this is a map teacher of the yale university campus. the top is the library. smiley walked down the street past the tower all the way to the art center. it was there that the police officer introduced himself and said he was with the library and asked if smiley had inadvertently taken anything with him. even though he was under no obligation to cooperate, decided he would go back with the officer and they began looking through his things. first, they looked through his briefcase and found a number of rare maps which smiley said he had brought with him. they found no evidence to show that was not true. there, theyanding noticed him fidgeting with his blazer pocket and something in his blazer. they asked him to take it out. when he did, he took out this. this is a map of new england by john smith. it was originally done in 1616. this is a yale copy done in 1631. i want to pause for a moment and tell you a bit about this map and explain what makes it so important and value both. -- valuable. we all know john smith from the and the founding of that in 1607. but he

but this was a map he drew of the yale university campus. you can see right up here at the top is the library, and smiley walked down the street past the sterling memorial library, past the tower, all the way to the yale british arts center. it was there that the police officer introduesed himself and said he was with the library and asked the smiley had taken anything with him. and smiley even though he was under no obligation to cooperate he decided that he would go back with this officer and they began looking through his things. and first they looked through his brief case and they found a number of rare maps there, but smiley said that he had brought those with him, and they found no evidence to show that that wasn't true. and then as he was standing there, they noticed him sort of fidgetting with his blazer pocket, and something in his blazer, and they asked him to take it out. and when they did, he took out this. this is a map of new england by john smith, it was originally done in 1616 and this is actually yale's copy that was done i

b beverly gauge, appreciate you coming on today from yale university.hanks. >>> and that is it for me. i'm brooke baldwin here in new york. we'll see you same time, same place tomorrow. in the meantime, "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >> the terrorists of isis posting a warped show and tell to show how they can hide from coalition bombs and enemy fighters. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the world lead. it's an underground labrynth as a new audiotape could prove that their leader is still alive. >>> and call him an equal opportunity agitate for as president vladimir putin plans to put long-range bombers on control and uncomfortably close to u.s. soil. >>> plus, theon

in the summer of 2013 rayo and 23 other veterans filed into yale university for two weeks packed withdemic help from top professors. >> i meet these students. i talk to them in class, out of class, and i know they will be successful but sometimes i think i'm more sure of that then they are. >> reporter: christopher howell started the project. he/in the australian army special forces for a decade before enrolling in yale where he saw a need for vets friendly teaching practices that would bridge military and academic life. >> i teach 23 years old or pretty much people beyond college years and college is very different from one you experience in the military. >> reporter: yale graduate is overseeing expansion of the two-year old program at harvard and university of michigan to six more campuses. it has helped rayo make a change from solder to scholar. >> marines looked up to me for advice and stuff like that. i never thought to take that into a classroom but the warrior scholar project was about making yourself an asset to the classroom. >> reporter: warriors who mastered a military camp

the yale university archives had quite a bit of material about the yale phase of training. nothing about stubby, but i found great material and wonderful photographs that were useful in illustrating the book, and it was very special to get to go to be yale field. this should be stubby, this is the yale bulldog, the college mascot, but just to see the places where conrad and stubby -- conroy and stubby would have met and trained together. i visited graves, looked were conroy had been born, all the things you are trying to do to understand better about the family. place called the army war college in pennsylvania, which has exhibits, but also a fantastic archive, and i found a lot of great photographic material there as well. it's thanks to all of these archives that you are seeing the kinds of images that are here as credited in the book illustrations for this history. ok, what are some of those pictures? let's look at some of the other dogs that were in the war. this is not stubby, but this gives you an idea of a dog with and a soldier with a gas mask, too, for that matter.

beverly gage is a professor of american history at yale university.e is working on a book about j. edgar hoover called, "g man." her recent piece the new york times magazine is headlined, "what an uncensored letter to m.l.k. reveals." she's joining us from yale university in new haven, connecticut. welcome to democracy now. and howwhat you found you found it. looks as you mentioned, i'm writing a biography of j edgar hoover and the summer, i was in washington doing some research at the national archives. at the national archives, they now have a pretty full edition or copies of hoover's official confidential files, which were sort of a secret file he kept in his own office. most of them are about major public figures. these have been turned over from the fbi to the national archives, so you have been sitting there now. i was going through them really as part of my research for hoover, not expecting this letter would be there. i of course do about the letter. it is one of these really famous documents from both the civil rights movement in the history

connell is senior at yale university working on degree in african-american studies, and political sciencepursue a master's degree in comparative social policy at oxford university in he know land. >>> stay with us, everyone. still ahead on "eyewitness news" tonight the waiting game is playing out in ferguson, missouri. plus, a 12-year-old boy is shot and killed by police in cleveland after they thought he was waving a around real gun. what authorities say the child actually had in his hand. also, thousands of tons of snow cleared from the streets and rooftops. and now there's a new warning for residents in buffalo, new york, as the mercury starts to rise. >> justin? >> and get ready for some record warmth to kick off the work week. we're talking about a snow chance for the holid >> all eyes are on ferguson, missouri where a grand jury could decide any day now whether to indict a police officer for shooting michael brown. there was speculation the decision could be announced today. but now new reports say the grand jury will reconvene again tomorrow. meanwhile tensions continue to mount th

research from jonas hopkins, yale university, northwestern university, university of chicago showed thatstrogen was causing cancer, blood clots in animal testing. and well might do the same in people. the drug companies chose to disregard this advice and managed to get an fda approval and stayed on the market untested for 60 years. at one point 30 to 50% of post menopausal american women were taking it. it was the most profitable drug in history. and the cancer it caused was very aggressive. it -- women had a 96% greater likelihood of dying from it. it promotes cell growth. i go to marin and around the bay area, talk about these issue, i am getting enormous harassment for doing so. cancer in most of our major diseases are largely preventable thev thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. ~ >>> good evening, i'm theresa [speaker not understood] from north beach, and i'm here to beg you, please, not to make any vote today without a complete full board present. i also want to thank norman yee, supervisor yee for, one, bringing up the issue of free muni for our seniors, working with s

professor william nordhaus of yale university developed the first model of the economics of climate changeade ago. now there are dozens of modeling groups worldwide. economic computer models permit governments to assess costs versus benefits of the kyoto protocol and alternative approaches. nordhaus: we want to know what the relationship is, historically, between the economy and the forces that are leading to climate change. and then in the future, we want to get our best, best guess as to what's going to happen to the economy and to the climate, and to the impacts of that on human societies over the decades to come. it's as simple as that. one of the conclusions of these analyses is and was that the kyoto protocol was neher going to make a big difference, nor very efficient. woman: how do you put a cost on new malarial outbreaks that are as a result of mosquitos having a larger range that they can live in because of changes in temperature? or the fact that mosquitos bite more when temperatures are one to two degrees higher? how do you put a cost on the relocation of millions of people in

you have about 25 degrees from columbia university and professor at yale for many years and now you'veids to get their resumes built so they can get into these colleges that turn out to be this bubble of elitism, wealth, and protectivism so the children can never be told they're wrong or failed. >> right, right. that's true. they're sort of stuffed with praise and flattery, but at the same time, they themselves terrified of failure because, you know, you have to have perfect grades, you have to do everything perfectly to get into these schools, once you're in the schools, you feel like you have to do everything perfectly to love school or get a job on wall street or whatever you want to do. part of the problem is that the kids are, they are very smart and also very ambitious, but they tend to be really risk adverse, kind of timid, afraid to fall down. >> depressed. >> there's a huge sort of mental health crisis on campus. it's especially bad morning affluent high achieving kids. people at the colleges know about it. the kids are very good at hiding it and parents and adults think as lo

beverly gauge, appreciate you coming on today from yale university. thank you. >> thanks. >>> and that is it for me. i'm brooke baldwin here in new york. we'll see you same time, same place tomorrow. in the meantime, "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >> the terrorists of isis posting a warped show and tell to show how they can hide from coalition bombs and enemy fighters. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the world lead. it's an underground labrynth as a new audiotape could prove that their leader is still alive. >>> and call him an equal opportunity agitate for as president vladimir putin plans to put long-range bombers on control and uncomfortably close to u.s. soil. >>> plus, the money lead. no, you have not been sniffing too many exhaust fumes. gas prices really are that low. today a new forecast of how long it will stay that low and what it might mean for your pocketbook. good afternoon, everybody. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. more u.s. troops are preparing to head to iraq to fight isis. and they are trying to show that

and late lit rally on the campus f yale university, some of the training took place inside the athletic stadium in the yale bowl and on the playing fields it.nd there were camps set up with tents and parade grounds and so forth. place if you t were a dog to hang out. here was lots of excitement, the a lot of cooking because you have all of these hungry soldiers. dogs were attracted to this encampment, including stubby and take long before had connected.oy here we have private conroy, his isters, look who's already in the family picture. of 1917. august his is a friend or perhaps brother, conroy's brother. attached to he was conroy and conroy to stubby even before it had come time to ship out for europe. and when it did come time to ship out for europe, it just happened that stubby went along. he was more or less assisted by in the camp when the tents were struck and the aboard troop bed training late at night to head virginia to newport news. it was trickier to get a dog onboard. but there was some time that passed before they had to ship out. was smuggled aboard with connections that c

university. and then you're a professor at yale for many years.ut you know what you're talking about. and you basically talk about how they beat the spirit out of these kids to get their resumes built so they can get into these colleges that turn out to be a protectivism so the children can never be told that they're wrong or that they failed. >> right. that's true. they're sort of stuffed with praise and flattery. but at the same time they themselves terrified of failure. you know, you have to have perfect grades. you have to do everything perfectly to get into these schools. once you're in these schools you feel like you have to do everything perfectly to get to law school or a job on wall street or whatever it is you want to do. part of the problem these kids are very smart and ambitious but tend to bep% risk averse, kind timid. >> depressed. >> yeah, there's this huge sort of mental health crisis on campus. it's especially bad among affluent high achieving kids. people at the colleges know about it the thing is that the kids are very good at h

i interviewed a woman from yale university doing a book right now on canings in the u.s.nate. >> that is an appropriate study right now. >> exactly. >> let's get the caning expert on here. >> we get a caning expert on. but the immigration problem the republicans have is that ronald reagan signed executive orders for immigration form and george herbert walker bush did it. it has precedent with republican icons that you can do executive orders in this regard. i have to say again you are looking at an executive order veto president the next two years, the idea of any meaningful legislative achievement except for going after isil and the like you're not going to have it. his achievement will be the obamacare affordable care act but it's he will be seen more as a president that used executive order on behalf of people in need. >> you gene, joe scarborough had a thesis this morning and he thought the best play for the republicans was to let the executive action assistant and get immigration off the table, stand down on it. do you think it is likely they will. >> not to take the

he is a yale university graduate student in public health.in liberia for three weeks helping the government set up a computer database of ebola cases. soon after his return to the u.s., he was placed in quarantine in his home in new haven, connecticut. his quarantine ended last thursday. ryan boyko, welcome to democracy now! can you talk first about what you found when you got to liberia? >> thank you for having me on. when i got to liberia, i was in monrovia and the whole city seemed a bit shellshocked. it was a mix of this fear that was a was present along with normal everyday activities. people still need to work. people still need to get food for their families, feed their families. this is a city of nearly 1.5 million people with a few thousand ebola cases. there is this fear that is always there. you could see it in the streets. but at the same time, there was a mix of that along with people going about their daily business. exactly that you did there and then what happened upon your return? >> so i helped the government, the ministry o

yale university. i was an english major, which go figure.> i'm cutting out letters instead of typing them. >> what are you working on? >> i'm working on a sign for a place called delta millworks. >> so the saw mill sign has been sketched out. all of these metal letters have been cut out by hand. now i'm helping prep the pieces for painting. once evan paints these pieces, the neon layer will go right on top of them. >> that's perfect. we've chosen to put it right above the front door because one of the many subliminal things you're telling people is this is where we want you to go. by putting a log and having wood. we have wood. by then putting a blade on top of it we're going to have cut wood. at this point it could still be a 14th century sign. >> yeah. >> the sign will come together like a layer cake, with the layers carefully laid out with three inches of separation between the lumber and the blades to allow for neon backlighting. >> there will be neon behind here and this beautiful golden glow coming behind here. >> i can show you some o

by way of background, i spent 18 years of my life at yale university. it was there that i received a bachelor of science degree in psychology, and an md. i completed training in neurological surgery at yale new haven. i did a fellowship in spine surgery at harvard. for the past 5 1/2 years i've been a private practice neuro surgeon here in lancaster. i'm part after multidisciplinary practice that includes neur ro surgery, orthopedics, neurology, pain management and physical therapy. our practice takes an integrative approach to the treatment of patients with diseases of the nervous system, spine and peripheral joint. i have had the good fortune to see health care for multiple perspectives for my career. ivory tower, big pharma, small town country doctor. i hope to be able to contribute something valuable to the discussion today. thank you. >> thank you, doctor. next, under new bauer, chairman and ceo of new medical. >> thank you mr. chairman. i want to thank you for initiating this roundtable discussion on behalf of the industry i represent that is the m

preston spoke at yale university in newhaven, connecticut. guides >> today it is my pleasure to introduce our speaker richard preston did his undergraduate work in english and got his ph.d. in english from princeton university, studied nineteenth century american nonfiction writing. he is the author of nine books on a variety of topics including fixes disease. .. >> i'm also sure that "the hot zone" inspired many of its readers to consider and pursue careers in epidemiology, vie rolling and public health. that fascination fuels curiosity and a lot of what we know today. the most recent mass i outbreak of ebola occurring in west africa has once again propelled "the hot zone" back onto the national bestseller list, 20 years after its publication. i have always had a particular fascination for the insidious ingenuity of infectious disease and for the dynamics of epidemic infection. and so it's a pleasure to bring this element to the program and to discuss it today, and i'm happy we have the opportunity and the foresight to bring richard preston

letterberg and his colleague from yale university basically recognized that we were on a converging path, potentially with disaster with the possibility of emerging diseases in bioterrorism. and it was their work and dr. letterberg's warning to clinton that basically if you will initiate things. i'm a great believer in our system at government at best we can hope for imperfect incrementalism. you can look at any issue in the united states history, whether civil rights, defense policy or i would argue in this case public and medical preparedness that we demonstrate imperfect incrementalism. we make a few steps forward, one step back. realign and move forward again. and so it is with that, there have been a series of, if you will, legislative initiatives that basically happened after 9/11 that are worth noting. one is the pandemic all hazard preparedness act. i'd like to tack credit for it because i was a staff director for the senate subcommittee that drafted it. but it was actually senator richard burr from north carolina and senator ted kennedy who championed that bill. and the signific

you were an admissions officer at yale university. first of all, thank you for nothing. of all -- how many people around this table got rejected? is that a rational strategy? >> no. there was an article in the "new about students submitting a crazy number of applications. we advise our students to submit to 1510 applications applications, still up from about 10 years ago when we were advising kids to do. the problem is it is very hard to manage more than that and make sure that the college knows that if a top choice school for the student, because colleges are concerned about their yield, which they are looking at for their ranking, and they want to make sure they offer you a place and you are going to come there. >> we are looking at the top five here, all of the ivs, yells going, columbia going down, princeton is going down. is there a floor there? most the top level at the selective schools, we see rates drop, so stanford last year, 5.07%, and seven years below that, it was 10.3%, so we are seeing those numbers drop. we are even seeing small liberal arts schools, your

i had transferred from yale university the beginning of my sophomore year and had a fifth year of academic eligibility, affording me the opportunity to complete my second degree. i transferred to notre dame to pursue excellence in the classroom and on the football field. i felt notre dame offered me the opportunity to do well in both. while it wasn't easy, it certainly was achievable. the infrastructure was and remains in place to assist student athletes to achieve at notre dame. i have a daughter who is currently a collegiate student athlete there. i have witnessed even further improvements in the program, such as mandatory study hall for all incoming freshmen athletes. i am here today as a former collegiate student athlete. i am not an attorney and versed in labor law so i'll leave the legal argument to the experts to my right. the impetus for today's panel is the nrlb regional director's ruling that college athletes are deemed employees. which would enable them to potentially unionize under the national labor relations act. the union pursuit is a means to an end, a vehicle if you will t

and so we have -- works as the order conflict and violence fellow at yale university, ph.d student in political science at the -- in paris. we needed no less than colonel of the u.s. air force reserve, i am naming, of course, my colleague, who is here -- senior at the middle east program, and was previously, as you all know, a fellow at the rand corporation, and a number of actual field research. he focuses on gulf political affairs, libya, and u.s. policy in the middle east, and we could dream of no better discussion than him this afternoon. so that leaves the floor to gilles who will introduce the topic ask then we'll move on to the other speakers and then as usual we'll have a q & a at the end. >> thank you for the kind word ask all the work for the organization. a pleasure to be back at the carnegie. a very peaceful invasion. so, what is the question? we are doing -- the three of us, field work in iraq, afghanistan, syria, and the u.s. policies is some kind offing offing nil anything ma d offing anything ma. it's difficult to understand and the question we're going to try to under

i had transferred from yale university the beginning of my sophomore year and had a fifth year of academic eligibility, affording me the opportunity to complete my second degree. i transferred to notre dame to pursue excellence in the classroom and on the football field. i felt notre dame offered me the opportunity to do well in both. while it wasn't easy, it certainly was achievable. the infrastructure was and remains in place to assist student athletes to achieve at notre dame. i have a daughter who is currently a collegiate student athlete there. i have witnessed even further improvements in the program, such as mandatory study hall for all incoming freshmen athletes. i am here today as a former collegiate student athlete. i am not an attorney and versed in labor law so i'll leave the legal argument to the experts to my right. the impetus for today's panel is the nrlb regional director's ruling that college athletes are deemed employees. which would enable them to potentially unionize under the national labor relations act. the union pursuit is a means to an end, a vehicle if you will t

yale university law school. with c-span interviews retiring members of congress. representative tom petri of wisconsin. representative frank wolf of virginia. [applause] >> supreme court justices clarence thomas, samuel alito, sotomayor are year law school graduate. the event was part of the allies reunion weekend. it begins with robert post awards to the justices. the yale law association presents a merit to outstanding graduates. way of recognizing extraordinary alumni, who have contributions al to public services. but re a tiny school,

senior fellow at yale university.never anything like this happens, stephen, you wonder whether we misjudged just how dire or how -- whether the weakness is more than we anticipated. is that your reaction to this? >> well, you know, the policy actions like this are revealed and they're doing something no other has done right now. they're addressing cyclical issues in the contract of these big changes in terms of rebalancing or reforming their economy. the latter also puts a near term drag on the economy. so to do the structural initiatives and the contacts puts more downside pressure on the economy than they envisioned. the good news is they've got present of scope unlike central banks in the developed world. we've got plenty of basis points for a future maneuver should they need to do it. >> did you see this report? i guess it's created quite a fire storm in china from s&p that at least half of all government debt in the country may deserve a junk rating. all these things seem to, you know, you've always been sort of

university. the also taught at yale, harvard and the university of paris. graduated from harvard and obtained his a and b hd in philosophy at princeton. he has written more than 20 books and has edited 13. he is best known for his classics race matters and democracy matters and his memoir brother west, living and loving out loud. he appeared frequently on the colbert report, cnn and c-span and he also made his film debut in the matrix and was a commentator on the official trilogy released in 2004, his latest book, "black prophetic fire" with a distinguished scholar chris the bushindorr prevents a perspective on six african-american leaders including frederick a. bliss, w. e. b. du bois, martin luther king jr. ellen baker, malcolm x and otto while barnett. examine the impact of these men and women in their ear ats and across the decades and rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates and all so therefore wines by providing new insights that humanize these well-known figures cornel west takes an important step in rekindling the

journal, northwestern university law review, the washington law review, the american university law review and the yalelaw and policy review, he's one of the drafters of the am meek cuss brief on behalf of members of congress and states legislature, she received her degree from emery university. and university professor of constitutional law and health law at vangder built university so with an ma and mb from yale. he's a selected member of the institute of medicine at the national academy of sciences, he served as a member. anded a minute of the advisory panel in the use of medical technology, office of technology assessment. in addition, he served as former seat governor, counsel on reforms. and that's tennessee's medicaid programs. he also has lit gate constitutional years in state and federal court, i was particularly grateful for that lawsuit because it allowed me to write about high school football and covered the supreme court at the same time. most recently he's written and spoken about the state's constitutional challenge. the successful friend of the court brief on the issue in the supreme co

university. the also taught at yale, harvard and the university of paris. graduated from harvard and obtained his a and b hd in philosophy at princeton. he has written more than 20 books and has edited 13. he is best known for his classics race matters and democracy matters and his memoir brother west, living and loving out loud. he appeared frequently on the colbert report, cnn and c-span and he also made his film debut in the matrix and was a commentator on the official trilogy released in 2004, his latest book, "black prophetic fire" with a distinguished scholar chris the bushindorr prevents a perspective on six african-american leaders including frederick a. bliss, w. e. b. du bois, martin luther king jr. ellen baker, malcolm x and otto while barnett. examine the impact of these men and women in their ear ats and across the decades and rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates and all so therefore wines by providing new insights that humanize these well-known figures cornel west takes an important step in rekindling the

like so many people you meet here, he's chinese but was educated in american universities and has taught at yaleo you forgive me, economics are not my area of expertise. i wallow in ignorance. but china looks different every time i come. it's changing so, so, so quickly. how did that happen? >> china enjoy this long period of peace. no serious enemy. no major wars. >> right. >> so the manufacturing industry really took off. internally, it's reform and open-door policy. every country willing to trade with china. >> there's certainly no doubt that at this point we, our destinies are inextricably bound up, we are hopelessly -- our economies are hopelessly intermingled. if one fails, the effect would be disastrous. >> global impact. >> to say the least. >> it's certainly -- >> [ speaking in chinese ]. >> oh, beautiful. this is what i was waiting for. >> xiaolongbao, literally small steaming basket buns. but i translate them in my head to pillows of happiness that will scald your tongue and throat if you don't know what you're doing. look, there are a lot of reasons to come to china and to shanghai i

university and also the director of the health policy center at vanderbilt. she was an m.a. from yale and a degree from yale. the elected member of the institute of medicine at the national academy of sciences served as a member of a committee on the adequacy of the nurse staffing at hospitals and nursing homes in december of the advisory panel and a study of defensive medicine and use of medical technologies. the tennessee dedicated program. he also litigated constitutional issues in state and federal court in coding brentwood academy and the tennessee secondary school athletic association. i was particularly grateful for that lawsuit because it allows me to write about high school football and cover the supreme court at the same time. he wrote about the expanded medicaid component of the affordable care act the supreme court's testified about the issue whether the subsidies under the aca could accrue to the income of the persons who purchased the clincher in on that early one exchanges. as you've heard one of the cases, the appeal in the fourth circuit is currently at the supreme co

yale, penn state. i'll start naming universities.ome to me and say go look at the department of defense, look at the issues they've had, various religious orders. look at a huge variety of institutions that seem to have the exact same problem. like who is getting this right? >> so actually, one school system who has already been in trouble, the suny school system up in new york, they had been under title 9 investigation, they are doing things right, they've collected a work group, they're bringing in advocates, survivors, legal experts, not just administrators, and they're trying to be on the forefront of taking this issue. in fact, they're limiting their sanctions to only two for any type of gender violence and it's suspension or expulsion. suspension should be for the duration of the victim's academic career so they're not having to face their rapist. i do see some schools, normally after they're in trouble, go out of their way to say we're not going to make this mistake twice and we're changing it. it's the younger generation infl

research university in the world, and you can only cut faculty and research so far and keep the reputati reputation. >> one of the things the governor says is it shouldn't be competing with yale and harvard and star fonford. we should be trying to be the best public universities. we shouldn't be raising tuitions to the point where we're luring that level of chancellor or whatever it may be. what is your response? >> i disagree. this university was designed under the master plan to give students in california the opportunity to get that quality education and not have to go 3,000 miles away. when you look at what's happened in california with the university of california, and we have some small elite colleges, small in terms of size, cal-tech, and stanford compared to uc is small, and the synergy now with the backbone of the university of california and a few smaller colleges, that's a different model than you have on the east coast. the whole idea behind creating the university of california was to say, you know what, we should have a public university that is as good or better. it should have public-level tuition and costs, and it should give california the ability to compete

from yale and a jd from george mason university school of law. ..nited states district court for the southern district of new york. and the chief judge dennis jacobs of the u.s. court of appeals for the second circuit. before entering academia, he practiced civil litigation in seattle, white-collar criminal defense and civil litigation in new york. brianne gorod and i hope i set it right. i am trying so hard, is constitutional accountability centers appellate counsel. she joined from private part is that of melanie and my nurse ratios count on the firm supreme court and appellate practice. prior to joining bellevue mayor she was adviser of the office of legal counsel at the justice department. she also served as a law clerk for justice stephen breyer. her academic right and have appeared in the yell law journal, duke law journal, northwestern university law review, washington mop review, american university law review. she is one of the drafters of an amicus brief filed on behalf of members of congress and state legislators. she received her jd from

already seen this happen with a powerful welcoming speech by the yale president peterson loewe -- peter selovi this fall. american universitiesreturn to first principles. they recognize that the dominance of political correctness on our campuses amounts to nothing short of a war on youth, endangering the empowerment and training of our next generation of leaders. they recognize that american higher education has long been the envy of the world and it will continue to be only if true academic freedom returns as a campus value of paramount importance. i thank you and i look forward to the queue and day. -- look forward to q&a. [no audio] [applause] >> today, we are looking forward to our forum. liberal will return to our speaker momentarily for a question-and-answer time. i would ask that you formulate your questions now and try to keep them brief and to the point. we welcome all of you joining us via media. television broadcasts remain possible by cleveland state university and our live webcast is supported by the university of akron. one week from today, october 10, the city club welcomes stephen better, president and chief e