columbia university is allowing its law school students to postpone their final exam if they feel like they're taum tied by the eric garner and michael brown shootings. it may be too much for them to bear. >> i'm dying here z. we have arranged to have a trauma specialist next monday and wednesday for anyone interested in participating to discuss the trauma that recent events may have caused. students who feel their performance on examinations will be sufficiently impaired due to the recent events may have a petition to have their examinations rescheduled. >> are you okay? >> i can see me walking up to my professor right now and saying, sir, last week a crane broke in the middle of the street and i can't study for my exam right now because i don't understand why that crane broke. i'm trying to do the math and i'm so traumatized. are you kidding me? >> i think that makes more sense. >> they are claiming they're going to build high powered attorneys out of this program. what lesson are they teaching kids at this level that you can cry if you don't like a decision? >> drop out and major ba

. >>> the columbia university created a model to watch flu outbreaks and when it will peak in certainill let the hospital know what to expect so they can adjust staff accordingly. >>> january in new york right? we are not far from new york. >> david is back to predict when the flurries will be out of here. >> flurries and snow showers, stormtracker 6 live double scan shows you that we are still stuck in the middle of some of this, most of the heavy bands are south of philadelphia, glassboro and salem and hammonton, are you out of brighter bans of precipitation, it looks like mainly wet roads here, some of it is sticking to the grass a bit, we are looking at the precipitation in philadelphia and a lull to the west, there are a lot of shades of gray and it's not all that much to go through. it's not really doing much to us. if there is a road up there that hasn't dried yet, it's close to freezing now and the same thing goes for later this afternoon when it starts to get dark. as we take a look outside, we have the action cam along boathouse row, the other part of the story is how the cl

at about the same time a young man left columbia university joined the "st. louis post dispatch" became an editorial writer and along the way met richard nixon. that began a magnificent journey a magic carpet ride from nixes defeat through what nixon described as a wilderness years to the achievement of the highest office to the president of the united states and pat buchanan was with him every step of the way it is recorded in this great book once last week. this is the pacific coast launch the greatest comeback how richard -- "the greatest comeback" how richard nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority" and how he won the presidency. he spent every day strategizing, planning, and the first and eyewitness to their brilliance of the 307th president. please welcome pat buchanan. [applause] ♪ [applause] >> thank you very much. with that reception i may start looking at 2016. [laughter] [applause] this is the second time i have spoken in the east room in to mention the folks that i have served with over the years or even going back four or five decades t

here now to tell me that's not how markets work is the director of columbia university's center on global energy policy, jason bordoff. jason, thank you so much for being here. ( cheers and applause ). okay, all right. so this is it, this is it. gas surprise come down. this is the foreseeable future. it's-- it's-- it's-- it's oil party. >> it is right now. >> stephen: all right, then it always will be. >> oil prices have a funny way of going up and going down. they always have and they always will. they're low right now-- >> stephen: maybe this is the time to dump now. >> i wouldn't want to bet on that. you're thinking about buying a new car and will have it 10, 15 years, like most people, you're better off invest naig fuel-efficient car. >> stephen: fuel efficient is fuel efficient. i can drive all the priuses right off the santa monica peer right now, can't i. whatever handed to peak oil? i heard we had run out of oil in the world, we wouldn't find anything. now it's like our substrate is just a slurry of hydrocarbon hot pockets. >> there have been about four or five times in american h

radley horton of columbia university. hi. >> hi. how are you? >> fine, thanks. when people talk about climate change, what are they referring to exactly? >> climate change refers to a whole series of changes that can happen on our planet -- warming of the atmosphere, melting of ice on land, warming of the oceans. and when we talk about climate change today, we're talking about the impact of human activities -- the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil, changes in land use. since the start of the industrial revolution, we've increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by about 40%. because it's a powerful, heat-trapping gas, that's caused temperatures to go up. it's causing ice to melt. it's causing sea levels to rise. >> why all the controversy? >> i think there are a few reasons why there's controversy. one issue is that there are very powerful interests who don't want to have to change their actions today. we have seen an active campaign attempting to undermine the climate science and make people confused. i think that's part of it. but part o

alec ross is a current senior fellow at columbia university. we are talking about the movies. it was a year to forget. that could all turnaround thanks in part to some jedi masters. ♪ >> have you been to the movies lately? more americans are answering no. with competing interests and fewer blockbusters hollywood is hoping 2015 will not be at repeat of this year. we have been looking at the hits and misses of 2014. how do you explain the decline? we were saying how much we liked "fox catcher." but it is not making that much money. i am not getting a t-shirt and lunchbox. >> maybe a hat? >> not even a hat. 2014 was poised to be one of the worst year since the financial crisis. so far see very clearly up until december 21 $9.7 billion. i spoke to an analyst to told me $10.5e appended at billion, but nothing compared to 2013. enviable to be in the position behind 2013 where there were so many great movies. the year just wasn't that great. you had many movies that people did not want to attend. attendance was down 7%. >> could it have been because t

your sister is studying at columbia university in new york city. this is in, like, the 1930's, '40s? >> my sister was the first... my eldest sister was the first student that went to america because of the japanese compensation. that money, you know. before my sister's generation, when you went to... chinese are regarded as either coolies or laundrymen. she was the first generation... you know, there is a joke, "knock, knock, there is a chinaman, no laundry tonight." "knock, knock." my sister's generation, "knock, knock, there is a chinese. are you doctor so-and-so?" so there is this joke, you know? >> hinojosa: but i want to take you to... because, you know, your life, again, it's an extraordinary drama. but part of the drama is that you leave, you and your brothers and sisters, you leave, and your mom and dad stay in china. and then china goes under the process of a revolution, and your parents are still there. your dad is still a huge star. but then the cultural revolution happens in 1966. you're already living on this side. and this is the part

columbia university very hard hit.e saw widespread damage with cars flipped over, trees uprooted, certainly a lot of damage to homes, some roofs that were taken off. and so all of this weather continues to work its way eastward as we head through the overnight. take a look at some of the storm reports. you see the tornadoes here in red. they began in the northeastern section of louisiana. also one popped up in southern georgia. we will continue to track this eastward during the overnight. watching this area in particular in orange, a chance for a couple more tornadoes, damaging wind gustgusts and flash flooding a t of very heavy rain in the southeast. tomorrow that threat moves to northern florida, and virginia and up srdz savannah, an isolated tornado. and j.b., a night like this on the doorstep of christmas. you don't want to see weather turn tragic and it has. >> brown: how is the forecast looking? >> we will watch it move northward as we head into christmas eve day. we've got the snow on the back edge. not a lot of

that did not have a process in place that were not taking the cases seriously like the one in columbia universityso you know to say one thing will shadow the progress we made in another is too simplistic. i think we are moving forward i do not see a way back. >> in terms of moving forward, why don't colleges just say thank you for reporting this to us. it's actually a criminal act. go to the cops. right now. get a rape test done so they have a dna on file. it's not something that you come to us about. it's something that you go to the police about. >> funny i totally agree with you. i remember when i was going to college that happened to me but my recollection of when i thought anything would happen to my friends is we would go to the police. this whole dynamic of going to college and then not reporting it is something that was news to me when i started reading about it. >> and let's switch to tolerance of domestic violence by not just nfl players any kind of professional sports players, men period, did we make progress? >> well, i think we are trying to. it's interesting -- >> and women by the w

new york city's "columbia university" is considered the college's biggest challenger. the university of hawaii is also in the running. it could be a devine sign in a frying pan. at least that's what andrew key of austin, texas, thinks of a burn mark on a cooked tortilla. he thinks it looks a lot like the face of jesus with a beard. he says he won't use it in a taco....but will keep it safe. of course, it also looks a lot like the most interesting man in the world from those beer commercials. the case of a missing family i am always torn . and never know what to think of these. >> state thursday by friend. that's what i say . let's take a look outside. it's friday. the weather is not like december. we do have some haze out there and very confused temperatures we will be much warmer than normal. a foggy start today. sun and clouds this afternoon . mostly cloudy tonight. the fall for turns to night. right now visibility down only half a mile. that's the type of stuff that slows you down. bartlett down to 3 mi.. remember use your low beams and keep enough distance between y

. >>> on december 11th, 1991, columbia university hosted a talk about free speech, and that would notsually be a big deal, except for this particular talk, it hosted this talk from someone who

the other finalists are columbia university in new york, and the university of hawaii in honolulu. the first part of the new maggie daley park opens this weekend. you can check out the quarter-mile long ice skating ribbon, saturday at 11-30 a-m. admission and skate rentals will be free that day. starting sunday, rentals will be 12-dollars. the ice ribbon will remain open until march first, after which it will be transformed into a walking path.// maggie daley park is in the northeast corner of grant park. the project is costing 60- million dollars. officials say it's funded with a parking garage lease, donations, and park capital funds. >> we are warming up again. all eyes are going to reach the upper '30's. we currently find a mix of rain and snow. it is light but it will continue through the morning and take off and then we move towards claus and a son. a big storm gets itself together to the east but as the cuts up the east coast we can expect conditions to improve in a big way. 37 degrees in kerry. central to lutheran at 36. union at 31. the seven day forecasts shows 37 degrees

they ask the columbia university school of journalism to review the widely discredited story. review will be conducted by the dean of journalism. it will evaluate the editorial process. the findings will be published unedited on the web site. >>> arizona ditching the use of the use of lethal drug cocktail after serious complications after the death of an inmate. it took several hours to kill joseph wood in july. the execution was handled appropriately, but the two-drug combination would not longer be used. the drug had only been used one other time in ohio. >>> nasa releasing the thrilling video of the orion spacecraft reentry into the earth's atmosphere. speeds up to 20,000 miles per hour. the vantage point is amazing. the dazzling light show. this is created by friction of the craft and gas on the atmosphere. you see the parachutes deploy to slow down the capsule. you see the splash down off baja, california. >>> friends and fans alike are remembering legendary singer joe cocker this morning. ♪ lend me your ears and i'll sing you a song ♪ ♪ and i will try not to sing out of

>> and why that happens is what columbia university scientist carl heart is investigating.subjects in his lab smoke marijuana and then take a variety of cognitive tests. >> the effects would be disruptions in memory. disruptions in inhibitory control. they will become slower at cognitive functioning. these effects are temporary but they're pronounced and they are clear. >> it's slowly becoming clear to scientists what part of the brain is most affected. it's the prefrontal cortex. >> it's very important for planning, thinking, coordinating your behaviors. there's tons of marijuana receptors in this region and we think that marijuana can disrupt all of those behaviors. >> an impairment that could be dangerous, especially when driving. >> you may prematurely hit your breaks. you may prematurely hit the gas pedal. you may make a turn without looking more carefully. >> look at this experiment done by cnn affiliate kiro in washington state. subjects smoked marijuana and then drove. one was a daily medical marijuana smoker and another an infrequent weekend smoker. >> relaxed and

. >> the characters name is alice and she is a 50-year-old professor of linguistics at columbia university. she has been married since she was quite young in her early 20's. she has three adult children. she starts noticing little slips. in her memory. she doesn't mention it to her husband or anyone. she gradually begins to realize something is going on. she is diagnosed with early onset alzheimer's. >> that means what? >> it means that -- when you are diagnosed under 65, it is considered early onset. it is generally a different more potent form. it is sometimes faster acting. so she is completely compromised at that point in her life. she ends up having to quit her teaching position. she tries to spend time with her husband. she actually ends up being in a decline rapidly. >> said that is the arc of the character? >> yes. and about who she is. who are we when we lose how we define ourselves? this is someone primarily defined by her intellect and she is no longer able to do this. >> what do i do when i cannot do the things i do? >> yes. how does she preserve herself? how did she preserve a

. >>> columbia university's football lost 21 straight games but shocking new allegations from the players point to a much bigger team. 25 players coming forward in a letter to the trustees saying their coach forced them to play and practice after concussion. one neurologist blames the macho culture around football. >> most players, the tendency will be to get back out there, back into the game. so it is particularly important then for the coach or whoever is in charge to say no, i think you should sit this game out. >> the players have just withdrawn their letter without explanation. the school says they found no evidence of misconduct. >>> this was pretty interesting. it is hard enough to get teenagers to wake up but catholics in new york city are hoping these ads will get them to chunl. the brooklyn diocese launched this campaign. it shows teens at church. it shows they can be cool and trendy. the ad shows the bible with smart phones and even has jesus selfies. what do you think, ainsley? >> i love it. whatever it takes. they are so cute but they are very expensive. a new study showing

. >> columbia university, students barricade themselves into university buildings. leader is a 20-year-old ex-boy scout, mark rudd. >> i would say that we now have more support than any group about any political issue has ever held at any time. >> columbia became the symbol of students and revolt. >> activists like tom hayden went to columbia and said, let's have more columbias. there's nothing like feeling that you're fighting the power or somebody's listening to you, at least, to draw more people in. >> we started shouting a phrase, and it's a phrase that the youth in their words and by action of people all around the world, when they face truth, and that phrase is, up against the wall [ bleep ]! >> we had an idea that this was the beginning of something very important. we took it as the beginning of revolution. >> what's happening to america? conversation three. tonight our young people, what's bothering them. >> is there really a generation gap? >> generation gap is a way that whites in this country and the structure in this country, the system in this country,

researchers at columbia university say texting is an effective way to remind you of upcoming vaccinations. three-quarters of the parents who received texts with the vaccination due date and clinic hours returned for the second dose. we are all on our phones all the time. >> my dental office does this to remind me of the checkup. it's great. we need that. we're busier than ever. >> it's true. >> your kids are important. right? so cold and damp. that's how we are starting off our monday morning. it looks like the winter are back. taking a live look outside. we'll check in with amelia siegel in for tom. >> good morning, angie. temperatures right on track, right where we should be with a high of 46 degrees. the weather having a low impact on your day. it is a good 10 degrees cooler than it was yesterday. for most of us it's a dry monday. however, those of you in southern maryland the northern neck dealing with showers especially during the morning hours. d.c. metro area prince william, fauquier loudoun, frederick, you are dry today. maybe even limited sunshine. temperatures around 40 degrees

. >> associate professor at the teachers college columbia university. congratulations in your success and work. >> a town in washington state is recovering from the deadliest mudslide? u.s. history. a wall of mud engulfed part of oso. millions have been raised to help the victims. >> allen schauffler looks apt the disaster wh what has happened since. >> in washington still, they will never forget 2014 the land slide that dammed a river, spread mud up to 50 feet deep over a square mile will not let them. it wiped out a neighbourhood, killed 43 people the deadliest slide history. clearing and preparing the highway, a critical transportation link took six months. a memorial including 43 trees. this is a constant remind are of how many friends i lost and everything else that happened. >> two wrongful death lawsuits brought by a dozen families tart the country, the state. local american tribes and the logging company. more legal action is expected. this shoulder of foothills slid before, and been studied and worked on so often the slide zone has its own name

to my immediate left is a distinguished professor of law at ucla and columbia university. p professor crenshaw teaches civil rights. she's been a leader in the critical race theory movement. she's published extensively in this area and is a graduate of cornell and has a master's degree from the university of will we. to my immediate right, larry gibson, is distinguished professor at the university of maryland school of law. a wonderful big ra 23i of justice marshal's years growing up here in baltimore.ófpy he was the first african american law professor at the yumpbt of virginia before accepting a faculty position here in maryland. he has been engaged in many activities here and has served as the associate deputy general. jose is one of our finest professors. here in baltimore and all the way up to the supreme court. he's taught here and at the wharton school and has received rewards for his teaching and scholarship and mentor ship. i'm going to begin the questioning of this pabl. and then i'd invite people who have questions to turn it over to the microphone and audience

thanks at home for joining us on december 11th, 1991, columbia university hosted a talk about free speech. that would not usually be a big deal except for this particularly talk columbia hosted this talk from someone who had disappeared off the face of the earth. it made headlines around the country when columbia somehow convinced this guy to show up in person and give this talk. because for nearly three years before this talk, there had been no public sighting of him. . nobody knew where in the world he was. nobody knew for sure if he was even still alive. >> it is wonderful to be back in new york. this year more or less exactly three years ago, since then i haven't been anywhere. let e me begin by asking you to imagine a hot air balloon drifting over a cavern carrying several passengers. a leak develops. the balloon starts losing height. and the pit of dark yarn comes closer. the wounded balloon can bare just one passenger to safety. many must be sacrificed to save the one. but who should live and who should die? and who could make such a choice? i have now spent over 1,000 days in just

thank you >>> "rolling stone" is calling on columbia university journalism school for help and enlisted school to investigate its story of the rape at the virginia campus. it caught international attention last month, when it detailed a rape and an administration looking the other way. it was discredited when it was accused of getting wrong dates and facts. columbia journalism school will go through all the files to peace together what they think went wrong. >> the dow jones is niching towards the 18,000 mark. >> the dough closed with record highs. the s&p finish over 2 twoz. -- 2,000. markets are building. gas prices have fallen for 88 straight days. some are getting relief at the pump, others are paying more to heat their home. "real money"s correspondent explains. >> reporter: this woman is one of millions of americans who heat their home with natural gas. half of all u.s. households do. >> i used use oil, but i switched to gas. >> reporter: she was drawn to gas because it was cheaper than oil. heating bills for most americans will drop by as much as 800, because nadya is in new engl

at about the same time a young man left columbia university to join the say louis post dispatch and along the way mitt to richard nixon. and that began in may of this century from richard nixon's defeat through years of what was described as a wilderness years and pat buchanan was with him every step of the way and it is recorded in this great book just launched last week. this is the pacific coast launch of "the greatest comeback" how richard nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority" and how he won the presidency. here is a man whose strategized, plan, and a firsthand eyewitness to the brilliance of the 37th president. please welcome pat buchanan. [applause] ♪ [applause] >> thank you very much. for the reception and i may start looking at 2016. [laughter] [applause] >> i always relished to come back here. it is a magnificent and inert -- memorable plays. i was going to mention to all the folks that i served with over the years i would like to single out one richard nixon for the campaign of 1960 before i was there in rhode with richard nixon on the plane around to says barry gol

i believe the obama administration sided with number of experts at brookings georgetown and columbia university, since a iranian nuclear weapon can not be prevented we can manage it. we're conceding the bomb to iran because the obama administration thinks it canned stop it and it is desperate for a deal. jon: but the president said it would not permit iranians to the got bomb. >> i know what the president has said but i also know we have been offering iran the capability of operating up to 8,000 uranium centrifuges. we're not insisting that they stop construction on a plant that will be source of plutonium. we're not insisting iran remove enriched-uranium from the country. on one hand the president is saying we won't let iran get the bomb but enormous concessions that will let them get the bomb. i see enormous parallel with cuba and iran. wouldn't concede to the democratic chairman of the foreign relations committee that he would normalize relations with cuba because that is unacceptable. we're considering a -- jon: republicans in senate and will hold the levers of power in that chamber in the

to my immediate left kimberle crenshaw distinguished professor of law at both ucla and columbia university professor crenshaw teaches civil rights and courses in rate studies and constitutional law. she's been a leader in the critical race theory movement. in fact, founded a think tank devote the to race and gender. she's published extensively in this area. she's a graduate of cornel and harvard law school and has a masters degree from the university of wisconsin. to my immediate right, larry gibson is distinguished professor at university of maryland school of law. professor gibson is the author of a book that i hope many of you have purchased and will read. it's called "young thursday good," a wonderful biography of justice marshall's years growing up here and practicing law here. professor gibson grew up in baltimore, attended howard university. he was the first african-american law professor at university of virginia before accepting a faculty position here in maryland. he has been engaged in many civic activities in maryland and served for a time in the u.s. justice department as asso

the report by columbia university says natural trends are keeping the rain away. including he will nina. this conflicts with recent drought studies from stanford and the american geophysical union. it will likely worsen future california droughts. >>> we're going to get a lot of rain this week. big storm coming on thursday. let's get a check of the micro climate forecast with rop may a mayeda. >> going back to 1995. 25-hour window. sustained winds over 40 miles per hour. peak gusts over the hilltops. look to the right. this is what we're expecting for thursday, between 2 to 3 inches of rain. winds at times getting sustained close to 40 miles per hour. going back to 2008 and 2009. that's a sampler. when it will be a lot of rain across san francisco and the bay area. hilltop locations seeing gusts above 60 miles per hour. this is getting started wednesday night into thursday afternoon. now, for the rest of the bay area, rain the other part of the story as you heard. robert honda, santa cruz mountains, one of the hotspots for rainfall. this will see the totals gettin

scratching my head here a little bit, why a magazine went to a journalism school and when i think of columbia university, i don't necessarily think impartial and objective. that's my alma mater but let's be honest here. >> it is a little bizarre that a magazine that has journalists with degrees, wouldn't they know this stuff by now? do they really need to go back to school? i guess they do. i guess they feel that they do. this to me is just p.r. column bu -- columbia is liberal. the reporter and the editor should have been fired, period, end of story. i think they're just trying to save their jobs. >> what are we going to get out of this? we already know they messed up. they didn't do proper investigative reporting. they didn't ask the right questions. they didn't interview people. we already know that. >> tan think of is that they have reputable journalli journalists that they have in their ranks. the inner circle is probably hurting over this because its major leadership, raem, i'm looking at the webpage right now. untold story of the world's most infamous sex tape. that's their audience. i'm not sure

. >> and the amadou diallo foundation is hosting a talk at columbia university in february, 2015. >> you so much. >>> ahead at this hour. we'll shift gears. they don't just look good and sound good with those charming accents. they're here to the good. we're talking about the duke and duchess of cambridge. those are two of their many, many names. they're here on a whirlwind trip across the united states. we'll tell you the royal agenda coming up next. future. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance could be one of them. if you're a current or former military member or their family, get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. and our big idaho potato truck is still missing. so my buddy here is going to help me find it. here we go. woo who, woah, woah, woah. it's out there somewhere spreading the word about americas favorite potatoes: heart healthy idaho potatoes and the american heart association's go red for women campaign. if you see it i hope you'll let u

researchers from columbia university fawn just six to 7% of females, and eight to 10 percent of maledent, got nine or more hours of sleep a night. the centers for disease control, and prevention, recommends, that teens get nine or ten hours a night. thinking back, i don't think i ever got nine to ten hours of sleep in high school. >> i would love to get it now. >> we stockpile and use it now? >> right. i'm telling you, hey, sounds like a dire situation, mentally school without chairs. >> this is actually done on purpose. student at north carolina school encourage to rock and bounce, more comfortable than sitting on old chairs, and teachers see another benefit. >> in fact? >> in the beginning it was a little craze. >> i it is encouraged. >> in chairs you're super still. on bounce balls, you can kind of bounce. >> that's a good thing. >> a lot of the kids that typically wick ella lot, then it helps them focus, actually, kind of you would think it would be the opposite. >> makes sense, if they normally wiggle, they're getting the energy out on the bouncy ball. he can err size balls in e

as columbia university did a study. we found it's natural overconfidence. men aren't faking it. tend to think they're a little better than they are. my favorite statistic is the hewlett packard statistic and other studies have backed this upch when looking at promotion, women apply for promotion when they feel they have 100% of the job kwauvgs men will go for that promotion at 60%. can you imagine how that plays out over decades in the work place. i think that's why we think the confidence gap is actually. >> it's holding women back. men are quite right. you can learn the rest of the skills on the job. >> it plays out. we've seen women earn 80 cents on the dollar for the dollar that the man earns. so it sort ofsh not only do they feel it. it's been projected as a reality. with i is so interesting about the book. have you so much science in here as well. which is what i loved about it. i think it's essential for young women to read to understand why they'd feel the self doubt they inevitably do and how to get through it. >> i read it and thought this should be mandatory reading f

to my immediate left kimberle crenshaw distinguished professor of law at both ucla and columbia university. professor crenshaw teaches civil rights and courses in rate studies and constitutional law. she's been a leader in the critical race theory movement. in fact, founded a think tank devote the to race and gender. she's published extensively in this area. she's a graduate of cornel and harvard law school and has a masters degree from the university of wisconsin. to my immediate right, larry gibson is distinguished professor at university of maryland school of law. professor gibson is the author of a book that i hope many of you have purchased and will read. it's called "young thursday good," a wonderful biography of justice marshall's years growing up here and practicing law here. professor gibson grew up in baltimore, attended howard university. he was the first african-american law professor at university of virginia before accepting a faculty position here in maryland. he has been engaged in many civic activities in maryland and served for a time in the u.s. justice department as ass

thank you dorian warren of columbia university.ika henderson of the "washington post" and jonathan allen of bloomberg. when we return let me finish with a singular belief that preserving a society involves a lot more than simply holding the line. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. here's some news you may find surprising. we're for an open internet for all. we're for creating more innovation and competition. we're for net neutrality protection. now, here's some news you may find even more surprising. we're comcast. the only isp legally bound by full net neutrality rules. >>> let me finish tonight with the singular belief that preserving a society involves more than simply holding the line. a good society needs to be responsive for those who question whether it is good or not. to survive a democracy needs to answer to the anger of people, especially anger that can no longer be denied. and today there are two paths of anger in america. one is in the streets and directed at police brutality, or authority in fact. inde

i am involved with hunter college and columbia university, many things in the jewish world. it is more complimenting and having an attitude of giving back. so i take no great credit other than being thankful that i'm in a position to give back. >> we will give you credit for doing so. i can let everybody know that there is a master class which lee is a part of. how about the new names taking part? david tepor, clint carlson, kyle bass, oscar schaffer just to name a few. it is like the 27 new york yankees. that is the murderer's row right there as they used to say. before we let you go you have a stock pick for 2015, a company that you think is poised for a turn around, that being group on. is it a new position and tell me why you like it? >> i should differ to my analyst on it. in all honesty i wasn't prepared to talk about group on specifically. we think the underlying asset value of the company is substantially in excess of where the stock is trading. we see business turning around. they have an asian operation that might be monetized for a significant amount of money. the

thanks at home for joining us on december 11th, 1991, columbia university hosted a talk about free speech a big deal except for this particularly talk columbia hosted this talk from someone who had disappeared off the face of the earth. it made headlines around the country when columbia somehow convinced this guy

the character's name is alice howland, and she is a 50-year-old professor of linguistics at columbia university and she's been married since she was quite young in her early 20s and has three adult children. she started having children very young as well. she starts noticing little slips in her memory and doesn't mention it to her husband or anyone. gradually begins to realize something serious is going on. she goes to a neurologist and is diagnosed with ear early onset t 50. >> charlie: that means what? when you're diagnosed with alzheimer's under age 65, it's considered early onset -- what's another word for it, too -- i'll say early onset alzheimer's. it's generally a different, more potent form of the disease, sometimes faster acting, so she is completely compromised at thatponent in her life. she ends up having to quit her teaching position, spends time with her husband, dealing with her children and she is in cognitive decline pretty rapidly. >> charlie: so you have there the arc of a character. >> yeah. and about, you know, who she, is what her essential self is, you know, who are we whe

zerlina maxwell, and kimberly crenshaw of columbia university. been engaged with this issue from the very beginning. this is nothing that is strange or foreign to you. professor crenshaw, let me begin with you. why is it in this country we are incapable of acknowledging, because you're famous for talking to us about how there are interlocking oppressions, but the ways in which those interconnections have to get talked about so black women don't get marginalized. help us understand why it's important to do both. talk about black women suffering, at the same time talk about the reality that in the context of america, their lives are made marginal and therefore they're not taken seriously. >> michael, first of all, thank you for having me. you really articulated well when you pointed out that there is a connection. there's been a long-term connection between anti-racism, patriarchy in the black community and conservativism. that's what big about this story. we all know women in general have had a difficult time coming forward when they've been subje

he's a professor of linguistics at columbia university, and he's our new in-house vocabulary expert.. walter aberdeen. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: thank you. >> greetings, seth. greetings. thank you so much for having me, seth. please, seth, your hospitality is just tremendous. >> seth: of course. now, for those of you who don't know, the job of a "late night" vocabulary expert will be to go through the script each night and make sure we are writing at the height of our intelligence. so, what do you think of the writing so far tonight, dr. aberdeen? >> well, seth, as a gentleman of refined vocabulary, i regret to inform you that this evening's program -- it lacks verbal panache. i have extensive issues with your etymological selections. >> seth: etymological selections? you mean my word choice. >> yes, indeed. your proclamations lack elegance. i'm sorry, but that's just how i fondle. [ laughter ] >> seth: fondle? well, i think you mean feel. >> yes, feel is fine. but fondle is a bit more elegant. >> seth: okay, yeah. but, in this case, it's also the wrong word. >> well, seth, ma

of the room, called "the new censorship" published by "columbia journalism review" with the columbia university press. it documents the changes that have taken place in the global media landscape. it's must reading for those of you who want to work as journalists overseas or for those of you want to learn more about how, despite technological changes in the informational revolution, journalism is getting even more dangerous profession. the school is proud to be hosting this event tonight. our school has a long tradition of press freedom work. many of us teach and do research and press freedom worldwide. several of our faculty, including myself, and victor who just walked in, sit on cpj's board of trustees. more importantly, 40% of our students come from overseas. many of them from the places that joel talks about in this book. jolt will be joined tonight by kathleen carroll who's also a member of the cpj board as executive editor and senior vice president of "the associated press." kathleen is a top news executive of the world's largest independent news agency. she oversees some 2300 journalist

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columbia university law school is giving students an option to postpone their final exams if they'd like two grand jury decisions to not indict two white officers who took the lives of two brac men. those decisions have set off a lot of debate at the new york city school and many of those students have been out demonstrating on and off campus. the university's decision itself has lot of students talking as well. >> i think that it's a little bit ridiculous, but i understand why they should do it. i just wonder why the student group requested this and friday night when scams start today. >> it shows a way to get involved and not have to completely worry about missing out completely on this semester and falling behind. >> exams are normally only postponed in cases of illness, religious observance or death in the family. students have the option of asking if they can come back in january to take those tests or just wrap them up next week. >>> meanwhile a my sorrow bar pours a new drink special that leaves a sour taste for a lot of people. mug shots bar in st. joseph in northwest missouri of