he is also served as president of the american association of the university of professors. his latest book is "no university is in iowa." -- is an island." how does that university go about screening who to choose for the commencement address? on the we do is we focus commencement speakers were going to receive an honorary degree which is rigidly that case across the country that has been speaker receives an honorary degree. the faculty senate has about 200 faculty members who are elected. they tie do consider them worthy of the speech and award a degree. in a senate meeting, we discussed the possible people. on a number of occasions, we have advised that the university not go forward with a particular person. just this year, we recommended against two people. they were not used. i'm not going to give their names. baggage a good test of whether they're likely to be a problem with other people on campus. it is a wide enough constituency that if there will be problems, the problems will be raised at that point. all i can say really is that this year there were no graduating s

not this year that touches my heart about the filipino association they came to our association where we award scholarships. basically, the latin-american association gives scholarships to students. this year we gave 5 thousand scloop and normally we give $3,000 and 15 hundred. this year we awarded just a minute i want to say that the latin-american teachers association is an association who's mission so to promote bilingual educational education for teachers in san francisco and students students who wouldn't get scholarships because of their undocumented status so we target those so we have homegrown students this year who we also recognize (clapping) and unfortunately, we didn't invite my of our students we knew they were busy but we have 16 students and i have their names but not where they're going the 5 optional ion. the $5,000 recipient itself first time ever to receive the highest score by his application is mr. sanchez who received $5,000 and attended international high school. (clapping.) the following names are students that received a $3,000 scholarship that are going to 4 year universities the first from admission high scho

he is also served as president of the american association of the university of professors. his latest book is "no university is an island." how does that university go about screening who to choose for the commencement address? >> what we do is we focus on the commencement speakers were going to receive an honorary degree which is rigidly that case across the country that has been speaker receives an honorary degree. the faculty senate has about 200 faculty members who are elected. they tie do consider them worthy of the speech and award a degree. in a senate meeting, we discussed the possible people. on a number of occasions, we have advised that the university not go forward with a particular person. just this year, we recommended against two people. they were not used. i'm not going to give their names. baggage a good test of whether they're likely to be a problem with other people on campus. it is a wide enough constituency that if there will be problems, the problems will be raised at that point. >> do you take into account the request of the graduating seniors? >> no.

nelson is former president of the american association of university as ansors and he serves english professor at the university of illinois and our viewers can find out more at your website. >> i also think once you have announced the commencement withdrawing it is an act of cowardice. happened and i think it is deplorable. when the university does not have the courage to stay with its convictions, that is while the worst things that can happen. it is also possible to survive a demonstration at a commencement talk. there is nothing wrong with an organized demonstration, ts, taking place for 30 seconds or a minute and then the people sit down and listen to the talk. a lot of people feel that any demonstration is unacceptable. i think you can live with a demonstration so long as the people demonstrating except the notion they have to let the speech go on. what is totally in conflict with academic freedom is of demonstrators try to prevent a speech from taking place. some of the speakers who have withdrawn this season have been afraid they might face that type of demonstration, where th

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he has also served as the president of the american association of university president. thank you for joining us. how does the university of illinois go about screening the person they choose for the commencement address? >> we focus on the commencement speakers who will receive an honorary degree, which is the case across the country. the faculty senate has about 200 faculty members who are elected, perhaps 150 show up at a given meeting. when commencement speakers are proposed, we each get a copy with a letter explaining why they consider them worthy of a commencement speech and then awarded degree. in a senate meeting, we discussed as possible people. just this year, we recommended against two people and they were not used. i will not give their names, but when applications are given out to 150 faculty members, that gives you a pretty good test of whether they will likely be a problem. that is a wide enough constituency that if there will be problems, they will be raised at that point.

choice the easy choice we're completely saturated with sugar such as organizations like the american cancer association and dental association and the american academy of pedestrian rick's all support reducing the sugar to reduce the chronic diseases. i wanted to add a comment to the dr. cheung's rakers about the targeting marketing and the recent executive said they're going to double theory soft drinks by $3 billion a day by 2020 they're to see the most growth among chinese. and 3 hundred and 87 people in mexico are being targeted. it's going to be more aggressive >> that came from a top level executive if coca-cola. >> yes. and the asian population is at risk. >> thank you. we also have allen lou from the staff and others. >> next speaker. >> good morning supervisors i'm allen with the commission staff. the commissioners are in school and can't give comments on the regular school meeting the youth commission unanimously voted to support the tax on sugary products they discussed the health burdens faced by the low income community by the dental issues caused by the sugary beverages they explored othe

host: the american association of state colleges and universities, you say state governments were not up with that. if the colleges you represent tried to pay their presidents that kind of money -- why not? talk about the role that state governments play and how they can regulate and oversee state colleges and universities. institutions are strange creatures. twoimultaneously serve masters who are in constant conflict with each other. we serve the public that funds us and the policy community that tends to cover us in terms of funding -- govern us in terms of mandates and instructions that you see politically as to how to do business. that is entirely appropriate when it comes to matters that are strictly administrative or financial. we should be accountable and we accept that accountability. on the other hand, to the extent that we are colleges and universities, we do have an obligation to such abstract notions as the advancement of learning and the spread of knowledge. consequently, those two sometimes come in conflict with each other. you do not want to put a lot of -- you do not w

one of the criticisms i heard listening to the debate from the american beverage association that said the tax is regressive and it impacts low-income communities, but it's ironic that these are the same communities that suffer from the effects of soda and that they are opposing money that would actually go towards programs for education that would help these same communities as well. for the record, we're not asking to ban soda, but we are doing is encouraging thought. one of the interesting things that was brought up is that they said, well, this soda would cause a tax would cause a thing on [speaker not understood]. i would encourage everybody here to go get a can of v-8 and not only read how much added sodium is in it but sugar. think about that. some of the arguments against the soda i feel similar to 30 years ago was the cigarette tax as well. yet, i mean, we think about it, thea same people that are arguing against it would probably have a problem if they saw a cigarette machine. i don't know if people here even remember those if they saw it in a 7-eleven [speaker not understood

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he has also served as president of the american association of university professors and his latest book is "no university is an island." thank you for joining us. how does the university of illinois go about screening the person they choose for the commencement address? >> we focus on the commencement speakers who will receive an honorary degree, which is the case across the country. the faculty senate has about 200 faculty members who are elected, perhaps 150 show up at a given meeting. when commencement speakers are proposed, we each get a copy with a letter explaining why they consider them worthy of a commencement speech and then awarded degree. in a senate meeting, we discuss as possible people. just this year, we recommended against two people and they were not used. i will not give their names, but when applications are given out to 150 faculty members, that gives you a pretty good test of whether they will likely be a problem. that is a wide enough constituency that if there will be problems, they will be raised at that point. >> does the senate take into account the requests ar

the american association for the advancement of science, the royal soft, which is there in britain, theircience academy have all looked at this and found that the certainty that humans are causing climate change is about the same certainty that smoking cigarettes caused lung cancer. we are the only country in the world that's a western democracy that has this kind of debate. now to your specific point, i think they need a partnership of federal government, state and local governments and the private sector. for instance, as we were talking about earlier, when the president sets these carbon pollution limits for power plants, that will help drive investment into solar and wind. colorado has its state policy that requires a lot of renewable aeelectricity. colorado is in the top 10 in the u.s. partnering in innovative utilities standard challenge is so big, we can't say we don't need you. we need the federal government, states, cities and private sector all working together. a lot of this is like president obama today went to wal-mart to highlight the fact that wal-mart is generating a lot o

david maloney, the economist for the american restaurant association said high prices are the new norm and it could be that way for a while. >> retail beef prices in april were a record high, up 11% year on year and we suspect more records are going to be set in the coming months. >> reporter: what's the reason? texas, the nation's largest producing state is in the fourth year of a devastating drought and another top five cattle producing state, california, is in a record drought of its own. as a result, the usda says the cattle herd is at the lowest level since the early 1950s. >> it's the biggest shortage that i've ever seen. i've been in the business -- i hate to say it, but i've been in the business for 50 years. >> reporter: but meat is not the oba only thing in short subpoena my. the beef is in short supply because of the deadly virus. as many as seven million pigs are in short supply. as a result, pork prices are up and it's not all bad news at the barbecue. the american restaurant association says there are signs of consumer pushback from high prices and that chicken could be t

a lot if i of it said i had a scholarship because this wonderful group of women, the american associationad given me a scholarship. >> host: how did you get connected with them? >> guest: i honestly can't remember. i think it is just they probably heard about me through high school. i probably have someone say this girl, this kid can make it and i got a letter saying you have been given scholarships come off so i ended up being able to go off to college. once i got in it was so easy for me to excel and keep going into tonight and onto graduate degrees. >> host: what was the hardest part of leaving your town and coming into college? >> guest: once you take the road out if you go to work the working-class and go elsewhere, you do have to give up a part of your childhood identity and part of who you are. there is a process change that has to happen on and to some extent, it puts you at a certain, a little bit of a distance from your childhood and your family. it's difficult and involves the change. i went on to college but a nice comeback and helped my own own people, the people that are my

the heart association. we stand by the guidelines thatn saturated fats could hurt yourie heart while polyunsaturated fats may help them. >> yes. the american heart association and the national institute of health, it's awkward for them to say that they were wrong for alh these years and -- >> i'll bet. >> institutions are like the opposite of good science. they can't flip flop on theirf o public. it needs t to be doubting it se. it's hard for institutions topul stay on top of the science andl do good science. o >> the food pyramid, it's all go about carbohydrates, eat lots of them. stay away from meat, saturated fat, whole milk. >> that bottom slab of the food pyramid has been over 60% of our diet should be bread, pasta, whole grains. r in thatfted too fa direction. >> i haven't had whole milk for 20 years. >> not only that, sat saturated fat is essential. you can't digest the minerals. saturated fat is good for healti and has many biological functions so go ahead. h >> i hope you're right. coming up, katie couric now wants government to force us to eat better. the epidemic is worse than previously estimated. much worse.ere >> over 95% of

that is according to a new report in the american association for cancer research journal. s and death rates between 2006 and 2010. combined with expected u.s. demographic changes. there used to predict the numbers. the cancer related death rate has been increasing as a result of improved screening and treatment options. that from prostate and colon cancers are projected to drop that is caused by liver pancreatic bladder and leukemia cancers are expected to increase. >> is researchers launching the world's largest buddy. the study will focus on cognitive functions like memory and function. there's been no convincing evidence yet that radio waves for mobile phones affect health. most research has focused on adults. research has focused on adults. >>fow perfect for summer weather. we're going to have at this memorial day. we're making a barack salad. using broccoli in every possible way. basically we're making a broccoli salad. a take down my grandma's broccoli and cheddar cheese. >> the first thing we will do. while those are roasting we just take the stems and the park on th

cary nelson is the president of the american association of university professors. he serves as an english professor at the university of illinois. her viewers can find out more at your website. cary-nelson.org. >> i also think, by the way, once you have announced the commencement speaker -- withdrawing that invitation is basically an act of cowardice. i do not think that should happen. that has happened this year. i think it is really deplorable. when a university does not have the courage to stay with its convictions. that is one of the worst things that can happen. it is also possible, in my view. to survive a demonstration i commencement talk. there is nothing wrong, in my view, with an organized demonstration, banners, chants, whatever. taking place for 30 seconds or a minute. then people engage and sit down and listen. a lot of people feel that any demonstration is unacceptable. i think you can live with a demonstration so long as the people demonstrating except that they have to let the speech go on. what is totally in conflict is that demonstrators tried to p

the heart association. we stand by the guidelines that saturated fats could hurt your heart while polyunsaturated fats may help them. >> well, yes, the american heart association and other national institute of health, it's awkward for them to say that they were wrong for all these years. john: i'll bet. >> and that's not a message -- i mean, institutions are the opposite of good science, they can't flip-flop on the public. science needs to be public, nimble, it's hard for institutions to stay on top of the science and do good science. >> the food pyramid, eat carbohydrates, eat lots of them, stay away from meats, saturated fats. >> the big slab has been over 50% of our diet is supposed to be bread, past awhole grains, we shifted too far in that direction. john: i haven't had whole milk for 20 years. >> saturated fat is essential for health. whole milk without the fat, you can't digest the vitamins and minerals, saturated fat is good for health and has many biological functions. john: i sure hope your right. coming up, katie couric wants government to force us to eat better. the epidemic here is worse than previously estimated. much worse. >>

. >>> director of federal relations for the american association of state colleges and universities, ank you for joining us. barmak, when we enroll our kids in school, we voluntarily give the districts a lot of data on them. is that information shared? >> increasingly, it is. historically, schools have been the main custodians of incredibly private information. in general they have done a fabulous job of connecting that information. it's a little ironic that the secretary was speaking about privacy because it was husband department of education that wrote the federal privacy rules. maybe those are more allowable to share data. so, yes, information is, in fact, reaching out of schools and many schools simply don't know. >> where is the information going? is it anywhere that would be alarming to a parent? >> well, you know, look. i believe education technology holds all kind of promise. i certainly believe people intend to use it for he hadfying purposes. but the challenge here is that the consent of parents is not being factored in. it ought to be alamming because the information is be

. >> carey nelson is former president of the american association of university professors and he serves as an english professor at the university of illinois and our viewers can find out more at your website. >> i also think once you have announced the commencement speaker, withdrawing it is an act of cowardice. that has happened and i think it is deplorable. when the university does not have the courage to stay with its convictions, that is while the worst things that can happen. it is also possible to survive a demonstration at a commencement talk. there is nothing wrong with an organized demonstration, banners, chants, taking place for 30 seconds or a minute and then the people sit down and listen to the talk. a lot of people feel that any demonstration is unacceptable. i think you can live with a demonstration so long as the people demonstrating accept the notion they have to let the speech go on. what is totally in conflict with academic freedom is of demonstrators try to prevent a speech from taking place. some of the speakers who have withdrawn this season have been afraid they m

got a letter in the mail saying i had a scholarship because this wonderful group of women, the american associationf university women have given a scholarship. >> host: how did you get connect with? >> guest: i honestly can't remember. i think they probably heard about meeker high school. probably had him unfit this girl, this kid can make it. i just got a letter saying you have been given a scholarship to college, so i ended up going up to college. once i got named, did so well that it was really easy for me to exile and keep going. >> host: deborah hicks, what is the hardest part of leaving your town, your naÏve necessities to end coming into college? >> guest: i think i think the toughest thing is one do you leave, once you take a ride out, you do have to give up part of your childhood identity and part of who you are. there is a process of change that has to happen. to some extent, it puts you at a certain -- a little bit of a distance from her childhood and your family and staff. that part is difficult and involves a change. for me, that was great because i went on to college, but then i have

letter in the mail saying i had a scholarship because this wonderful group of women commit the american associationf women had given me a scholarship. >> host: how did she get connected with? >> guest: i honestly can't remember. they probably heard about maker high school. i probably had someone say this girl, this kid can make it and i got a letter saying you have been given a scholarship to college, so i ended up being able to go off to college. once i got an come it did so well that it was really easy for me to exile and keep going and then i went on an outcry church grease and stuff. >> host: what was the hardest part of leaving your town, you are naÏve smith he say and coming into college? >> guest: the toughest thing as one view leave, what to take the road out, if you go for working class to go elsewhere, you do have to get up part of your childhood identity in part of who you are. there is a process of change that has to happen and to some extent it puts you at a little bit of a distant from your childhood and family and stuff and not part is difficult and involves change. for me that was g

letter in the mail that i've gotten a scholarship because this wonderful group of women the american associationf university women i given a scholarship. >> host: how did you get elected? >> guest: i honestly can't remember. they probably heard about me through high school. i probably had someone say this girl, this kid can make it. i just got a letter saying i had gotten a scholarship to college so ended up being able to go off to college. once i got in and did so well because it was really easy for me to excel and keep going and i want on to get a graduate degree. >> host: deborah hicks what was the hardest part of leaving your town, your naÏveness as you say and coming into college? >> guest: i think the toughest thing is that once you leave, want to take the road out of the poor working class and you go elsewhere you have to give up part of your childhood identity and part of who you are. there's a process process of change that has to happen and to some extent it puts you at a certain a little bit of the distance from your childhood and your family and stuff. it's that part it's difficult a

. >>> according to the american stroke association, someone in the u.s.y 40 seconds. that's about six people by the end of this segment. >> strokes are the number three cause of death for women in the u.s. after heart disease and cancer. the good news is, 80% of them can be prevented if you know the warning signs. >> fortunately, avid runner terry acerson knew exactly what those signs were when she experienced them as she was driving with her son parker, almost exactly a year ago. watch. >> decided we wanted to go to starbucks. we got our starbucks and we're headed home. >> we were at a red light, just having a conversation like we always do. and all of a sudden she like kind of lost feeling in her hand and i saw the coffee cup start to slip. >> i turned to parker to try to ask him to take the coffee cup out of my hand. and the words that were in my mind were not coming out of my mouth. >> and i said, what's wrong? because she wasn't talking anymore and then her whole left side of her face started drooping. >> he looked at me and he said, mom you're havin

he is also served as president of the american association of the university of professors. his latest book is "no university is an island." how does that university go about screening who to choose for the commencement address? >> what we do is we focus on the commencement speakers were going to receive an honorary degree which is rigidly that case across the country that has been speaker receives an honorary degree. the faculty senate has about 200 faculty members who are elected. they tie do consider them worthy of the speech and award a degree. in a senate meeting, we discussed the possible people. on a number of occasions, we have advised that the university not go forward with a particular person. just this year, we recommended against two people. they were not used. i'm not going to give their names. baggage a good test of whether they're likely to be a problem with other people on campus. it is a wide enough constituency that if there will be problems, the problems will be raised at that point. all i can say really is that this year there were no graduating senior re

the american association of port authorities. the american concrete pavement association. the -- i'm passing over a lot of these. the associated general contractors of america. association of california water agencies. the association of state dam safety officials. the american road and transportation builders. the american farm bureau federation. i'll give you a few more. these are the supporters. the arkansas waterways commission. the big river coalition. the city of sacramento and los angeles, the concrete reinforcing institute. the harbor maintenance trust fund fairness coalition. the international union of operating engineers. the international union of painters and allied trades, the national governs association, the national asphalt paving association. the national association of clean water agencies. it goes on and a few more just in case you were interested, the national ready mix concrete association, the national rural electric cooperative association, the national stone, sand and gravel association, the santa clara water district, the nature conservancy, the tex

but one bank pnc did defer to the american banking association who said for some customers paying thelargest transaction is important because it insures that payments like mortgages, rents and credit card principles will be prayed. many financial institutions have been sued because of this method of high to although transaction reordering and today 14 banks including bank of america and jp morgan chase have settled to the tune of $800 million. however none of the banks have admitted to any wrongdoing. >> a lot of banks have stopped doing this because of litigation, but in their disclosure agreement they all say we reserve the right to change the terms and conditions of these--of this account at any time. while they've stopped doing it now they could start doing it again at a later date. >> reporter: one bank sun trust did confirm with us that it still processes transactions from the highest to lowest amount, adding that it didn't charge overdraft fees for any items below $5. congresswoman carol maloney from new york on the left wants to make banks more accountable and it a would requi

chambliss: i rise to talk about a dear friend of mine who on last friday received from the american bar association at the joint spring meeting in las vegas, the american bar association's sssociation's solm general practice division lifetime achievement award. larry is a lifetime resident of peery, wefnts back to practice in 1965. i am so proud that larry has been recognized by his peers of which i am one as a practicing flor georgia before i came into government, and larry epitomizes what lawyers look to when you think of someone who is a good lawyer. the award that he received recognizes solo and small firm attorneys who are widely accepted by their peers as having significant lifetime distinction, exceptional achievement, and distinction in an exemplary way. winners are viewed impi other solo and small firm practitioners as epitomizing the ideals of the legal profession in a solo and small firm practitioners sm. larry began his law career in 1965 when he came back to practice law. he became a judge of the peery municipal court at the age of 23. in 1972, larry ran for the general assembly of geo

the american medical association should speak up loudly. iation should speak up loudly. there are a lot of organizations out here, the first lady shouldn't have to fight this battle alone. and where are their voices when it comes to this? and finally, someone needs to tell the republicans that this goes back to the 1930s. this is when this whole thing began, 1930s. part of it is national security. i would do one other thing. if i had to put together a public service ad, i would -- kids react to these kinds of things. when someone is obese and has morbidity, they start cutting off your toes and amputating your legs and children respond to that type of thing. these people are not conservatives. i'm sorry to say, her regressives. where they are taking us back to i just don't absolutely know. but i'm saying doctors, nurses, dentists, you folks need to support the first lady on this. >> to that point, part of the problem we're talking about here is we're talking about big food, as it's been called, lobbying. that's how the pizza sauce became a ve

for .racticing in a firm finally, joining the course, and this was a big surprise was the american bar associations half -- task force on the future of legal education, which suggested in january of this year that bar admitting authorities could create paths to licensure with fewer hours than the current standard three choir, find devices such as one accepting applicants who have fewer hours of law school training in the standards required or two, excepting applicants with two years of law school credit, plus a year of current fully structured skills-based experience inside the law school or elsewhere. i vigorously dissent. it seems to me this law school in two years proposal rests on the premise that law school is or ought to be a trade school. it is not that. it is the school preparing men and women not for a trade but for a profession. a profession of law. this various aspects of law without knowing much about the whole field. i was thought someone could be a in 10 weeksconveyor or a tax advisor in six months. and maybe we should train such people, but we should not call them lawyers. might beco

the american heart association says the safe amount to consume is six teaspoons for a woman.re's a threshold. >> what's interesting is it doesn't show the daily percentage. sugar is the one ingredient. >> there's no recommended dietary allowance of sugar. it's a recreational drug. we all maybe like to have a glass of wine or tequila. that doesn't mean we should be drinking it all day. >> as a public health advocate and somebody who looks at policy, what do you think of the bloomberg soda ban which deblasio is trying to bring back? >> i talked to michael bloomberg the other night. he tried an initiative to get a test to see what would happen if we restricted the access of sodas using food stamps. he couldn't get the usda to approve a pilot study to restrict access of soda with food stamps just to see what would happen. that's craziness. usda spends $4 billion in food stamps paying for soda. that's ten billion servings a year to the poor which they pay on the front end and on the back paying for medicaid for diabetes and obesity related complications. >> you can't help but look

back lash, you remember the sample was unveiled last week at the white house, and now the american family associations calling for a boycott of the the harvey milk stamp, it calls him a predator, and honoring him with a stamp is preverse. they want people to not buy the stamp. >>> it's a major win for the nation's transgender community. the health and human services says it'll no longer exclude payments for sex reassignment surgery. they learned how many people they affect and the decision widespread impact. >> mechanic engineer, waited until retirement to transition to female. she said she was lucky to have the money to pay for the surgery. >> upper level remodelling, and lower level, you can easily spend $100 grand, easily. >> they're lift it go ban of the payments for the treatments. san francisco's transgender law center estimates the community is .5% of the population. >> i think that we're really at a tipping point. >> it comes at a time when the transgender issues are widely discussed on television and magazines. >> transpeople are six times more likely to unemployed, and discrimination. >> yo

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