while he and classmate zach weinberg were still undergraduates at the wharton school of business in philadelphia, they and two other partners started a company called invite media. it created a software platform that helps marketers and agencies make the most of their online advertising. just three years later, google bought invite media for $70 million. turner and weinberg now work for google, running the firm they founded as part of google's doubleclick division. nathaniel turner joins us now from the nasdaq market site. gnat, welcome to "nightly business report." >> thank you. >> tom: when did you first realize you were a entrepreneur? >> probably when i was right in junior high. i started taking hobbys that i had and expanding them to new businesses. back when i was 11 or 12 starting a trading card company and a snake-breeding company were huge successes for me at the time. i was able to buy my car and a few other things. >> tom: from trading cards and breeding snakes to online advertising. tell us about how you came up with the idea for invite media and really what it took to take it from c

. >> reporter: demonstrations began, quickly the movement found a leader, a brilliant undergraduate studentio sabio. he stated first principal. >> it's your right to recollect the -- >> reporter: as savio came to symbolize student rebellion, another came to mean the opposite. school president. >> we should expect no less of ourselves. >> reporter: kerr was shaken to find out that many of the faculty backed the students. some professors even stood on the steps of sprawl hall and openly talked for the cause. kerr began searching for a spokesperson. but the movement grew bigger. and when students went to class, there was nobody there. the teachers had joined the cause and so had folk singer joan baez. >> ♪ >>> the university made small concessions, by now students were in no mood for compromise. when the university called meetings for compromise, the meetings backfired. >> ladies and gentlemen, the meeting is now adjourned. the meeting is now adjourned. >> reporter: uc leaders had not put savio on the meeting and when he tried to put himself, he was dragged away. later with his followers now f

i was wondering what jr. -- your comment is on the status of undergraduate education in the country. >> guest: having been in the field for 40 some years, i do have some opinions on it. i think we have a problem with the fact that early high school elementary, secondary education is so oppressive and so boring and so coercive to so many students by the time they reach colleague at least the first two years they basically are separated having gotten out of high school. they barely attend classes and read their assignments. i'm not talking about princeton and harvard and stanford. i'm talking about the vast majority of people who think they must have themselves a ba and maybe even an ma in order to get anywhere in life. as far as their own motivation is rather poor. i don't have to happen there's a major problem with the humanities or social sciences or anything. i think they are always in kind of a fluctuation. for a little while, they will be taking the back seat. theatric -- they strike up, and hoping they will involve everything they are story. it's beginning to be evidence that ha

. >> they have long mandated equal footing among all undergraduates including athletes but some question whether the list is whether to again athletes' gpa up. this freshman athlete has seen the list. he said other classmen were passing it around when they were choosing classes. >> it was a list of lesser known classes. i hear the rumor it's easy classes but that is really not the vibe i got. they are interesting lesson on classes. >> before we were able to interview any other athletes the head of public relations of the athletic department demanded that we leave the area. then the student we had previously interviewed asked us to not mention his name or his sport. >> the university declined our request to appear on camera. austin lee is the director of the academic research center and he told california watch, quote, an objective evaluation of the courses included on the list would be overrule several courses that most students would consider to be academically rigorous. he said it was designed for students to get classes in before practice. they say the list isn't necessary. they say s

when i was an undergraduate all of my professors -- maybe i am exaggerating.almost all my professors were pushing the essential philosophy of these new deals, political philosophy of the new deal. kennedy was the rising political star. the whole idea of instituting legal principles that kept the government to the role that the declaration of independence spells out, to protect our rights, was very ill received yet i held that early in my career. i held it -- i don't even remember when i didn't hold this view. i was never a conservative. i was always a classical liberal libertarian. and so i never experienced a great deal of enthusiasm from my professors or even from my fellow students for the content of my thinking. they liked me because i was usually pleasant and i argued reasonably well, but as far as elevating me to some position of influence, nothing. .. answer every book of mine, whether it was an edited book are another that was a struggle to get into print. this changed in 1973 or four when a book was published by basic books from new york. it was the v

>> british history generally to undergraduates, english legal history as a survey course also to undergraduates which is actually a lot of fun, and then i teach graduate students in early modern history, particularly legal history, and do that at the law school. >> through the law school? >> uh-huh. >> teaching those courses, when do you find the time to write? >> i -- i mentioned the other day in my book festival presentation whether i wasn't sure whether i was proud or embarrassed by the fact that i spent over ten years working on that book. i started it before guantanamo. this was a project that came out of questions strictly from within what historians call -- what are the questions to the past in which we don't have good answers? so that's all a way of saying that you fit in the time to write, and in this project, much more significantly, the time to do the research. one of the keys to the project was that i literally went and studied the writs themselves which no one had ever before examined. that was the foundation for writing a book about something, about a topic that had been off writt

i'm a 26-year-old former philosophy undergraduate. i'm here at law school in ole miss.f mine and it was my birthday yet and you're the best gift i received. i'm a former intern with "reason" magazine and i know you started with robert poole would you talk about when you started reason and what do you think the future for it is, and my second question, is i'm a young guy and i'm interested in the intellectual unit and you and robert are heroes and got me out of the studies i was in. what advice would you have for a young guy like me in law school to get involved in this rich intellectual tradition and to really make a difference. so thank you, i love you, c-span. and your ring, dr. machan. i love your ripping. >> guest: well, thank you very much. here's the answer to your first question. back in 1969, we became aware of a small minimum graph publication with a great logo called reasoned and bob poole was out there at mit and he also got excited by lanny, eventually published both him and me in this little magazine. bob and i liked it so much that we decided that we're go

they say in state undergraduate tuition may climb by 32% for the winter 2012 term. that's if the university system has to cut $1 billion from its budget. the california residents would pay nearly $14,700 in annual tuition that does president -- doesn't include room, board and fees. >>> tuition is not the dilemma facing bay area college graduates. next month they hit the workforce, or try to. the outlook for new jobs is grim. abc7's alan wang has the disappointing statistics they are facing and a few encouraging signs. >> i am looking for a job in the healthcare field. in administration aspects of the field. >> when he graduates with a degree in healthcare sciences from cal state east bea, he will be facing some tough statistics. a poll shows salaries are down and just over half of college grads are being hired and they are having a harder time paying off student loans. >> i even have some friends right now that are working at minimum wage jobs and have two degrees. >> the competition for jobs is fierce. >> they are looking for students who are good communicators. th

that means it could cost a lot more to go to uc berkeley than uc santa cruz by allowing undergraduate tuition, the advocates say consumer demand could raise money for schools to share, but opponents say it would create anily tis system and harm the nature of the system. they raised basic in state tuition to 11,124 dollars, but varied tuition rates could go as high as $27,000 a year. >>> hdtv gives you millions of pixels to form an amazing picture you might be watching right now. but the next generation of high resolution tv's will give you billions of pixels. here is richard hart in the drive to discover the gigapan. >> it is the highest resolution movie you can view. higher than hd. high definition television becomes low-def when you zoom in because it is painted with two million pixels. this movie is made of billions of pixels. you can continue to zoom in while the movie is playing. >> each frame can be billions of pixels. >> you can do that over long periods of time. this is on the website, and you can pan around. >> they developed the technology jointly with randy sar -- randy ser

state of rhode island, southern rhode island, and then after i graduated high school, i went to undergraduate college in st. louis, missouri and then came out here for grad school, which fell in love with san francisco bay area. all of my plans changed and this became my home. i worked as an environmental analyst for a number of think tanks and then applied that trade in law enforcement, where i went to the san francisco police academy many, many years ago, graduated as a academy class, president of the class. trained in environmental forensics, both here locally, state and federally by the usepa in the training center in georgia and i worked for the district attorney's office in san francisco for nine years before becoming elected supervisor. >> and you spent most of your adult life in san francisco. >> yes. >> why did you make the choice to live in the city? >> oh, my god, i had never been west of the mississippi until i came here. growing up, we read a lot in our household but many of the books that i was drawn to were from authors who either came from california or spent substantial time

i was at uc berkeley in the 1960's as an undergraduate. so i had to look at that and ask how confused i was. when i look back on it, as everyone on this stage will tell you, their first stage was -- their first year was confusing, maddening. we were experimenting. we were experimenting perhaps with a lot more than you will be experimenting with. [laughter] nevertheless, we are here now. what is the common thread that connects all of us? college education. [applause] do not be fooled. do not let anyone tell you that without a college education, everything is fine. we are in america now. we are in international scene now that without a college education, you are nowhere in this society and going further down. i know you do not want to hear that because people think that other people did it. high-school would be fine -- high school would be fine. it would not be ok. the ok route is what we have to tell you about. you want to go someplace, your elders, people who have done it have to tell you the roadmap. you cannot invent the road map for you

both victims were due to graduate from the undergraduate accounting program today. and the university granted those degrees today to their families. for other students, though, today was also a time for celebrating and accomplishing a major goal. >> it was like blood, sweat and tears minus the blood. it was a lot of stress, a lot of long nights and papers and just assignments and studying and just sleepless nights, but we're done. i'm here. it's over. >> the commencement speaker was james thompson who is the founder and chairman of the largest group of moving companies in the world. >>> three people are in the hospital tonight after a major accident on highway 24 in arinda early this morning. these pictures show the rescue efforts of firefighters from the fire district. the accident happened just after 4:00 this morning near the st. stevens drive exit. a single car accident into a tree. three men and one woman all in their early 20s were in the car. two of them were trapped. firefighters had to use the jaws of life to free them. remarkably, three people are in criti

both victims were due to graduate from the undergraduate accounting program today. the university granted those degrees today to their families. >>> it was also graduation day at city college of san francisco where the commencement speaker was one of the most powerful politicians in the country. former house speaker and current house democratic house leader nancy pelosi gave the commencement address. pelosi has represented san francisco and neighboring cities for more than two decades and had a major impact on city college in 2007 when she earmarked capital funds for the college's new ocean campus health center. she gave the graduates her best wishes along with a special message from congress. >> i bring you congratulations of the congress of the united states. i bring with you the hopes of a nation. your success is the success of america. you are the future. congratulations and good luck. >> the community college claims to instruct more than 100,000 students each year in san francisco. >>> and still ahead on nbc bay area news at 11:00 -- can your phone or tablet he

posthumously. 25-year-old cindy and 26-year-old kyle williams were less than three weeks from earning undergraduate degrees in accounting from san jose state. police say colligeran's husband shot them as they sat parked in the school garage and then killed himself. both victims were honor students. the university says the diplomas will be awarded at the may 28th graduation ceremony. there is still no official word on the motive from police but she reportedly told her sister she was thinking of leaving her marriage because of abuse. >>> last night, a man survived a collision with an amtrak freight train in martinez near the amtrak station. emergency crews used the jaws of life to rescue the driver from the pinned truck at marina vista avenue. a chopper air lifted the driver to a nearby hospital because the train was blocking the only road out of the area. we're told the driver does not have any life-threatening injuries and he was the only one inside the truck at the time of the accident. >>> silicon valley is known for entrepreneurship. today we're seeing an example of that at stanford where at-ris

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i was on the undergraduate newspaper. and i can now think back to the fifth and sixth grade, and if i had a teacher that did not connect with me, i can see my mind sort of flying out the window. but i didn't know that then. well, i assumed the great distinction because you were the editor of the harvard crimson, which meant you had some talents. and, i presume, given that education, even in the bottom third, you would have some choices in life. and then you decided that of all places on the planet to go to to begin your career, you would go to west point, mississippi. what were you thinking? well, west point was involuntary. there was a nieman fellow up there named tom karsell, who came from hodding carter's paper in greenville, mississippi. and you have to understand, in the south in those days, there were a number of papers which became, in effect, like an oasis. and there was only a handful. we now should not glorify american journalism and southern journalism by thinking of all these wonderful, feisty independent news

talks about the failing of the university ranking systems, and he points out with respect to the undergraduate experience that all schools are under pressure to pretend to be more jail research oriented to have interdisciplinary this and the famous brandt professors in every area but actually works for most schools in like a parent to someone who looked at the entertainment world and the most famous act was lady gaga and recommended all acts became more lady gaga through code like. she's the only one who can get away with that stuff and it is with a jail and philosophical policy oriented way of legal instructions so it did work for yell because without as much time spent on the things like the old property and all they were able to generate all sorts of very influential new ideas. i will briefly summarize your because of all schools like a business schools go every five or ten years in which some new ideas so you have charles with a new property of the ideas and the right to a government job or teacher tenure or the right to some regulatory favors was a new property you should be entitled to k

in fact he decided not to fund diversity football program to give scholarships to undergraduates andformed a chess team. i have to admit i had mixed feelings about that. [laughter] i played football in college and i don't play chess. but i did graduate with a degree in applied mathematics, can certainly agree to a university where mathelets are cool. there's been changes since he took the helm and i've seen them. i'm a member of the umbc family. hell, i've even been to the roof with friedman. [laughter] and lived to tell the story she's part of the connections to umbc, we share your vision of developing the best one to not the world. we've been recruiting here for 12 years. we've participated in your disability days since the inception and we've recruited gransta many of our leadership programs. like you when you're committed to developing a lot work force and science and technology. your alumni working most of our businesses and the arctic credit to our company but few of the march 8. people like brian, joshua ballart and louise carroll all worked at ge. i ask them to stand that mig

basically learning is not happening at the undergraduate level. >> james proud who has move to palo altorom london game a self-taught programmer at age nine and is working on a website that will ahert fan als when their favorite artists are performing live. instead of going to college he wants to pursue a different avenue. >> that is fine and you work on building something which you enjoy. >> while skipping clj is a bold idea could they be missing something? >> i think you would miss out a lot on the experience that you get collaborating with the peers. >> that is where the students build a foundation of how to become leaders, how to market, how u to, again, going into accounting or operations and they need that. >> this is the first year for the fellowship program, entrepreneurship carries a certain amount of risk. we'll have to see over time whether the 24 tale fellows are smart enough to beat the odds. >>> still ahead here tonight, she blue th blew the whistle or boss. tonight the i-team looks into a prog >>> whistle blowers are an important part of making g

basically learning is not happening at the undergraduate level. >> james proud, who has moved to palo alto from london, became a self taught programmer at age 9. eats working on a website that will alert fans when their favorite artists are performing live. instead of attending college he wants to create a useful service. >> you get to the point you decide i'm not going to make money from this maybe ever and that's completely fine and you work on building something that you enjoy and you want others to enjoy, as well. >> while skipping college is a bold idea, could they be missing something? >> think you would miss out a lot on the experience that you get with collaborating with your peers. >> that's where they build a foundation of how to become leaders, how to market, again, going into accounting or operations, and they need that. >> this is the first year for the fellowship program. often draw entrepreneur ship carries with it some risk. we will see overtime whether the fellows are smart enough to beat the odds. abc7 news. >>> well, it is almost june and yet we continue to get what

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>> reporter: dale stevens of san francisco is another fellowship winner and dropped out of his undergraduate program to pursue his project called uncollege. >> uncollege is a macrolevel social movement supporting south directed higher education about motivation and validation. >> reporter: you admits not everyone grows with his choices or concept that higher education is over valued and rated. >> the most resistance i received actually was from individuals from the college who felt like my decision to leave college was a value judgment on their decision to stay in college. >> reporter: mark sayre, cbs5. >> one way to cover the cost of college, find a monster gold nugget up in the sierra hills. and while it may sound like a little bit of a throwback plenty of people are still trying to do just that. grace lee convinced the man that struck it rich to share his secret. >> reporter: hiding in the hills gold near the south yuma river in nevada county the old 49ers mined moat of it but look at what they left behind. >> it is really heavy. >> reporter: it is called the washington nugget. weighing i

in history from duke university and prior to that i got an undergraduate degree in history. >> where did you grow up, and what did your parents do? >> right. i grew up in a small town in south carolina, greenwood it's called. my parents, well, like ethel may matthews parents, my father was once a sharecropper. he later on worked in a factory, both of my parents attended segregated schools in south carolina. my mom later, actually when i was in law school, went to college and became a teacher which is something she does now. >> we have been taking with tomiko brown nagin, courage to dissent, atlanta, and the long history of the civil rights movement. >> so, matt, here's my question. this book is written in a breezy popular style and has sort of a breezy optimism to it. you write at one point, "the innovative capitalist culture will allow us to make a hue -- houdini-style escape from the impacts." what makes you sure of that? >> my mother told me to avoid wishful thinking, and i try to be provocative to see if folks are awake. i take climate change seriously, and now that my two minute

with the speaker at the history of -- >> i teach english legal history as a survey course to undergraduates which is a lot of them. and i teach graduate students in early modern british history but particularly legal history. >> through the law school. teaching all those courses windido you find time to write? >> i'm not sure whether ice am proud or embarrassed that i spend ten years working on that book. i started before guantanamo. this was a project that came out of questions strictly from within what historians call the historiography. what other questions for which we don't have good answers? that is a way of saying you fit in time to write and in this project much more significantly time to do the research. one of the keys to this project was i literally went and studied the writs themself which no one had ever before examined. that was the foundation for writing a book about something, about a topic that had often been written about before and coming to very different insights about it. historians's i light up when we talk about archives. it was quite remarkable when i was in the arc

>> i teach british history general to undergraduates.teach english legal history as kind of a survey course also of undergraduates, which is a lot of fun and then i teach graduate students in early modern british history, but particularly at our law school. >> to the law school. teaching on this course is, when you find time to write? [laughter] >> i mentioned the other day in my book festival presentation that i wasn't sure if i was proud or embarrassed or the fact that i spent over 10 years working on that boat. i started for guantÁnamo. this is a project that came out questions strictly from within what historians call the historiography. what are the questions about the past in which we don't have good answers? so that the way of saying that you fit in the time to write him in this project, much more cygnet away the time to do the research. one of the keys to this project was that i literally went and studied the rates themselves, which no one had ever before examined. that was the foundation for writing a book about something, about