host: ian tuttle. guest: i'm not sure i follow entirely. the network and certainly be advantageous, especially among fraternities and sororities that take their academics fairly seriously. there are those that exist, we talk a lot about the lack of sobriety fraternities. it's certainly not universal. i'm not sure i follow the question. >> you can watch this conversation online in its entirety at c-span.org. we take you live to the national press club, where margaret hamburg is going to make remarks. >> i'm delighted to be joined by my parents and many of my friends and colleagues. this is probably my last formal address as commissioner. i thought it would be a nice opportunity for me to reflect a bit on what i have learned about this agency, and what i really want to communicate to you is how firmly i believe, now more than ever, that this is an agency that is absolutely essential to the lives and health of every american, every day. i think it's hard to overstate, really the unique and vital importance of this agency for all of us. i confe

ian tuttle of the national review. guest: that speaks to the reporting bias that i mentioned that we hear the bad things that make for bats -- for good stories here it there is another point she made which i think is important, which is that fraternities to a certain extent are not unique in the type of thing that they are doing. fraternal order of police is another example. fraternities are a lot like -- well, we used to have sort of men's and women's clubs that were social in nature, rotary elks, those sort of things which were doing the same things for professional men and women. and you also have the type of bonding that goes on in the military in basic training, boot camp. the types of things that go on there are very similar to the ways in which fraternities bond young men together. so we are sort of keeping perspective in that regard. host: william is calling in from punta gorda, florida. hi, william. you are on the air, please go ahead. caller: ok. yes. i am african-american. and i have experienced some of the

and here's the cover of ian tuttle's cover story.this call. >> caller: hi. i'm going to take issue with the young gentleman when he said about contacts and excelling and everything. my husband was a graduate of ohio state. got his masters degree there. all on his own. he got a scholarship to johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. and it was his hard work and studying and then coming down to washington and getting a job with the government. when he retired from the government he retired and senior executive service, he did it all without being a member of a fraternity. and the young man says about hazing, it still goes on. you can talk about the national organizations but they are not their policing every single day for rush week, or whatever they want to call it. where especially in sororities where it is if you don't have the right kind of body they are going to go ahead and he's you even more. this happen over and over again. it's not reported because sometimes the young ladies just want to forget about it and move

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