i am the past president of the university association. i think that this should be denied and the property right of way should be restored. this is the property line. all i want to show you are the exhibits. this is the property line. 6 feet over is the fence. usf has always known that this was on the right of way. they confessed to this. you see the yellow pole, that is where the old retaining wall was. this is 3 feed which is where they removed the soil and there were trees. they cover all this area of so that i covered the fence. in 2004, the university did not have a permit but they cut the trees down so that they can move this retaining wall over to hear. they had all of the soil and the roots and then move it 3 feet. they could have taken this retaining wall and put it back where it was. they could have replanted trees. they could move this over here, fill it in, and plant it. thank you. >> do you live in this area? >> yes. i live down the street from mr. -- that he asked me what the history was. rb started the association and i am s

the universe. it is associated with the womb of creation and with the fountain of life.the spirit of honoring the ancestors, we say, praises to the ancestors of this land, the keepers of this land. praise be. praises to the ancestors of the middle passage. praises be. praises to all of those whose courage, strength, determination, perseverance, blessings, grace, blood, sweat, tears, and sacrifices have uplifted us, our community, our people. i want you to take a moment and out loud and with passion and with gratitude, call up the name of those whose shoulders you stand upon. praises be. praises be. praises be. praises be. praises be. praises be. praises be. we call -- praises be. we call upon you all to join us in this commemoration of the past and join us in the celebration of the youth leaders of yesterday and today and those of tomorrow. we ask you to participate as we ourselves become more energized and inspired to follow their example and to take action, to be healers, peacemakers, social justice activists. we call upon you, great ones, to ask that you give us your

past the numbers have been up to 700 but today they expect 500 coming today to san jose state university. one of the big questions will be, will it be peaceful? the california faculty associationthat while they do support civil disobedience they don't support violence. now, today's huge protest will be at all 23 csu campuses. they are talking about fair contracts for employees. the csa says student fees have tripled, 3,000 faculty members have been laid off and the budget cut by $1.5 billion. campuses like san jose state have cut classes and then they tried to reduce the number of students by shortening application deadlines. this has resulted in overcrowded classrooms. the teachers union says this basically means students are paying more and then getting less. and so the union has a list of demands today. they want the state to bargain fair contracts with faculty and staff. no more job losses to csu faculty and staff. they support laws to make the csu system more transparent. they want to cut management bloat and, of course, stop fee hikes. now all this is taking place with the backdrop of a daunting budget deficit of $27 billion where governor jerry brown says will very like

the big question is, will it be peaceful? the association says they support civil disobedience but not violence. frank? >> all right, kiet do live at san jose state university, thank you. >>> today president obama will unveil his plan to reduce america's soaring debt which now tops $14 trillion. >> but before he goes public with the plan, he is going to give congressional leaders a preview. the president expected to call for a mix of spending cuts and tax hikes including medicare and medicaid reforms and higher taxes for the wealthy. >> the point is that the balance is essential, that the burden has to be shared by everyone. >> from my point of view, taxes are not on the table because we don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. >> the u.s. is heading for a record deficit estimated at 1.5 trillion this year. >>> it is 4:38. time for a little check of traffic and weather. it was cold this morning. >> he is whining again! >> it is chilly outside. we'll look at the temperatures. but first the chance of rain coming to the bay area you can see on satellite we have a weak cold front making its way to the bay area, most of the clouds that are build

the pouf is mightier than the pen when it comes to speaking fees at new jersey's largest university. the rutgers university programming association show "jersey shore" $32,000 thursday to dish on her hairstyle, fist pumps, as well as the gtl, gym - tanning -laundry, lifestyle. that's $2,000 more than the $30,000 the university is paying nobel-winning novelist toni morrison to deliver rutgers' commencement address in may. money for polizzi's appearance came from the mandatory student activity fee. i'm fired up about this one. i don't know why. maybe because that's more the one i made in my first job. i'm off my box now. it's friday cooling things off, a beautiful day. enjoy the warm weather cooler for the weekend, we will be back monday at 4:00 a.m..

. >>> my guest is the professor and senior associate prayer for the practice of medicine at the stanford university school of medicine. he is the writer of great novels, cutting for stone is your latest one? >> yes. it is a medical epic. i see medicine as a promanhattannic and passionate pursuit. i wanted to put everything i love about medicine in the novel. everything exhumed the grandeur of medicine. >> it begin with a no one giving birth to twins in -- nuns giving birth in the operating room. >> you talk about the bedside manner that has been lost. years ago when i was a little girl, the doctor would do a physical exam and they would make house calls years ago. none of that happens these days. here is my question. with younger doctors coming in, being raised on computers, who have never known a life without a computer screen near them, in their own homes, are they on board, i am good, great doctor, good at math and science, accurate and cure, what do i have to be if best for? >> i think kids come into medical school now and before, they come in with all the right qualities. often because of a pe

students here at the university face a choice for their new leader in the coming weeks. the two candidates for associated students president faced off in a debate weapons. director of external affairs is running against the president. >> we have to advo kay together. our student's power is in numbers. period. we don't have money. we don't have big titles. but we do have numbers. >> he is running to get more students involved and make the organization streamlined. he argues students will find it easier to be a part. >> we need student senate and get multiple voices. right now we have 13 people and their friend show up. >> thomas cheese crack benefits by being president and believes we need to remain consistent. >> the provost might be retiring, and there is huge reasons of stable and for university. >> if alleged, he would be one of six returning members and he says he will benefit for not having to deal with learning curve again. >> i remember going through the graphs once you understand it you can rep the students better. >> you can pick up your guides for the elects a-- the election at student hall. >>

the purpose of today is to keep higher education affordable, prevent more tuition hikes and to protect fair contracts for university employees. a day of class action is being sponsored in part by the california faculty association. that group's message is to, quote, we will not let california lose its public universities. cfa contends that the system has already endured $1.5 billion in cuts, it's ralost more than 3,0 faculty members while student fees have tripled. today all sorts of event are planned at various cal state campuses. you can expect rallies, demonstrations, walkouts, teach-ins and poetry slants. i can tell you at this carlos b. boulevard main entrance here at cal state east bay, a human billboarding rally is planned for about two and a half hours away from now at 8:00 this morning, so i'm sure this intersection is going to be jammed up a little bit later. then at 12:00 outside the bookstore, a teach-in is planned for students there today, all expected to send a strong message to the school's dean. another thing to keep in mind, this is not just happening in california. public universities across the country are also taking part in today's national day of action. laura. >> thank you very much, marl

university employees. the california faculty association says in recent years student fees have tripled, 3,000 faculty laid off and the budget cut by $1 billion. campuses have cut classes and taken steps to reduce the number of students doing things like shortening application deadlines all resulting in overcrowded classrooms and long waiting lists. the teachers union says this amounts to students paying more and then getting less. now, they have a list of demands. they want to bargain with fair contracts, with faculty and staff. no more job losses to csu faculty and staff. they want to support laws to make csu more transparent, cut management bloat and stop the fee hikes. most of the rallies start at noon. will it be peaceful? the union says they support civil disobedience but they do not support violence. back to you. >> thank you. kiet do at san jose state university. >>> today president barack obama will unveil his plan to reduce america's soaring debt which now tops $14 trillion. before he goes public with that plan, he will give congressional leaders a preview. the president is expected to call for a

director of the center on peace in liberty at the independent institute and in tucson we have hudson she is an associate professor of near east studies at the university of arizona and another member of our crossfire team on the hunger all right this is crosstown amuse you can jump in anytime you want. i could go to tucson should view the united states and its western allies one way or another legally or illegally or a split the difference between the law and what we want to do morally give arms to anti kadafi rebels and i'm not going to use the word democratic right liberals yet until someone can convince me they are democrats go ahead. what i believe or not is not really the issue we've already taken the first steps down this road and if you look at the last twenty four hour news cycle you'll see that there are special forces on the ground in libya right now and in an afghanistan style scenario that is the first step towards ever greater. involvement in the conflict on the ground there are two different interpretations of what's going on on the ground on the one hand these special forces these u.s. special forces are probably doing much more precise

university. it will be at the center offices there. golden gate business association expo has been moved till june. but there will be several different neighborhood organizations. there will be mixers sponsored by wells fargo and the golden gate business association. we'll be having hours at the center on market street. a lot of these other neighborhood organizations will be having theirs as well that we. most of them are having them on tuesday night. saturday, the sidewalk sale throughout the city, i think everybody on this commission for approving the fee waiver. that is a huge deal. we thank you very much for that. we will have a spotlight on comcast, headline news. local headline news. it will be running for the next three weeks supporting small businesses. >> and also, commissioners, in regards to -- we have advertisements in the bay garden, san francisco magazine and wells fargo is doing promotions for shop your neighborhood. they are participating. this is something that's new and added. i think it's really exciting. to do that reinforcement of the activity tha

the film. s >>> well, big congratulations to a group of students at san jose university tonight, honored for their service. on campus tonight, the privilege of being part of the associateddents award ceremony. the event was to highlight not just what they did inside the classroom but outside the classroom and in the community. 46 grads acted in the community, commended by their peers. >>> finally tonight, in the south bay, lots are nursing some blisters after putting on women's shoes and standing up to fight sexual violence. hundreds of men signed up to participate in the one-mile walk. it's walk a mile in her shoes. it shows why a hotline for counseling victims and their families. every man got a free pair of women's shoes. that is our own jeff ranieri, with san jose police chief, chris moore. jeff, you had one foot in your heel there's. >> i couldn't balance on live tv. i tried to do my part. >> did you bring those back with you? >> i did not. i told them they could keep them. >> the chief has a nice matching outfit. >> i saw him walking up and i said, okay. i have to do this for the event. >> you tell them next year, lieu vuittons or something.

temple for the association of student basketball encompasses over two hundred universities across russia from the leading red suv bloody boston all the leagues a far cry from its american version of the and see that play is the growing stronger of the last three seasons with at least twenty players make it's the pros that's the number that sebastian go in the near future as possible bears the holes that sways you. see university gates implies the students boards get the maximum but certain from the government from our cost for a larger scope. finally kenyan geoffrey mutai has run the fastest ever marathon but he's been in boston in two hours three minutes and see seconds will not count as a world record because officials claim the course was downhill and the tailwind was too strong we were time be the previous will best by almost a minute set three years ago by ethiopia's company selassie but a twenty mile an hour wind on the run is back to make it ineligible according to officials who also say the net decline of four hundred fifty nine feet from the start to the finish makes the course

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the association says snooki. the new jersey universitypaid the jersey shore star $32,000 to talk about her hair, the gym, tanning, laundry, lifestyle. that was in comparison to they are paying tony $30,000 to deliver the commencement address in may. snooki's advice to students, study hard, but party harder. no word yet on how that will compare to morrison's words of wisdom. if i were a parent, i would not be happy. >> that is terrible. >> really? >>> all right, coming up on the news edge at 6:00, new concerns that the dc police force is shrinking faster than the city can catch up. we'll take a closer look at the issue and what's being done about it. >>> and we have a don't ask, don't tell update tonight. pentagon officials hit the hill today to brief congress on the training of troops. >>> and can you feel the excitement? bcu24 hours away from its big game in houston. we have the final four fever coming up.  >>> even with his busy work schedule, he isn't immuned to prewedding jitters. prince william's commanding office

the goal is to keep higher education affordable, to prevent more tuition hikes and to protect fair contracts for university employees. the day of class action is being sponsored in part by the california faculty associationwhich says faculty has already suffered drastic pay cuts and lost jobs while student fees have tripled in recent years. so all sorts of noise is going to be made on campuses today, rallies, demonstrations, walkouts, poetry slams and teach-ins. here at cal state east bay i can show you this in fact, that flyers like this, here we go, are posted throughout the campus. they say "take class action. join us in demanding quality education." i know that there's an 8:00 rally scheduled today. the 11:30 walkout will be followed by a noon time poetry slam outside the bookstore here. not just happening across cal state campuses here in this state but also at public colleges and universities throughout the nation today. brent. >> thanks a lot, marla. >>> if you go to a nightclub in san francisco soon, it might look a little bit more like airport security checkpoints as you go inside. the entertainment commission is considering some new safety measures, including metal detectors and i.d. scans. the

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to talk more about the diversity in the area is a lot of course you could not stop was an associate professor of social and cultural anthropology at state university thank you very much for joining us and so for you to talk about the fabric here is there is this balance of indigenous groups mixed with people who came from the former soviet states it's a good question because you know in france because he is motivated they've ruled sort of from neutral let's also be real sequential from basically this cultural diversity is this basic they were they were students historical they rushed in to help in all sorts of beautiful regional community what we called friends wake up it really feels great that's the breakouts that's wonderful how is it that. the indigenous groups for example were able to integrate without wholly assimilate i mean they were able to hold on to their to distil ways of living while also embracing traditional russian ways of living we cannot see the ball as a whole. assimilation. but even some russian groups was assimilated by nature because some examples from the north. and especially as a former russian the russian language changed

the ncaa is a voluntary association of around 1,10 colleges and universities. >> bergman: and it's a non- profit? >> absolutely, yes. >> bergman: and how much of your revenue comes from men's basketball? >> 90% of the revenue that flows into the ncaa comes from the media rights and ticket sales for the ncaa men's basketball tournament. >> bergman: and the current contract for march madness with cbs and turner broadcasting is for how many years and how much money? >> it's 14 years and it's $10.8 billion. >> bergman: $10.8 billion? >> about $700 million a year. >> bergman: that's a lot of money. >> it is. it is, yes. >> it's a business, and go for them. it's a unbelievable business. >> look at this pass... >> bergman: sonny vaccaro is one of the people who made march madness what it is today by bringing hundreds of millions in corporate endorsements to college sports. you made it possible, this commercialization, no? >> yes. >> bergman: you're the guy who supplied the money. >> yeah. >> teammate wide open... >> bergman: but for decades, vaccaro has been critical of the way the ncaa does

revolution in the arab world i'm joined by nineteen she hardy in london he's an associate fellow in house also in london we have gilbert ashqar he is a writer and professor at the university of london and in washington we go to lawrence korb he's a senior fellow at the center for american progress all right gentlemen this is crosstab it means you can jump in anytime you want first i'd like to go to goldberg in london are we seeing different paradigms being developed in the arab spring moves forward the arab awakening as some people call it we have the twenty's or maybe the egypt model where we have some think maybe approaching a revolution a real revolution a change in the guard there and then maybe the bahrain model backed up by the saudi arabia they wrote the script there and maybe reluctantly with american supporting two different paradigms we have right now dictators that fall and dictators that are really clamping down well i would call that because you have. very different situations actually thinking. this is. different countries. i mean if you mean countries where. that succeeded the were throwing the. country where the fight is still going. basically only two cou

the story with uncommon style and grace. she's an associate professor of history at harvard university. r first book, "edge of empire" was awarded the 2005 cooper prize and was a book of the year selection in the economist, the guardian, and the sunday time. we're pleasessed to bring here -- pleased to bring her here this afternoon. please help me welcome her. [applause] >> well, thank you all for coming, and let me thank harvard bookstore for hosting me. i've been coming here since my undergraduate day a long time ago, and i feel as my reading tastes matured, this bookstore has been here to fulfill them. let me begin at the beginning with this book. there were two sides on the american revolution, but only one was on display early in the afternoon of november 25, 1783 when general george washington road on a -- radio on a gray horse into the city. henry knox followed close behind. long lines of civilians trailed after them, some on horses, others on footwearing black and white and sprigs of laurel in their hats. hundreds crammed in the streets to watch. through seven long years of war a

the clerk: senate resolution 142 congratulating the lady aggies of texas a&m university on winning the 2011 national collegiate associate division women one basketball championship. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. the presiding officer: i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be agreed to. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent we proceed to s. res 143. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 143 supporting the goals and ideals of national safe digging month. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. reid: i further ask the resolution pw-bl, the preamble pw-bl, there be no -- the preamble be agreed to, any statements related to this measure appear at the appropriate place as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent that the appointments at the desk appear separately in the record as if made by the chair. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid:: mr. president, we're working on a w

the transafrica forum. she has lived and worked in haiti as a human rights advocate. and robert maguire, an associate professor at trinity washington university chair of the haiti working group at the u.s. institute of peace. well, the results aren't certified until april 16. mrs. manigat is claiming fraud. but you don't feel we feed any qualifiers, michel martelly is the next president, nicole? >> most likely. unfortunately while we can say that he has 67% of the vote, that's only 22% of the actual registered voters voted in the election. so we do have to be concerned about his mandate. even though most likely they will certify that he is the winner, we're not really sure who actually voted for him. >> suarez: why did he win, sflof >> i think he won for a couple reasons. one, i think he did well in the primary election because the haitian voters seemed to reject the candidate presented by president preval, a great deal of frustration with the preval government and its inability to respond to the quake. now in the runoff election i think his victory is a combination of rejecting the haitian political elites, the haitian political class which

the center for health policy at stanford university medical school, as well as james said of all, a registered nurse with st. luke's hospital, and the senior vice president for health policy of the california hospital association, and dr. glenn melnick. maybe if you could come up to the table, and then, the need to speak, you can come up, but thank you very much. >> thank you. good morning. i am the senior adviser at the pacific business group on health, and i'm here to talk about the effects of market consolidation on hospital costs and quality in the city and region and around us. first, a quick word about who we are. we are located in san francisco. we have been around for 20-plus years. we are a coalition of large employers that is trying to improve the quality of health care and women help care cost increases. we are in the same quandary that you are, and i certainly do not then be your task. our members spend $12 billion a year providing health coverage for about 3 million individuals. they are purchasers of health care just like you are. mr. chairman, use of me on this slide, but here it is in pictorial form. we have all paid close attention to the article that came out in open " l.a. times" last month,

the university of idaho. head coach don verlin told a local newspaper he recruited johnson after talking to the associate head coach from pacific, ron verlin, who just happens to be his twin brother. >> barry brennan: unbelievable to sit there and say "oh, wow. okay, well, we can use a guy like that. oh, he has a sexual assault and has been found guilty?" how in the hell do you end up at another university within three months? >> couric: beckett brennan and her family are not giving up. they sued the school for violating her civil rights. last fall, a judge ruled against them, and the brennans are now appealing that ruling. >> welcome to the cbs sports update presented by viagra. at the slow lair row texas open today, in only his 12th start, graham steele wins his first pga tour championship. in the nab playoff, the memphis grizzlies upset the san antonio spurs in game one of their first-round series while the new orleans hornets knocked off the second-seeded lakers. for more sports news and scores, log on to cbssports.com. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] with amazing innovation, driven by relentless competition, wi

hoffman is our guest, one of our guests, chair of political science at the university of northern iowa in cedar falls. tim haggle, associate professor of political science at university of iowa sitting across the aisle from me, two of many political analysts we regularly feature on the exchange politics wednesday. we're so glad to have them on. let's get back to that discussion about this, and i'm looking at a cbs/"new york times" poll released a few days ago and it reveals that a quarter of americans incorrectly think president obama was not in america and among republicans, 45% believe he was born in another country as do 45% of tea party supporters. where do we go from here considering that such big percentages believe that the president, maybe this changes it, maybe it doesn't, believe that the president was born in another country, and therefore not eligible to be president. tim haggle. >> it's kind of an interesting thing, because i first, i guess i'd want to know more about the poll, when you see these with large numbers you think that is a large number that don't believe this or that or whether it is the birth issu

the united states army. she recently tied as a lieutenant colonel, and now she's an associate professor at temple university sters in health policy. that's linda. my other sister was basically the kid sister. when the first book was written, she was a science teacher, and after that, we said, you know, they want more from you, rita. you can't just have a bachelors. she said leave me alone. i know it's important, but secretly my sister rita went back and applied and was accepted to the university school of law, and so she has her jd. she didn't like law, and so now today, her at 55 years of age was the first black woman in new jersey institute of technology to get her ped hd in -- ph.d. environmental science. not all of us are doctors, but the surviving daughters are all dr. thornton, and made that one leap in one generation. many you drop out of high school, the next goes to college. the next will complete college, the next will go on to graduate school, but in one generation? it's almost unheard of that a janitor and a ditch digger and somebody working as a garbage man and a woman who cleans people's houses

he he is a professor at the university of mississippi and also associated with the independent institute in oakland. he wrote, "while public investments in technological investments sounds like a good idea, the dangers will be directed for politically popular projects, rather than those with the highest economic value. remember jimmy carter's quest for a new synthetic fuel, or bill clinton's dream of getting detroit to produce a car that would go 100 miles on a gallon of gas? untold federal treasure was wasted chasing those wills of the wisp." >> at intel, we would disagree with that. the national institute of standards, the department of energy, they do crucial work. they produce the seed corn for great companies like intel. so we collaborate with them. when president obama raises spending levels for these types of agencies and departments, 7% and 8% consistently since he came into office, that's a real plus for silicon valley and tech companies, like intel. >> speaking of research and development funding, we've seen a very political discussion over increasing the amount of r&d funding