of the fifth annual midwestern conference hosted by the helen stein center at granville university. >> good morning. my name is eric. i am an associate professor of african-american studies and history at the university of illinois or vanish and pain. -- urbana champaign. ours my honor to introduce keynote speaker, my friend and colleague, dr. kristin hoganson. she is professor of united states history at the university of illinois at urbana champaign. she specializes in the history of the united states, cultures of u.s. imperialism, transnational history, and the midwest. professor hoganson has enjoyed a productive and accomplished academic career sense achieving her phd in history from yale in 1995. following graduate school, she taught at harvard for five years before accepting a position in history at the university of illinois. in terms of her professional service, she is the vice president for the society of historians for american foreign relations. dr. hoganson is the author of several books. i will note her first published book, "fighting for american manhood: how gender politics provoked the spanish, philippine universitye press, 1998. the professor's journey to american history is an intriguing one. r

that is an example that was prohibited on campus at the university of illinois and that is done solelynce a political agenda on campus in violation of the first amendment. shannon: that is one of the complaints became in. exhibit b is another complaint, an anonymous person reported -- registered student organization was offensive to non-us citizens by saying things like america is the greatest country in the world and pull yourself up by your bootstraps. is that something the school should be investigating? >> students don't check their first amendment right at the door of the universities but at the same time this particular lawsuit appears to just be attention-getting. they haven't articulated any actual legal bases of infringement on their rights. the students say they feel uncomfortable expressing minority viewpoints like being pro-trump. i do that every day and i have gotten attacked and a lot of twitter hate for expressing those views. that is just life. it doesn't mean you can sue your university because you feel uncomfortable expressing a certain viewpoint. they have to articul

that's an example that was prohibited on campus at the university of illinois. s done solely to advance a political agenda on campus. that is in violation of the first amendment. >> shannon: that's one of the complaints that came in. exhibit b is another complaint. anonymous person reported a speaker brought to campus by an rso, a registered student organization was offensive to non-u.s. citizens by saying things like america is the greatest country in the world and pull yourself up by your bootstraps. is that something the school should spend time investigating? >> student don't check their first amendment rights at the doors of the university. at the same time this particular lawsuit appears to just be attention getting. they haven't articulated any actual legal basis of infringement upon their rights. the students articulate they feel uncomfortable expressing minority viewpoints such as being pro trump. i do that every day. i have gotten attacked and i've gotten a lot of twitter hate for expressing those views. that's life. it doesn't mean you can sue the univ

right let's ask donal levels professor of atmospheric science and presidential fellow at the university of illinois professor welcome. yes thank you for inviting me if our air quality had been improving until lately what has changed what went wrong. well there's been a large emphasis on increasing the burning of fossil fuels and that is a major contributor to. not only to climate change but also to air quality they really going to have hand in hand and that that's one aspect in the other aspect is that under this administration the environmental protection agency has been aiming at reducing the emission controls. dushan ing the effectiveness of the clean air act to towards allowing more emissions so a candidate a trump promising to slash regulations about president trump sure has kept has made a difference he pulled us out of the parasite cord and this deregulation is going to continue to contribute to the problem. certainly. there is that cat ago hand in hand so as long as we continue to push heavily for the use of fossil fuels the use of coal especially that is going to add to our air quality con

of the fifth annual midwestern conference hosted by the helen stein center at granville university. >> good morning. my name is eric. i am an associate professor of african-american studies and history at the university of illinois or vanish and pain. -- urbana champaign. ours my honor to introduce keynote speaker, my friend and colleague, dr. kristin hoganson. she is professor of united states history at the university of illinois at urbana champaign.

before that a bunch of students at the university of illinois coded up their own browser that they called mosaic like mark and recent and that again was an academic project so that students were later recruited to move to silicon valley to do the mosaic browser again but better with the aid of creating a for-profit company that was netscape and the browser they created was netscape navigator. >> did it last and what is mark and recent up to? making is still around but quickly i start with netscape because it was the company that i call the first true internet company. and then to call the big bang of the internet era but in just 18 months of being a company they have an ipo that values at almost $2 billion and today we are use to internet companies going public all the time. but that had never happened before but there was ways the ipo gave the signal to wall street or to silicon valley or main street that there was a technology revolution and a new gold rush. it went public in 1985 and were very successful for several years then they started to get the attention of microsoft but then the

before knelt escape there were a bunch of students at the university of illinois who coded up their own thing they called mosaic. that was again an academic project so then the students were later recruited by an entrepreneur, jim clark, to move out to silicon valley to do the mosaic browser again but do it better and this time in aid of creating a for-profit company that. for-profit company was net same and the browser they created was net scale nave getor. host: and how long did it last? sit still around today? what's mark andresen up to? brian: mark an degrees season still around. i start with net same because it was really the first two -- true internet company. it was founded, i believe in lathe 1993, early 1994 and they have an i.p.o. in the fall of 1995 they call the big bang of the internet era in just 18 months of being a company with nothing in the way of profits -- profits and very little in the way of review knee, they have an i.p.o. that values knelt escape at $almost $2 billion and today companies going public all the time and having $100 billion valuations. there was a wa

before netscape, there was a bunch of students at the university of illinois who coded their own browser they called mosaic. famously --most that was again, an academic project, so than the students were later recruited by an entrepreneur to move out to silicon valley to do the was a again, but better. and this time, do it in aid of creating a for-profit company. the company was netscape and the browser that they created was netscape navigator. >> how long did it last? is it still around today? >> mark is still around. i start with netscape because it was the company that i call the first.com company. really the first -- the first do t com company. ipo in the fall of 1995 that i call the big bang of the internet era. in just 18 months of being a company, with nothing in the way of profits and very little thatue, they have an ipo values netscape at a must billion dollars. today, we are used to internet companies going public all the time and having hundred billion dollar valuations, but that had never happened before. there were a lot of ways that the netscape ipo gave the signal to wall

university of maryland college park. and the director of the andrew w mellon funded african- american digital humanities initiative. she earned her phd in communication from the university of illinois at chicago. her research focuses on race, gender, and media with specific focus on african-american culture and discourse in traditional media, she examines the presentation and representation in marginalized communities and media and how traditionally marginalized depression and utilized online technology to create spaces of community. next we have doctor desmond patton. he is an associate professor at columbia university, he is a public inter-technologist and uses qualitative and confrontational data collection methods to examine the relationship between youth and gang violence and social media. how and why violence creates and identity are expressed on social media, and the real world impact the expressions have on the well-being of low income use of color. doctor patton is the lecture of the safe lab, a member of the data science institute. and faculty affiliate of the social intervention group, and holds a courtesy appointment in the department of sociology. next we have meredith

a separate study from the university of illinois say folks who had more water showed improvement in memoryeal in the defense of the arrow state industries merging to create a $120 billion giant. second only to boeing. >> the new company will make everything from engines and seats for commercial planes and fighter jets to patriot mice ills and space suits for astronauts. shares are higher in premarket trading. >>> our nbc bay area responds to an east bay pastor whose cross country move did not go as she hoped. >>> good morning. jo green moved to pennsylvania to help lead a new church. the moving company didn't deliver her goods on time. >> they had my him tphal, robe, stove, library. everything i owned. and i didn't receive it until the day before my first service. >> when it did arrive, pastor jo said some of her furniture was damaged. she said zippy shell denied her request for a refund. that's when she turned to us. we reached out to zippy shell. two days later, she received a partial refund of $1300. they said we are truly sorry and want to make this right are reverend green. do your ho

university of illinois as an undergraduate. there were a group of former daily news reporters who at that point worked at the times. it is now 2002. after 9/11. they wanted to get the documents from the fire department that showed how the rescue and recovery operation had taken place. they were hearing people from the fire department that the heroics had been a mess. uncoordinated. when i came to the times, people were asking me, would you sue the city of new york over 9/11 documents? i was from the daily news. i did not know any better. the daily news was always in the face of the city. that was our role in life. i became that times men he was willing to do that. we actually ended up winning a whole lot of documents to shut a whole lot of light on what happened on 9/11. >> this may be a little bit off of the subject, but along the lines of fox news, in your opinion, how much if any, especially in the red state, helped ariza popularity? cultural changes in technologies and new platforms that allow it to spread. >> so far out of

a football champion for the university of illinois. >> he's an all american? >> all american. >> this is what kids dream about? >> right. >> he was living that life. >> absolutely. it was looking like he would go to the nfl. that was kind of a dream of his. >> then he realized grander visions, fighting crime as a prosecutor, serving his country in the national guard and his community in politics. >> i'm someone who wants meaningful work that's going to make the difference in the lives of people. >> but it was what happened in this little house sequence to one person in particular that made curtis really stand out for automatic world to see. >> now to continuing coverage in the curtis lovelace murder case. >> it was a heated day at the stand. >> right now, the defense is presenting its closing arguments in the case. >> big dreams on a mighty river can carry far or they can drive you under. this is the very strange journey of curtis lovelace, all american to criminal defender. let's roll back the years to high school and to the woman that would become the focus

i have given grand rounds in the last two weeks at ross university at cleveland clinic at university of illinois chicago, at university of chicago. i am out there as surgeon general speaking directly to providers and saying there is a better way and we need to get on board really quickly because we should not be the first drug dealer for folks out there. >> one more question. >> what about asking things like pbs are walgreens to take -- >> what about asking chains like cbs and walgreens to take drugs out. one many of them have takeback sites. we are working with many of those folks . the challenge with takeback sites is there are federal rules for where you can have a takeback site and that's where reason. is because now you have a been sitting here full of opioids and for about a dollar a milligram it sells. so you can have a bin full of tens of thousands of dollars of opioids. a time we were the number two state behind california for pharmacy robbery. that the danger but we all need to work together to figure out how we can promote better takeback and again the disposal bags are actually a gre

of that. one is a program developed by a university. and the other is from the university of chicago, illinois, called diabetes empowerment education program. and both these programs, of course, are -- the goal is to help improve and maintain the health of older adults and adults with disability. and we have had these programs for several years now. and has been proven to be very effective. and as i go through the service units for the -- you can see for the physical fitness and fall prevention, currently we have -- this contract for two years is 22 sites that will be implementing this program throughout the neighborhood. and they are using -- partnering with a lot of different community partners to make this happen. and if you have questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> president serina: thank you, linda. just a comment. today's chronicle tt carried an article about the increase in the number of adults with disabilities experiencing falls. and it cited several reasons. one was often medication affects balance. another, we have more people who are living to older ages and many more who are living alone. so obviously, a program like th

berkeley national lab and there is a center for energy bio product innovation and that's at the university of illinoisor urba urbana. there's been over 2500 peer-reviewed publications that came out of that and there's been a thousand plus from the standpoint of what is your return on investment, the invei think it's been pretty good. >> i have one other question and that deals with looking at another area to the veterans ves administration and i recently responded to some legislation along with my colleague. i know you've indicated that use of the supercomputing capacity to tackle the challenges in the healthcare space so would you mind elaborating again on what kind of a role you think they might play in helping the federal agencies including the veterans administration to better understand the opioid crisis? >> the good news is we are making some good progress. when it was at one of the apex is that being the governor of texas i had the opportunity to go to the medical center on a fairly regular more than i would like to be going to men and women who were burned and then at that particular point in

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i was forked in it enough in 2014 to catch the 95th communist party convention at the university of chicago, illinoisi am wondering, are you going to have it this year? 21st, 22nd, 23rd of june in chicago. host: you are asking if we will cover that? caller: yes. checked on google and found out where it is at and when it is going to be. host: i suggest you check out our website and you can sign up for email alerts. it is possible. we cover all sorts of political party gatherings and conventions and it is getting to be that time of the season. keep your eye on c-span.org. the communists in this country versus the communists in russia or china? host: what was your question about that? caller: wouldn't that be interfering in our elections here, the communist party in usa more so than russia or china's communist parties? host: we will see what some of your fellow callers think. thank you for calling. this is miley. good morning. molly, hi, my name is and i agree with the lady that called earlier from michigan. i am originally from michigan, but i have been down here 45 years. i don't believe our president

scott heerman is a professor at the university of miami, and the author over the alchemy of slavery. human bondage and emancipation in the illinois country and i'm going to have him talk briefly about his work so the way this is going to go today -- i know we don't have much time -- scott and i will give a brief overview of our books before turning over the floor to mr. curry and mr. cole, who will tell a bit about themes and discuss with us the ways in which the history of african descend anymore early illinois has been erased and denied, specially with some recent histories coming out, particularly david mccull will you la -- mccullough's book, the pea nears and then open up for questions from the audience stocker get started. >> thank you, everyone, for your attendance today. i want to speak briefly but the ideas in my book, the alchemy of slavery and think houston bow to tomorrow. terms of the history of slavery in me jest len im. a fact that often surprises people there's statue of a slaveholdded outside of the state house in springfield, illinois. now, pierre minimum yard is no longer a household name but he was known as th

he has a phd in political science from the university of chicago and a ba from the college in illinois. welcome, sir. charles gardiner jay is profess your of law at the indiana university school of law in bloomington, indiana. his writings on judicial conduct and selection, independence, accountability and administration include more than 70 books, book chapters, articles, reports, and other publications. prior to entering academia, he served as counsel to the house judiciary committee on courts interlekt you'll property and under chairman robert w. castenmeyer. professor jay has both his ba and jd from the university of wisconsin. before proceeding with testimony, i remind witness that's your written and oral statements made to the subcommittee in connection with this hearing are subject to penalties of perjury pursuant which may result in the impositions of a fine or impresidentment of up imprisonm five years or both. meez note that each of your written statements will be entered into the record in its entirety and accordingly ski that y i ask that you summarize your testimony in fiv

wheeler has a phd in political science from the university of chicago and a ba from the august on a college in illinois. welcome, sir. professor charles gardiner jay is the john of kimberling professor of law at the indiana university school of law in bloomington, indiana. his writings on judicial conduct , ethics selection, independence, accountability, and administration include more than 70 books, book chapters, articles, reports, and other publications. prior to entering academia, he served as counsel to the house judiciary's subcommittee on property and the administration of justice under chairman robert w. castenmeyer. professor jay has both his ba and jd from the university of wisconsin. welcome, professor. welcome back home. now, we welcome all of our distinguished witnesses and thank them for participating in today's hearing. before proceeding with now, we welcome all of our distinguished witnesses and thank them for participating in today's hearing. before proceeding with testimony, i remind all witnesses that your statements made to the subcommittee are subject to penalties pursuant to -- wh

of illinois. mr. bost: i rise today in support of the en bloc amendment, the amendment highlights the positive work by public universities and law school offering probono legal services for our nation's veterans. i understand putting together a proper application for disability benefits can be difficult at times. in my district, southern illinois university carbon daily school of law offers assistance to veterans. the program has helped thousands of these heroes and increased chances for veterans receiving positive responses in a timely manner. thank you to the chair and ranking member for including this in the en bloc amendment. i urge its support. . ms. wasserman schultz: i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman has the only time remaining. ms. wasserman schultz: then i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the question is on the amendments en bloc offered by the gentlewoman from florida. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the en bloc amendments are agreed to. it's now in order to consider amendment number 198 printed in part b of house

illinois. well now let's speak to adam triggs in canberra he's the director at the asian bureau of economic research at israeli national university so adam trump is clearly holding on to many of his supporters for now at least what does he want is this about trade with china or is this about the upcoming us election well that's the key question is how does and really depends on how donald trump defines success if you define success as being a situation where china agrees to buy more of the u.s. exports perhaps opens up some of those industries to u.s. companies then that something new can be achieved in that something that china is came to do if however he measures success as being a reduction in the u.s. trade deficit which is something he's commented on several times that's more problematic basic economics tells you that the reason the u.s. runs a trade deficit is because it borrows a lot internationally to finance investment at home do as with china won't change those dynamics if that is measure of success then we might have a lot longer to go and as you say he does appear to be using this politically so he might use this for

of our chicagoland community. born in arkansas to eddie and rosy jones, he grew up in chicago's bronzeville -- brownsville neighborhood. he graduated from high school and western illinois university before embarking on a 30-year career with i.b.m. he was chairman of the educational foundation, the march of dimes, and served as the president of the chicago urban league metro board. he was a proud brother of alpha phi alpha fraternity. he was even prouderer to be a grandfather and a father. i am thankful to have called eddie my friend and i'm comforted and inspired by the fact his legacy endures and memories smiles in service of o others. on behalf of a second congressional district, i say we miss you. thank you for a life well lived. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. thompson: unanimous consent unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. thompson: thank you, madam speaker. i rise today to speak about a bill to eradicate hacing on college campuses. this morning congresswoman marsha fudge will introduce th

. >> the illinois example is a great example of what is possible with additional federal money. >> elections security expert at the new york universityr for justice says still, more needs to be done. >> the fact of the matter is running elections cost money. if we're going to do it right, i believe we have to spend a few hundred million dollars a year to protect our elections. that is less than the pentagon recently spent anywhere in military, i think we can do it to ensure the elections. >> a confident that the system is safe? >> i'm feeling more confident than in the past. but this will be forever a vigilant activity of ours. question about how sophisticated defenses are, there are hackers out there that could find a way around it. >> but are you confident we are better off today than we were two years ago? >> i believe we are, yes. >> we will not allow this to thwart the confidence of our foundations of our framers. we take it serious and we work hard in his defense and making sure that we have great elections. >> election was in the senate now include election security act defending elections from threats and the secure elections

illinois who experienced the hacking that cyber threats to the election system are very real. >> a great example of what is possible with additional federal money. eric: election security expert at the universityr justice says more needs to be done. >> the fact of the matter is running elections costs money. if we are going to do it right i believe we have to spend a few hundred million dollars a year to protect our elections. less than the pentagon recently spent on the military. we can afford to do that for the elections. >> are you confident the system is safe? >> more confident than in the past but this is going to be forever, a joint activity. >> no matter how sophisticated the defenses are, there are hackers that can find a way around it. >> are you confident we are better off today than we were two years ago? >> i believe we are. >> we were not for the confidence of our foundation of our framers. we take it seriously and we will work hard to make sure we have good elections. >> reporter: election bills in the senate include the election security act, defense elections from threats and secure elections act, all the way to a vote. the house has earmarked $600 million for election security