joining me on the phone is bobby samuels, president of the harvard crimson, the student newspaper. good morning. >> good morning, how are you. >> i'm great. tell us what you first -- when you first heard what was going on and what can you tell us is the latest? >> so what we know is that shortly after 9:00 a.m. this morning students were evacuated from four buildings on campus. the science center, thayer hall, emerson hall and sever hall after unconfirmed reports of explosives in those buildings. now, what's unusual about this time of year as probably has been reported is that it's finals period, and so it's sort of an atypical time. additionally of those four buildings, three often have finals in them, thayer hall being the one to not fall in that classification because it is a freshman dorm. >> so you got, what, a tweet? how did you find out what was going on? >> so the way that i personally found out, and i'm sure many of the harvard students found out, is that harvard sent out a couple of notifications regarding what's going on. there was one as recently as 9:58, i believe, or

martha: joining us on the phone, bobby samuels is the president of the "harvard crimson" the nation'sgest operating newspaper. bobby good morning to you. >> thank you for having me. martha: what can you tell us what is going on in campus? >> there is not that much we've been able to confirm that is on our website and twitter page, there are unc reports of explosives on for buildings on harvard campus. thayer hall, sever hall, science center and emerson hall, shortly after 9:00 a.m. this morning. as was mentioned this is finals week, obviously atypical time on campus as well, but, that is sort of what we know and obviously we will continue to update as weir able to confirm more information. martha: what can you tell me how aggressive the presence is in those buildings? would you describe, how would you characterize how actively they are searching those buildings right now, what the presence is right? >> that is not something we've been able to confirm. what i will say harvard sent out a couple of notifications to students including one only minutes ago basically announcing what was goi

maybe bobby could send the players with a cut of the wealth that they're creating with her state. at the table, jelani cobb. samuelo have y'all here. sam, why should we care what is going on at the grambling football program? >> well, we should care for two reasons. first of all, at these hbcus, there's a long tradition of students and coaches playing a huge role in civil rights. football, we as we see it today, desegregated teams in the deep south. african-american general managers and head coaches. that's all attributable to what was done at schools like grambling, by coaches like eddie robinson and jake gaither at florida. lloyd mumford at southern and the list goes on. the student athletes there were never separated from the movement. they didn't leave these cosseted lives off by themselves. they were affected in every way. where they could and couldn't stay on a road trip, the bathrooms they couldn't use when they went away, the schools they couldn't attend. the positions they weren't allowed to play when they got to the pros. most importantly, quarterback. and so you have to look at these grambling players t