undergraduates including athletes but some question whether the list is whether to again athletes' gpa up. this freshman athlete has seen the list. he said other classmen were passing it around when they were choosing classes. >> it was a list of lesser known classes. i hear the rumor it's easy classes but that is really not the vibe i got. they are interesting lesson on classes. >> before we were able to interview any other athletes the head of public relations of the athletic department demanded that we leave the area. then the student we had previously interviewed asked us to not mention his name or his sport. >> the university declined our request to appear on camera. austin lee is the director of the academic research center and he told california watch, quote, an objective evaluation of the courses included on the list would be overrule several courses that most students would consider to be academically rigorous. he said it was designed for students to get classes in before practice. they say the list isn't necessary. they say stanford's online registration system already let's

. >> reporter: ditiyan had a 3.0 gpa and had 15 days to go until graduation and heading to college. >> we'll always love you. one day, heal your broken heart. >> reporter: in east oakland, kiet do, cbs 5. >>> right now police in san jose searching for clues and suspects in a deadly overnight shooting just before 11:00 last night on the city's east side. officers found a man shot in the street. investigators believe the shooting is gang-related. they have been poring over a car taken from the scene searching for evidence. this is the city's 20th homicide this year. >>> get ready to pay more if you are a pg&e customer. state regulators just voted on two proposed rate hikes and anne makovec is in san francisco to explain what it means to your bill. she joins us now with more. >>> reporter: for most pg&e customers one of the proposals was taken out before commissioners could vote for it but one proposal did pass that will raise the average customer's rate depending on how much used by 10%. >> do not allow it to happen. >> reporter: about a dozen people came to the public utilities commiss

a cumulative gpa i think is 3.89. [unintelligible] --[applause] next fall, i will be attending the juilliard school. i have one i think, about six scholarships-- i have won, i think, about six scholarships, including the carpe diem scholarship, the book award, and the beta phi sigma scholarship. also a scholarship from the juilliard school. >> your mom -- issue with the sheriff's office? >> she is. she works with the sheriff's department. >> so she is at the ygc. i was there recently and she attacked me. she is ever so proud of you and talked about how amazing it is to go to juilliard. how excited and proud we are of you as well. we wish you the best of luck. come back and dance for us. [applause] tell your mom hello for us. >> have a good time in new york. >> have a great time in new york. but not too much of a good time. president mendoza: item j is the request to speak on general matters. i have quite a few speakers. if i call your name, please come up. if you are a student, please come right up to the microphone.

this goes to students in the oakland community grades 8 through 12 who get a gpa of 3.0 or higher. >>> it's game day and this student has his bats ready and his books. he is a 4.0 student who plays baseball, french horn and jazz trumpet and just made the african-american honor roll for the second year in a row. >> we work hard. we are from logan tech and that does not mean we are not the same as anybody else who is from a suburb. >> referree: he is one of 1,076 african-american students in oakland getting awards tonight. a coalition of groups started the honor roll to encourage academic achievement. >> people here hear a lot of negative stories about african- americans in the community. this is to say we appreciate the hard work you are doing. >> referree: now, nearly 19% of honored for academic achievement. nakita says it inspired her she is heading to mount holy oak this fall, the first in her family to go to college. >> it is hard to go home and study because the concept of studying not ingrained. it is hard to stay away from the trouble that we see but it is worthwhile and i think

[applause] >> the president congratulated the class of 2011 on having the highest gpa of any class in the coast guard history. he also told the new graduates a lot will be expected of them and said he is sure they will meet those expectations. >>> air force one with president obama onboard had to abort its first landing attempt as mr. obama arrived in connecticut. the white house says it was overcast at the time and visibility was below the minimum. the pilots decided to circle around and make a second landing attempt. the faa says it's a common safety procedure and after circling backing air force one landed safely. >>> people with electric cars can now charge them at the oakland airport. >> there's no electricity on until we plug it into the car. >> just two hours ago, officials unveiled their eight new charge point charging stations located in the premiere parking area. electric car owners are delighted. >> i've been coming here for two years with this car, and to actually have the electricity all set up and so easy to use, and it actually doesn't cost anything. the airport gives u

. >> reporter: ditiyan had turned his life around with a 3.0 gpa headed to college and 15 days to go before graduation. >> we'll always love you and one day heal your broken heart. >> reporter: in east oakland, kiet do, cbs 5. >> we are getting our first look at some surveillance video of a deadly shooting in oakland last week. now, police say it appears to have been an attempt at robbery. the victim is a 42-year-old man who was garden when he was approached by four men. an argument started and then apparently he -- that's when he was shot. the four men took off running and police are looking into whether that crime may be connected to others in the area. >>> some other bay area headlines for you. every bart police officer will soon be armed with a taser. the bart board just approved spending $140,000 to buy 130 more tasers. an outside consultant recommended the purchase of more tasers after the shooting death of oscar grant. the former officer who shot and killed grant said that he thought he was reaching for his taser when he fired his gun. >>> and neighbors say they are still shel

although when people with genetically elevated gpa, other studies show only niasin work. >> it may be that group of people may be treated with niasin. i don't think we should jump to a category judgment here. >> reporter: they expect to soon make public a test that can actually predict individual heart risks. doctors say all research point to controlling weight, making donuts good props but not good food. reporting live, john fowler ktvu channel 2 news. >>> facebook founder mark zuckerberg is trying a diet. he says that he plans to eat only meat that he killed himself. and that is making him mainly a vegetarian. zuckerberg givers himself a new challenge every year. last year he learned chinese. >>> medical experts found most of the deaths were due to underlying health health issues. >>> we showed you the beginning of this newscast how a lot of drivers are hitting the roads this holiday weekend. but maybe some of them shouldn't be. a new survey shows that one in five americans will fail a driving test if they had to take one right now. more than 5,000 licensed drivers from every state

likelihood of finding a student whose family makes under $60,000 who is going to post the scores and the gpasave about 18% of the freshmen class this year who fits that category. we want to make sure that people can come regardless of their financial circumstances. >> reporter: alyssa mackey is one of those students. >> i was actually applying to schools and my father passed away. that dramatically changed our financial situation. so that's why i'm in need of the assistance. when i applied, i didn't know about the financial aid initiative. i remember my mom opening the letter and thinking that there was a mistake because it said family contribution zero. >> there are many college presidents struggling with how to attract students from historically disadvantaged populations and what they can do. what is it you would say to them? >> we have to send the message to students that we want them and those of us who can support the financial aid programs like ours will do so. >> how has this program impacted your career decisions? >> if there was no financial aid initiative, there would be maybe a lit

likelihood of finding a student whose family makes under $60,000 who is going to post the scores and gpasat harvard has? >> we have habit 18% of the freshman class this year who fits that category. we want to make sure that people who are talented and can take fullest advantage of the opportunities here can come regardless of their financial circumstances. >> elisa mackie is one of those students. >> i was applying to school as my father passed away. so that dramatically changed other financial situation. so that's why i'm in need of the assistance. when i applied, i didn't know about the initiative. it wasn't until about three weeks before i showed up on campus that i got my financial aid pack and i remember my mom opening the letter thinking it might be a mistake because it said family contribution, zero. >> when you started here at harvard, you had a responsibility as part of the financial aid package you're receiving, right? >> there is a student contribution, it's not a lot of money. >> there are many college presidents struggling with how to attract students from historically disadv

her husband left with the gpa three days after getting stuck in the hopes of finding help.e hasn't been seen since. the forest service says there are a lost gorges in the area that would make it easy to get lost. weather over the past month has included rain, snow, and cold temperatures. >>> on this mother's day, we want to tell you the story of one local mother on a mission, a mission to find her son's killer. five years ago marcus johnson was shot and killed outside his home on 1st street in d.c. his mother has devoted her life to finding the person who pulled the trigger and bring that person to justice. news 4's pat collins has more on her daily struggle. >> reporter: mildred johnson is a mother on a mission. out to find out who killed her son. she goes to the scene and hangs up fliers, and they get torn down, she puts them up again. she's been doing this since the murder five years ago. >> just left him in the street. pain, that's all i have. that's all i have left is pain. >> reporter: mildred johnson has three sons. maurice a, a former tight end for the philadelphia

, kind of a steady curve upwards, black students with a three-point five gpa or higher suffered a huge hit to the popular to. in his words the black suit with a 4.0 has an average one and have averaged your friends of the same ethnicity than a wasted with the same gpa. the study as about popularity in general, not about specific bullying incidents but it does shed light on the unfortunate fact that academic success sometimes can be penalized by one's peers. interestingly he found the acting white criticism seems of a stronger effect on boys, which possibly could held a claim why black boys graduate less than black girls. the rate at which the males lose friends at this point for credit as a result, blackmail high achievers had notably fewer friends than do female ones. i want to emphasize and clarify the that many students from all races who criticize nerds or geeks or in some way antagonistic towards the role of school. is a been an unfortunate kind of intellectual event of american life from a decade. 50 years ago the sociologist jane coleman found in his book the adolescent society,

almost as important as your gpa now. >> holy cow. obviously they are dealing with so much.mily? >> well, for the family, they should not be rating your retirement no -- raiding their retirement to help him. they should let him dig out on his own. but so many people don't tap their ability to take federal loans before digging into the private ones. you have to do it first. they are much easier to repay. >> and the income based repayment plan is key for many students in this position. they need to look into the plan. it means you can pay what you afford at the time. for people without a job that's almost nothing so they have time. >> and paying what you can afford is better than not paying. >> we have one more question from ali in north carolina. a viewer e-mail. he said we paid off our credit card debt in november of 2010 and haven't charged anything on our cards since. we hope to never use credit cards again but we are not sure it will be a good idea. will our credit score be damaged by having open credit card accounts we are not using? should we keep the accounts open? >>

[cheers and applause] i'm also told of the class of 2011 has earned the highest gpa of any class in the history of this academy. [cheers and applause] so these are not just pretty faces here. [laughter] well done. you excelled percussion only, pulling together in succeeding together during your training, serving in dozens of countries on six continents, cutters saving lives on the high seas, joining maritime exercises that their foreign partners, keeping illegal from reaching their streets. through it all, you've embraced a liking for the c. that includes a liking and respect one another. you come from every station in life, every corner of our country, including my home state of hawaii. in fact, i am told that cadet jennifer prock dear comes from my own high school, punahou in honolulu. where is she? jennifer, come on. [applause] this academy welcomes cadets from all over the world, including two dedicated young men in your class from the marshall islands and romania. and i want to thank president president zedkaia as well as king george tupou from tonga among the zedekiah nations for

and as graduates you can say, there are not a lot of jobs out there, but at least i have a 2.1 gpa. and when you buy your first house, and we may have to live in a smaller house but at least my mother-in-law is coming to live with us. and back in the igloo, i saidsai am so sorry and i didn't mean to mess up the igloo. and he said, big e, anyone who will call through their puke, and i will climb to the top. and he did. and i have great time climbing mountains and i love goals. and all of you have multitude of goals that will keep you busy and in my life what more than important than any one goal is what i call vision. and i see vision more differently than others, it's more of an internal vision. how we see ourselves living our lives and serving other people and impacting the world. and what legacy we want to leave behind us. and we can come into these goals and they can be isolated and maybe lead us in directions we didn't want to go to in the first place. and we need to reconnect those goals and to have a vision. and it's one thing to believe the vision and sum it up with focus and

[laughter] i was a 1.8 gpa.ely suggested it might be better to get some time off. i was 20 years old. i was at my lowest point. march 27, 1975, i was helping my mother in the beauty shop she owned up at mount vernon. there was this older woman who was considered one of the elders of the town. i did not know her personally. i was looking at a mirror. i could see her behind me, staring at me. she kept looking at me. she kept giving me these strange looks. she finally took the drier off her head and said something i will never forget. first of all, she said, "give me a piece of paper. young boy, i have a prophecy, a spiritual prophecy. you are going to travel the world and speak to millions of people." i am 20 years old. i am flunked out of school. i am thinking maybe she has something in her crystal ball about me getting back into school next couple -- next fall. but maybe she was on to something. later that summer, working as a camp counselor, we put on a talent show. after the show, another camp counselor said,

i was a 1.8 gpa one semester.ity very politely suggested that it might be better to take some time off. i was 20 years old. i was at my lowest point. one day, i remember the exact day, march 27, 1975, i was helping my mother in her beauty shop. there was this old woman who was considered one of the elders in the town. i did not know her personally, but i was looking in the mirror. she was staring at me. she just kept looking at me and she was giving me these strange looks. she finally took the dryer off of her head and she said something i would never forget. for she said -- get me a piece of paper, someone. she said -- young boy, i have a prophecy. a spiritual prophecy. she said -- you are going to travel the world and speak to millions of people. remind you, i am 20. flunked out of school. i am thinking that maybe she has something in that crystal ball about got -- going back to school. but maybe she was on to something. later that summer in connecticut be put on a talent show at the ymca, one of the counselors

as graduates, you could say, "hey, there's not a lot of jobs out there but at least i have a 2.1 gpa." or when you buy your first house, "you know honey, we may have to move into a smaller house than we wanted to but at least my mother-in-law's coming to live with us." but back in the igloo, i said, "chris, i am so sorry. i didn't mean to throw up and ruin the entrance of the igloo." and he did something so nice-he slapped me on the back as hard as he possibly could, and he said, "big e., anyone who stands on the top of north america, i'll crawl through his puke any day." and he did, he crawled right through. i was touched. [laughter] i've had such a good time in the mountains, climbing to the tops of mountains and coming down with friends around me. climbing and summiting a mountain is very much a goal. it's linear, it's tangible, it's reachable. i love goals. i know all of you have multitudes and multitudes of goals that will keep you very busy that are very important. visions and goals but in my life, and i imagine in yours too, what's been more important than any one goal, is what