she has been at harvard since 2007. before that she was at the university of pennsylvania for 25 years. her academic career has focused on the civil war and the american south. she has been a prominent historian. as the president of harvard, she is focused on ensuring that there is education opportunity for all, for insuring that harvard bring means adverse on every level and at harvard remains the place that is attracting the best in the united states regardless of background as well in the world. she has spoken eloquently about the role that harvard plays not only in insuring educational leadership but our economic leadership as well. with that i like to invite drew up. [applause] >> thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. >> let's start on the topic of innovation and harvard role with in it. i think of harvard and other university is planning to roles -- two roles. you are teaching the next generation of entrepreneurs and your professors of making those discoveries. how do you see both of those layers? role ofou se

and harvard university some students there have formed a club based on bondage and harvard may fund it it what? rehope you stay tuned to those reportrtrtrtrt >> impact segment tonight, holing parents accountable for what their teenagers do. last month on long island 17-year-old joseph beater crashed his car killing four of his friends. beer charged with vehicular homicide among other crimes. police say he was hide on marijuana as he drove more than 100 miles per hour. his four friends were ejected from the scuba radio subaru car hit a tree split in half they werilled. charging the patients in the case. kathleen rice joins us now. parents thing is interesting. what are you charging them with and why? >> he they were charged with unlicensed operation of a vehicle for one simple fact. they bought a car for their son. they knew he didn't have a license to drive the car. and when they handed him the keys of that car that was a recipe for disaster. it was like handing him a loaded gun. >> bill: he had a learner's permit, 17 years old. not entitled in new york state to drive alone, correct. >

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welcome he learned about this opportunity at his harvard club, which was sort of a fraternity at harvard, the more self-important i guess. someone came to talk to the guys at the club who had made contact in england with the american ambassador, the british foreign secretary, and had worked out a way for this regiment called the kings world rifle corps, which had actually formed up originally in america, before the american revolution. it had its roots in the french and indian war. of course after the revolution there were no more americans in the regiment, but in 1940, 41, it seemed like me to a good idea to bring a few americans to the battlefield. and through various informal channels i guess you'd say, arrangements have been made for a few americans to join the kings world rifle corps and become officers. so when my uncle heard about this he thought, sounds pretty good. >> now, was he the leader of the five, the band of five? or did they separately decide to attend as will? >> welcome he was sort of the center of the group in that he made the decision to go. there was one other harva

when i first walked into harvard street i could visualize the school. even our children are involved in everyday planning and we want to have a small school no more than 20 kids and a school with small teacher-children ratios which reflects san francisco values. by teaching social responsibility and justice, inclusion, green living, bean a small locally run business while providing a curriculum that prepares children academically, socially and emotional for kindergarten. commissioners it was not our in[t-ebts/] to bulldoze into the neighbor and not include our new neighbors in the process. i have never done this before and if anything i have been a bit naive in the process. i thought everyone would be happy a small mom and pop school -- excuse me, especially since there are so many families living there. excuse me. after i spoke with some of the neighbors i felt i had a better understanding why there were so many reservations. there was a bad experience with the halfway house and some of the community felt they had no input and there was rumors of a bro

this past spring, harvard and princeton posted record-low acceptance rates with harvard admitting just00 of the 34,000 applicants, a rate of 5.9%. 5.9! really? because i calculated that myself, and it's 2,000, 34, 000, like that, and i i got will be boobies. ( laughter ). now, no wonder worried parents spend thousands on s.a.t. prep courses, math tudors, english tudors, mandarin lessons, not to pad the child's resume but so it can claw out the eyes of the competition. good luck filling out your application now. now, luckily, there is a much simpler way to give kids a leg up. and it brings us to tonight's word ( cheers and applause ) higher learning nation, you can get the best tutor money can buy, but ultimately, there's always going to be one thing standing in the way of your kid's potential. that obstacle-- your kid. because after giving them every possible advantage, many parents fiend out their kid doesn't get into hafer or princeton. what are they supposed to do, have their kid packed off to some technical school? folks, that's why there's a growing trend of parents hiring tutor t

harvard does a fantastic job. a lot of private institutions, a kid will end up with $100,000 in debt. public education is cutting back. it is a terrible squeeze. >> some of the work being done to integrate and we talk about the dangers of universities and businesses getting together. one thing we can do is create the ability for the schools at all levels to teach kids things that local employers need to be employed. then teach them something about shakespeare and the constitution and make them good citizens. give them skills that allow them to support themselves in the marketplace of the future. >> community colleges have been an engine but we're cutting back on community colleges. >> we talk about the full range of this. support of universities. more money is better. a business person thinks less money is better. today it is cheaper to start a business because all the tools are now available on the web. we have taken the cost of innovation down enormously. there are ways in which we can reduce the costs and reach

one of them is you can't spell harvard without vd. [laughter] and in 2009 they decided to go highbrow. the ticket quote from the 1920 book by f. scott fitzgerald and it is i believe all harvard men are sissies like i used to be giving it a very pretentious, like a lot of us and extending about why i'm going to princeton. and there are -- and scott fitzgerald, we agree. so they finally got highbrow in this fight and they were banned from having this t-shirt because someone claimed this was meant to be an anti-gang slurs. this isn't the delegation. that is in the way that was met in the book. if it was all harvard men are gay like i used to be which is not -- [laughter] i'm not as young as i used to be. but to my knowledge anybody under the age of like 50 using the word souci is making an anachronistic joke. they are making fun of themselves. but they are nonetheless banned from having this on a t-shirt at yale, the university of promises to the students you shouldn't be allowed to mention the unmentionable and say the unsalable it's re

he was the ultimate insider, and even when he went to harvard because half of his class went from him to boston to harvard, and there were about 10% of the students were catholic and a much larger percentage from public schools in and around boston he still considered himself an insider. they didn't let him into some of their clubs. but that didn't bother him nearly as much as the fact that he was too slow to make the varsity baseball team. he got his letter but was never a starter. he graduated from harvard, and his life began she wanted to go banking and finance, and he discovered every door was closed to him because he was an irish catholic from each boston whose father had been a leader. his friends, his classmates got interviews, got jobs at the major banks, the major financial institutions. he does nothing. nothing. alana an answer, not an interview, nothing. she was still going to go into banking savitt took a soulful service exam and became an assistant bank examiner and he traveled around the state examining the books of the banks and learned more about the banks as he ever w

while another harvard man took over the nba.er stunned the country by upholding the president's health care law from the big chair on the united states supreme court. it was enough to make one more harvard guy sing. ♪ i'm so in love with you >> reporter: not quite as strong a year for the harvard of the pacific northwest. reed college, represented here on "wheel of fortune." >> fan, fan, wand! oh! >> reporter: 2012 was a tantalizingly cruel year if you were a lion simply trying to eat a young child at the zoo. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: it was a bad year in new york city if you were a person simply trying to drink a giant bucket of soda. but defenders of food freedom fought back. with a mashed potato vending machine. an ice cream cone crust pizza and a bacon sundae. our faith was shaken a bit this year when a nun was caught on tape at a convenience store slipping tall boys into her habit. and the oft-mocked doomsday prophecy ultimately came true with the announcement that hostess would stop making the twinkie. end times, indeed

at harvard. someone came to talk to the guys at the club who had made contact in england with the american ambassador. the british foreign secretary and have worked out a way for this regiment called the kings corps, which had actually warmed up originally in america. before the american revolution. so it had starts in french and indian war. after the revolution, there were no more americans in the regiment. in 1940 and 41, it seemed like a good way to bring a few americans to the battlefield. and through various informal channels, i guess i should say, arrangements have been made for a few americans to join the rifle corps and become officers. so when my uncle heard about this, he thought it sounded pretty good. >> was he the leader of the five -- the band of five? >> or did they simply decide to attend as well? >> he was sort of the center of the group in that he made the decision to go. there was one of their harvard boy that was only 19 at the time. a boy that had grown up in england and come

i recognize there are concerns from the neighbors in potrero on harvard street. we have heard directly from the concerns through the community meeting around traffic, noise and parking. i think from the testimony you have already heard tonight sarah and lawrence take this very seriously. they are planners and as you saw from your planning packet, they have a plan to mitigate and be able to be a good neighbor in the potrero neighborhood. issues raised by michelle and cat, an additional consideration for the commission is what is state of children and families in san francisco? with only 13% of children in san francisco -- it's one of the smallest populations across the country. what kind of message are we sending for children and families who want to stay in san francisco and raise -- to be able to stay for generations? i am really proud of the san franciscans investing in public housing, which has passed around our parks, building infrastructure and to me another key fabric to that is children. in closing building a school isn't only a dream for sarah stein, but

secondly, we see it as a way to get harvard ideas and harvard teaching out to a broader world and way to accumulate a lot of data that can be an extraordinary resource for anybody who like to use that material to ask questions about the nature of human learning and how it ought to be structured. on the point about spreading learning to the rest of the world, i have a very moving reaction to one bit of data. one of the pilot courses. when i was in india, i met with people in india who were wanting to interact with harvard. there is a need for engagement with our schools public health. we have enormous challenges in that area. i was talking to these individuals about what kind of courses we might involve them in. this online course that i described steele has overall more than 40,000 students and 9000 of them come from india. last january i was thinking how can i put people together and what programs onemight we run? this is dazzling. i would like to get a map of where they all are in india. i do know based on another conversation last week that 150 of these people in mumbai got togethe

she has been at harvard since 2007.efore that she was at the university of pennsylvania for 25 years. her academic career has focused on the civil war and the american south. she has been a prominent historian. as the president of harvard, she is focused on ensuring that there is education opportunity for all, for insuring that harvard remains diverse on every level and harvard remains the place that is attracting the best in the united states regardless of background as well in the world. she has spoken eloquently about the role that harvard plays not only in insuring educational leadership but our economic leadership as well. with that i would like to invite drew up. [applause] >> thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. >> let's start on the topic of innovation and harvard role with in it. i think of harvard and other university is planning two roles. you are teaching the next generation of entrepreneurs and your professors of making those discoveries. how do you see both of those layers? how do you see harvard's ro

the cardinal is now 9-4. >> harvard was playing cal. the crimson can play. the the bears creab leads the pac-12 in scoring. he had a game-high 27 but it wasn't enough, harvard hangs on for the victory. cal falls to 8-4. >> santa clara was at number one duke behind kevin foster's 29. this dunk puts santa clara up by four in the second half but duke rallied behind steph curry's younger brother seth, and finished with a career high 31. the blue devils with the victory. santa clara drops to 11-3. >>> on tuesday, standard will play -- stanford will play it in 1st rose bowl. the last time was in 1999 when it lost to wisconsin 17-9. the bammers led by monte ball will be the opponent. this is the third straight year they've been the rose bowl. they lost the previous two. the last one to oregon. wisconsin is hoping the third time will be the charm, but stanford is a 6-1/2 point favorite. >> two similar teams, like to run the football and play great defense. we don't know anything but that. and whatever people say about point preds, those things don't matter. everythi

after he and ann had a short time together, he met another woman at harvard. just like with ann, he swept her off her feet and she became entranced by him. she went back to kenya with him, nairobi, ma and married him. and i interviewed her. i was the first reporter to interview her. that's the way these things go, and more power to sally and all these biographers who come after me. the story moves on, it grows deeper and deeper. but in any case when i talked to her, she told me the stories of how abusive barack, sr. was, that he beat her commune, he was an alcoholic. that would've been the fate of barry had they stayed together for a while in kenya, we talked to you about ruth baker and i want to show just a little piece of video. >> where is she now? [inaudible] >> is going to come up and have lunch with us. the interview is a little later. spent david, who is that? >> this is the fifth member. lisa, an american who lives in mumbai, who is also a writer. lisa has been instrumental in helping me connect the roots. barack obama seniors third wife is americanize

the cardinal is now 9-4. >> harvard was playing cal. the crimson can play.he the bears creab leads the pac-12 in scoring. he had a game-high 27 but it wasn't enough, harvard hangs on for the victory. cal falls to 8-4. >> santa clara was at number one duke behind kevin foster's 29. this dunk puts santa clara up by four in the second half but duke rallied behind steph curry's younger brother seth, and finished with a career high 31. the blue devils with the victory. santa clara drops to 11-3. >>> on tuesday, standard will play -- stanford will play it in 1st rose bowl. the last time was in 1999 when it lost to wisconsin 17-9. the bammers led by monte ball will be the opponent. this is the third straight year they've been the rose bowl. they lost the previous two. oregon. one to wisconsin is hoping the third time will be the stanfor charm, but stanford is a 6-1/2 point favorite. >> two similar teams, like to run the football and play great defense. we don't know anything but that. and whatever people say about point preds, those things don't matter. everything

bush now an economics prof s professor at harvard and ron johnson, director at the institute for new economic thinking and a senior fellow at the roosevelt institute. skwre, good to have you both

and i'm going to end by telling a story of a young harvard college graduate, beautiful spring day in 1844 went for a walk in the woods outside of concord, and he did a little fishing, and the fishing was good. and then he came to cook the fish into a chowder. it is boston, after all. [laughter] and the wind came and flicked the flames that he was using to nearby dry grass, and a fire started, and it spread, and it spread. and eventually, it turned into a raging inferno which burn withed down more than 300 acres of prime woodland. in his own day this man was cast away, and it's hard not to see they were right because i can't think of any young man living in boston or cambridge who did as much damage to the environment as this man did. he is, of course, henry david thoreau whose book walden seems to preach a gospel, but his own life tells a very different story. his own life preaches the moral that we are a destructive species, and if you love nature, stay away from it. [laughter] as, indeed, thoreau would have done the world a wonderful amount of good if he had stayed home. now, there

c-span: harvard? >> guest: yeah, the--an outside reader on the dissertation, but from another university. c-span: but from ucla. >> guest: no, at harvard. c-span: at harvard. ok. >> guest: yeah. she--we met just, i think, through the field. i met her at stanford and she would come to harvard and give talks, and so i thought she would be a good person to--to work with. c-span: now are you political along the way? do you have strong feelings about anything? >> guest: no, but the press has made a big deal of the fact that i'm a registered democrat and i--you know, i've done this book on reagan. but i've not really been actively involved in politics. when i was younger i had internships, one in washington for pete mccloskey, who was a republican, but the main reason i worked for him is that he was very supportive of a school i went to in east palo alto, an elementary and high school, and he--he offered me the job. so that's the--the reason. but i've never really been involved in politics at any serious le

he's a harvard graduate as well. next year january 31 and i just been coming to city hall to try to get support for him as well, and that's pretty much all i have to sai. i would like him to speak for himself. >> i want to thank the commission for its work. this is my second time appearing at city hall. the first time i had the opportunity again to witness a session like this, and i want to thank everybody. i want to thank supervisor olague. i have read much about the commission work from the examiner, the san francisco examiner. like jamal and my case manager. i see supervisor mar and supervisor campos and i have been reading about san francisco and all about its developments on the san francisco examiner which as you know is a free newspaper, and i have been seeing all the work you are doing in my district where i live, bay district and bringing things there and cleaning up the navy yard and affordable housing and like jamal said i am trying to get asylum. i moved into this country in 1996 at harvard university and

unqualified and the father gave money to harvard and gets in to harvard and thinking of whether it eastr toure's kid but does the right things growing up to position themselves in to harvard, how big of a problem is it buying a way in or legacies, you know, the children of alumni and maybe not that qualified, how many spots are they eating up from people who should be taking them? >> well, i don't think it's a huge problem because, frankly, i don't think most people have millions and millions of dollars to contribute to top schools. the truth is schools do survive based on, you know, how large their endowments are. schools can't improve their programs, private schools can't, without the funds to be able to, you know, create state of the art facilities, to hire top-notch teacher talent and in that way they care about whether alumni are contributing the school. i won't say that that hasn't made a difference in some cases but overall i think schools need to maintain the integrity of the academic rigor of the classes because they need their alumni to do well. >> all right. kim, thanks for h

harvard business psychological. [laughter] >> that's not in their recruiting literature. [laughter] >> the people who educated west more lan. [laughter] >> as did robert mcnamara, by the way. there's a real track record for vietnam and harvard business school. so they don't value education. and general petraeus pointed out that education prepares you to think critically, and these guys really were not able to figure out the situation that well in vietnam. abrams, by contrast, very similar history, very similar, i mean, talk about greatest generation, this is the guy who drives, i think, the lead tank in the relief of the 101st airborne at the battle of the bulge yet is able to think critically partly, i think, because he had time to watch west moreland. not as big a different as the army likes to think, not necessarily a better war but certainly a somewhat different war under creighton abrams when he succeeds westmoreland. though i do think the army coming out of vietnam also reinforces this mistake. it rebuilds its

he graduated from harvard and his wife began.he wanted to going to banking come finance and he discovered that every door was closed. an irish catholic -- [inaudible] his friends, his classmates who are not irish catholic that interviews, got jobs from major banks, major financial institution. we've got nothing. not an answer, not in interview, nothing. you were still going to go into banking. so we took a civil service exam and became assistant bank and traveled around the state, examining the books and learned more about tanks than he ever would have had he gone directly management position. he wanted to get rich and he wanted as he said over and over again to make enough money so that he could leave every one of his nine children a million dollars trust fund. in order to do that, he realized that he had to do more than be a banker. he had to make deals. he had to float stock options. he had to raise money in and around boston. again, he realized as an irish catholic of east boston he didn't have the connections they never have

who have every much a desire to enjoy beautiful music or beautiful art as people with educations at harvard columbia princeton or indiana university so i think we have to recognize there's nothing for me to disagree with erin separate work and while there are much more urgent and pressing needs. i don't disagree with that at all i like what i mean if you know there are there is a use in new york city that make them so as old and well i think there are very different when i was talking about hoing talking about homelessness. leslie do you want to reply to that to keep going you're perfectly welcome to give your money to those. you're perfectly welcome to give your money to those sorts of things that's what philanthropies all about if you believe that something is of urgent need support it organize a group to do something about it we also elect representatives to congress and a president to make decisions that they believe in their capacity as elected officials are in the broad interest of the public we have multiple ways of doing this just because you. agree on. things you are not something

i'm glad they are well represented here with menn and harvard. >> harvard does a fabulous job, but in many cases these private institutions, tuitions that they feel they have to charge, kid's going to end up with a $100,000 in debt. while public education is cutting back. it is a terrible squeeze. >> it's very important, for instance, some of the work being done -- not just community colleges, but also by extension some of the great universities to integrate in, we talked earlier about the dangers of universities and businesses getting together, benefits but also dangers associated with it. one of the things that we can do that's really important outside of this scientific innovation piece, is create the ability for our schools at all levels to teach kids things that local employers need to have to be employed. then while they are there teach them a little something about shakespeare and the constitution and make them good citizens and engage people. give them skills that allow them to support themselves in the marketplace of the future. >> which is why community colleges have been su

the firearms industry is like the harvard business school case of success, but after sandy hook, key investors like large retirement funds are now pulling their money out. they're questioning if it's all about profit. the nra's suggestion has been met with an avalanche of gun controlaed vok ats and i'll talk to the executive director of gun owners of america who says the nra has it exactly right and how to plan your trip around weather delays and snowstorms across the country. [ woman ] too weak. wears off. [ female announcer ] stop searching and start repairing. eucerin professional repair moisturizes while actually repairing very dry skin. the end of trial and error has arrived. try a free sample at eucerinus.com. everything about the oral-b power brush is simply revolutionary. our unique brush head cleans in three directions with up to 50% more brush movements than leading sonic technology. oral-b power brushes. go to oralb.com for the latest offers. can i still ship a gift in time for christmas? yeah, sure you can. great. where's your gift? uh... whew. [ male announcer ] break fr