and i'm not going to admit to any fluff at the university. but we do educate our students both broadly and specifically. i'm a university president, i studied biochemistry as an undergrad, i studied medicine and biochemistry as a medical student and as a doctoral student. but as an undergrad i took classes in religion and history and bopolitics and government a music and all those things it turns outs have affected how i live my life and it's also affecting how i look at the leadership of a great university. i think we have to educate broadly and that's not fluff and we also have a responsibility to educate with specificity. >> allan is on our line with educators. good morning. >> caller: i appreciate you taking my call. my question goes backs to the student loans that are funding the nation's universities. i just want to point out the fact, and hopefully you're aware of this. student loans are the only types of loans to be specifically vacated of the most fundamental student protections that exist forever other type of loan, this is bankruptc

it becomes -- it is the front porch of the university. it's not the most important part of the university, but for many, many people it's the most visible part. that said, then the question becomes in terms of the funding of athletics is why it is so terribly important to have -- two things in mind. number one, that academic funds do not go to support athletics. it has to be self supporting, which means of course that you rely on media revenue, that conferences bring in by their media contracts. and number two, is institutional control, that athletics should always be in the service of the educational mission of the institution. winning is important, but for us, a student athletes and they are students first, what is more important than winning is the success of student athletes. success on the field, in the classroom and in life. those are the values that guide our athletic program. >> we have a few lines open here, so dial in with your questions and comments about higher education. students 202-585-3880 parents, 202-585-3881 and educator

this is actually an image of the universe. this is an image of the end of the visible universe and i mean this as scientist state. those are not galaxyies. stars and galaxies didn't exist. all there was was matter, light and dark matter. you can see where they grew out of depicted in red. before this time, the user was filled with high energy fog. and i say high energy fog. but in the book i cannot say energy or fog. there is another way it is talked about in the book. this is as far as back we can see and we can learn an incredible amount of information about the universe. the universe is 13, 798 million years. we don't know the age of the earth to that precision. that is the same as being able to tell the birthday of a stranger just by glancing at them within one day precision which is incredible if you think about how we now understand. the reason is 95% of it is totally dark. so what about the other bit in the cosmic pie. the bit labelled dark energy. what about dark energy? the way people found out about the dark proof; le

and so the book ends the speculation about the fundamental rail of our universe, or multi-verse are the other kinds beyond what we know exist? one of these questions were very much investigating, somewhat controversial even, specific matters are beyond our universe. for ever away from opportunity of ever absorbing them. let me leave you with a closing thought. after the observation is over, did she has done a great job and it's time now for the student woman to go back home and reflect and think and work very hard on everything this year has done for her during the night. she sits down. the big blue body of wate waterr never seems to go on without edges and without into. she can see the one hand of the sun on her face. she is happy. the night work is gone will. this is the best the it can be . she can go home now. but her job as though just because the there's much more to do in the coming weeks and months. letters and entire books are hidden. little by little she'll understand it better and better. all just do is ask the right questions in the right way. i leave you with those thoughts

it already was the home of the university of wisconsin. it was the capital of the state, and therefore, its legislative center. one of the real questions about madison was, what shall it be called? one of them was to be a wonderful northern resort where people would come in the summertime from places like st. louis and new orleans and enjoy the beautiful lakes and cool weather. that was one option. was, -- if you wanted to get discussion going on in madison, you throughout the idea of turning madison into a factory city. this is one of the few places in the country where that particular future was vehemently rejected. the bosses and civic leaders at century, 20th century, felt strongly that it was very important to keep madison beautiful. this did not mean that they would not be interested in business. as a matter of fact, they wanted business, but they wanted something they called "high-grade factories." people with fancy machines, almost high-tech in today's terminology. thatwas a huge debate ultimately settled only after about 60 years o

the relationship between the city and the university is fascinating. the concept of having a university here in madison occurred very early, in 1837. but it was not until 1848 that the university had any money and was able to get started and was able to start building buildings. the university of wisconsin, in fact, was very small during almost all of the 19th century. it was only in the late 1890's that it be can to grow rapidly. from that point forward, it continued to grow rapidly throughout most of the 20th century. so when the university suddenly got into this big growth spurt in the 1890's and through the teens, business leaders said this is an economic engine. this is the way to grow madison. that was a fascinating revelation for business leaders, because they had not thought of the university as economic development. one of the most interesting stories was the history of the progressive movement. to a large extent, it was about a relationship between president trost and ice -- charles van hyes, and the governor with the state. they decided to ha

this is actually an image of the baby universe. an image of the end of the visible universe and i believe this is a metaphor. it's a scientific statement. the very first light, the echo of the big bang which has been picked up bay satellite, and you can see red dots and blue dots. those are not galaxies. galaxies did not exist at the time. stars did not exist. all there was was matter, light, and dark matter as well. and this picture here is a picture of the baby universe of which glasses grew is red, and before this time this was filled with a high energy fog. i say high energy fog but in the book i can't say energy or fog. i can say high but that not very useful. there are other ways in the book in which all of this is talked about. and so this is as far back as we can now see and we can learn incredible amount of information about the universe. one thing we learn about the universe by looking at the picture is that the universe is 30,000,798,000,000 years old. give or take 37 million years old. we don't know the age of the earth

she went to the university of pennsylvania. i have kept on my desk in a little glass holder one of the cards that was her admission card to class that was her tuition for a semester. $200. $200 a semester. just to keep reminding me what that cost was. of course, for her family, that was a lot of money then, too. one of the big issues you are raising here is juxtaposing the cost of education to the cost of education for a student and their family. there have to be seen as two different things. tuition, what it costs to come to a university, is one of the revenue sources. but a university like rutgers with a budget of $3.7 billion a year is a very large enterprise. you have to manage costs all across the board. you can't expect tuition to be the alternative revenue source when everybody else isn't providing their share, whether the state or the federal government or the private philanthropy or whatever. we can't put that burden on students anymore. part of the question is, how can we reduce the cost to students? that's question nu

the relationship between the city and the university is fascinating. the concept of having a university here in madison occurred very early, in 1837. 848 thatas not until the university had any money and was able to get started and was able to start building buildings. in university of wisconsin, fact, was very small during almost all of the 19th century. it was only in the late 1890's that it be can to grow rapidly. point forward, it continued to grow rapidly throughout most of the 20th century. so when the university suddenly got into this big growth spurt in the 1890's and through the teens, business leaders said this is an economic engine. this is the way to grow madison. that was a fascinating revelation for business leaders, because they had not thought of the university as economic development. most interesting stories was the history of the progressive movement. to a large extent, it was about a relationship between president -- charles van hyes, and the governor with the state. they decided to have something that was called a saturday lunch clu

both in the university of california and the cal state university systems over the last years. the end result is, we've done lots of cutting, lots of savings, lots of efficiencies. $660 million. we have hard pencil numbers on, much less everything else that's happening. we have frozen tuition for the last three years. we've done all these things. yet, we are still $460 million below where we would have been in 2007/2008, and we've enrolled thousands more students. what that means is that on a per capita basis, the state is putting in a less amount for the students than they did 30 years ago. >> the governor said one of the reasons they increased state funding is to keep tuition flat. this deal now, raising tuition, breaks the promise. what's your response to that? >> there was no agreement. i don't think anyone believes there really was an agreement. his plan, it's a plan but not a two-way agreement. his plan is that for the state portion of our budget, he'd increase that 4% a year. >> people hear it and go, that's a lot. what's the problem? our core budget is comprised by what

but people think about the university of texas and what's the brand value of the university of texas what does the football team add and what does that do in terms of recruiting professors and top students and donors and having matthew mcconnaughay do his true detective thing on the sideline for your athletes? i think there's a little bit of cynicism involved in saying either they made a profit or they didn't and there wasn't other ancillary benefits that happened. whether that's the 50-year program or the brand that's the university. the first thing we've said to cities when we've been looking at a potential olympic bid at 2024, if you're trying to make money as the first line then you're not going at it for the right reason. to say we want to have them be cost overruns and be burdens on their cities. but you have to see a bigger picture. i totally understand that your job is to get to those black-and-white numbers but i think there is some inherent value beyond just whether or not the profit and loss categories for those schools and the investments. >> i will go beyond that value th

give us a status report about what the university is doing in? light of what happened two years ago about the molestation of these boys. where is the university right now? >> okay. well, of course that's an incredible tragedy. and out of that has come a u university that probably has tht strongest compliance and ethics program of any university in the count country. we don't look at we're followinh the rules, we look at whether we're doing the right thing.we h and we pulled together an incredible team. we've looked at over 100 different topics for which we felt we could do improvements and create a greater sense oeafn control. and this is a model institution. and i believe that especially in the athletics arena of ethics and compliance, we're going to see a lot of universitiespe cop what penn state has done because it's such a fine program.pl >> as far as specifics, what has the university put in place to make sure these instances don't happen again? >> well, just as an example, compliance and ethics is outside of athletics. it's not within thatit

she went to the university of pennsylvania. i have kept on my desk in a little glass holder one of the cards that was her admission card to class that was her tuition for a semester. $200. $200 a semester. just to keep reminding me what that cost was. of course, for her family, that was a lot of money then, too. one of the big issues you are raising here is juxtaposing the cost of education to the cost of education for a student and their family. there have to be seen as two different things. tuition, what it costs to come to a university, is one of the revenue sources. but a university like rutgers with a budget of $3.7 billion a year is a very large enterprise. you have to manage costs all across the board. you can't expect tuition to be the alternative revenue source when everybody else isn't providing their share, whether the state or the federal government or the private philanthropy or whatever. we can't put that burden on students anymore. part of the question is, how can we reduce the cost to students? that's question nu

so i think the university is more selective. but what's happened at the same time is we're retaining students at a rate of nearly 95% from first year to second year, we're graduating more students and we're servicing students more. our mix of out of state to in state students has changed. in the five years that i have been here at ohio state, it was about 18% out of state students, and it's now up around 25%. and what that mixture actually represents, i think is the -- what our benchmark institutions, those institutions we want to compare ourselves to, what their actual rates of in state and out of state students are. in fact we're about 10% behind those benchmarks. and we're having discussions right now of where -- what's the proper mix of out of state and in state students and where do we want to settle out in. one more point that i think is important, we continue to draw students and serve the state of ohi ohio--this first class is first generation students, this is the first time, they're the first in the family to go on and

and i'm not going to admit to any fluff at the university. but we do educate our students both broadly and specifically. i'm a university president, i studied biochemistry as an undergrad, i studied medicine and biochemistry as a medical student and as a doctoral student. but as an undergrad i took classes in religion and history and bopolitics and government a music and all those things it turns outs have affected how i live my life and it's also affecting how i look at the leadership of a great university. i think we have to educate broadly and that's not fluff and we also have a responsibility to educate with specificity. >> allan is on our line with educators. good morning. >> caller: i appreciate you taking my call. my question goes backs to the student loans that are funding the nation's universities. i just want to point out the fact, and hopefully you're aware of this. student loans are the only types of loans to be specifically vacated of the most fundamental student protections that exist forever other type of loan, this is bankruptc

aren't 3%,sities, we 10% of the university budget. make up 90% of the media, but we're only 3% of the entire budget, and in some cases maybe 10%. but the focus is a small focus when you look at the totality of what a university budget is. we are so small, but media is such a big deal we focus on that , little piece. >> so we've established the fact that you're on one side of the fence or the other. what's the ante if you want to be on the side of the fence with the haves and not the have-nots? you've been on the other side. >> i couldn't tell you that because you start to look at one of the things for us when this whole thing was a geography. we were in the right spot the right media market. you can think about boise. >> what are the investments that you would have to make, or that you were part -- that were part of programs that you were associated with that you had to make? give us an idea. >> what chris hasn't said is the dumb luck of the s.e.c. poaching two big 12 schools that allowed them to come in. they could have built all the

the university should have to restrictions on the content of speech. it was one of the great moments of my life. >> i think it took awhile before we realized the impact that this was having not only as a country. it had enormous impact on the country, but in other parts of the world. >> i don't like sitting on the sidelines and it's really not like me to do that. i just never have. i kind of sat on the sidelines there and i wish i hadn't. >> i think i've softened as i've gotten older. i think that in many ways in major way what's the students were protesting over turns out to be something i think very valuable in our society. so i think certainly the ends were good and the ends were achieved. >> what i told mario at the time is one of those rare moments in life where we're both right and successful. we're both on the right side and we won. it's very hard to do both. you can do right or you can win. very rarely do you do both. on december 8th we did both. to this day, it's exciting. it was a hell of a time. >> on january 2nd, a little more than three mo

the university found the boy responsible for assault. he was expelled from his dorm, but not kicked out of school. >> i think at a minimum, they should have suspended im. >> the family said his punishment for rape was no more than a slap on the wrist. >> it's not that there was alcohol and a sexual assault. there was a confession to the sexual assault. that's staggering. >> a review of sex crime cases at hundreds of schools across the nation found victimises rarely face expulsion. even when the university rules they are culpable in a sex assault, as a sex attacker was. >> a local da declined an interview with "america tonight". but told rebecca's family there wasn't evidence to press charges. floored, the family sought out another avenue for justice. >> we began to thing of something needing to be down. they found it in the "america tonight" series, sex crimes on campus. we had seen "america tonight"s expose in america, about the title nine case and the young woman going forward and confronting their universities. it was interesting when

steve patterson is the university of texas athletics director. e was previously at arizona state, and spent two decades in professional sports. among other roles he was general manager of the houston rockets and portland trail blazers. and pete is a senior writer for sports illustrated, who covers college football and basketball. he worked for the new york times where he was nominated for a pulitzer prize. a story about faulty academic credentials obtained by talented high school athletes. the big 12 commissioner had planned to be with us today, but he is home, recuperating from surgery. we'll want wish him the best. all opinions expressed today are those of the panelists themselves and do not represent the organizations with which they are associated. this is a time of upheaval in sports. a regional director of the national labor relations board ruled that the players should be allowed to form a union. there was a lawsuit brought by a former basketball player at o'bannon. that was only a day after the so-called big five athletic conferences in es

>> yes, i believe the university did ask all those questions. they got as much information from jackie as they could but they were up against a wall of not having enough information to proceed. so the next question is does a college campus do a warning? we have the ability to do a timely warning under the cleary act, to put something, a notice to the community that something violent has occurred. lacking specifics all the university would have been able to say is there has been a gang rape alleged in a fraternity house but not tell then where or what, so they could mean meaningfully protect themselves. there's a penis on the loose and it may come and get you. right? there is the potential to scare people without giving them the tools they need to take protective action. >> in this case, now president sullivan has suspended the fraternity's activities at least into the winter break, into the middle of january. can the university take further action, shut down the fraternity's activities or shut down the fraternity or any other location where the a

lisa love, the former director of athletics at arizona state university. in 2005 she was inducted into the american volleyball coaches hall of fame and teaches a graduate class at the university of louisville. tom mcmillan, rhodes scholar. member of congress. the founder of the national foundation on fitness, sports and nutrition and a former cochairman of the president's council on physical fitness and sports. she is a 38 year veteran of the college sports world and seven serves as the women's athletic director at of university of texas. also a former board member of the national association of collegiate marketing in 2003, she was inducted into that organization's hall of fame. and the director of athletics at the university of kansas. he is a published author and researcher as well as one time assistant on coach bill snyder's staff at kansas state which he started when he was just 23 years old. let's cut to the heart of the matter here. should student athletes be paid? who wants to take that one. it is an easy one. >> ladies first. >> thanks, and great t

she serves as the women's athletic director at the university of texas. she is also a former board member of the national association of collegiate marketing administrators. in 2003, she was inducted into that organizations hall of fame. and shea and zinger is the director of athletics at the university of kansas. he is author and researcher and a one-time assistant on bill snyder's staff at kansas state, which he started when he was just 23 years old. let's cut right to the heart of the matter. should student athlete be paid? who wants to take that one? it's an easy one. [laughter] out start. >> ladies first. sure to >> it is great to be with you. great to be with everyone out there. absolutely not. in many ways, you can make the case they are receiving a lot of benefits now with college scholarships, which steve berkowitz and usa today surveyed a few years ago and valued it at $100,000 a year in terms of coaching, exposure, training, all of the things in addition to receiving a first-class education at some of the finest universities on earth. student at

that's not universally adopted across the country. and i think for a student athlete not to graduate from a university with a degree in hand is a total disservice. >> thank you. and i think, judge starr, you mentioned something like 86%. could you talk about your graduation rate for your student athletes again very quickly? >> yes. this last year, academic year, 82% did, in fact, graduate. a number did, in fact, as did pat go on to pursue degrees as well. advanced degrees, graduate degrees. and here's the key point. it's individual choice. what is the culture? that's the responsibility of the university. does the university create a culture that encourages the student to do the best that he or she can? there are obviously important issues to be addressed. we completely agree with that and we're part of a conversation that is nationwide. with respect to what can we do better? we know there are things that can, in fact, be improved. especially the full cost of attendance. completely agree with that. but the real question, i think, with r

director of athletics at the university of kansas. he is a published author and researcher as well as one time coach bill snyder's staff at kansas state which he he was just 23 years old. cut to the heart of the matter here. student athletes be paid? who wants to take that one. is an easy one. >> ladies first. great to be with you and great to be with everyone up here. not.utely they are in many ways you can make the case that they are benefits nowot of which college scholarship years today survey a few ago valued at over $100,000 a career in terms of coaching, exposure, training in addition to receiving a first-class fineston at some the universities on earth. athlete student athletes need to be paid i understand the argument. go into thatill quit a bit over the next hour so.a half or a couple of thoughts for me. i will throw them out there to rolling on this. if we are paying the football player are we paying field player? and if not, why not? there is the little law knowned a title ix that changed the playing fields of america. the

allnsequence, the head of universities. dr. kerr has always given the impression that he is a "liberal" in the educational field. that he is not in sympathy with loyalty oath by stating university officials. and that he is also not in complete accord with the fact that varies branches of the state and local government must conduct security investigations of individuals on various campuses. especially with those individuals take part in classified contract spirit with this background in mind, the following is being brought to the attention of the bureau. this is in the event that the bureau may receive some inquiry recurring -- concerning dr. kerr, who at best is a highly controversial figure in california education. so, that is 19 58th. that is 19 58th. is 1958. concerns a visited the campus of somebody named frank been aon, who had housing official, i housing official, in los angeles and had been called to testify before the house un-american activities committee and had refused. wilkinson was going to come to the campus an

today, where on the campus of the university of wisconsin madison in front of the lake where 100 years a go last month in 1914, the society of american indians met at their fourth annual meeting .>> six days the society of american indians was the first secular indian led , indian rights association that sought to impact congressional policy and help out indian people on reservations .after it was made up mostly of american indian professional people .the fall of the berlin indian of the bureau of affairs, 52 of them gathered to gather in wisconsin to set the agenda for the future and attempts to shape congressional policy. what was happening at the time for the american indian people was the reservation system was appearing to be a failure to many different interested parties. indian people were poor, undereducated, they have been losing vast quantities of lands, their tribal economies were in bad shape and it was time -- the feeling was that it was a time for a change in indian policy. the specific items on their agenda were to get citizenship for indian people. indian people would b

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we are standing on observatory hill on the campus of the university of wisconsin madison. effigy moundstwo on campus. madison is lucky. it has more effigy mounds than any other campus in the united states. a glacialroaching rock. wingtip of athe bird effigy mound built here around 1000 years ago. effigy mounds are difficult to photograph. they are quite shy. every time they see a camera, they sink down into the earth and hide themselves. they're not prominent earthworks, but they are very special. the wingtips extended towards the hedge. near the sidewalk and fence by the building. the body comes down the hill toward the lakeshore, and then the other wing is just out of sight on the other side of the body of the mound. we are looking at the bird effigy from a slightly different perspective. the bodies extending down the slope towards the lake, and the wings extend off to each side as if it is flying up towards the top of the hill. these can be considered kind of a tombstone. they marked the graves of the dead and are carved in the spirits, animals and just as sometimes you

with the standing that northwestern has and also the university of illinois chicago would have people on their staff that have been very subversive in the past and broken laws. and what could a parent do if they don't want their children being taught by this type of person? >> well, i don't know you're el lewding to a lot of things. a lot of the listeners aren't aware. the faculty, we have 3,000 people or so on the faculty. i think they're generally wonderful scholars and great teachers and proud members of the community. you know, there are a lot of schools. if you really want to say that because there's one professor who might have done something in the past that you don't like, you know, you're not going to send the kid to that school, there are other schools to send the kid. i think if you actually look at that and you're going to find out that there are many people -- the important thing is what happens in the classroom. does this professor bring his or her political ideology or whatever into the classroom. i'm very proud member of the facult

the university of central florida in orlando and florida international university in miami. we have recently launched a connoissesortium of the metropo research universities in the state that graduates again, just about half of the baccalaureate degrees, two-thirds of the baccalaureate degrees awarded to hispanics in the state, about 55% of the degrees awarded to pell recipients across the state. their experience is quite different than, if you will, at the legacy institution. we are committed to collaborating, to sharing best practices, to leveraging resources across the three universities with a mind to betterer ask offing the new population -- better serving the new population of college attendees and college graduates in the state, and we believe that's absolutely essential if florida and this nation is going to compete successfully in the global economy and maintain what has become a commitment to providing social mobility opportunities through college education. >> thank you all for doing this and for joining us this morning. thank you. [ applause ] >>> take you live no

the university found rebecca's title 9 credibility and is now investigating the university of kansas.in the years since the series aired, the number have tripled and 89 schools and universities are under investigation and for the first time the u.s. education department is public workly identifying the list of schools which are under investigation. >> it's up to all of us to put an end to sexual assault. >> as the obama administration urges more talk about sex crimes on campus. >> this is on all of us, every one of us to find campus sexual assault. >> two states took more direct approach. under the yes means yes law, students must get a clear yes before following on with sex. >> the sexual assault thing is an epidemic. >> and sexual assault victims are increasingly. >> all three of my rapists are on campus. >> students here charge columbia failed to protect them and are dragging door mattresses across campus. a symbol they carry as survivors of campus sex assault. columbia junior says she has been assaulted twice. it's not easy for her to tell her story or forget the pain. >> what i n

president, and the university president says, "the university takes seriously the issue of sexual misconduct, a significant problem that colleges and universities are grappling with a across the nation. our goal is to provide an environment that is as safe as possible for our students and the entire university community." ,eanwhile, terry mcauliffe virginia governor, is calling for a full review of the university policies. investigate the case of jackie, which is a fictitious name, and find out the veracity of the article. new data does show that sexual campus, are up on the 2007-2013, they are up by 11%. allison, leon? tonight on aation student who shot three other students on a florida state university campus. police found videos of that the governmentieves the was targeting him. he had also graduated from texas tech law school. say campus officers shot and killed that lone gunman after he fired a gun. and police in tabernacle, new jersey, are investigating a multiple shooting that left two children dead. state police discovered that family around 9:00 this morning in their secluded home o

however, josh was still expelled from the university. >> he was given this from the office of the president. he has a criminal no trespass order against him. he cannot set foot on any auburn university property - i guess for the rest of his life. >> reporter: the university provided our request for an interview and provided the statement: >> reporter: it is true that u.s. colleges are required by federal law, title 9, to investigate claims of federal assault. campus hearings have caused concerns, and yes, means yes law fanned the fears. >> there has been a change in the way that assault claims are addressed on campuses. there's a presumption of guilt against the boy who has been accused of sexual assault. they don't quote the due process rights that many americans expect to have occur. >> the grand jury found evidence, auburn university chose to expel you. >> right. >> why. >> the explanation that we have come up with is just title 9 compliance. they had to have something to say that they are complying with the federal mandate to keep the funding that they get. >> maybe in the letter writin

there are studies under way from the university of virginia. and the ncaa has personally -- has directly funded a study that's -- so this is evolving science. yes, we want to -- >> here's my question. i'm sorry, i don't mean to be rude but i only have five minutes. should we not -- if uniization is as bad as so many of you think it is should we not use this as a catalyst, not just talk about conversations and not just talk about, yes, we're looking at it and studying. let's do it. you are very powerful institutions in very powerful conferences that people look to for leadership. can you not just say, we're going to lead an effort to make this happen? >> briefly, i believe it is happening. can we move more quickly? of course. you can always move more quickly. but it is in fact, a serious conversation. these issues are under serious review and it's not just a conversation. things are -- the ncaa, the cost of attendance for the -- >> my question is, in these conversations, who is speaking for the student athlete? >> i would say there's a multiple o

the university takes seriously sexual miscontact. we have adopted new policies aimed at fostering and reporting and raising awareness. 88 colleges and universities and under investigation for how they handle sexual assault cases. >> they could face a loss of federal funding which would decimate an entire institution. that has never been done. but there are finds that the office of civil rights can levy. >> important to say it was the university that called for authorities to get involved including police and the virginia attorney general's office. >> all right. thanks so much. so, how will this be investigated? doesn't this kind of investigation or should it begin at the local or campus police level? >> i would absolutely say yes. part of the problem that this story is really bringing to light is the failure of universities to hand these investigations over to the appropriate authorities. >> they want to contain it. >> i think there is a wlot of deference to the victim at times. maybe she is not sure whether she should report it or wh

. >> the university student affairs office found him guilty of the assault. they kicked him out of his dorm but not out of the school. >> what should the university have done? >> i. >> i feel they should have at least suspended him. >> rebecca says his punishment for rape was merely a slap on the wrist. >> it wasn't just sexual assault, there's a confession to the sexual assault. that's staggering. >> found victimizers rarely face expulsion. just 10 to 20% of the time. even when the university rules they are culpable in the sex assault as rebecca's attacker was. told rebecca's family there just wasn't enough evidence to press charges. floored, the family sought out another avenue. for justice. >> we began just to think you know, really, something 92ed to be done to remove this young man from this campus. >> they fount it in the "america tonight" series, sex crimes on campus. >> we had seen al jazeera america's exposÉ last year, about the title nine cases and the yuck unwomen who were coming forward and confronting the universities. it was very interesting whe

so is there a change at the university of virginia?'sv >> they have been making some changes lately.b. they have implemented a bystander intervention campaign they unveiled in september, they changed some policies to create more mandatory reporters. but the idea that they didn't know some of the details of jackie's case, that sounds a little disingenuous to me only because when i approached jackie about this article, she was very forthcoming about all the details and confided her allegations in a dean a year ago and has been in very close contact with her for the last year, so it makes me think that, if this dean didn't know the details, it's because jackie was just never asked. >> reporter: among other things, you write in the article that the college officials gave her options of what to do. one of those options was to do nothing. >> that the very common now at colleges. a new approach to dealing with victims is to present them with a variety of options and leave the choice up to them how they want to pursue the case. in theory, it's

[laughter] so let us talk about the two greatest mysteries in the universe; the origin of the universe and what's sitting on your shoulders. inner space and outer space. and last year the politicians got wind of the excitement. we've learned more in the last five to ten years about the mind than in all of human history combined. president barack obama last year got wind of this, and in his state of the union address announced the brain initiative. just like the human genome project, changed the course of medicine giving us a disk with all our genes on it, obama announced the brain initiative with the europeans. $1 billion -- that's billion with a b, not an m -- will be devoted to creating a map, a map of the brain. just think of it, we will have the genome and the connectome, all the neural connections of the mind on a discanning. the short-term -- discanning. the short-term goal is to cure mental illness. mental illness has been with us since biblical times. even the bible mentions mental illness. but if we have the connectome and the genome on two disks, then in some sense if you die

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