. >> joining us now from amherst, massachusetts, the author of "cracked open:liberty, and the pursuit of high tech babies." what was your reaction to this news that two corporate giants were going to offer this as a benefit? >> my first reaction was why is apple and facebook offering a policy that is not condoned by the american society for reproductive medicine in the american college of obstetrici obstetricians and gynecologists. the 2012 listing of the experimental label was specifically focused on the medically indicated need for egg freezing. they said that the lack of safety and efficiency data did not allow to use this technology to defer child bearing. they're concerned about the health risk to women and potential offspring as a result of the chemical processes used in freezing eggs. there is not enough data available to tell us it is safe for children. of the 981 studies reviewed by the american society of reproductive medicine only one 112 of the studies they reviewed provided enough safety efficiency data that they were looking for. with that information they did decide to

he lives in amherst massachusetts. please join me in welcoming ron. [applause] >> thank you susan and elm street books for inviting me. my wife is a cookbook writer and she came down a couple of years ago and her new book will have some backup. i wanted to have an evening where we would talk about castro for hitler. [laughter] i want to thank the library and you that are interested. think of this there are still people that read in america. but i'm going to do is give a brief introduction to what i'm trying to do in the book and then read two excerpts in the discussion for questions because i found in speaking about the book that but the question and answer sessions were the most interesting. when it wasn't an administrative military or political or even social history of the occupation, it is an attempt at what i decided to call it a tactile history showing how it might have stuck pretty occupied and the occupier to be on edge in a familiar environment for over four years. they've solicited a challenging historians because it doesn't explain so much

. >> university of massachusetts amherst. >> university of massachusetts at amherst.art of what is called the five college system. a place of extraordinary intellectual activity. , professor ofs anthropology. duboisor in the w.e.b. department of african studies. and associated with women studies. it was the time when i was with my late husband, raising three sons. and hopefully helping to raise the intellectual curiosity of my students. >> are you talking about robert cole? the reason i ask you that is because he was a white man from and i offering family -- from an iowa farming family. you -- ast did you mentioned in it northwestern, what impacted that have, having interracial marriage? the 60's, that had its particular challenges. because remember, and the 1960's in our own country, we were often captured by saying that this is the civil rights but we also talked about the superiority of black power. so what was a time when, for many african-americans, there was resistance to an interracial marriage just as there was on the part of many white americans. it was not e

moved to massachusetts; worked as a tenement lawyer in boston, teaches at the university of massachusetts, amherstcreative writing, latino poetry, and the work of pablo neruda. he's published 16 books, and his collection of poems, the republic of poetry, was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. >> at 16, i worked after high school hours at a printing plant that manufactured legal pads-- yellow paper stacked seven feet high and leaning as i slipped cardboard between the pages, then brushed red glue up and down the stack. no gloves-- fingertips required for the perfection of paper, smoothing the exact rectangle. sluggish by 9:00 p.m., the hands would slide along suddenly sharp paper, and gather slits thinner than the crevices of the skin; hidden. then the glue would sting, hands oozing till both palms burned at the punch clock. ten years later, in law school, i knew that every legal pad was glued with the sting of hidden cuts; that every open law book was a pair of hands upturned and burning. ( applause ) ♪ >>> south korea is experiencing a rise in single mothers who have never been

moved to massachusetts; worked as a tenement lawyer in boston, teaches at the university of massachusetts, amherstve writing, latino poetry, and the work of pablo neruda. he's published 16 books, and his collection of poems, the republic of poetry, was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. >> at 16, i worked after high school hours at a printing plant that manufactured legal pads-- yellow paper stacked seven feet high and leaning as i slipped cardboard between the pages, then brushed red glue up and down the stack. no gloves-- fingertips required for the perfection of paper, smoothing the exact rectangle. sluggish by 9:00 p.m., the hands would slide along suddenly sharp paper, and gather slits thinner than the crevices of the skin; hidden. then the glue would sting, hands oozing till both palms burned at the punch clock. ten years later, in law school, i knew that every legal pad was glued with the sting of hidden cuts; that every open law book was a pair of hands upturned and burning. ( applause ) maybe you have some energy- saving appliances, like an energy star-rated washer and dryer. but what abo

moved to massachusetts; worked as a tenement lawyer in boston, teaches at the university of massachusetts, amherstriting, latino poetry, and the work of pablo neruda. he's published 16 books, and his collection of poems, the republic of poetry, was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. >> at 16, i worked after high school hours at a printing plant that manufactured legal pads-- yellow paper stacked seven feet high and leaning as i slipped cardboard between the pages, then brushed red glue up and down the stack. no gloves-- fingertips required for the perfection of paper, smoothing the exact rectangle. sluggish by 9:00 p.m., the hands would slide along suddenly sharp paper, and gather slits thinner than the crevices of the skin; hidden. then the glue would sting, hands oozing till both palms burned at the punch clock. ten years later, in law school, i knew that every legal pad was glued with the sting of hidden cuts; that every open law book was a pair of hands upturned and burning. ( applause ) i like to wonder whether god exists - play with problems if there's a god. but god to me is no 'game'. it i

. >> the university of massachusetts amherst is suspending the use of confidential informant's program pending a full review. in an email to the stand body, the chancellor hint that had u mass might abandon the program pending the review's findings. the paper told of a junior identified by his middle name, logan. u mass campus police caught him selling lsd and molly. they promised not to tell his parents, as is u mat policy, if he would agree to turn in former, which he did. in october of 2012, logan's parents found him dead in his bathroom of a heroin overdoze. critics question the program. the globe said the program began in 2009. according to the university, drug arrests on campus declined by 25 in 1211 and by three in 2012. informant programs have been used elsewhere. in 2012, air force academy informants identified rule breakers, including star football player asher clark, dismissed from school for smoking marijuana. in 2013 at the university of alabama, informants identified 61 marijuana users and most infamously please in tallahassee turned 23-year-old rachel hoffman into an in