i would also like to thank the middle east institute at columbia university and the columbia university graduate school of journalism. cosponsoring. the publisher of the book, melville house. in particular i would like to express my appreciation for my friend, hamid dabasi, who made all of the arrangements for this evening's discussion possible. when this book was published it seems like of long time ago. actually published at the beginning of this month. this brother eventual and indeed one might say world historic month of february 2011. when the book was published at the outset of did you marry the world's eyes were, of course, what on egypt. and although iran figured in much of the discussion and analysis surrounding the a people with the iran 1979 revolution invoking something of a comparative specter. the green movement was by no means in the headlines. if it had been from the time of this explosive emergence in june 2009 through roughly december of that year, indeed, many had pronounced the movement dead. in fact, an odd assortment of actors took this view ranging from the islami

albums to critical acclaim, taught at brooklyn college, new york university, the new school in columbia universityd is now touring lyrics for lockdown. one of those is sponsored by the naacp. i learned that he is beginning rehearsals for the remakes of "the wiz." let's welcome him. [applause] our moderator for this afternoon, world renowned anti- racist, multicultural educator. [applause] yes. as many of you in the audience know, she is an accomplished front line teacher. a teacher, educators, researchers, writers, consultant, speaker. she is like a mother, auntie, big sister, all in one, for me. she has taught in canada, the caribbean, and the u.s. and has been involved in the development of teachers for two decades. she consults on anti-racist inclusion very and equitable education. she assists school districts and schools to continually restructure themselves for equitable outcomes for all students. the initiative put that puts race -- she designed the initiative that puts race on the table. she is the virtual scholar for teaching for change. she is the author of "reality check," a major report

he's glenn hubbard, dean of columbia university's graduate school of business. >> the debate over whether to raise the federal debt ceiling misses the point. of course, the nation should pay its bills. the question is what we will do to bring down future budget deficits? since 2008, the nation's debt burden more than doubled as a share of g.d.p., with much more debt forecast in the coming decade. higher debt burdens will absorb private saving and crowd out productive investment that can raise growth and wages. changing course is not impossible. the period between our victory in world war ii and 1960 saw our national debt fall in half relative to g.d.p. we accomplished this reduction through economic growth and by limiting new government debt, and we can again. we must emphasize pro-growth tax policy, lower discretionary spending, and reduced future growth in social security and medicare spending for more affluent americans. we need to be sealing the debt burden, not arguing about the debt ceiling. i'm glenn hubbard. >> tom: just a reminder, you find us online at n.b.r. on pbs.org. there y

>> i am a researcher, a student at columbia university, who's been as enthralled with malcolm probably since high school when i read the autobiography of malcolm x. and throughout college and grad school, much of my research has focused on the history of islam in america, especially in african-american committee. >> where are you from? >> my family is from trinidad and i grew up in maryland. >> now that the book is finished what are you doing today? >> i am unfortunately, dr. marable was the chair of my dissertation, and advisor for my dissertation. so i'm in the process of reconstituting my committee and looking forward to do something that he was committed to sing me to come at this complete my ph.d program at columbia university. >> we've been talking with zaheer ali about manning marable's last book, "malcolm x a life of reinvention." thank you. >> tom allen is president of the american association of publishers, former congress and, democrat from maine. congressman alan, described if you would the state of the book industry as you see it today. >> exciting would be one where. it's

the fringes of respectability and cranks now that was coming in a actually a report that some columbia university journalism school students did which then they were interviewed by n.p.r. and kind of continued to say things to that effect but back to the matter. yes you got it we're so friends we are so fringe but you're never going to see any of our guests faces anywhere else because mainstream respectable news stations would never be interested in any of our own respectable extreme guests you know what let's take a look at some of these fringe and respectable extremists guess that we regularly have on the show all the state. to get immediate feedback. i think at this point we're all trying to scramble to part all the facts. yes we are did you notice that even those fringe respectable guests are everywhere all over you can't escape him now our t. is not a mainstream channel we don't want to be we believe in bringing on a variety of points of view which you are not going to see on the mainstream stations that is kind of the point of our existence but come on nobel prize winners presidential hopef

he went down to city hall, went up to columbia university, having less fun in your city where the policemen who were assigned to protect him. because there were all these assassination plots surrounding castro, and these were reported to the press every day. none of these turned out to be real but the police didn't know that. and castro was completely impossible to protect. he would throw himself to the crowds, hugging and kissing with no concern for safety. one afternoon on a whim he decide to go to the bronx zoo. the press followed, federal agents followed, new york city police followed. and castro did what everybody does at the zoo. he ate a hotdog. eap does. he wrote a miniature electric train. and then before anyone could stop him, he climbed over a protective rating in front of the tiger cages and stuck his fingers right through the cage and petted a bengal tiger on a. this is the sort of thing castro did to make people think he was crazy. besides trying to save castro from assassins and tigers, americans spent most of his visit trying to savor his politics which may answer the phone

a jewish man, a graduate of columbia university, an intellectual who is very involved in the left studentements of late 1930's. somehow he became one of her closest confidantes after her relationship waned in the late 1930's. now, as a representative of the press because of her column she attended hearings of the house un-american activities committee and which lies who played a leading in controversial role in his leftist youth organizations testified, was the minister of communist sympathizing. then he broke with communists and became a very strong anti-communist. he said that two of them have come more often the. he introduced her to the machinations of communism within social movements. alarm benefited from his political savvy. as he discussed the way in which communist up or hit within these movements. years later at the united nations she said that she did not have much trouble dealing with the russians because she learned about the communists when she did first lady. she learned a lot. by now accustomed to making the role of first lady one of real significance as a travelling ambas

inside the courtroom alongside his and her daughter who is studying right now at new york's columbia university. just to let you know, the cannes film festival is under way but you wouldn't know it to look at the cover of this popular magazine. a picture of anne sinclair, growing sympathy for this woman, growing position and humiliating position she's in after the serious charges leveled against her husband. monita. >> >> ivan, thanks so much. you're watching "world one" live from london. flee the flood or fight it. the family business trying to outmuscle the mississippi. >>> and bombers in pakistan take aim at americans. a deadly attack in peshawar. [ manager ] you know... i've been looking at the numbers, and i think our campus is spending too much money on printing. i'd like to put you in charge of cutting costs. calm down. i know that it is not your job. what i'm saying... excuse me? alright, fine. no, you don't have to do it. ok? [ male announcer ] notre dame knows it's better for xerox to control its printing costs. so they can focus on winning on and off the field. [ manager ] are you su

to be a catholic priest, but then he decided he wasn't cut out for the cloth so he went to columbia university, was a cornerback of the columbia football team his senior year. then went on to columbia law school. franklin roosevelt incidentally was a classmate, although the two never mixed. roosevelt was from a much higher social life than donovan so they never really talked to each other in law school. he returned to buffalo, became a successful lawyer, married into wealth. in world war i he won the medal of honor for heroism in combat. he was absolutely fearless in combat. in fact, as a chaplain father duffy said donovan was one of the two guys he ever met who actually enjoyed combat. he commanded a battalion in a 60 night irish regiment, a very famous new york city regiment, and when he won the medal of honor he was the executive officer on the ground commander. that's also we got connecting "wild bill." before the u.s. entered into the u.s. war and donovan had his troops in europe training income he put them through absolutely grueling, brutal training. and at one time after a long march a

. >> after 2005 i begin to teach at columbia university. first, of course, obviously, because they asked me to teach there. and going to new york for a semester is a joy. it's a way of looking at your life from outside. and partly because there was too much political pressure on me. and i thought it would be nice if i take a break every year. and that's what i do. it always helps me see my turkish things, my subjects, my life much better when i have new york distance or when i'm outside of the country. so i like the idea coming in and out, in and out. and seeing turkey from inside. >> rose: but you could live in many places. why do you live in istanbul? you could come here and -- >> of course. this is my life, u know. this town is my life and these are all of my life, yes, i'm pressured. yes, there's political pressure. yes, i have a bodyguard when i live here. but i love this country. >> rose: what do you love? >> well, i don't want to analyze it. and love is better-- . >> rose: tell me what you feel. >> love is better if you don't want to

eisenhower was a columbia university -- after the war very much interest in big business and sort of traditional east coast republican party. it is a much different tradition and one that didn't really have a kind of national architect. it wasn't so much that warned changed in years to chief justice is eisenhower misapprehended his politics at the outset. as warren's own political development, scott polk who is the best scholar, we had a dinner leon and he pointed out that warren is a rare person who got better in every job he did. that is true. warren started his public life and was concerned with one issue, law enforcement in one area, then he ran for attorney general and as attorney general didn't broaden his range of issues so much as broad a beaten put upon which he practiced and egos to become governor and forced to deal with social issues that go far beyond law-enforcement and finally the chief justice where he has a national template and infinite range of issues. as he passed through each of those stages he became a bigger, fuller -- >> the first president to have nuclear-wea

a former pakistani police officer, current columbia university professor, also a fellow at the asia societyut pakistan's reaction and the divide perhaps between the military and the police? is it the military that we really should not be trusting here? are there elements in the police who could be allies of the united states in trying to deal with this terror threat? >> i think given the united states interest in the region, interest in peace between india and pakistan on one level, interest in state building in afghanistan at the other level. the united states should be talking to and should be really concerned about democracy in the country. and that means supporting democratic leaders. that means continuing with the development aid. historically we have been, from the united states, supportive of the military, selling f-16s, maybe nuclear submarines. this is the first time in the last two years that we have focused on building schools, hospitals for this $1.5 billion yearly aid. i think this is going to empower those people who are fighting the extremists, who we really need to be strong

. >> professor joseph stiglitz, nobel prize winning economist, columbia university professor and author of "the three trillion dollar war." there have been cool r and d and innovation and manufacturing since 9/11 in the security sphere. i'm trying to think of that in a positive way about all the stuff that we can do, but your documentation of what we have spent already and how big this ship is that we need to turn around i think is clearer than anybody else's. thank you for writing this. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >>> if elimb nazing osama bin laden was one of the prime reasons america sent troops to afghanistan, what is the mission two days into the post-bin laden era? former republican party chairman michael steele will join me for that discussion just ahead. stay with us. ♪ i like it, uh-huh, uh-huh ♪ that's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh ♪ ♪ i like it [ male announcer ] introducing mio -- a revolutionary liquid water enhancer. add a little. add a lot. ♪ for a drink that's just the way you like it. ♪ i like it, uh-huh, uh-huh ♪ that's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh ♪ [ male announcer ] make i

the paper was written by columbia university economist and former fed governor frederic mishkin. >> how much were you paid to write it? >> well, i was paid-- i think the number was its public information? >> reporter: professor mishkin emailed us and he said, "look, everybody knew that this was a paper done for a private organization, the iceland chamber of commerce. had it been an academic paper the funding source would have been his opening footnote." >> first of all, that paper was extremely widely circulated after it was written and many people with whom i've spoken about this question think that it actually had a significant role in worsening iceland's bubble which was already very bad when he wrote the paper. secondly, not only was he paid to write it but he was wrong about just about everything in it, and he was wrong in a >> reporter: but all of us are wrong sometimes. >> yes, everybody can be wrong, but in this case everybody was paid to be wrong and they were all paid to be wrong in the same direction and you can't find very many examples, in fact i haven't found a single one,

at the monmouth university, i went to columbia college of physicians and surgeons which is basically ap from a small teachers college to an ivy league university that was the first medicals school to award the m.d. degree. so here i am a physician. and that brings me to a point of why i wrote the second book, something to prove. i want to read some excerpts out of the second book, something to prove because you think you got the brass ring. you're a doctor. i'm a doctor ivan indie from columbia. so what do you do? again, i just wanted to read to you what doctors do. this is from the first chapter, first page of "something to prove." chapter one. new york hospital cornell medical center, early 1980s. quote, i knew in medicine you at all you at all is the respect. when a man is sick he doesn't look to see what color you are. he wants to be made well. unquote, donald thornton. come to the hospital if your water breaks or anything else goes wrong. i always told my patients. we will take good care of you. even if you're not in labor. not all of them listened. gary paulsen had not listened.

my dean at columbia university journalism school but at that time he was the detroit news bureau chief, the washington bureau chief and ellie able came up to him and said "i want to write a book about your presidency, the first year of your presidency." and kennedy said "why would anyone want to read a book about an administration that has nothing to show for itself but a string of disasters." and if you look at it, he's right. the bay of pigs, botched invasion of cuban exiles that he allowed to go ahead but didn't give the teeth to succeed. the vienna summit with nikita kruschev by kennedy's own account to the "new york times" he was savaged, he calls it the worst day in his life, felt he showed kruschev a lot of weakness, and then the building of the berlin wall which i think was a total outgrowth of the bay of pigs and the vienna summit where kruschev was relatively confident that he could go ahead shut down the border, stop a hemorrhage of refugees out of east germany without kennedytor west really doing anything to oppose him. >> rose: you said? the book and i said in the introduc

otsuka, born in raised in california, a graduate of yale university and received her msa from columbia university. her first novel was published in 2003. she lived in new york city and is just about to publish her new novel that comes out in august that's been in this new issue of granta. this is the second time in the history we excerpted a novel in back-to-back novels, and the only other time was with mark neumus. we are correcting that now with this beautiful novel. next is karen russell, i have and she was chosen as the best young american novelists in 1997 -- 2007, sorry. >> yeah. >> yeah, you would have been 12 in that year. [laughter] she was in the new yorker and if that seems suspicious, they stole it from us, but they have not stole karen. she's the author of home for girls raised by wolves and author of swamplandia. next is francine prose who is the author of over 25 books of fiction and nonfiction included big foot dreams, primitive people, and how to read like a writer, and most recently, new american life. here's my vanna white moment. [laughter] a very scarry cover, and since march

the empire state building, shook hands with jackie robinson, went down to city hall, up to columbia university. having less fun in new york city, were the policemen that were assigned to protect him. there were all of the assassination plots surrounding castro. these were reported in the press. none of these turned out to be real. the police didn't know that. castro was impossible to protect. he'd throw himself into crowds hugging and kissing people with no concern for his safety. one afternoon on a whim he decided to go to the bronx zoo. the press followed, federal agents followed, new york city police followed, and cost tremendous did what everybody does at the zoo, he ate a hot dog, fed peanuts to the elephants, rode a miniature electric train, and before anybody could stop him, he climbed over the protective railing in the tiger cages and stuck his finger through the cage and pet the tiger on the head. this is the thing that he did that made people think he was crazy. trying to decipher the politics, was fidel castro a communist? you have to recall in the 19 50s and early 1960s, the battle

to your mouth so we can hear you better. >> i am associate professor at columbia university and adjunct professor at harvard university. they teach about psychological trauma. my understanding and passion for the topic of the results of my education and my own experience at the peace corps. i joined the the peace corps in 1991. it was clear from the beginning that my country was dangerous. also clear was the peace corps staff inadequacy in dealing with the effect of danger on volunteers. for example, one week during our infantry training period several men broke into our site, sold two male volunteers and raped a female volunteer. i recall telling my site director i felt unsafe but i was told by was making too much of what happened. the peace corps staff instructed us not to tell our families about the attacks. staff instructions to calm down and keep quiet was the only training we received on how to respond to and of assault despite the fact that serious crime had occurred on the training compound. we did not receive any training and to minimize the risk of a salt or how to record them

he is a fellow at the faces society and also a professor at columbia university's south asia institute. he is a government official in the administration of the prime minister benazir bhutto, so please join me in welcoming hasan. thank you. [applause] >> thanks, susan. welcome all once again on behalf of usip and the asia society. i worked on pakistan. the institute. we are very pleased to be co hosting this event with the asia society. i just want to set up few ground rules to let everyone how we will proceed and say a few words. please make sure your cellphones are turned off or are on silent. major you remembered you turn them on when you leave the room. also for the panelists, since we are on tv, please speak from the podium and then in the questions, speak closely into the microphone as possible. yours is not going to work. [laughter] we will start with an overview of the report for about 10 minutes, and then we will have our two panelists say a few words about the report. i will come back to him if he had any responses on what was said of the panel. and make sure we have ample ti

public school, and he went on to harvard, he graduated cum laude the harvard and went on to columbia university of physicians and surgeons. my son is a physician studying your surgery. i say that because -- i'm smiling because when they are little kids in preschool i said maybe your grandfather was a janitor but your dad and i, you know, we are financially stable, we are physicians and we can support you. you can be anything you want to be. car theologist, a radiologist, ob/gyn, as long as there's an m.d. behind that name. he said no problem, mom. straight on. he's like the parent pleaser. would be before he went to harvard became the united states junior open chess champion, he was the national high school chess champion from junior high school champion, national everything champion, new jersey state champion because he loved chess and there was the one thing to position himself so he applied at many of the ivy league schools and was accepted at all of the ivy league schools he applauded. that's the first one. you say it's wonderful. my second one is going to be the same way. no my second boar

more letters of a given family and was sent with a hot tip by a historian who said look at columbia university. i went up there and found a record of fugitives 1855 by sidney howard gates. that set me off onto a real search because i found the most extraordinary thing. sera more was married to her husband in the gibbons's previous home so now i am trying to find sarah more. i found her listed in newhaven, connecticut. but that has taken me two years to find that. i am going to go back to schaumburg but i should say on the record, there's one staff member who terrified me. he was so mean. i will get my courage and go back. >> i had experience with that too. i will talk to you later. i will talk to you later and give names of somebody who is really wonderful and who will help you and i just saw her a couple nights ago. >> i just bought your book. >> let me tell you, the african-american vigilant societies, you could look around for that. david ruggles is one name to research and graham hy this has one to look at. >> i do have a question. have you heard of louis napoleon? i am trying to find him

the university of california davis, columbia university facade, the liberty institute, and chapman university. we ask the panelists to please take the seats. given the time frame we are and we're going to ask each panelist to limit their comments to seven minutes. we have your written statements. we have reviewed them. they are part of the record. we will thereafter have a 70 minute discussion that will take place among the panelists and commissioners. i remind our commissioners to please keep your questions brief and simple. non multiple. please take your seats. [inaudible conversations] i'll ask all panelist to please raise your right hand. swear or affirm that the information you are about to provide is true or accurate to the best of your knowledge and belief. yes. okay. great. we will begin with ms. graves. you're up first. >> good morning. i am the vice president for education and employment with the national women's law center. i am so appreciative for the average into a touch to testify today. cinder based harassment including bullying environments manifest itself in many ways to incl

fin to sleep every night, turlington hits the books so she can earn a master's degree from columbia universityother inspired by another. >> and then i sit in the front row and i don't miss a class. i do all the reading, no matter how stressed out. >> reporter: and no matter how stressed she is, her husband says it never shows. >> i'm constantly kind of blown away by her patience, how much she gives to them, how never... she never gets rattled. >> that's not true. >> never gets rattled with them. if they do rattle her, she'll channel that energy over here, to me. >> reporter: these days turlington channels her energy into "every mother counts" an organization she founded to help others get involved. she speaks at events like this one last tuesday in washington d.c. with secretary of state hillary clinton. >> i set out to learn more and to meet other women around the world dealing with these challenges every day. >> reporter: she still models and hits the red carpet for her hus band's movie premieres but at age 42 christy turlington has found her true mission. >> i think mothers are so important

. >> we are now going to award a $5,000 tuition grant to a columbia university graduate student who intendsast to continue her journalism career, and that student is atosa abrahimian. >> thank you. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> the white house correspondents' association supported nine graduate students at $2,500 per student to study in washington for a semester as part of the university's well-established program. these students are manu glandhar, elizabeth anne billingsley, jonathan hutchinson, june ma, kathleen majorski, virginia burns paisley, matthew pierce, garren schwartz, and benjamin wider. >> congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> congratulations again. congratulations again. congratulations. congratulations. >> we also support students at the madille school of journalism through a $5,000 gift towards a post graduate degree for a student in the government and public affairs reporting track. this year that student is cortleysubaramiam. >> thank you, ms. obama, thank you, bob. congratulations to our scholarship winners. you know, in addition t

going to be a catholic priest, but decided he was not cut out for the cloth, so he went to columbia university, was a quarterback of the columbia football team his senior year, went on to columbia law school, franklin roosevelt was a classmate of donovan's, but they never mixed. roosevelt was from a higher string than donovan was. he returned to buffalo, became a successful lawyer, married into wealth there, and in world war i, he won the med -- medal of honor. he was fearless. he was one the few guys they met who actually enjoyed combat and commanded a regimen, and when he won the medal of honor, he was the executive officer and ground commander. that's where he got the nickname wild bill. before the u.s. entered into the war and he was training troops, he put them through grueling brutal training, and at one time after a long march, and they had been running all day with full packs and crawling through obstacle courses, his men collapsed in front of him, and he got up there, and said, what the hell is the matter with you? i've been, you know, running this same court with you, and i have not

i am a professor of clinical medical sciences at columbia university school of public health.s in psychiatric and social psychology. that is i study patterns and causes of mental disorder and mental health problems particularly as they relate to social factors. i submitted a report for the record that is in my oral testimony and includes references to the research as well as my curriculum data. in my testimony today i will discuss three issues. the nature of the anti-gang stigma and how it forms threats for sexual minority. the sexual minority youth to stress related peer-to-peer violence and bleeding and the effect of such stress on mental health and well-being. the stigma is a function of having an attribute that convey the valued social identity in the particular social context. the related concept prejudice refers to the negative attitude and actions that society as a whole or individuals take against a stigmatized group member. for example, the discriminatory acts and anti-gang violence or expressions of stigma. i have developed a theory of minority threads that state whe

first of all, i just want to say thank you so much to columbia university and the lenten family. thank you for having a work in progress award. thank you so much. such a great affirmation. i fully expected to have a relatively, a small audience for this book and to receive this kind of award from these organizations is such encouragement for me to continue on so thank you, thank you, thank you. as far as the decision to go first-person, it was very difficult because it is a vulnerable topic to begin with and to write it in the first person, i felt like i have a 5-month-old golden retriever who likes to get on his back and just open up his legs. as vulnerable as he possibly could be. and in writing this book i feel a little bit like my golden retriever, completely opening myself up without being too concessional about it. and so there is that fine line that you have to walk when you are writing first-person. you want to be -- you want to be personal without going too much into private areas. i think that is something that i learned from a writer in oregon named barry lopez who i c

[applause] >> sid hard that knew carry is a staff fission at columbia university medical center. the author of the emperor of all maladies and the winner of the 2011 pulitzer prize in general nonfiction. to find out more and other pulitzer prize winners, go to pulitzer

we wanted to bring in the director of the masters of bio ethics program at columbia university, dr. >> thank you. pleasure to be here. >> we are glad you are here. this sounds so strange to me. is there any proof this actually tells you anything? >> it shows you very, very little. it tells you about 2% of the chance that you may be an olympic athlete. that is to say there us a particular marker that 30% of all of us have and when you look, though, at olympic sprinters, 50% of olympic sprinters have it. that means that half of olympics do not have it. so it's not very complete. and we know that there are many other factors involved in whether you will be a good athlete. your psychological state, your drive, how interested you are this the sport, your nutrition. and the problems are that there are also be a lot of pressure on kids one way or the other. so little johnny may be interested and the parents say, no, you don't have the gene. some of these companies are testing for gene has associated with heart disease and alzheimer's disease. so we face the prospect of companies telling th

mark is a professor from columbia university.know west is miffed at the president for perceived slights, but why take it this far? >> well, let's be clear first. professor west isn't just upset at perceived slights. he's also profoundly frustrated with the obama administration's approach to addressing issues of poverty, equality. >> but why bring race into it? >> he's upset with the way the president has responded to poor black people, for example. i do disagree from a strategic representative that we want to say the president is a mascot or afraid of free black men. i think it takes away from professor west's more substantive point which is the obama administration has to take a stronger stance of addressing issues of marginalization. >> there are other african-americans who think that the president is overlooking poor black americans. i talked to tavis miley not long ago and this is what he had to say. >> the president has not done enough about black unemployment because he's afraid of being accused of being tribal if he does i

david sears at the columbia university medical center said melatonin should not be used as an ingredientot of research behind it but there's just as much showing that there's potential harm as with good. >> reporter: in fact melatonin has generated more calls to poison control centers than any other supplement. most involve children. >> any concern that people would misuse this product, especially young people who will, of course, drink it? >> i think it's the inherent nature of man to misuse and abuse everything when you give it to them. >> reporter: last year the fda sent drank a warning letter, calling it an adulterated product. the letter cited safety concerns about melatonin. including an increased risk of developmental disorders during pregnancy. now, senator dick durbin is calling for tougher federal regulations. >> we don't even know what a safe dosage is. so i'm asking the fda, protect american consumers, particularly protect kids. and the products on the shelf that may have some impact on their health. >> reporter: and the state of arkansas just banned brownies with melatonin c

>> i am and associate director at columbia university. i teach about psychological trauma and my understanding for the topic are the results -- results of my education and my own experience with the peace corps. i joined the peace corps in 1991 and it was clear that my country was dangerous. also unclear was the peace corps staff and adequacy in dealing with the effect of danger on volunteers. one week during the training, several men broke into the area and attacked two male volunteers and attacked a female volunteer. i told the director i felt unsafe but i was told i was making too much of what had happened. they instructed us not to tell our families about the attack. the instructions to come down and keep quiet or the only training that we received on how to respond to an assault. despite the fact that serious crimes took place on the training compound, we did not receive any training on how to minimize the risk of attack, or how to deal with it when they occurred. on december 22, it 1991, i learned about the dangers of sexual assault

she turned down a spot at columbia in university to attend this business school in china. if she stays here or returns to the evolving marketplace back home -- >> i started to realize, most of my clients are chinese. most of my business clients are either coming to expand their business in california or american companies that want to go to china to expand their business there. >> reporter: the number of mba programs here has skyrocketed from six to decades ago to nearly 250 today. some programs almost half full of students from overseas. school officials admit the start salaries of their graduates are lower than those of american schools. but they say their schools offer real-world china experience. >> learning with my chinese classmates. speaking mandarin. i've also gone to a couple of interviews with some local banks. i had to be interviewed in chinese. and i think it's not the kind of experience that i would have gotten back in the states. >> reporter: sidner is optimistic about how the networking will help build his career. >> whether i decide to stay here and work in