take pkg:at drake university - the mission is to help students build successful lives. chief administration officer venessa macro says that's why taking every step to ensure that remains a promise - is crucial.sot: venessa macro, chief venison macro says that's why taking every step to ensure that remains a promise is crucial. >>we will do student's. president. harding martin sent this email to campus declaring university a century for undocumented members. he says the university remains committed to protecting immigrants from unfair deportation, investigation or other intimidation on their without fear of deportation. >>campuses and schools are a special place that they won't go for enforcement activity. one thing that we want to do is that continues to be the case. >>they pressed for the university administration. >> i think this is also a new topic for some folks, talking about how the lives of and future undocumented students will come to this. >>reminds their own community that drake is a place that will serve and protect all people. that goes against everything th

.>> reporter: at drake university, the mission is to help students build successful lies. -- lives. the administration officer, students."president marty martin sent this email to campus - "declaring the university a sanctuary for undocumented members.he says the university remains committed to protecting immigrants from unfair deportation, investigation undocumented members. he says that the university remains committed to protecting immigrants from unfair deportation, investigation or other investigation due to their immigration status. he is one of 400 college president urging the nation's leaders to keep the deferred action for the childhood arrivals program. it is about 7000 undocumented >> schools are special place and a place they won't go for enforcement activity. that is one of the things we need to make sure is the case. >> reporter: the professor is on the panel to make sure universities unite behind us. >> thinking about how the lives of undocumented students at drake and future undocumented students will come here affected by this. >> reporter: the faculty and administra

governors to push state laws, banning the practice of learning are trying to break -- >> at drake university, the mission is to help students build successful lives. >> that's why taking every step to ensure that remains a promise is crucial. >> we'll do whatever we can been the law to support >> reporter: the university a sanctuary for undocumented members. the university remains committed to protecting immigrants from unfair deportation, investigation, or other unfair treatment. it's allowed 700,000 undocumented immigrants to live fear of deportation. >>> schools are a special place, a place they won't go for the enforcement activity. >> reporter: on the faculty that pressed for the administration to unite behind them. >> this is a new topic for tom folks of. how the students will come here and be affected by this. >> reporter: the faculty and administration hope that as a sanctuary campus, drink is a place to serve and protect all people. >>> it goes against everything we represent as an institution. some eastern iowa schools have signed a pledge of solidarity with undocumented students.o

learning are trying to protect undocumented students in the u-s.one of those schools is drake university in des moines. their president marty martin sent an email to campus - saying the university is committed to protecting immigrants from unfair deportation.he's also one of 400 college presidents urging leaders to keep the daca - or the deferred action for childhood arivals program. "schools are a special place. a place that they won't go for enforcement activity. one of the things we want to do is make sure that continues to be the legal clinic will host a panel next week and also plans to bring additional counseling for its immigrant community. some eastern iowa schools have signed a pledge of solidarity with undocumented students.one of those is mounty mercy university in cedar rapids. other schools in the region include loras college in dubuque -- saint ambrose in davenport -- de paul in chicago -- and saint thomas in the twin cities. the university of iowa is getting high praise for its website.it's been named first with disabilities.the website topped at list of 140-american unive

i applaud the university president, michael drake, university leadership and its incredible student alert system along with multiagency police officials for working together to enhance the safety and security of the university. these first responders acted quickly and selflessly, including an ohio state university police officer who within seconds responded to the violence, containing violence and diffusing the situation. i want to thank the surrounding hospitals for treating 11 patients to ensure full recovery. as former senior vice president of outreach and engagement at the university, i was never prouder of how we came together quickly in the face of terror. thank you to all at the university for continuing to exempify the buckeye spirit and remaining united even in the face of adversity. go, bucks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? without objection, the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for one minute. mr. murphy: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to congratulate coach brook good and the

drake long from miami university of ohio. also with hamilton society. i'd like to ask you, you mentioned transregionalism. with operation euphrates shield, turkey has entered the civil war. what do we know about the military's goals, the turkish military's goals and their capabilities since this is so unprecedented? and how we are incorporating their actions n into our overall strategy? >> thanks for bringing that up. let me just start by saying that turkey is a nato ally to us. they are an extraordinarily important partner in the coalition. we simply could not do the things we're doing, particularly in syria, without the support we get from turkey on a day-to-day basis with base, access, overflight, with the support that they provide to us. like others in the region, turkey has interest and concerns. and it's important for us to recognize this. certainly very concerned about the islamic state but it is, i think fairly well established and very concerned about organizations like the pkk and what that might portend for long-term security and stability fo

my name is drake long i'm a student at miami university of ohio. you -- i want to ask a question about military history. to the average person, it might seem to have their strong points in terms of subject matter. for military history civil war, diplomatic world war i. what is a conflict, diplomatic moment or a war that you think not enough is written on and definitely needs to be paid attention to especially with regard to conflicts right now. thank you. >> i would say that the -- just going -- in recent history i would say the iraq war. and joel ray burn is here, he is just drafted a seminal operation al history of the iraq war. i think what that will be is a tremendous jumping off point for historians to really dig into aspects of that operation al history in greater depth. i think in large measure we've been distracted by iraq by not the wrong question but a question that we've asked and probably answered, which is should we have done it. right i think the right question to ask is who thought it would be easy and why, right. so -- then how did

my name is drake long i'm a student at miami university of ohio. you -- i want to ask a question about military history. to the average person, it might seem to have their strong points in terms of subject matter. for military history civil war, diplomatic world war i. what is a conflict, diplomatic moment or a war that you think not enough is written on and definitely needs to be paid attention to especially with regard to conflicts right now. thank you. >> i would say that the -- just going -- in recent history i would say the iraq war. and joel ray burn is here, he is just drafted a seminal operation al history of the iraq war. i think what that will be is a tremendous jumping off point for historians to really dig into aspects of that operation al history in greater depth. i think in large measure we've been distracted by iraq by not the wrong question but a question that we've asked and probably answered, which is should we have done it. right i think the right question to ask is who thought it would be easy and why, right. so -- then how did

. >> miami university, also with hamilton society, drake long i would like to ask you turkey entered the war. what do we know about the mull tear's goals, the turkish military's goals and their capabilities especially since this is so unprecedented and how are we incorporating actions into overall strategy. for solving the syrian conflict? thank you. >> thanks for bringing that up. let me start by saying turkey of course is a nato ally to us. they are an extraordinarily important partner in the coalition. we could simply not do the things we are doing without the support we get from turkey on a day-to-day basis, with the basing, access, overflight, with support that they provide to us. now, like others in the region, turkey has interests. turkey has concerns. and it's important i think for us to recognize this. they're certainly very concerned about the islamic state. it is very well established they are concerned about organizations like the pkk and what that might portend for long-term security and stability for them. and i think you see some of that taking place in the operations.

. >> michael drake is president of the ohio state university, the home of the john glenn college of publicank you for joining us today. john glenn was larger than life for so many of us. tell me about his role in ohio and the ohio roots that shaped his life. >> well, i think his ohio roots are important. his american roots, quintessentially american roots. he grew up and fell in love with and married the girl next door. volunteered to serve in the second world war in korea like men of his generation were doing. he was distinguished there and decided to become an astronaut. as i grew up he was one of those real iconic heroes that made us all proud to be american. he continued with a life of service and after finishing the senate came back here to ohio and until a few months ago was a regular presence on campus, teaching and leading the new generation. terrific life. terrific person. >> the relationship with annie glenn, and i saw it up close, in watching him with her, the devotion between the two of them, it was a 73-year marriage but it was a love affair for life. >> yes. they were really

my name is drake long, i'm a student at miami university of ohio. i'm here with the alexander hamilton society. i want to ask you about military history. so to the average person, they might have to have their strong points. from military history, maybe the civil war and in your opinion when it comes to military history what's a conflict, diplomatic moment or a war that you think not enough is written on and definitely needs to be paid more attention to especially with regard to conflicts right now. thank you. >> well, i think i would say that the -- just going to recent history i would say the iraq war, you know? and joel rayburn is here. raise your hand. distinguished gentleman there. colonel joel rayburn. he has just drafted a history of the iraq war and i think what that's going to be is a tremendous jumping off point for historians to dig into aspects of that operational history in greater depth. i think in large measure we have been distracted about iraq by not the wrong question. but, you know, a question that we have asked and probably answe

. >> miami university of history, also with hamilton society, drake long i would like to ask you turkey entered the war. what do we know about the military the's goals, turkish military's goals and their capabilities especially since this is so unprecedented and how are we incorporating actions into overall strategy. >> thanks for bringing that up. let me start by saying turkey of course is a nato ally to us. they are an extraordinarily important partner in the can coalition. we could simply not do the things we are doing without the support we get from turkey on a day-to-day basis, with the support that they provide to us. now, like others in the region, turkey has interests. turkey has concerns. and it's important i think for us to recognize this. they're certainly very concerned about the islamic state. it is very well established they are concerned about organizations like the pkk and what that might pretend for long-term security and stability for them. and i think you see some of that taking place in the operations. the operations they did along their border i think were very help