in june of 1895, calvin graduated from amherst. in summary, calvin's upbringing and small america grounded him with many fundament values, which would serve as an excellent foundation for the rest of his life. the importance of ethics strong character self-sufficiency. pairing for others, having trust in others and community service were among some of these values. calvin reflected on his youth in his autobiography country, life not always have breadth, but it does have depth. it is neither artificial nor superficial but is kept close to the realities. i can think of many pleasures. we did not have in many nicest niceties of culture which we were unfamiliar with. yet if i had the power to order my life anew, i would not dare to change that period it if it did not afford me the best that there was and abundantly provided the best that there was for me. thank you. thanks. chris will now hear from adler, professor and chair of the classics department at the university of maryland. eric, thank you very much. in a speech delivered in 19

i should tell you, garrett was my student at amherst. the class of oh nine, and his late dad was my student in the class of 79. i also authored the defense of marriage act, which was struck down by the court in 2015. thank you, everyone. coming. and i want to thank our friends at c-span. you know, they still play at c-span this debate i had with jesse jackson on capital punishment in new york in 97. they still this talk i did on the jurisprudence, the new deal at the supreme court, where mr. rehnquist was kind enough to come in to introduce me. they sent a crew up to amherst to do one of my classes. so i just think if they do a whole string of these things you can watch me aging. without we're turning from that bushy headed young professor into this remnant you see before you. a while back, congressman found himself in snide at his own syntax, and he said, a friend of the farmer, one of whom i am, which. and i'd say a fan of neomi rao, one of whom i in which and i'm so grateful to you know me for kindness in a large nature and coming in

we see them when those preferences and at places like amherst college, which is an elite school.many more first- generation college students going to the schools. we see more students of color. that is what we need in terms of college campuses. we need to broaden the communities that students come from. we need to recognize the achievement that many of these students of color have done that merit admissions but are significantly disadvantaged based on preferences that overwhelmingly benefit white people through donor and legacy preferences. >> some of the people who defend the practice of legacy admissions, part of their defense as well cultivates a base from which you can pull financial aid for other students . obviously that is jujitsu wing of the argument itself. what do you say to colleges and universities who are hiding behind this idea that this is in some ways a way today diversify their campus in a bizarrely roundabout way? >> i think those arguments are completely misguided. what we see is that elite institutions and other places, for example, oxford cambridge, have disc

and in fact, as a support, all free zones, including mako, have a 20-year tax exemption, and noiz amherst, in terms of investment by foreign investors, especially eurasia and europe, i think it is the best place for these loved ones to travel in terms of investment in the data center sector, and therefore, the turkish institute that is being built in the first phase should be invested here, we should hand over at least 1,500 branches to foreign companies and foreign investors, and we invite domestic investors to come together at the end of this two-day summit to find solutions. examine the development of relationships and of the achievements of this meeting, they said that iran is a leading country in the field of communication science and information technology, and we had good discussions on the sidelines of the meeting for development and design, in this meeting, we had good decisions in the field of cyber security , protecting the rights of children and strengthening cooperation, and the islamic republic of iran also proposed that eco house formulate a strategic plan for 2025 to 2030.

mako it has a 20-year tax exemption, and noiz amherst, in terms of investment by foreign investors, especially turkey, eurasia and europe, i think it is the best place for these loved ones to travel in terms of investment in the data center sector, and therefore we are among the 3,000 turks whose buildings are in the first phase of this in order to invest, let us hand over at least 1500 branches to foreign companies and foreign investors, and i invite domestic investors to do the rest. science communication and information technology, and we had good discussions on the sidelines of the summit to develop relations. in this meeting , we made good decisions in the field of cyber security, protection of children's rights, and strengthening cooperation , and the islamic republic of iran formulates a strategy for 2025 to 2030. we can regulate to compel mainstream platforms and international technology giants active in our region to respect the rights of our nations and break their monopoly . it was also decided to form to follow up the approvals that meet with the consent of those present, including

amherst has an extraordinary dean of financial aid from m.i.t. in the end, we realized that it was what opportunity has shown it was, and that is a problem in driving disproportionate numbers of the very wealthy into elite colleges >> sara, i'm curious if you have an applicant to a college that is a legacy student but also checks the other boxes that that college would wouldn't to have in a prospective student are you dinged if you are a legacy, or just not added given any extra consideration? >> in the current state in college admissions at most of the selective colleges in the country that still value legacy, that legacy student is going to be significantly -- has a much higher chance of getting admitted but all students aren't equal. so it's very difficult to compare a really strong legacy applicant to a really strong non-legacy applicant the variances and the nuance is so subtle when you are that admissions committee room. >> in just a moment, he just has a daughter who is starting at a california state institution where they do not have lega

i don't know what -- he was your professor at amherst, was he? big department. but, yep, they're openly marxist and proud of it. i certainly learned what i don't believe in during my time there. stuart: glad to hear that. you came through the it okay, by the way. brad, thanks for joining us. i hope to see you again soon. thank you very much. >>> check the china stocks, please. well, dow's up 360. how about that? that's the headline of the morning. 360 up for the dow industrials. now the china stock toes. i think almost all of them are down today. mike murphy, growth slowing in china, i think that's one of the reasons why china stocks are down. of do you think it has impact on us in america in. >> it will if it gets really bad. right now although it's a global economy, if our economy can exist on its own, we saw that urn president trump, so as long as we can continue to do what we're doing here, we'll be fine. if china falls off a cliff which no one's predicting they will, it would be very bad for the global economy because they're such a big part

the products not only of his no nonsense vermont upbringing studies at amherst and training in the law. they were also a result of his on the job experience as mayor of northampton. president of the massachusetts senate. and massachusetts lieutenant governor. and governor. during coolidge's coming of age as a practicing politician. american politics, including his own republican party, were seized by a new impulse that called itself progressivism. the progressive movement championed many great causes and achieved some of them, including women's suffrage and a host of private, voluntary welfare initiatives. and institutions that included grace goodhue, coolidge's lifelong project of the education of the deaf. but when it came to government progressive ism sought to cast aside traditional constitutional principles of separation of powers and limited government and to replace them with activist, headstrong and supposedly scientific government that would reform society from top to bottom and remake human nature itself. progressive vision was a clever brand name. it appealed to americans in

north dakota's governor is celebrating in amherst with will hurdles there.er donald trump staying off the campaign trail today simply posting this message to truth social saying happy fourth of july to everyone. we're working hard and take back our country and make america great again. the 2024 election is our last great chance. the latest poll among primary voters shows trump leading with 56%. desantis trailing in second by 34%. then in single digits ramaswamy, pence, scott and haley, who says pay no attention to those polls. >> we can look at past presidential elections and understand national polls don't matter right now. we have a debate in august, we have a debate in september and in october. i have qualified to the on the debate. i know this is all about hard work. >> wondering if trump will be on the debate stage. he returns to the trail in iowa on friday. julie. >> julie: griff, thank you so much. >> rich: california governor newsom has been busy campaigning for president biden and deep red territory. he visited idaho over the weekend where he made t

among them, amherst, john hopkins, carnegie mellon, and was leon university.the president of wesleyan university. michael, good morning. thank you for taking the time to join us. earlier this, month you university took i stop to legacy admissions. you have written over the years that over the years we found that -- indicates a little about what that advocates ability to succeed at wesleyan. what was the thought process behind officially ended in any preference for legacy applicants? >> well as a student whose parents didn't go to college myself, i never really saw the points of the legacy bob. that's what we've come to call it. wesleyan it's a very small thing. we have students, maybe 5% of the people we admit, but most of them would get in without any actual assistance. after the supreme court decision, it seem to me that this was egregiously unfair. earlier i thought it was unfair but not, but many more things that were unfair but education in america. after the supreme court decision, which highlighted the ways in which we are no longer allowed to use the a

amherst, johns hopkins have already stopped this policy of legacy admissions. >> steven romo, thank you ride the first american woman in space is being unveiled in california. depicts her wearing a nasa jacket holding a space shuttle. home base will be ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. sally ride died from pancreatic cancer in 2012. >>> coming up, helpful advice for parents on how to keep kids safe in the summer heat. you're your brarain is an a amazing th. but as y you get oldlder, it naturalally begins s to ch, cacausing a lalack of sharar, or even n trouble wiwith rec. ththankfully, , the breaktkthron prevevagen helpsps your bran and actutually improroves mem. the sesecret is anan ingredit origiginally disiscovered.. in jellylyfish. inin clinical l trials, prevagenen has been n shown to impmprove shortrt-term mem. prprevagen. atat stores evevee without t a prescripiption. >>> today's july 4th of course and a lot of folks are celebrating outdoors. it's important to keep you and your loved ones safe especially as the temperatures are rise zblg it's been hot

there's a third story, which i think you struggle with more because you're more drawn to it it's the amherst and thoreau and those who represented and dissent along with severe individualism. right. so right and so. yeah. so so can you talk a little bit how you see the role of of emerson and thoreau in particular in building this? well, you know, so emerson's famous book was self-built science through, wrote walden right on walden and i kind of have a lot of fun at their biographies because when he was writing walden even writes about this, he had seats for company like this is i writing this book during the pandemic i was like through the entertaining lately i think this is not right and then and would over to his mother's house to get his laundry done exactly and what with emerson emerson is like a more kind of conventional intellectual figure but he got money from his deceased wife's estate to pay for the he depended on services of his wife, second wife lydian, who clean the house top to bottom. and the day she gave birth. and so it's a part what i was trying to show in this is that there

and years and years ago i once kochhar of course when i was at amherst college called marx ism in romanticism. i didn't look at walden and moby -- as a communist manifesto and other writings by marx. and one of the key propositions karl marx was a romantic before he was a marxist. and emerson, thoreau and melville were harsh critiques of capitalism in ways an overly with marx's vision. you know, marx's with engels and the communist manifesto is one where in fact labor would be a means for people to realize their capacities. it would not be a source of oppression in their daily lives. you know, marx's utopia is you work a few hours a day at a craft. it's meaningful to you. you go fishing or you work or leisure for another part of the day. you're with your family. that is as a book form. labor and leisure could be integrated into a life that is holistic. likewise for thoreau walden pond, there's another way to look at that and that is emerson. was in important ways. what we might say the dialectical thinker as you look at his world that he inherited changing sharply he could see that your older

amherst, wellesley, boston college would pay millions per year.ool favors alumni and donor families as well as early decision. the bills sponsor saint legacy admissions is effectively affirmative-action for the wealthy. >> nothing in the bill says, you can't get into the school your parent went to. it just says, if there is some other kid, some other applicant who has higher grades, higher s.a.t. scores, was more hard-working, a better essay, then we are not going to give you a leg up. >> the money raised from the fees would go to state community college in massachusetts. harvard declined a comment. independent colleges in massachusetts called the vote, quote, punitive and likely unconstitutional. it would harm the very students it is trying to help. the growing number of schools have abandoned legacy admissions including mit which never had the practice. mit would not have to pay a fee. they have always led in the best and the brightest. >> yeah, right. -- how that happened. >> i think -- when you -- when you argue that it should only be based on

debby applegate she is a graduate of amherst college and has her ph.d. in american studies from yale university. she is a historian her previous was the most famous man in america a biography of henry ward beecher and he was a minister sort of a progress administer. but in her acknowledgments she talked about how interesting it was to move from a minister to a madam who is ran a number of houses of prostitution in new york. so her latest book is the biography of polly adler, icon of the jazz age. it won the 2007 pulitzer prize for biography, and it was one of the new york society of libraries best books about new york and was also a finalist for the us angeles times book prize and. the national book critics circle award and she's been married to bruce torgan. 36 years. so i read the book. it's a fascinating, fascinating book. one of the things i didn't realize is that is as much about the history. new york during the 2030s and forties as it is about about polly and her her. i'm not going to say too much because i know i want you to hear more from her, bu

it women, they didn't really enter into places like harvard and yale and amherst and for instance. folks didn't really come in massive numbers in some why. so, what are these legacy admissions benefiting? they are typically benefiting white students, who have privilege, who have access to private schools, and all sorts of other resources. and so it has adarius effect on how you can build a class. so, it has some folks suing because african americans are supposedly taking their slots, they're not paying attention to legacy students, who are 15%, i, think of harvard emissions admitted class? so, i think it plays a central role in reproducing class inequality, if that makes sense. >> let me get back to the money part of it. are you implying, them, the harvard and other universities are thinking about their bottom line and in doing so, drawing a line on admitting lower income students? is that what it's all about? >> well, it would certainly changed their development strategy, right? the more students to enter, you admit more, first jen, they're not coming from families that have, you

some, like the university of california, amherst college, johns hopkins university, and mit already havervard is declining to comment. guys? >> that fallout continues. erielle, thank you. >> and, across the country this morning, many will be celebrating the fourth of july with fireworks tonight, but some cities are starting a new tradition now and using drones instead. janai norman has the story. janai, this is for good reason, too. >> it is, whit. it's taking everything in me not to say, "baby, you're a firework." isn't that what katy perry said? [laughter] >> nobody's ever said that to me. >> it's a tradition with all associated with the fourth of july as long as we can remember. now competing with an industry that didn't exist even ten years ago, drone light shows seen by many as an environmentally friendly alternative to fireworks. it's the fourth of july tradition being blown up by technology. drone shows replacing fireworks displays in parts of the country. drones already drowning out fireworks at this year's super bowl and multiple new year's celebrations. the alternative choice i

my other daughter is in her sophomore year at amherst college where she is on the basketball team and she is taking an economics mid term today. we thought that it was better for her to stay on campus. my parents, sister and brother in law are all up early and watching from california. i want to start by thanking president biden for this incredible opportunity and senator padilla for the very warm introduction. as deputy secretary of labor, i have worked hand in hand with secretary marty walsh to deliver on the presidents promise of an economy fueled from the bottom up and the middle out. the results speak for themselves. the u.s. economy has added a record 12.6 million jobs. the lowest unemployment rate, it has been less than 4% for more than a year, which is close to lotion has been 50 years. all while labor force participation by prime age workers has return to pre-pandemic levels. when he announced my nomination for u.s. secretary of labor, the president called me the american dream. my parents believed in it, i benefited from it and i want to do my part to make sure it is a reali