america and he and i were philosophy students together. he will be followed by the co-author and he is the associate producer of bill bennett morning in america. he's part of the manhattan institute policy blog and he is a fellow that studies in greek and latin at the catholic university in washington. in his honor i have tried to come up with an up or opiate latin quote for addressing student debt. i suggest that the latin phrase, happy if you have no no debt, is very appropriate here. [laughter] >> we look forward to the presentation of this provocative book and we welcome you. [applause] >> thank you. we were in the same class in philosophy and a final exams and we had saturday classes together. there are some basic familiarity is and i will hit some of the high points towards the end. one of the things we have said since the be

stanford university came in at number one jumping from third place last year.ile pomona college about 30 mi. from los angeles was in second place. princeton university slipped to third place from first last year. any help came in at no. 4. cal, which is 22nd on the list was ranked as the best date school and the country. the forbes ranking 650 u.s. colleges and universities is based on this dissatisfaction postgraduate success student at graduation rate in national competitive awards. >>mark:two female u-s-c students who were raped have accused the university of trying to sweep it under the rug. that accusation has led to a civil rights investigation by the department of education. the student say the school basically mishandled their complaints. one of the victims says she has proof, in an email and recorded conversations with the suspect.where she says he admits that the sex was not consensual. >> very interesting to note that a victim can come forward with a binder of evidence that supports their claim that they were subjected to a violent attack but the sch

those three officials are former university ppt graham spanier, retired university vice president gary schultz and former athletic director tim curley. the men say they are innocent. they say they believed former assistant coach jd had been engaged with horseplay with young boy in the university shower. they say they were not aware it involved allegations of sex acts. q not to bring boys on campus anymore instead of reporting it to police. >>> right now we want to show you video of riots in southern california. those are just protesters completely out of control, just a wild scene in huntington beach hours the close of the u.s. open surfing competition. the men there were throwing bottles, tipping portable toilets over, smashing storefront window, ripping bicycles on the street. that happened before police finally arrived on scenesr scene. police had to use teargas and non--neethal projectiles to finally settle everybody down. police say they had things under control about 9:30. "the l.a. times" reporting at least 12 people were injured, nine were arrested. >>> it's 6:09. taking actio