student at harvard he would walk by this astronomical archive. >> eyes and a lot of time at harvard when i was a graduate student at m.i.t. and i saw the pictures and it didn't even register. it didn't even register and all of a sudden i was like oh my gosh there's a picture. i'm sure it had been up there since i was in med school. was pretty dusty and it wasn't new but it's so funny didn't notice even in the fabric of the building. i went there almost every day for years. next slide, please. >> we call this the paper doll. there they all are. henrietta leavitt is on this side with the black bow and annie cannon is all in white with a similar bow but not as dark. this was just the staff out for a lark pose. it's like your picture with janna. i'm sure will be equally famous one day. we were talking about these books in the context of that photo. >> these are the record books. people wrote down what they were doing and what they were looking at. >> how did you use these? >> i was looking at the handwriting that i was in a lot of ways directed to some of the specific plates that different w

he was going to harvard and yale. brandice, harvard law school, he went to columbia, a fairly good law school, might i say. top of his class at harvard law school. goldberg went to northwestern. not officially ivy league, but tremendously good law school. fordice went to yale, of course. ruth bader ginsburg by the way went to harvard and yale. she followed her husband who was a year ahead of her. when he moved to new york to get a job she went to could lumbia she's the only not only woman, one of the few people who were on two law reviews, harvard and columbia law review. steven breyer went to harvard and stanford. and elena kagan went to princeton and harvard law school. part of the acrulturation was the decline of anti-semetism. he received much more notoriety tried to introduce a quota on jewish admissions at harvard. it was through the jewish students who grew up most -- frankfurter, fordice were the first members of their family to go to college. then they went all to these very prestigious law schools. and so it

graduated from either harvard or yale. can you state that any of these jewish justices did not go to one of these elite law schools, and can you talk about the role of elite law schools in kind of normalizing or kosherizing these justices so it is okay they are on the supreme court? >> what is interesting, of course -- i just menti mentioned garland, he would be the ninth justice to have gone to harvard or yale law school is what the media mentioned. brandeis, harvard law school. cardoza went to columbia, a fairly good law school might i say. frankfurter, top of his class at harvard law school. gold ber goldberg went to northwestern, a good law school. not officially ivy league but a tremendously good law school. fortis went to yale. ruth bader ginsburg went to harvard and yale. when her husband moved to new york to get a job, she went to columbia. she is only one of the two women in history who was on the columbia and harvard lar review. stephen breyer went to stanford as an undergraduate and harvard law school. elena kag

the largest minority group in harvard's incoming class is asian-americans, at 22%. one point that is often scrutinized as a factor in admissions, there's other factors that have always been accounted for that provide a great benefit to certain students that others don't get. guest: absolutely. legacy preferences help children of alumni. there are preferences for children of very wealthy people. preferences for football players who may not be always the most stellar academic performers. i do think it's important when people sometimes criticize admissions policies, they assume some pure meritocracy where everyone is evaluated the same way. that hasn't been the case in american higher education perhaps ever. host: you also pointed out the issue of income. an op-ed in today's "washington post," christine points to that issue. she writes "what is essential to understand is it is not a fast cloud of practice around people keeping students out of their -- it is not ae vast crowd of black or brown people keeping white americans out of the colleges of their choice, especiall

and elaine that kagan went to princeton and harvard law school. so the decline of anti-semitism in the legal profession, it was a lawrence -- you'll ready about in my book hopefully who led the anti-semetic opposition, to president of harvard to bran diaz his appointment. it was through these jewish student who grew up, frankfurter, fortus and goldberg were all the first members of the family to go to college. and then they went from -- they went to all these very preteenager just law schools. so it was par of the greater acceptance in the -- in the law schools that helped the change -- help bring about a decrease of anti-semitism in the legal profession. and one story that's very interesting i think when bran dices daughter, anti-bebelief, the mother graduated at the top of her class, bran dice was very interested and she had hoped, at least the story i'm told, to have gone to harvard, yale or colombia. the problem is at that time there were no women admitted. each of the deans said they'd love to admit her but there'd be another ten years before

admissions to harvard in the 1920s. it was through these jewish students who grew up -- frankfurter, fordice were the first members of their families to go to college. they went to these prestigious law schools. so it was part of the greater acceptance in the law school than helped the -- change -- helped bring about a decrease of anti-semitism in the legal profession. just to end this on one story that's very interesting, i think, when grandice's daughter and i believe it's mr. gi gillbreath's mother graduated at the top of her class. she had hoped to have gone to harvard or yale or columbia. the problem was in 1917, there were no women yet admitted. each of the deans said they would love to admit her but it would be another ten years before they would admit women. she went to not a bad law school, the university of chicago. where she met her husband, another law student. but i think it's what she said. as the decline of the -- there was a gradual decline of anti-semitism in the american legal profession. it was foster

brandice harvard cardoza went to harvard. fortus went to yale. ruth bader ginsburg went to harvard and columbia. she followed her husband. she went to columbia and she is one of the few people in history who were on two law reviews. steven briar went to stanford as an under graduate. elena kagan went to princeton and harvard law school. a part of the, it was -- and then they went from, they want to these prestigious law schools. and so it was part of the greater acceptance in the law school that helped the change -- helped bring about a decrease of anti-semetism in the legal profession. to end this on what's very interesting, when brandice's daughter and gilbert's mother graduated at the top of the class, brandice was very interested and she had hoped, at least the story i'm told, to go to harvard, yale, columbia. in 1917 there were no women admitted. they would love to admit her but it would be another ten years before they would admit women. she went to not a bad law school, university of chicago where she met her husband, another law student,

year, harvard would not give you a degree.egree from columbia. justice ginsburg: they said i had to stay for the third year. charlie: your husband was moving to new york. justice ginsburg: yes. i did not want to be a single mom. there were two things. marty had been diagnosed with a severe cancer. we did not know how long he was going to live, we didn't want to be a part -- we did not want to be a part that year. i didn't want to be a single mom to my three-year-old daughter. so i asked the dean if i successfully complete my education at columbia, well i get a harvard degree? absolutely not. you have to spend a third year here. i had the perfect rebuttal. a classmate of mine had taken her first year of law school elsewhere. she transferred her second year class. i said to the dean, she will have year two and three and you're going to give her a degree? the first year is the most important. you say that. i have year one and two. charlie: to come back to the point, what is lovely about this story, they then wanted to give you a

when you switched from harvard after two years to columbia for your third year, harvard would not giveyou a degree. you cot a degree from columbia. >> they said i had to stay for the third year. >> rose: and you got your third year, because your husband was moving to new york, correct? >> yes. >> rose: right. but -- >> and i didn't want to be a single mom. but there were two things, really. marty had been diagnosed with a very serious cancer. we didn't know how long he was going to live, so we didn't want to be apart that year, and i didn't want to be a single mom to my then three-year-old daughter. >> rose: right. so i asked the dean if i successfully complete my legal education at columbia, will i get a harvard degree? absolutely not. you have to spend the third year here. i had the perfect rebuttal argument, because a classmate of mine at cornell had taken her first year of law school at penn. she transferred into our second year class. i said to the dean, mrs. isslebagle will have year two and three opened you will give her a degree. you say the first year is by far the most import

he went to harvard and then to harvard divinity school and he was in boston second parish for some years. he was a minister and trained as a minister. but he left the pulpit. he had some difficulties with the doctrines and he wanted to move on. just at that moment there were new opportunities arising for the movement where someone could go and speak and get paid for it. and he started publishing. and those things worked out for them. he married in 1829 but his wife did not live for long. and so he first visited europe and then when he came back he moved to concord. so, in 1834 the family's house was still there so emerson came back in stayed there for a year and that's when he wrote his essay, nature. certainly his first secular publication. it's really properly giving creditors the first transcendentalist manifesto in america which it like a bombshell and made him internationally known and kind of set him up for life for his career as a public intellectual, as a speaker and writer. concord was a farming town about a hundred forms of 60 acres each. but, there is also because they met con

and on its website harvard talks proudly of considering the whole person in its decision. but asian students like wang allege that harvard keeps them out with what amounts to an illegal cap on asian enrollment plus preference for other racial minorities that is according to a lawsuit filed in 2015 by an advocacy group called students for fair admissions. more than 60 asian american associations have joined and this week the trump administration confirmed its investigating saying the department of justice is committed to protecting all americans from all forms of illegal race-based discrimination. >> the problem is the colleges aren't releasing the data about how exactly they're using race. >> ilwhy a schapiro from the cato institute is a think thank ta face. >> you ti discrimination is real. >> absolutely. against asians, against whites to a lesser extent, i don't think this does a service to anyone on our college campuses. >> a spokesperson for harvard says the schools approach is consistent with the legal standards established by the u.s. supreme court. after his harvard

how many asians are too many asians for the harvard incoming class? should there be any limit whatsoever? what if on the merits, if you go by gpa and sat score, you could fill the entire class at harvard with asian-americans, should they do so? >> first of all, there's the multifactorial administration process, nine criteria with grades, letters of recommendation, essay. grades and test scores are not the only consideration. data can easily be manipulated. i'm a cfra holder, but the simple point is that as an asian-american, it is harder to get into college or graduate school than any other racial category. where data is available, it's consistently harder for an asian-american to get in. i used the example of medical school admissions where it was 50% easier to get into medical school as an asian-american compared to an african-american. so statistical data, there's no rationalization for racism. affirmative action is a system of legalized racism. it is a racial classification system that changes people's chances of admission to college or graduate s

after his harvard rejection, michael wang went on to williams and now works for a law firm. elaine. >> quijano: tony dokoupil, thanks. it's been another violent weekend in chicago. at least 14 people were hit by gunfire. 4 yee died, including a 14-year- old boy. additional a.t.f. agents are helping combat gun violence in the city. they're lead by a chicago native. for her, the fight is personal. she spoke to adriana diaz. >> i was that kid that walked to school every day in fear that i was going to get caught in a gang shooting. and no kid should have to live with that fear. so what i say to them is "put the guns down." >> reporter: it is celinez nunez' job to get the guns off chicago's streets. the head of the city's a.t.f. e gusion knows the pain of gang violence personally. when the chicago-native was eight, she lost her cousin-- who she considered a brother-- to gang violence. >> and get the anger that some of these gang members feel, that they want retaliation. and i say, you know what, turn that hurt into greatness and do theything positive. w reporter: as her plan of

drew the lines of harvard graduates. the journey across america in 1964 they went to meet new york city and it wasn't a happy experience. they shifted very far to the political right in that point in time and they went to meet the state's other new york city and that was not a happy experience. larry didn't even greet them even though they had gone 3,000 miles for the encounter to take place. again, to get later into the 1960s, the mid-60s and the latter portion altogether it's almost like one event after another, there's the antiwar protest and in the area in general does the test of 66, 67, golden gate park 1967, the summer of love in 1967, there is altamont, the unveiling of the family in 1969. some spoke to the culture and some spoke to the darker side and you end up with people's own frailties and weaknesses and drug usage brings about all the transmitted diseases that are ushered in and then the lost lives that are such a part of the story. we think of the success, but there are those that burned out along the way.

made sure that jury knew that i went to yale and harvard. character great witnesses. knew how to present myself as black man who a d.c. to send to t wand jail. race -- in the jury? predominantly african-american. people o or three white jury.e as a prosecutor, you learn how read juries. when she's testifying, the jurors are sitting there like anything she ving said and that was before some of witnesses, ent prosecution witnesses came forward. and the prosecutor made a mistake. you learn never to ask a question you don't know the to.wer they said no she lies about everything. happen. this didn't we don't know why we're here. so jury takes less than ten me not guilty. >> had you been convicted, what would have been your sentence? very unlikely that i would stale.ne to i probably would have gotten service.y it was a first time misdemeanor. in terms of my reputation and have sion, it would destroyed me. i didn't tunately, outcome.t you are say it has a psychological impact on you. i have a record. >> there's still people in the .s. attorneys office who look at me differen

i said, i didn't go to harvard law school to put black men in jail. brian: let me go back to my question. how did you do it? you talk about your parents, but you had to get into yale, you had to get into harvard law school. what was your way of doing this? how did you train yourself? paul: i love to read, and i appreciate you trying to give me some of the credit for my academic success. i had a great set of teachers and public schools, these segregated public schools, sometimes african americans are the of romantic about segregated past because the idea is, we were more of a community because of segregation. doctors and lawyers had to live in the same spaces and neighborhoods as bus drivers. there was more economic diversity. there was a sense that people took care of each other more. in some ways, that is not true. when we look at rates of homicide, they were just as bad back then as they are now. in terms of feeling part of this beloved community, that was my experience growing up in this totally segregated all-black chicago. when martin luther king

friendly, president, harvard law. [laughing] he said, i think i deserve to be able to decide my own citation form. so that was it for that one. [laughing] i don't think i had to correct anything after that. likewise, we used to stuff his briefs into a revolving bookcase come into these little cardboard boxes which at the time were used for magazines. each one capable of feeding eight and half by 11 breeze. we had quite a number of materials in the legal size. everything got scrunched into these. and one day i asked his secretary, why do we just get bigger boxes or a different brief or a different bookcase? she said, the judge likes things the way they are. [laughing] fine, fine. about five days later, he has been talking across the hall with judge waterman. he comes rushing into our chambers boiling mad and he goes, how come judge waterman has those great big plastic boxes? [laughing] so we therefore got him the plastic boxes and get rid of the rotating bookcase, and that todd is that he's legends about the judge were

r everything to get into harvard. >> multiple speech, debate award. piano competitions. >> reporter: in 2013, the california high school student was rejected by his dream school even as he says students with lower grades got in. >> asian-americans are set to a higher bar compared to applicants. had i been african-american, latino i may have gone to more schools, not sure myself. >> reporter: the supreme court ruled repeatedly, race can be a factor in college admissions. on the website. harvard talks proudly of considering the whole person in its decisions. but asian students like wang allege that harvard keeps them out with what amounts to illegal cap on asian enrollment and preference for other racial minorities according to a lawsuit filed in 2015 by an advocacy group, students for fair admissions. more than 60 asian-american associations joined, this week the trump administration confirmed it is investigating. saying the department of jufs tis is commi protecting all americans. >> the college is not releasing the data how exactly they're using race

graduate with a doctorate in political science also the first african-american to be the editor of harvard law and wants to be able to understand and teach the history of the constitution but he also wants to be as well-prepared as the key in -- as the key and as a cadre of lawyers to do the good work with those african-american lawyers partly because plessey vs. ferguson with access to that education it takes to prepare yourself. so those are those seminal moments that really prepare him to become the charles houston that we all know. like his professional working career between 1925 with that 25 year period, it is an enviable by any measure and how one of the real tragic elements of houston's life he was born with a congenital heart -- heart defect and was aware of it but even into the late '30's or 40's particularly of the '40's just a slowdown and is a testament to the motivation of charles houston and his dedication that he felt so compelled to do the work that was needed to make the world a better place where the people of the united states and his activities and this is what i argue

of the harvard law review. then distinguished clerkships. she first clerk for judge abner of the d.c. court of appeals and then for thurgood marshall, justice of the supreme court. after her clerkship she practiced law for several years at a washington firm of wiggins and connelly. then she abandoned the practice of law at the call of the academy. she spent four years at the university of chicago as a professor of law there. then service to our president. she served as associate counsel to president bill clinton and later as deputy director of president clinton's domestic policy council. then back to the academy, but this time harvard law. she began as a visiting professor, but they decided they liked her pretty well, and so she became a permanent member of the faculty there, and in 2003 was named dean of the harvard law school. then from there she was asked by president obama in 2009 some become the 45th solicitor general of the united states. a year later, president obama nominated justice kagan to become an

then back to the academy, but this time harvard law. she began as a visiting professor, but they decided they liked her pretty well, and so she became a permanent member of the faculty there and in 2003 was named just the 11th dean of the harvard law school. then from there she was asked by president obama in 2009 to become the 45th solicitor general of the united states. a year later, president obama nominated justice kagan to become associate justice of our supreme court and she was confirmed. do you remember those days? importantly tonight, when the court is in session, justice kagan sits in the chair, the same chair as did louis brandeis when he was a just oice on this court and we are very grateful to justice kagan and i ask you to join me in welcoming our host for the evening. [ applause ] >> thank you for that gracious introduction. when somebody gives an introduction like that i always think, what's the matter with that woman? can't she keep a job? thanks to the supreme court historical society for all you do for the court. i me

harvard has one of the strongest fossil fuel movements in the country.the administration has been intransigent with them and it's really important in this movement because of course harvard is so iconic and if harvard were to make a decision would help other institutions to also make a similar decision. talking to some of the activists there i realized that the arguments during the obama years that the school needs to make it as you know well we don't think divestment is the most effect way to fight climate change. we think it's more effective to have policies and it was a credible possibility that the obama administration would introduce policy that would be quite strong. of course it's being undone by trump and because there is no credible prospects at this moment of federal legislation on climate change the real climate pact for instance, that movement is on anywhere we do have power we have to use it. during the dnc when michelle obama said when they go low, we go high, that was probably the best line of the convention. she was talking about tom and

harvard talks proudly of considering the whole person in its decisions.ut asian students like wang allege that harvard keeps them out with what amounts to illegal cap on asian enrollment and preference for other racial minorities according to a lawsuit filed in 2015 by an advocacy group, students for fair admissions. more than 60 asian-american associations joined, this week the trump administration confirmed it is investigating. saying the department of jufs tis is comm -- justice is committed to protecting all americans. >> the college is not releasing the data how exactly they're using race. a senior fellow at the kato institute. >> reporter: you think discrimination against asian-american applicants is real? >> absolutely. against asians, against whites to a lesser extent. i don't think this does a service to anyone on our college campuses. >> reporter: a spokesperson for harvard says the school's approach is consistent with the legal standards stab lieshed by the u.s. supreme court. after his harvard rejection he went on to williams and now works for

the lawsuit claims harvard is discriminate against asians in its admissions process.yers are trying to prove that asian americans need to score 140 points higher on sats over other students who apply. >>> generous donation from a former california governor. the money he is committing in the wake of the attack in charlottesville over the weekend. >>> a new commuter rail option being proposed. the plant that could connect redwood city in fremont in the form of a new rail network.>>> we can see that traffic is off to a decent start this morning on interstate 80 heading west to the macarthur maze.>>> ever weather is off to a decent start but it is cool. a lot of low 50s in the north. things will slowly clear out and it will be a little bit warmer. keep your hair strong against hot styling tools... ...with pantene 3 minute miracle daily conditioner. a super concentrated pro-v formula makes hair stronger* in just 3 minutes. so it's smoother every day. because strong is beautiful. tim and charlie, 4th graders. 3rd graders today, they don't know how easy they've got it. their

father again, i believe, $2.5 million to harvard. journalists look at the high school the jared kushner went to, and the counselors there said he was not a good student, should not have gotten into harvard, and said there were other students at the school that had far greater merit that they assumed would get in and did not. it is important to understand what the justice department is doing is not about fairness. it is specifically about race. fairness,uld address there are a host of issues that disadvantaged some students over others an advantage those that have traditionally always been advantage. they are going after programs that are having a minute effect on the number of black and latino american students at institutions of higher learning. amy: we will link to that piece "the story behind jared , kushner's curious acceptance into harvard" by daniel golden. golden wrote a book a decade ago called "the price of admission." in propublica, golden writes quote "my book exposed a grubby secret of american higher education -- that th

she's currently studying the 2016 election at harvard.ciate your both being here for an important conversation and one that involves self-reflection and criticism if we're so capable. beyond what i just laid out, what is the key finding here going forward for people who want better or more accurate information? >> thank you so much for having me on today. what we found you summarized quite well. the conservative media sphere is more partisan. it's more tilted towards the right than the left wing media sphere. they stayed on message. the take away from their coverage was unmistakable. >> this is not what people think. people think, trump personality and you count it up and says they were talking about trump's policies and her scandals. >> part of it is you have to understand there's that principle no press is bad press. even when donald trump was talking about immigration in the context and people would go on and rebut him and say that was incorrect, he was still getting his message across to his supporters and it was still sinking in. i c

[applause] >> you seek the introductions are better here than they are at harvard, too. thank you, amy. so, one thing amy didn't mention is that graham and i have also been co-authors. we published an article on applied history last year, arguing that the president of the united states needed historical advisers, this one especially, and so we are not in an adversarial relationship, it's fair to say. indeed the book that we're going to talk about is the book i watched evolve while i was at hard regard, and i have to congratulate you, you got the timing just right. if you aren't worried now about the possibility of conflict between china and the united states, when you leave this room, i guarantee you that you will be. let me begin our conversation with a quotation from the book. when a rising power felonies to displace a ruling power, alarm bills should sound, danger ahead. china and the united states are currently on a collision course for war unless both parties take difficult and painful actions to avert it, and war between the united states and china in the decades a

is looking into a 2015 complaint which accuses harvard university of discriminating against asian-pacific islander students. they claim they have 67% lower odds of admission than white applicants with comparable test scores and alleges to be on the equal footing, the asian students must score 140 points higher than the white student, and 270 higher than the hispanic, and 450 higher than the african-american students, and a harvard spokesman denied the 2015 allegation, and told the nos the new york that they were on average. and we bring in our two guests to talk about this. and so, when you are looking at, this how legally or how difficult is it to prove here discrimination against harvard at the moment, because then the decision will of course have a rolling effect across the country. >> so, richard, last year the supreme court noted how important it is to have a leadership to pipeline for military and education. and so you can take into account race to promote student diversity, and thaf decision, it is difficult to demonstrate that the efforts by harvard that include looking at a whole

>> well, we called exxonmobil and we asked them to respond on camera to the harvard study.y declined, but they did offer us a written statement. in part is residents naomi oreskes says she is not ashamed to be called an activist, because she considers herself to be both an activist and a scholar, and she doesn't see those two things as contradictory, william. >> miles, does exxon offer any examples that contradict this study? >> they do offer two examples from the year 2000, two op-ed pieces which seem to embrace the overall scientific consensus. but that's all they offered specifically. >> obviously, this is coming in the midst of exxon fighting all of these other legal battles about its messaging about climate exchange chng. how is this study going to impact any of that? >> well, exxon is, indeed, fighting off a lot of legal challenges right now. shareholders have sued the company claiming its public statements dismissing the risks of climb change were materially false and misleading. a class action suit filed by exxon employees claims the company overstated the value of