darius rutger is the front man for hootie and the blowfish. last year he launched a solo career. he is synonymous with 90s pop music but he only has had country in his heart. craig melon has his story. ♪ i left out in a cloud of tail lights and dust ♪ >> reporter: today the only thing you recognize about darius rutger is the trade mark voice that made hootie and the blowfish one of the most successful bands of the '90s. ♪ you got your feelings hurt his album is the 15th best-selling album of all time. now, 15 years after manufacture the songs became the stuff of pop legend, rutgers is going country. >> i just sit back and -- really, i pinch myself. who really gets a second chance at a career? >> reporter: rutgers new album, "learning to live," has sold three quarters of a million copies. we caught up with him recently at nissan pavilion getting ready to play an unfamiliar role. >> it's hard. you know, you're the opener. and i know i have to go up and get involved. i don't want anybody walking out saying that guy hootie sucks. >> reporter: rutgers admits today's country crowd is a

i got my doctorate in history at rutgers university. i went full time for my doctorate at the same time that i was teaching full time. people said that i must have been tired. i told them that it was great. it was the time of my life. i have fun. i have "i am murdered: george wythe, thomas jefferson, and the killing that shocked a new nation." here. did these come out at the same time? >> no. >> did you brought them simultaneously? >> no. >> george wythe was murdered by? >> his grandnephew. >> have you know that? >> or we know that. >> his servant -- the people but lived in the house with his grandnephew and his servant were having breakfast highs in the morning. the grandnephew had a cup of coffee and deliberately sat there finishing it has ever won watched him do not. then he got up and he stood in, suspiciously next to a coffee pot and pulled out a thin piece of white paper with howard crystals in it and when he thought lydia was not looking, pour it into the coffee pot and through the paper into the fire underneath and walked away.

i went and talked to those kids, my wife and i did, those rutgers kids. talked to their parents and their grandparents. they're playing for basketball. they're playing for the basketball championship. they didn't know who i was and didn't care and shouldn't. they weren't listening to me. an suddenly out of the blue somebody makes a comment about their appearance. but something that speaks so basically to the african-american community that african-americans among themselves signify on one another, it's a defining description of an african-american woman's hair. and so when they told me -- so i never thought -- and i never offered the excuse that anything i had done in my life entitled me to say that about those women. sean: nothing entitled you to say it. you were genuinely sorry. you were already fired, and you still went to meet with them, which i thought all those things were the right thing to do. apologized. but i'm just wondering if -- we're living in a political world now where there's zero context, zero texture to who you really are. >> well, see,

rice out of rutgers. >> i like my chances against linebackers. i feel as if i go against some of the greatest linebackers if not the greatest every day in practice. you know if i beat him a few times i feel anybody else i go against its like -- i'm not downing anybody but i feel like my confidence level, i get anybody i will make that guy miss. >> ravens at -- last night culpepper, former 49 johnson, toltd me they won't be 0-16. >> lot of player from last year and brought in a now group of players to um come many and try to bring back the team and get rid of any feelings of that season last year. >> johnson still recovering from a golf cart accident. >>> last night world's fastest human, bolt, 4th lane from the right. trailing teammate, halfway through the 100-meter. bolt used every stride of that frame to eventually pull even and over take powell. that's a world class gold league meter. his first race since breaking records in the 100 and 200- meters in berlin several weeks ago. >>> that's sports. have a good week. >> bolt verses a cheetah who w

cannot explain it all because we would be here forever but i am a bachelor of fine arts student from rutgers and i am trying to balance two or three different lives at the same time and since my main work now is finishing the history of white people the books that i am working on now, i have to keep my art within the tiny little corners so this fall i actually snuck up to plattsburgh state and i took one class a printmaking glass. i did several pieces they're all assignments people ask what kind of work to why do? i do assignments and i will be doing assignments for a little longer braff actually i feel like a grandchild sometimes are to because people people say let me see my work and i say here is my work and they say that is so nice and i feel that i know it is to get work mrs. didn't work and of people or very generous about saying how nice. it is hardly does say i did this or i did this. this is from leonardo the assignment was before and after it and a causal relationship and it is a line no print on two different pieces. it is not very good. conceptually the teacher found it unsettle

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dealing with the subject as many of you know i am a professor of deborah gray white and i am from rutgers university and new brunswick new jersey and i edited this volume of autobiographies written by black women historians. this is a comfortable position and we would like to have maximum participation from the audience so we're all going to proceed this way. i am going to introduce the book by explaining what to "telling histories" is about, and also by summarizing some of the points i made in the introduction. i will then introduce our panelists, dr. terborg-penn and darlene clark hine and i will give who is speaking and their contribution has been. all of our panelists are contributors to the volume telling histories. i have asked them each to speak about one aspect of their contribution to the volume. there are also some others who are in the audience, some other of the biographers, contributors to "telling histories," and once they're finished if they have something to add i would certainly give them a chance to speak to you as well and then we will take some questions from the audie

from american enterprise institute, andrew reseij from personal democracy forum, ellen goodman from rutgers, john wonderlich from the sunlight foundation, and beth white had the great -- an order to get the olympics to chicago, had a great idea of electing a president from chicago. the immediate next that is to let eugene huang open this workshop. until there recently he was at the treasury department working around difficult issues with economic relations with china. before that he was in the state of virginia as the secretary of technology. between eugene and vivek, we are proving there is great innovation each -- east of the mississippi and we are looking forward to innovators from west of the mississippi joining us. i look forward to a productive workshop, and thank you all for being here. [applause] >> thank you, mr. chairman, for those warm and inspiring opening remarks. it is my distinct privilege to welcome each and every one of you to this first workshop of the national broadband task force. my name is eugene huang and i will serve as moderator. joining me today from fcc is kristen

there's a quote in it from a political scientist from rutgers, obama is a post polarization candidatea post polarization celebrity. do americans ultimately like hard knuckled politics? do they like the clash of ideas or do you hear more and more people want more to get along and find consensus? >> i think people want to get beyond red versus blue. they would le a red, white a blue dialog at americansolutions.com and click research you'll see polling data the desire for people to try to find a way to have a conversation. i'm going to go to iowa on tuesday and release what we're calling the platform of the american people. we put together a series of planks that have a majority of democrats, a majority of republicans, a majority of independents all agree. for example, 85% favor english as the national language. majority of hispanics, and my challenge to both parties is why don't you adopt the platform of the american people as a baseline for the first days of 2009 we can talk on what we agree on than what we disagree on. he's obama is a feel-good president and he creates an emotional ba

mckay is the director of innovative training and workforce development program at rutgers universityer for women and work. as well as the director of the sloan center on innovative training and workforce development we are so grateful to have heather who traveled to d.c. to speak at the peptic heather, you want to get started with your speech? >> thank y'all for having me here today. i am really pleased to be able to talk about ts subject. i am the director of the sloan center on innovative training and workforce development, which is housed at rutgers university in the state of new jersey. at the center for women and worker can we really as a center have been dedicated to assisting stat county and city government departments and workforce investment boards institutionalize online learning alternatives for non-college-educated workers throughout the nation. our work has shown and our rearch has shown that online learning offers a viable solution to the barriers that exist for adult learners and access and traditional classroom-based education and training. we believe it is a cost-eff

heather is director of innovative training and work force development at rutgers university center forwomen at work as well as director of the center on innovative training and work force development. we are grateful to have heather he travels to d c to speak at this panel. >> thank you for having me here, i am pleased to talk about this. i am the director of the sloan center and innovative training and work force development which is at the state of new jsey. at the center for women at work, we really have been dedicated to assisting state, county and city government departments and workforce investment board's institutionalized online learning alternatives for non college-educated workers. our work has shown a research has shown a viable solution to the barriers that exist for adult learners in accessing traditional classroom based education training. we believe it is a cost-effective method to train the millions of low-skilled americans who need training in order to ride the ladder on the socio-economic scale and tilt self-sufficient jobs. delivering training by computer and interne

. -- i think rutgers is a great school.rder to have the biggest range of options you have to have a war chest of almost $500,000. what kind of a society are we were that is the case? guest: that is a little bit of what my skills that might entail, although i can speak to the fact that i have worked at an education institution in the financial aid office. i have also worked at non-profit organizations that specialize on the funding of the federal loan program. we can get into whether it needs to be a national priority, and if so, does everyone get a free education to any institution of their choice, or do you go where you can afford to go? the student loan programs allow me to retain my education and a fine institution. if it was not for the program i would not have been able to megyn work -- i would not have been able to make it work. he is way ahead of the families i have spoken to and the fact that they were able to save to order thousand dollars. they can still get a find at the kitchen with that amount of money -- they

we took our cameras to rutgers university to check out the special things that college campuses are strengthenings providing to the vets. there are orientations, websites and mentoring programs in many schools. the new post 9/11 g.i. bill will pay for tuition and fees for men and women who served the country. and while the former g.i. bill covered expenses for vets, the new bill significantly increases the amount of money that vets will have access to, along with covering the cost of textbooks and monthly housing allowances and in many cases vets will be able to go to college for free. >> for me it takes a tremendous financial burden off me, for many veterans it provides them with a college education they wouldn't be able to get without the bill. so it's changing a lot of lives, absolutely. and you're giving one someone a education which can never be taken from them. it does them more good than any money or anything of that nature. >> reporter: the department of veterans affairs report could be a 20% increase in the veterans who take advantage. that could mean some 460,000 vets nationwide will ha

as many of the non i'm professor deborah grey white and i am from rutgers university in new brunswicknew jersey and an attendant this volume of autobiography is written by black women historians. this is a roundtable discussion and we would like to have maximum participation from the audience and so we are going to proceed this way. i'm going to introduce the book by explaining what "telling histories" is about and also by summarizing some of the points i made in the introduction. in. i will then introduce our panelists, doctors rosalyn terborg-penn, sharon harley and crystal feimster and before each one of them space i will give a much more lengthy introduction some that you will all know who im, who is speaking another contribution has been. all of our panelists american shares to the volume "telling histories" here that i asked them each to speak about one aspect of their contribution to the volume and there are also some others in the audience and other on a buyer for riss contributors to telling this jury is and was there are finished of them have something to add the i would cer

heather is director of innovative training and work force development at rutgers university center forwomen at work as well as director of the center on innovative training and work force development. we are grateful to have heather he travels to d c to speak at this panel. >> thank you for having me here, i am pleased to talk about this. i am the director of the sloan center and innovative training and work force development which is at the state of new jersey. at the center for women at work, we really have been dedicated to assisting state, county and city government departments and workforce investment board's institutionalized online learning alternatives for non college-educated workers. our work has shown a research has shown a viable solution to the barriers that exist for adult learners in accessing traditional classroom based education training. we believe it is a cost-effective method to train the millions of low-skilled americans who need training in order to ride the ladder on the socio-economic scale and tilt self-sufficient jobs. delivering training by computer and inter

like -- >> it's a little bit of testifying because the other thing that happened -- my first job was rutgersuniversity where deborah was the chair right before i came up for tenure, and senior faculty members who said exactly that to us, that deborah said you have got to say no, and when i was coming up for tenure she said i'm on your -- you know, it was the year after she was out of the office and she shared by committee and the other debt those of us who've come up in this other generation have is to senior women faculty who have said exactly that, who say you have to just step back a little bit. i just wanted -- i just wanted to say that because i meant to say that earlier but i think it's one of the most important indicators of whether -- whether to were going to succeed or fail as a junior person, and then as soon as you are tenure you have to step up to the plate. you have to do it for the people behind you. and i think that is a sort of recent tenure think roseanne was saying, like we have to do that, right? we have to do what we can do to help change -- [inaudible] >> i wasn't even t