silber. senator lena was there. just great work and we hosted a chinese delegation on the 16th. as far as what we have been doing, we did have the officer involved shooting where bystanders were hit by the single round fired by one officer as they took on a suspect in possession of a machine pistol loaded with 22 rounds. we had a community meeting. thank you, president mazzucco for being there with president to at the jean parker school. it was well attended and well received and we are fielding any inquiries after that. i also met with supervisor campos today. one regarding violence in the mission which it appears we have the right officers in the right places as that is going down after having a tough weekend a couple of weekends ago. we did yesterday have the two groups get at each other and a little girl was hit. i went to the hospital and saw her last night. she could not be a cuter little girl. she was very frightened but she is brave and she will be ok. she will get discharged tomorrow. the investigation is proceeding and we're hopeful we will make an arrest in that case

. -- john silber. he thinks that we do need to keep tenure. i think tenure has protected some very smart people who have said some defending things that needed to be said. i understand my argument grows them under the bus, sort of. i interviewed a former assistant secretary of education who now works on education reform issues. ummed up that saving the jobs of 400 conservatives is not worth saving the jobs of 400 liberals. he says with attrition is so out of balance now that the idea that we will keep this system because of a few conservative professors out there [unintelligible] . >> what is the cherry award? >> its a teaching award. you get maybe $200,000 for being basically the best professor in america. a couple years ago when i was at the journal i did a story about the three finalists. it's given out by baylor university. you can nominate you, students can nominate you, other professors can nominate you. the committee eventually judges the finalists and decides who will win the award based on their ability to convey information to studen