david skorton is the president of the cornell university. >> wonderful to be here.atulations on all you're doing. >> thank you so much. i am thrilled to have you because this university is going to be something to talk about. but the big front and center issue right now for so many of us is the expense of college and the steady increase that we're seeing for many american familieses. cornell runs about $52,000 a year. why has it become so expensive and keeps getting more expensive every year? what are we paying for? >> there's a whole bunch of reasons for it. technology is certainly one of them. there's also this concept that people always want the best of everything. we want our students, our children, to have extracurricular activities and facilities and residence halls that are good. there's another concept, and that is that we like the relatively small student/teacher ratio, which means it's very, very hard to increase productivity if you have a human-intensive industry. some of the market forces don't work that well in some of the campuses. for example, the ove

in york city, will join forces with cornell university, in my view and carnegie-mellon, universities in canada, the u.k., and india, to develop world-class progress. discoveries are made by university educated researchers and innovators. if those discoveries happen in new york city, we know the companies that a spinoff from them will start in new york city. i have no doubt that many of you here today will be part of these discoveries. your work will reshape our understanding of the world. everything from the origins of the universe to a cure for cancer. for the nine scientists here, you, too, will have an important job to play. you business and finance majors may be providing capital for the discoveries to be brought to market. education and journalism majors may be riding are teaching about those discoveries. nursing and premed students may be talking to patients about them, and the future lawyers -- yes, lawyers have to be involved in everything we do, it will be needed to protect patents and fight off other lawyers. the technology revolution that is reshaping our understanding of

book nonlinear dynamics in chaos and also a professor of theoretical and applied mechanics at cornell university. and steve's going to help us make sense out of chaos on the baseball field. steve, ready? >> hey, you know, your friends pops and red are having a pretty interesting conversation out there. >> they're quite the grizzled old philosophers. >> so the thing about a knuckleball, you know, is that the pitcher grips it with two fingers in this flat part here. and the trick is to throw it so that it has very little spin. and what happens then is that the airflow around the pitch starts to create vortices, little whirlpools of air behind the ball. >> so it's actually almost pushing the ball forward, right? >> yeah, sort of pushing. well, i mean, mainly the ball has its own inertia carrying it forward, but these whirlpools do, if they're in the wake of a knuckleball, sort of push it around in a funny and unpredictable way, whereas a fastball, which would have much more spin, has a much more predictable wake and it leads to a pitch that's more predictable, except of course it's fast. >> i mean,

and american exports priceyer in the eurozone said a cornell university economist. a cheaper currency helps the eurozone countries try to grow their way out of debt. your thoughts about that? >> my colleague also from the brookings institution, certainly a point in noting that a depreciating euro might be certainly, you know, a contributing factor for europe to get out of the crisis. the euro is currently very high and as it was saying before, this partly reflected the fact the euro is an average currency. right? so it averages out the dutch mark and the greek drachma. for some countries it's too high, say for italy and spain. for other countries it will be low, say germany. so, clearly if you really want to offer, you know, some prospects to the peripheral economies -- otherwise, they cannot monitor monetary policy because it's being delegated to the european central bank. they have very little wiggle room in terms of fiscal policy because they will have to consolidate. so, i mean, what kind of growth policies they are going to introduce on top of a much-needed str

the director of the agent energy and fraking program at cornell university. thank you for being here as well. thank you for staying over. he's the secretary of pennsylvania department of environmental protection. there's a lot going on. this is a new thing in pennsylvania compared to oklahoma. with that introduction, we will start into the testimony as soon as we get back. we have three votes in this series. we will get them done as quickly as we can and we will be right back and reconvene at that time. >>> you remember, recessing for a series of votes on the house floor. probably the last more than 30 minutes or so. we will come back to our live coverage of this hearing as soon as the committee member, subcommittee members one dack into t come back into the room following those votes. tonight, american history tv primetime. programs normally seen weekends here on c-span3. tonight one of america's earliest settlements, jamestown, virginia. a tour of the archaeological sites along with a visit to lab where their studying the more than 1 million artifacts found

book nonlinear dynamics in chaos and also a professor of theoretical and applied mechanics at cornell university. and steve's going to help us make sense out of chaos on the baseball field. steve, ready? >> hey, you know, your friends pops and red are having a pretty interesting conversation out there. >> they're quite the grizzled old philosophers. >> so the thing about a knuckleball, you know, is that the pitcher grips it with two fingers in this flat part here. and the trick is to throw it so that it has very little spin. and what happens then is that the airflow around the pitch starts to create vortices, little whirlpools of air behind the ball. >> so it's actually almost pushing the ball forward, right? >> yeah, sort of pushing. well, i mean, mainly the ball has its own inertia carrying it forward, but these whirlpools do, if they're in the wake of a knuckleball, sort of push it around in a funny and unpredictable way, whereas a fastball, which would have much more spin, has a much more predictable wake and it leads to a pitch that's more predictable, except of course it's fast. >> i mean,

because junk science includes studies done by cornell university, obesity is a huge problem in this countrytime the proof is definitely and literally in the pudding. [ laughter ] >> when someone comes to say accusations towards one person she runs down this laundry list. it doesn't work anyway the people that are going to take that and regurgitate it aren't going to vote for president obama anyway. >> that's a good point. aren't that many independents that are out there to go oh, my god, i can't believe she is going after food organizations. >> and nancy reagan was just as bad in her say no to drugs campaign. >> yeah. >> there are a lot of people on the left and tied to the democrat party and team obama who have sat silently on the sidelines while off of this rhetoric is aimed at mitt romney and pretty much every conservative person. and nobody is going to ask her these tough questions about her behavior in the east wing and about her failure to speak up for women. >> do you guys see how misogynistic it is to attack a candidate's wife. wait a minute. she attacks her for not standing up for

twenty of them were arrested and were charged with disorderly conduct among them dr cornel west princeton university professor of african studies and carl dix co-founder of the rev revolutionary communist party and both of them join me now in our new york studios. i guess dr west let me start with you and we can put a video i think we have of your arrest back in october you know there are countless bad policies out there and i guess i'm just wondering to start off if you could tell me why it's this one that you chose to protest to the point of getting arrested. well first i just would have three true to my dear brother called dixie came up with the idea he called me and asked for both of us to issue this call us that i love that work with him and he was he was he was insightful enough to see this is a form of terrorizing traumatizing and stigmatizing young use of color that has a history of course that goes back to slavery goes back to jim and jane cruel and is connected to the rise of the president of too complex it is true when you look at the numbers it's hard to deny that this is. in many cases

she points to the findings of a 2007 cornell university study, when a childless candidate applied forer, the mother was 100% less likely to be hired. they also were offered $11,000 less pay than childless applicants. compare it to fathers who were offered 6,000 more dollars than nonfathers. women that go it alone as single mothers earn $40,000 less than married household. housing and child care account for more than three-quarters of monthly expenses. that's for mothers that are paid for their work. salary.com took a look at the various jobs that stay at home moms juggle from ceo to psychologist to housekeeper, and how much time they spend doing each of those jobs. then crunch the numbers to find out what salary compensation ought to be. get this. this year, the average stay at home mom will work 94.7 hours a week. in real life, her labor would be worth at least $112,962. of course, she never sees a dime of that money. if we think all moms work, maybe we should be sure that all moms are paid? but for now, mom gets paid only in the currency of your love and appreciation. so today, trea

roy gulick who is chief of the infectious diseases at the university of cornell university hospital.y year in the country, 50,000 americans have been newly infected with hiv. that is a stunning statistic and not only is it true, but it has not changed in the last 20 years, so every year for the last two decades 50,000 more americans are hiv infected. >> the numbers have not gone down? >> no. it is surprising. we are doing better to treat people with hiv, but clearly better with prevention. so what we have heard is in addition to what we have always done, abc, abstinence, be faithful and condoms is working for many people, but now we have a new tool, and that is what the excitement is about. >> and even with the numbers the populations have changed, right? as a high-risk population is different and what does that look like in terms of how this drug might be used or recommended by the fda? >> well, the communities disproportionately affected are people of color, african-americans and latinos. if you look at the people who are infected, the one population going up is gay men, and it is

major production support provided by the national endowment for the humanities, the cornell foundation, the university of virginia weinstein properties, the history channel and an anonymous donor. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> all right. now we go out of character. you can go now. >> yeah. you can ask as many questions as you want. you just have to do it while the music's playing. >>> sunday on q&a -- >> i don't regard this as just the biography of lyndon johnson. i want each book to examine a current of political power in america. this is a kind of political power. seeing what a president can do in a moment of -- in a time of great crisis, great crisis, how he gathers all around. what does he do to get legislation moving, to take command in washington. that's a way of examining power in a time of crisis. i said i want to do this in full. i suppose it takes 300 pages in there. so i couldn't -- that's who i -- i just said let's examine this. >> robert caro on the passage of power, volume 4 in the years of lyndon johnson. his multivolume biography of the 36th president, this sunday

all of those places are home to great universities where pine nearing work is being done and jobs are being created. we've joined forces with cornell, n.y.u., carnegie melon and the technology in israel and universities in canada and india to develop new world class applied sciences. we know the future of the global economy is tied to the discoveries that are made by university educated researchers and innovators. and if those discoveries happen in new york city, we know the companies spin off from them will start in new york city. now, i have no doubt that many of you here today will be a part of these discoveries. your work will reshape our understanding of the world everything from the origins of the universe to a cure for cancer. for the nonscientists here, you too will have an important job to play. you business and finance majors may be providing the capital for the discoveries to be brought to market. education and journalism majors may be teaching about those discoveries. nursing and premed students may be talking to patients about them and you future lawyers, yes, lawyers always have to be involved in everything we do, you

have the co-hosts of "smiley and west" radio show, pbs host tavis smiley and princeton university professor cornelich and the rest of us." it's so good to have you here. >> we came by to see you in boston. some little party in boston. >> oh, rich tradition. >> a rich tradition. >> have you already uplifted the mood on this set. >> a lot of people i know live in the boston area. >> i know, i know. but obviously, you don't know mike barnicle. so let me -- by the way, we were at a great event last night with mike and ann. >> absolutely. >> do you think barnicle and west shop at the same place? >> look how good you look. >> so let's talk -- i always wanted to know this. is there -- do you guys talk about where, let's say, the 10 poorest communities are in america? because it seems to me that, you know, jesus says the poor would always be with us. but it seems to me that we need to start going to the hardest t hardest-hit places in america and just like treating a cancer go in and do whatever we can to help the children first, and then help the communities, help the single parents. i mean, how do we fo

there's a big event at columbia university and support and dr. cornell west is on the program and i was on the program. and panthers will tell you that we've are tied to have an enzyme that for the or david date served the people mind, body and all because that is what gets you going. tablet gets you up to 4:00 the morning. don't think because we were panthers then special apartments for us. we were dealing with the rats and roaches and broken lotteries that makes you get up when it's cold, cold, cold. keep in kids that are not your kids. at the end of the day they get it the best and hope the elderly person would dare packages that at 7:00. by the way at 12:00 midnight when you're going to get three or four hours sleep is what makes you get back off that last and stand between a cop who has their gun drawn and the person who puts yourself in harms way because you understand i have not met then, that they are my brother and sister of undying love. when i get calls from prison and i said this earlier. the students have a question for you and one of them p

there's a big event at columbia university and support and dr. cornell west is on the program and i was on the program. and panthers will tell you that we've are tied to have an enzyme that for the or david date served the people mind, body and all because that is what gets you going. tablet gets you up to 4:00 the morning. don't think because we were panthers then special apartments for us. we were dealing with the rats and roaches and broken lotteries that makes you get up when it's cold, cold, cold. keep in kids that are not your kids. at the end of the day they get it the best and hope the elderly person would dare packages that at 7:00. by the way at 12:00 midnight when you're going to get three or four hours sleep is what makes you get back off that last and stand between a cop who has their gun drawn and the person who puts yourself in harms way because you understand i have not met then, that they are my brother and sister of undying love. when i get calls from prison and i said this earlier. the students have a question for you and one of them p

there's a big event at columbia university and support and dr. cornell west is on the program and i was on the program. and panthers will tell you that we've are tied to have an enzyme that for the or david date served the people mind, body and all because that is what gets you going. tablet gets you up to 4:00 the morning. don't think because we were panthers then special apartments for us. we were dealing with the rats and roaches and broken lotteries that makes you get up when it's cold, cold, cold. keep in kids that are not your kids. at the end of the day they get it the best and hope the elderly person would dare packages that at 7:00. by the way at 12:00 midnight when you're going to get three or four hours sleep is what makes you get back off that last and stand between a cop who has their gun drawn and the person who puts yourself in harms way because you understand i have not met then, that they are my brother and sister of undying love. when i get calls from prison and i said this earlier. the students have a question for you and one of them p

all of those places are home to great universities where pine nearing work is being done and jobs are being created. we've joined forces with cornell, n.y.u., carnegie melon and the technology in israel and universities in canada and india to develop new world class applied sciences. we know the future of the global economy is tied to the discoveries that are made by university educated researchers and innovators. and if those discoveries happen in new york city, we know the companies spin off from them will start in new york city. now, i have no doubt that many of you here today will be a part of these discoveries. your work will reshape our understanding of the world everything from the origins of the universe to a cure for cancer. for the nonscientists here, you too will have an important job to play. you business and finance majors may be providing the capital for the discoveries to be brought to market. education and journalism majors may be teaching about those discoveries. nursing and premed students may be talking to patients about them and you future lawyers, yes, lawyers always have to be involved in everything we do, you

the idea to create an applied sciences university where engineers are trained as entrepreneurs from day one. the $2 billion, 10-acre campus is being called cornelll companies and currently exploring with techno logical start ups. >>> exploding i should say. >> very good. okay. >> i know kind of cool. >> 8:40 a.m., on tuesday morning. remember, remembering a music legend. fans will pay tribute to chuck brown today. >> straight ahead after the break. eleanor holmes norton will join us live. holly good morning. >> good morning to you. we are live this morning in waldorf at skills unlimited, where you can hear, basketball practice going on. while they may be working on shooting this morning, what they are really hoping to score, is a college scholarship, we will tell you how it workwhy it might just be what your kid needs, all live next fox 5 morning news stay with us from the w wildflower valleys of yellowstone to the serene waters of glacier bay, air wick has partnered with the national park foundation so you can experience the spirit of these national treasures in your home. the national park collection. something in the air wick. i'm drinking du