and auburn university. there was the return matchup with florida, the defending s.e.c. championship and the defending national champion and its outstanding quarterback tim tebow in the s.e.c. title game. each game and each victory was a building block towards the b.c.s. championship game on january 7 where the team achieved its ultimate goal. the matchup in pasadena was fitting because the university of alabama and the university of texas both have proud football histories with legendary coaches and coaches like paul -- with coaches like paul "bear" bryant and darrell loyal. the fans on both sides were aphid and dedicated who -- avid and dedicated who came out to support their teams with enthusiasm. but in doing so they were very respectful and hospitable towards each other. that is the way college athletics should be. that's the way that things should be on the floor of this house. and we should all be committed to that. and i think that we are. the game itself had inspiring personal stories. the quarterba

>> the university is in new jersey.ean sçand university, named after tom kaine, the former governor. &sy>> you have been doing this r 13 years, what have you seen a change in the students after they have been here for a couple of weeks. >> it is transformational for them many of them want to get involved in politics they realize the value of an internship. often, they come to the washington center for a semester-long internship or get the men internship themselves. i met with one of my former students on capitol hill who works for a congressman and she is as excited about washington as she was for five years ago as a student. without this experience, i do not think she would have made that connection between new jersey and washington. >> what will you be doing in tenures? [laughter] hopefully, backyard. >> who has their hand up? tell us your name and your school. >> i am from miami dade honors college. i'm a journalism major. i freshman. >> we only have a couple of minutes left. your a journalism major, you begin to dec

>> my university is in new jersey. kean university, new jersey. >> named after -- do you know? >> tom kean. the kean family of new jersey. >> former governor? head of the 9/11 commission? >> yes. >> over the years -- if you've been doing this for 13 years. what do you see change in a student after they've been here for a couple of weeks? >> it is a transformational experience for them. one, many of them want to get involved in politics. two, they realize the value of an internship. three, often they come to the washington center for the semester-long internship or they get themselves an internship. i just met with one of my former students on capitol hill from governor payne's office and she's as excited about washington as she was four or five years ago when she was a student. without this experience i don't think she would have ever made that connection. >> should i ask you what you're going to be doing in 10 years? >> hopefully i'll be back here. >> god willing. make it, charlie. who's got their hand up back here? pass this down to her, if you would. please give us your name

nbc universal has terrific scale. one thing they have done extremely well under death and she leadership is transform themselves from a one channel company, nbc to wear today nbc universal, 80% of profitability is not from nbc or universal but all of the wonderful cable channels. they have many in the top 30. we're looking forward to get the benefit of the scale for our smaller niche channels so nbc sports associating itself with the golf channel is incredibly exciting possibility. taking a startup channel with g4 and partnering with sci-fi. it with the distribution and content tsai there are 4,000 movies on demand we now have something around 15,000 races on demand and 20,000 reese's online on demand. when we say to folks what is the number one complaint? rather then find reasons to say no we will find reasons to say yes to find movies on demand. there are many opportunities but they contributed all of their assets we bar $9 billion she takes the cash takes the cash we have put in so not a huge bed day and take that

ingram and the university -- is the university of alabama's first heisman trophy winner. the team, head coach, nick saban and all alabama fans, share in ingram's excitement. on january 7, led by coach saban, the university of alabama football team enjoyed the perfect end to a perfect season winning the b.c.s. championship game against the university of texas. mark was recognized as offensive m.v.p. of the national championship game running 116 yards and scoring two touchdowns. just six months ago mark was a new starting running back, not a household name that he is today. watching mark deliver his humble and heart felt acceptance speech gave us all insight in this man that mark is. his dedication to his team as well as his hard work is the reason he received this exceptional award. and especially for me to talk about today in his congratulationses -- his speech when he received the heisman trophy he congratulated his offensive line and had a special connection there. i had a classmate from high school whose son was on the offensive line. and the young man's father that i

, industry and university to cut down those barriers. and as the secretary said, you have to connect ideas and faculty with entrepreneurs to be able to commercialize. so really to have a real focus on funding those opportunities that do that. another thing which i would suggest we do along those lines is that we look for holistic solutions. we really need, again to go back to the context and look for solution that bring together multidisciplinary groups to really look at science and technology in a broader sense an --in a broader sense. the final thing i would say to him is -- he has talked about infrastructure. we badly need to improve the infrastructure in the country. if there is a place where you can see a lot of entrepreneurship going is, indeed to put money in rebuilding the infrastructure. >> i'm going to open it up. if anybody in the room would like to ask a question, there are several people who have microphones. just introduce yourself, and feel free to ask any of the panelists a question. >> ken anderson, delaware economic dev

our universities. we the people of university of illinois invest in our universities. our sons and daughters go to the schools that we want to make sure that those to graduate from our universities hopefully stay in illinois. it is important that we understand that we in our educational system are preparing those who are going to create the new businesses of the future, invent the new products come work in very complex jobs that require great skill. so education has to be part of our economic agenda to protect and grow the middle class in illinois. we've got to understand that education and jobs go together. i do want to also recognize today two young men who went to school in illinois. this general assembly has provided for in illinois math and science academy that is world renowned, and the students who have certainly made their mark on our economy and on our world. these two young men went to the university of illinois where we have at the university, being constructed right now, the world's fastest

we've brought 15 state and private universities together in the university clean energy alliance of ohio, thank you, chancellor, and we've done that -- [applause] >> and we've done that to unite our efforts in pursuit of energy breakthroughs. and in our first budget, we dramatically accelerated our school construction program and made it into one of the largest energy-efficient building initiatives ever created. i believe in ohio. i believe in ohio because we are not just sitting back and letting other states pass us by. we are taking the vital next steps to advance our energy economy. i am pleased to announce today that ohio is creating the energy gateway fund. we will make a unique and lasting investment in fuel cells, solar, wind, energy storage and the like with $30 million in federal job stimulus funds, and $10 million from our state job stimulus program. this 40 million-dollar commitment will offer access to capital for new and expanding advanced energy companies. and we will at least double the impact of our efforts by requiring that those seeking state funds will, at a minimum, m

european studies at harvard university. she's the author also of the challenge of islam, politics and religion in western europe by oxford university press. she recently received a carnegie scholars award last year for her work on muslims in europe. and modern the program today is zeyno baran he is the director of the center for eurasian policy and a senior fellow at the hudson institute. she's also an affiliate at hudson center for islam democracy and the future of the muslim world. and zeyno is the editor of a notebook of which u.s. and european muslims discuss ideas about countering radical islam and the west. dr. klausen's book has been described as a detective story and a definitive account of the east-west encounter over the danish cartoons. i agree though with the apple phenomenon of yale university press deciding to drop the plates of the cartoons and other depictions, the story actually continues. dr. klausen has written a serious scholarly book that's going to make, i believe, an important contribution to understa

also at the university of massachusetts medical school. the larger umbrella that houses the stress reduction. did you move into broader areas there than do you at the stress center? >> that's why we established the center for mindfulness. we have run programs in prisons and studied that, and in the inner city for people who don't even speak english, latino population, for instance. we conducted it in spanish as well as english. we do lots of research and there's a lot of growing lit a hours on mindfulness-based stress reduction and a new form of cognitive therapy mindfulness cognitive therapy. used for depression and anxiety and things like that. you know very well since you quoted himself david abram's book the spell of the sense sue with us. -- sense sue with us. i'm quoting you, including ourselves when we dwell in the wild. and he shares with us the rich dimensionty that gave birth us to and near tured us for hundreds of thousands of years and then you quote abram in the spell of the sensuous. the raven's loud guttural cry overhead is

the universal service fund was focused on plain old television or simple service voice. we see it going forward as a software application, and we need to move -- the universal service fund depends on $7 or $8 billion a year that could be used to stimulate, provide incentives for private sector investment in low-density areas or underserved areas. i think that's exactly right. we need -- and congress, you know, needs to get involved in that as well to actually shift what it's there for. but we, you know, we need about $350 billion to upgrade our internet to, like, the standard of korea which is ironic to most americans that we're way behind korea, let alone trail cra -- australia, japan, sweden, as you know, the whole list of oecd economies. >> pan is in front of -- japan is in front of us with a huge take-up as well, but, you know, the universal service fund can provide incentive, and you can match it and leverage the private sector investment. most of that $350 billion that is got to come from the private sector. but when you have 8 billion a year and to set goals for

the universal service fund was focused on simple voice. we see voice going forward as an application of software application. and we need to move -- the universal service fund is $70 billion a year that could be used to stimulate, provide incentives for private sector investment in low density areas or underserved areas. i think that's exactly right. and congress coming you know, needs to get involved in that as well as we shift what it's there for. you know, we need about $350 billion to upgrade our internet to the standard of korea, which is ironic to most americans. we're way behind korea let alone australia, sweden, and a whole list of economies. japan is actually the forefront of this. they have 100 meg service to 100% of including world japan with a huge take-up as well. but you know, the universal service fund can provide incentive and can match it and leverage private sector investment. and that $350 billion has to come from the private sector. when you have the cycles for rural and urban america large parts of the city are left ou

nbc universal, and i've tried to say this a few times, is it right today just about nbc and universal. had they been just those two businesses, it would be a very different help me. but they are u.s.a., sci-fi, bravo, and msnbc and cnbc and oxygen. all of that is the kind of businesses you are talking about with two sources of revenue and very, very, very healthy, no question. that's where you go back to your very first day but of whether there's a zero valuation for all of us who grew up in a different time period, looking around the room, i think that's a fair statement. in b.c., we are at zero? pics xyz channel. i will pick anybody so i don't think anybody is worth billion dollars, $2 billion. something, so there is -- are going to be changes necessary that have to happen to try to keep it a vibrant part, still most of the television audience is watching, you know, in terms of one show at a time is very popular broadcast television. you know, i think it's an opportunity for us, but i don't want people to lose perspective that this company has transformed himself to be a lot more th

i was offered a job at cornell university. that pretty much sealed my fate, except that i very much wanted to stay here by then. >> let's go back to the third marriage. that was to cynthia jefferies, 1965. >> yes. >> what were the circumstances? >> cynthia became a secretary while he was living in paris. living with mamaine. she was a stenographer, if you would like. she was also a rather beautiful young woman. she was also rather vulnerable. she had a record, according to her sister. as a young woman, her father had committed suicide when cynthia was just a child. she had been rather attracted to strong, masterful and even bullying men. arthur koestler was certainly all of those things. they very soon started an affair. >> she is in the picture, the second from the right. >> yes, she is. >> isn't she in the dark in the back? >> yes. i can only just see the details from here. >> and were married for 18 years until the suicide. >> she was a secretary for a while and they separated. he called her back to work for him after his d

i am from elan university. you mentioned there are programs in place for military families facing deployment. as a feature educator and someone who hails from fort bragg, what specifically is being done with these families facing deployment as it pertains to education? >> part of the gi bill which was initiated out of the pentagon and supported by the president is to put in legislation, the ability to transfer benefits to spouses and independent children. that is the first time that had ever been done. that is a significant step. secondly, several organizations, including the pentagon have worked to make it easier for dependents who move from one state to another to transfer into those school systems without going through a horrendous amount of work and red tape in order to get thirdly, states would give, and there have been many of them in recent years, that did in-state tuition to individuals who get transferred to focus on that aspect of education paren. there are programs focused on spouse education that ea

two separate things and early persuasion universe and an election day persuasion universe.o give you a little bit of visual on this, so you have your voter file. it is a big block of all yourers. this is the favorite part of my presentation. so the second thing you have is people who vote early, just broad, people who vote early. next thing you want to think about is, who are your candidate's voters? that divvies up a little bit further down. so traditional early voters that support your candidate, your low propensity voters. so again, you don't have a really do a lot of effort to turn these people out. you don't the are not going to be early voter and, you're going to have to turn them into it. these are high effort kind of cubes. your persuasion universe, the early part of your persuasion universe, and your election day. election day and early part of persuasion. that is split up into two separate things. who are the people we're going to try to talk to, you want to divvy up the voter file this way. if your block is that much covered by people who vote for you, you win. o

the following decades he was a visiting professor of yale, columbia university and university of texas austin. in 1998 he was distinguished visiting fellow at the kellogg institute of international studies at the university of notre dame. i am personally interested to dr. kronman more than one sense. in the early 1970's i spent two years as a visiting fellow at st. antony's where i was in exile writing a dissertation for columbia university. and that is where i met him. in addition to the intellectual exchanges one encounter was especially beneficial for me. in the spring of 1974 archie stopped me near the library and asked argue going to apply for the job at john hopkins university? to which i responded by most ordained manner what job at johns hopkins university? [laughter] if archie hadn't asked me that question my own career would have followed a different and less happy path. i also indicated to dr. brown in a general scholarly cents. his major publications include the gorbachev a factor published by oxford in 19967 years that changed the world in 2007 and most recently the rise a

the were going on at the university by dr. habib dagher at the university of maine, with a private sector partners and critical support for the federal government. we have a dinner power to develop news cutting sources of energy that can help to forever reshape the world. from start to finish, maine has a role to play. we can develop a technology, use the composites in the university of maine to build the turbines and electricity rates. that means good jobs and it's also important for communities to see the benefits of new energy developed. that's why i'm supporting legislation that will make sure the wind projects produce tangible benefits to host communities, real benefits to communities that can see and feel that global property taxes or improve public services. there's a burning urgency to the work we are doing. we can't wait. too much is in the balance. what's remarkable is that the right and left should be united on the need to free ourselves from foreign oil and all that dependency does to our people, our economy and ou

that's really where we come in at the university. top provide that technical talent training, the work force development, coupled with the research and development in a very open and collaborative environment. and it's everything from ecofriendly building designs you'll hear bair talk about in a little bit to smart grids and smart meter concepts, some of the things eat to s eaton bring table, all the way through to what we're doing at the mike yo grid level to bring solutions. so at this time i thank you for your attention, and turn it over to mr. paul plate from bair corporation. thank you very much. . >>> thank you, greg. and on behalf of baer material science i'd like to thank eaton for inviting me and baer to participate in today's panel discussion. the topic is one that's very rep vent to our business. thantsds what aye like to explain in a little more detail. baer's motto is science for better life, and by being rated number one in global, carbon disclosure leadership last fall, i think it shows that we are in fact committed to

i went to the prestigious university. of what to create a different thing. -- i want to create a different thing. long-term care nursing home is with older people. you cannot put that together for kids. people said it did not make sense. finally we saw that young people with brain tumors really do have long-term needs. long-term care does not have to be just about 65 years of age and older. the curriculum's in the nursing schools are not there. i have argued a medic kit institutional place that is three blocks from george mason university. why you not bringing the special ed students and nurses over there? why don't you hire some people? there are people that are functional but because of the way society has done things, they get what and to certain places. you can kill a lot of birds with one stone. how to you impact medicaid in a positive way? what can we do -- nobody takes medicaid away in this bill. this program does not impact your eligibility for that. that was big because he did not want to go into a certain model

. >>> it might not have been a banner year for the maryland terps football team but the university ofaryland recently won a national title of a totally different kind. 9 news now meteorologist and green guy howard bernstein explains. >> reporter: champions of the americas greenest campus contest sponsored by climate consult ter got.com. university of maryland college park was the winner. >> we encouraged students to go on the site and use it and learn more. >> reporter: what did they win? >> given a $5,000 grant to use on a project that we think is -- will enhance sustain ability on the campus. >> reporter: maybe they'll get advice from the office of sustain ability. >> there is only so much i can do. the students are really the ones leading the initiatives here to make this a greener campus. >> reporter: the university established the office of sustain ability in 2007. >> our main role is to create an energy and watery fisht campus and to create a campus that has minimized impacts on global warming emissions. >> reporter: installing green roofs is one day. >> rain water will be absor

the universal service fund can provide incentive, and you can match it in leverage. when you have $8 million a year, large parts of the country are left out. that is one of the ways we can get ourselves there. >> he mentioned specific dollar amounts and the amount in universal service fund every year. you mentioned the $302 million fcc has set to get those services out this year. what can you do with that small amount of money to really make a difference? >> we do state maps where we encourage people to go in and see what their speeds are. hundreds of thousands of people have taken the speed tests, and we publish the results by state. people joke why do we need to spend billions of dollars when you guys have already done it? phase one of the stimulus funds directed at broadband will provide better maps and the maps i have here, state by state. that would then allow you to take the money and pinpoint it to provide services on a voice cried in areas that would not get it through normal sources. essentially, you would do some form of reverse auction kind of thing. the b

and some small university, public university in connecticut, banned the sds chapter. the supreme court said they couldn't do that. absent for showing direct disruption in the university. we have a separate set of rules that deal with assignment to violence. and the current rule which is under enforced by the courts is that unless the insightment is direct and lickly to result immediately or relatively immediately and violent, it's protected. somebody in the case involved, somebody gets on tv with the gun, here's where the offices are. there are too many jews, they are too powerful. let's go get them. the supreme court said that's not direct and immediate enough to constitute an insight of violence. i have nothing against shutting down the adl. that's our competition. >> he's just joking. [laughter] >> and it definitely there are cases involving the threats to the president where the rules apply. however, that's the the supreme court level. if you look at the lower courts, there's been either an erosion or return to sanity depending on your point of view. the most nota

university president from tennessee. i later found out that the board of regents, all ag gillespie e graduates, hence, all army officers, were looking for a butt kicker, their term, not mine, rather than academia. after arriving on campus, i discovered that the texas legislature had previously threatened to put the university under conservatorship, if the management of funds did not improve. among my unique challenges in prairie view was the fact that i suspended football for a year. this is in texas. and if you can appreciate that, then the next thing will make sense. have you ever been burned in effigy? five years later, the finances were in order, football was back, albeit, without scholarships, and no victories i might add. as a matter of fact, from 1990, for the next eight and a half years, we set a record. for ncaa 1, 2, 3 and 4 of losing. in this respect, it wasn't till 2007 that prior review man dove a winning season. the first one since 1964. last year, 2008, we had a 9-1 season. this year, so far, we're ranked

that is according to a new study by johns hopkins university.wo important questions, why would this happen? and what does it mean about tossing out those cigarettes. dr. sanjay gupta takes a look in today's "fit nation" report. >> reporter: first of all, let me say that no one is saying that you shouldn't quit smoking. you obviously should, there's a lot of negative health consequences of smoking. the study looked at what happens to the body in someone who does quit. large study. over ten years i looked at 10,000 people, and they found that people who quit smoking had a 70% increased likelihood of developing diabetes within six years. if you really take that a step further and figure out why it really primarily had to do with weight gain. these people who were quitting smoking also started to gain weight, on the average between 4 and 10 pounds. and they also gained inches around the waist, about an inch and a quarter. that's on dom nal fat, that's met boughtically active fat. it's the worst kind of fat and can increase your likelihood for diabet

everything about the university has improved so much in the last 30 years. i played here 30 years ago, so it's a lng time. >> mike: we need to see a few things and come back 30 years later and have the exact same thing? >> that's right. >> mike: doing real estate and coaching basketball, correct? >> i do. i help coach a girls' hoag high school tai.s been fun. it helped me get back in the game. i've been doing it about a dozen year now. i endiswroi a lot. >> mike: dave, thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it. see you again soon. >> thank you so much. >> mike: dave caligaris at halftime with northeastern leading george mason by 12. more after the break in boston. >> mike: northeastern wing at george mason at the half. 34-22. thank you for being with us tonight from boston as northeastern has the advantage. the colonial athletic association likes to note the award. the athletic directors contribution to intercollegiate athletics and recognize the men's and women's student athletes who provide the highest standards of leadership and integrity and sports

and some small university, public university in connecticut banned a transit camp and the supreme court said they couldn't do that. absent for showing direct disruption in the university. we have a separate set of rules that deal with incitement and violence. and the current rule, which is under enforced by the courts, is that unless the incitement is a direct and likely to result in and immediately or relative immediately violence, it's protected. somebody in the case involved brandenburg versus al, somebody gets on tv with a gun and said here's where the adl offices are, and there are too many jews and they are too powerful and we ought to go get some. and the supreme court said, that's not direct and immediate enough to constitute an incitement of violence. i have nothing against shutting down the adl. i want everybody to understand. that's the competition. >> he's just joking. >> he's just joking. >> and there are cases involved with threats of the present were the same rule is applied. however, that is at the supreme court level. if you look in the lower court, there's been either

we're talking with professor peniel joseph, tough university history professor. and has >>> welcome to washington post live weekend. ahead. we'll look back at the raider's tough loss to the colts. where they are going next. and a look at the local teams. and cathy griffin gives us a take on tiger woods. you don't want to miss that. >>> there was an exit out of the playoffs. we weighed in on what the ravens need to do to make it back to the big game in the top headline. >>> the win in new orleans, a lot of optimism then they went to played out the way i expected. they were not blown out. and could not produce the better team won. how do you wrap up the season if you look at it big-picture wise. >> theynded up where you thought -- they ended up where you thought they would be. they are fighting to get into a civil rights organization. and in that speech he really does a couple of things. one, he critiques african-americans who aren't doing the right thing, people who aren't taking care of their kids, who aren't, you know, promoting education for their kids, but he

and i have a child in university.hat you will ever hear about manufacturing are slim to zero. ok? and even if she were at a university that had an engineering school, there was little chance she would ever see the laboratories where machine tools are made so you can make stuff on production lines. it is just outside of our consciousness. so if i were to do this, you know, i would reform basic education such that people actually understood how things were made. once upon a time we knew that. there was a whole day where we took telephones apart. i was just in regular school. each of these pieces is made >> like dissecting the frog? >> yeah, but god made them. anyway, i think that is a really critical issue to get back to. >> mary, just going back for a second, i think a lot of people in this room maybe have seen the bottom line but haven't really read the whole story. you started with a couple thousand dollars. >> it was a loan my mother gave me. that was a while ago. she has never let me forget that loan. just getting

the preamble of the universe -- the preamble of the universal declaration of human rights encourages use it as a standard of achievement and so we should. but we cannot deny the gap that remains between its eloquent promises and the life experiences of so many of our fellow human beings. now we must finish the job. our human rights agenda for the 21st century is to make human rights and human reality. the first step is to see human rights in a broad context. of course, people must be free from the oppression of tyranny , from torture, from discrimination, from leaders who would oppress them or disappear them. to fulfill their potential, people must be free to choose laws and leaders, to share and access information, to speak, criticized, and debate. they must be free to worship, a sensitive, and to love in the way that they choose. and they must be free to pursue the dignity that comes with self improvement and self-reliance, to build their minds and their skills, to bring their goods to the marketplace and participate in the process of innovation human rights have both negative and

our second speaker is paul duquid, and adjunct professor at the university of california berkeley and professorial research fellow at queen mary university of london and visiting fellow and business management at york university and honorary fellow for the institute for entrepreneurship and enterprise management. his car and researchers on history and development of trade marks and has written two articles about google and the issues google raises for history in particular. one inheritance or loss, a brief survey of google books and all so self organization, production and the laws of quality from first monday. last but not least is brandon badger, product manager for google books. he has been there for four years. he has worked on google earth and google's and studied computer science in college. he got a b minus on all his history classes. without further ado i will let the speakers go. >> thanks, great to be here and to talk about this topic. is google good for history? of course it is. we historians are searchers of information evidence and google is the most powerful tool ever gi

alongside this, each university has a designated police security contact that university management canth the higher and further education secretaries and has a full-time officer. his family believes that if left -- he turned to extremism after leaving the u.k. but we need to make sure that we continue our efforts to stop radicalization of young people in our universities. finally, mr. speaker, i want to say something about our work internationally and the steps the government is taking abroad to disrupt al qaeda where ever they are. our success in tackling the international terror threat depends on strong relationships with our international partners. in our efforts to fort al qaeda, we have a longstanding productive partnership with the u.s. i am not prepared to discuss in this particular case about what we established -- what we shared and wind. we do not routinely comment on such intelligence matters. moreover, some of these issues are still current and are highly sensitive. however -- however, i would like to clarify that whilst we did provide information to the u.s. link to the wi

we are talking to toss university history professor peniel joseph, who has a very compelling new book out, "dark days, bright nights" from black power to barack obama. welcome, professor joseph. >> guest: thank you. west catullus with the title means. that is a very intriguing title. >> guest: the title talks about the first to wear her black people have come from in this country really from the dark days of slavery, segregation and jim crow all the way to having the first african-american president. >> host: there was kind of a little while dee dee during the campaign that went viral and you mentioned a durham leon in the book, and it goes rosa parks sat so martin could walk so barack obama could run so that your children can fly. and that became a kind of catch phrase toward the end particularly among african-americans. you cite this and say as emotionally powerful as these words may be they make for poor history. explain that. >> guest: absolutely. the notion of rosa parks has become this iconic trope and the story of the civil-rights movement and it's a period i like to call the p

and the university of california.from the annual meeting of the american historical association, this is two hours. [inaudible conversations] >> hello to everybody and thank you very much for coming. on and shom martin from the university of pennsylvania and executive director of the american association for a history of computing and we are extremely happy to be cosponsoring this session with the research division of the american historical association on is google good for history, which is a very engaging an interesting topic and i hope the lot of you are already have questions and thoughts in mind for discussion. so we have three great speakers that are going to be talking for about ten to 15 minutes each may be a little bit more and i think what i will do is introduce all of them to you now. they will talk in that order and then we will have time for, plenty of time i think for questions at the end. so, without further ado, i will introduce the three speakers and the first is daniel cohen, associate professor in

we are talking to tufts university history professor, peniel jospeh who has a very compelling new book out "dark days, bright nights" from black power to barack obama." we'll come professor joseph. >> guest: think you. >> host: tell me what the title means. that is very intriguing. >> guest: it refers to wear black people have come from in this country from the dark days of slavery and jim crow down to the first african-american president. >> host: there was a little diddy during the campaign that went viral and you mentioned it too early on in the book. moses psat so martin could walk so barack could run so your children could fly. that was a catch phrase particularly toward african-americans but use inside this and say it emotionally powerful they make for poor history. >> guest: of some of the. the whole notion of rosa parks as a iconic trope and the civil-rights movement is a point* i like to call the heroic point* and by what i need is may 17, 1954 through august 6 that encompasses the period from the brown desegregation court decision all the way of signing the voting rights act.

got fired by the border region at texas a&m university system and the system had eight schools, texas a&m being one of them, prairie view being a mother and the head six other schools. some 30 years earlier i had been assistant professor of military science at prairie view where i pursued my bs degree as a nontraditional student which meant i was sent to be an instructor and also work on my degree. at the same time louise was a registered nurse, received her degree and nursing education. surprisingly after being urged to put my name in as consideration and a short list in the fall of '89 and was subsequently selected as the president of a&m university over a president from tennessee. i later found out the border region all graduates hands of army officers were looking for a butt kicker, their term, not mine, rather than academic. after arriving on campus i discovered the texas legislature previously threatened to put the university under conservatorship of the management of funds did not improve. among whites unique challenges in preview with the fact i suspended football for a year t

she also holds a law degree with honors from the university of chicago.after clerking for the late judge john goble in the u.s. court of appeals on the 11th circuit in alabama, lisa was partner i in the washington firm of shea and gardner. while working in the private sector, she also engaged in pro bono work in the area of civil rights and disabilities law. during the time, lisa gained valuable expertise in these fields which we would later put to use in government service. in 1996, lisa began working as an attorney advisor to the legal justice department of the office of legal counsel. after a year in that role, she was appointed deputy counsel to vice president gore, and in 1999, she was appointed to be his counsel. at the same time, lisa served in the executive -- on the executive board of the president's committee for employment of people with disabilities. she also worked on legislative issues with the vice president's domestic policy office. after the clinton administration ended, like many political appointees, she moved into the nonprofit sector,

the lancers of longwood university. hi, folks, great to have you with us for acc hoops. steve buckhantz with ron thompson. first meeting ever between these teams. longwood went to division 1 just in 2004. they've played two acc teams this year at uva and virginia tech. they know something about hostile environments but this will be daunting to say the least. >> if the lancers are going to get it down it's going to be because of 6' 5 smith and 6' 6 carter. carter is the inside presence that they have. he is averaging 14.7 boards. he is a lefty so the terrapin bigs will have to be careful >> after tonight for maryland, 13 acc games to close out the regular season schedule. gary williams has them right where he wants them. they've improved in all facets, especially shooting from the field and three point range. >> sonny: the terps are doing ex lent from the perimeter. largely because of their safeties. when you come at them you put it on the floor so they are always a threat. any time eric hayes is shooting under 50% from

his contribution will help thousands of students in maine's university. woody please stand in received the greetings from the assembly. [applause] now there is a temptation, there is a temptation to look around and see our challenges and feel like the terms of our economy are being dictated by others. financiers, wall street, oil companies, they have all certainly taken their toll but come june maine voters will have a chance to take control and make a real difference in our economy. i am not talking about the 23 who are running for the office-- [laughter] said they can give this speech next year, although that is important too. i'm talking about an investment package in tax cuts that will appear on the ballot. maine has an opportunity to invest in economic development and innovation, green energy, clean drinking water and higher education and the redevelopment of brunswick naval air station. $69 million in bonds to go to the voters in june. i understand during a recession voters have to be cautious and sometimes reluctant to improve new borrowing but the

political science from ashlawn university in ohio. please join me in welcoming my colleague. joe? [applause] >> thank you. good afternoon. thank you for coming. it is fair to say that our country right now is at a crossroads. this is not the first time we have witnessed a massive expansion of government in pursuit of a progressive agenda. but it is the first time in over 40 years our government sought to expand and centralize its authority so aggressively. the good news is this offers an opportunity to return to first principles to assess where we are and where we are heading. today's debate bring us back to the perennial question our founders face. whether human beings are capable of governing themselves in an orderly way or whether government should take care by rolling over us. the last year has also brought a plethora of political hooks. but few of them so far have sought to articulate the basic principles which should guide through our present troubles. thus we are still confused about the palace the stand before us. the founders

i went to school and university at a successful international career. she was sent to school but dropped out after a year because the teacher and school boards teased and taunted him for being the child of a domestic supply. his mother put him to work in a state run factory. continued a man of age of 18 he married a 14-year-old girl and soon became a father. when his factory was privatized he agitated with other workers and was sacked. my family gave him money to buy rickshaw and he did reasonably well until political violence and insecurity drove him out of business. he drifted into petty crime. unable to afford proper medical care he never fully recovered from his injuries. today he is disabled and lives in a shack in a sprawling slum surviving on hand out and the meager income. this is one of sixty million bangladeshis who live in extreme poverty. if the tragedies of his life and my own show that many sectors -- >> i think we are going to fix that. our handy engineer. [applause] >> should be ok now. >> thank you. if i could continue the reading. he i

universities need to reexamine their educational processes. students need a clear path to degree completion in four years, not six years. our colleges and universities need to prioritize their investments as well as redirecting financial resources to hire priorities. strengthening in nebraska's education system from preschool to college is essential to nebraska's future success. now is the time to focus our attention on building an education system that meets the needs of modern students competing in the modern world. the final component to keep nebraska moving forward is to continue to develop a more efficient government by reforming the delivery of government services, by using technology state government can become more efficient and more productive. for example, nebraska is developing a statewide radio system to allow city, county, state, and federal agencies to communicate with each other. this project is a perfect example of how innovation can provide enhanced public safety that benefits every nebraskan. in addition, the technology that

public and private universities. it is a topic would need to get into but i think one of the questions as you know some of the speech codes are being adopted on college campuses both public and private, are they indeed in the case of public universities constitutional, do they go too far in restricting speech, think it is fair to say that within the various universities and colleges there is a debate going on about how to limit speech that others might find offensive that people don't want to hear. some colleges you actually have free-speech zones being set up and some of these have been struck down already in the courts. >> those have been challenged. >> [inaudible] -- texas as having more limits on speech? >> it is entirely using credit and most of it comes from the other direction. the genesis of the hate speech codes were in an effort to ensure diversity when minorities were first coming on to campuses, there was coded speech that was taken to exclude those minorities and universities responded with the speech co

and it is universal its universal and it is common across time. let me begin across time when we submitted the manuscript to princeton university press for an review. peter lynn heart jujuy thank and acknowledged he was one of the, we were lucky to get his excellent advice and he was one of the reviewers. he sent me a copy of an advertisement for standard statistics that said we don't have to invest in doubles anymore we are not the unsophisticated masses of the south sea bubble in the early 1800's in britain. we have statistical analysis that can allow us to discern valuation. this was an advertisement for standard statistics which was based in new york. and this advertisement appeared in the saturday evening post in september of 1929. weeks before the crash. so you see where i'm going i hope with the "this time is different" syndrome. a very important example of the "this time is different" syndrome was the year was 1995. how many of you remember mexico's peso crisis in 1994, 1995? mexico almost approach to default and what was then a large bail

back there. >> john, george mason university. what can you say about rand's relationship with the other great women of her era, rose wilder wayne and rose patterson, personal relationship if any and influence one way or another. >> this is a sort of pet project of mine and i almost stopped writing about ayn rand and writing about these through my dissertation advisers for. and i have now been working on the rudiments of the article that kind of brings the three together. i think that patterson's influence on rand has been underestimated and under appreciated because their initial counter is lost to history because it was mostly verbal or oral. i see so much in paterson that is in rand. she used to say a equal say and reason being important. all the ideas about the philosophers go right into rand. in terms of leyna i find they had a long epistolary relationship and had a long argument about religion in part of the ways. on a detailed this in some depth in the book. what's interesting to me about leyna and rand the of different way

caller: i'm, i'm chelsea cole from yin pack university. -- from yin pack university. what about the taxing of the banks for bailout funds? guest: the imposing of taxes on mutual funds or hedge funds or the big banks, you know, the banks won't pay those. they will collect those from people putting investing money into those funds, so it's going to end up diminishing returns. it is a hidden tax. it is easy to say we will tax the bankers. that is going to be passed on and collected from the individuals who are holding those bank accounts, and i think that's a mistake. i also think it's a mistake to assume that we're going to cover, you know, part of the problem we had, going especially to the housing market, was this notion that fannie mae and freddie mac were to fail and the federal government was going to cover all of their losses. that led to bad decision making, removed moral hazard from the equation, and i worry that that congress seems to be heading that way and learning the wrong lessons from the near collapse of the financial markets in october of 2008, around an

there are no universally recognized norms.not by a bureaucracy on the east river, not by some world opinion, not by promises adorned with disingenuous signatures, but by the will and the power of the one superpower namely the united states. one highly revealing analysis of obama foreign-policy relying on leaks from inside the white house spoke about how his approach to foreign policy owed much to his experience as a community organizer, the idea of understanding and working cooperatively to seek a common end. this is all well and good but a community organizer in the chicago operates within the protection of a very elaborate, secure, highly regulated, consensual domestic civil society. would hold society together is a supreme central authority. the sanctity of contracts and the good will, civility, and decency of its individual members. the international arena lacks all of these things. what keeps it from the generating -- from degenerating is not a central authority, though authority of treaties, good will among more civilize