universities. there's a good discussion at several places in the book of the idea that conservatism regards the university with alarm, much as liberalism, the word corporate to a live birds that we don't know what it is, but that's the way the academic balances in conservative circles. you see "the wall street journal" during investigations of universities so they know something is up and "the new york times" during investigations to corporations for the same reason. but i think conservative attack on universities isn't a conspiracy, but there's a real threat to universities, but i don't think it's primarily ideological. i say that the way of elevating, not reducing the threat. what i see for dean in the university the main thread is wonderful passages in the book describing development of the research university model in the core model of american education. the people inside the system don't see as much as an outsider like me is nobody gets there such a thing as the university model. universities

so i think going forward, universities and even here at the university of texas is going to have to work hard to show there are no race-neutral alternatives available. >> brown: but on the other hand the principle of diversity as a worthy goal stands. >> yes, it does. and i think some of the organizations that are opposed to affirmative action will feel that they have another opening here in order to challenge other university programs that do use race as a factor. >> brown: the last thing on this. it goes back to the lower courts, right? >> yes, it does. it's going back to the u.s. court of appeals for the fifth circuit which oversees texas. and the court there will have to apply justice kennedy's test to see if the university can pass it. >> brown: also today, a couple of important decisions on workplace discrimination. both went in favor of employers. >> that's correct. there were two decisions. the court split ideologically 5-4. the conservatives were in the majority. one decision was written by justice alito and the second one was again written by justice kennedy. what they did, bas

my understanding of what the university here is looking to do what university generally looking to do is not to grant a preference for privilege. but to make individualized decisions about applicants who will directly further the education aids mission. they will look for individual who will play against racial stereotype just by what they bring, the african-american sensor, the hispanic who has mastered classical greek. they can look for people have demonstrated track record -- if you have two applicants absolutely the same, they both come from affluent backgrounds, well educated parents, one fall within two of the groups given a preference and the other doesn't, it's a marginal case. under the texas plan one gets one and one doesn't get in. do you agree with that or not? >> no. >> you agree that's an incorrect statement, you agree that's an -- >> i think it's both. there is no automatic preference in texas. this is page 398a of the joint appendix. >> hypothetical the two applicants are are entirely the same. it's the ability to give a racial reference means anything at all, it certa

for example, this is my bracelet i wear at the university. they are similar to the western bracelets. >> you're dressed without a veil today or something on your led. is that comfortable for you? are you allowed to do that at home? >> no. >> you don't have to? >> no, no problem. outside from home, this is my clothes. >> i lps want to talk about entertain -- also want to talk about entertainment, the freedom to have fun. can you have entertainment or are their security concerns in the process. >> it's important in our society. we have a lot of hobbies in our country on some official days and sunday is a holiday. my weekend is on friday because this is islamic culture. all of the islamic culture and society have only one day off. this is friday. on friday we all go to pray, official pray. after that day they go to parties. they go to picnics by their families, by their friends, by their relationships. ed i -- and i go to classes during the day after friday. >> i think our entertainment is amazing in afghanistan. the weekend, friday, most people

the university of vermont. she had a bit of professional training to teach the deaf. .hat was incredible cal,en she starts to date maybe you can teach the mute to hear. [laughter] .> she had a marital challenge an introverted president. the deaf and blind him that he no were not as today. people looked away. disabilities awareness test. she brought them into society. helen keller came to the white house. that was an important moment for the deaf and blind that the first lady would recognize them and integrate them. she had a great personality. she could draw out anybody. she was the opposite of the president she made that her work. mrs. hoover, who loved reading and reading.eaders she was head of the girl scouts. she was always ending how to train up. -- thinking how to train up. lou contributed to that. i know this at stanford. she brought her readers to the white house. i was reading a store. when her back was out and she there weredown, people from the mountains who do not know how to read. she was so sick b

>> the first thing to remember is this only applies to public universities, to state universities. private universities like vanderbilt or johns hopkins or harvey mudd college, any of those can continue to use their affirmative action programs with no interference from the courts. it is only public universities that might have to scale back and given that this is a 7-1 opinion and that they are not overruling any of their earlier cases i think this might be limited to schools like texas, that have their 10% program. but the court is making sure that courts will scrutinize affirmative action programs more carefully. i do think, though, that as long as a school is using race as a factor, not as a hard determinant, and as long as they don't have another method of admitting a diverse class, that is as long as they're not using a top 10% program, i think most of those universities should be safe. the court seems to have gone out of its way not to strike down all of affirmative action. in fact, justice thomas has issued a concuring opinion in which he says that the earlier cases should b

we think that the university of texas's pln will paan will passn remand and we currently think many universities throughout the country are using a standard that will satisfy the precise concerns articulated by the court today. we're pleased. >> but, ben, to you then, che l cherylyn as well, do either of you believe it's weakened the cause of affirmative action and make universities more cautious going forward because of the language in the ruling? >> no, not at all. i think it is just a reality that folks on the far right wing will try to bully universities as they've been trying to bully them for months leading in to this and years coming out of grudder. what happened today is pretty clear. the court affirmed race has place in college admissions and the court affirmed its principles from the grudder decision and made it very clear that universities must, should, keep their doors open, make sure that they are inclusive, that they are giving students of all colors a close look and a fair shot. and so we're very pleased with this decision. it is important that universities out there really unders

and the university of texas did a pretty good job. but also showing they tried race neutral alternatives and they don't provide the substantial amount of diversity that is necessary. they are going to have to jump through some evidentiary hoops to show we can't get there without race. >> there is another thing that the left wing of the court might have been looking for and that is company. justice cagen was recused from this case and she had to is it this one out. she's a former law school dean. so she knows the challenges in pulling together a diverse class from all sorts of places. it you may have been the strategic decision was let's is it this out until we have more support on our side of the issue. tavis: let's talk about the peppeding decision on the voting rights act. >> the voting rights ack is based on the notion that there is some jurisdictions because of a history of discrimination against voters have to make sure that any change that they make is taken before a district court or an administrative decision at the justice de

oldest and largest university in belgium.t was founded in the 1400s under the approval of the vatican. but as modern europe has secularrized, so thas the university. >> people can believe a lot of things and not get fired from their jobs, but as a senior researcher discovered, you better not believe that god can heal. fernandez worked as the research for work and society for 11 years without a negative review when he was suddenly fired. >> if you asked me, did you get a new contract, i would say, yes, of course. do you have problems with your colleagues? no, everything is fine. so there was no issues there. a week later i'm out. and i'm, like, what happened? >> reporter: what happened was the catholic university's great displeasure with fernando's ministry website powerthroughlovego.ce. >> they saw testimony of people being healed and they called that unscientific. >> reporter: they said when a researcher working on matters of a scientific or medical nature allows religion to take the place of science, he compromises the scie

my understanding is the university has over -- my understanding is the university has over 5000 class's that classified as small, and the total number of african- americans and hispanics it that it was just a little over 200. how can that possibly do more than a tiny amount to increase classroom diversity? >> first, that two hundred number is erroneous. there have been many more minority candidates. >> per class? >> not on a per-class basis. with the university found was shocking isolation. >> how many non--top -- non-, 10% at issue are limited in each class? >> we did not look at that issue, but in trying to find holistic -- we did the study before the plan at issue was adopted. at that time, there was nobody to admit -- no way to it that you're taking race into account. it to the african-american, 90% >> i do not believe i understand your question. you know the total number of african-americans in the engineering class. >> yes, your honor. >> and the total number admitted under the top 10% class? >> yes. >> subtract eight from b, and what is the value of c per class? >> let me explain

and (inaudible) mission to remove and will attend hemp ton university and hall from mission will attend csu north ridge and andrew from independence will attend stand ford university, johan from mission will attend richmond community college. and grace (inaudible) science and technology will attend uc davis. >> thomas from mission will attend alabama aand m >> and and they will attend the college (inaudible) and city college of san francisco. thank you so much. >> i am going to back to the filipino educaters who are here now and do you have any students with you? >> i am not sthur. good evening to all of you,ed audience and the commissioners, and the superintendent and the other staff members, good evening. i am not sure but i did call them to see if they can make it and if they can't we still honor them. i do have the draft, actually of the program. so just pass it down. >> the filipino educators presented the high school seniors awards from recognition night last may 15th, 2013 at the manila town center at the international (inaudible) so we had actually 23 recipients scholarships but

no university has come forward to say this goes too far.t's impossible to comply. >> are they intimidated by the departments do you think or just sinking in that this new policy is taking affect and that this will be challenged over time. >> i think all of that is happening right now, but i think universities at some level should be pretty ashamed of themselves so far for how compliant they've been with previous demands from the office of civil rights. >> you look at previous supreme court precedence, the supreme court has shown itself over time, has it not, that it is quite skeptical of these kinds of speech codes on campus. give us a case. >> these speech codes have been defeated consistently since 1989 and over a dozen cases -- >> that have gone up to the supreme court? >> the thing is the law so clearly settled they don't generally go to the supreme court. >> the lower courts settle them. >> because the law is that clear and doesn't need to go to the supreme court. in a sense, what they -- the feds are recommending right now is absolute

purdue meets three tests that i wish every university did. has very high standards of conduct for all its student athletes. high standards of academic performance. our athletes have outperformed the student body. and we pay for ourselves. there's no subsidy from the tuition dollar to the athletic problem. >> one of only seven division 1 schools in the country that do that. >> the ncaa, and i do know these folks, they're full of really good people. they want to do the right thing. they don't have the tools really to enforce many of the improvements and reforms they'd like to, i know, bring. i think they're working on it as hard as they can. i really think universities are going to have to police themselves. >> are you done with politics? >> yes. >> you are? >> as much as you can be on a university campus. >> they say it's even worse than anything, any capital, right? >> no, it isn't. >> all right. fair enough. good to see you, sir. go bail boilermakers. >>> still to come, new pressure on the intelligence community. plus, a serious setback for

can a state university -- can a university use race as an issue in a state. is the argument in this case. abigail fisher sued saying she was denied admission because she's white. and she claims that violates her 14th amendment right to equal protection. she's saying i should have gotten into the school, but i'm white and i was denied over african-americans and other minorities who she says was less qualified. so will the court draw a new line on state based and perhaps even more broadly affirmative action questions. and the school is making the case that race is viable as one factor as long as you have several factors in trying to develop a diverse student body. that is the big case there. what do the american people think? let's take a look. this is being done by the nine justices, but in the court of public opinion, you see nearly 7 in 10 americans think this is wrong. that state based schools should not be able to use race as a factor in admissions policies. that's a pretty striking number. but remember that's the court of public opinion. and there is a br

mind you those two men in the first headlines larry ellison and james caan did not attend university or did not complete university anyway and here we have in the united states working your way through college doesn't add up for today's students so we know that there's over a trillion dollars in student debt outstanding that's more than us credit card debt outstanding but apparently students today are paying a much higher share of the cost than students forty years ago when a family could have sent three kids to university of wisconsin madison for what it costs to send one kid there today adjusted for inflation plus a growing aristocracy and the growing peasant class so going to college today you get huge debts and you end up working for the military defense contractors or pay off those debts as a peasant the peasant class in america is. going by leaps and bounds is one hundred seventy five million peasants and there's seven million people in america living on two dollars a day or less people in a wal-mart wal-mart i mean there's another duplicitous douche they profits are tied direc

, it's basically impossible let alone unconstitutional for a university comply with it.iversities to stand up and fight back. >> paul: they run the rick of losing their federal funds. they have the ability to sue in court to resist and sue and the fight on first amendment grounds. have they done that? >> so far, not yet but it's impossible to comply. >> paul: are they intimidated by the department or is it sinking in this new policy is taking effect and this will be challenged officer time? >> i think all of that is happening right now. i think the university at some level should be ashamed of themselves for how compliant they have been. >> paul: you look at previous presents department. supreme court has shown itself over time, has it not, that it is quite skeptical of these kinds of speech codes on campus. give us a case? >> these speech codes have been defeated since 1989 and dozen cases, harassment speech, the laws are clearly settled. they don't generally go to the supreme court. lower courts decide and doesn't need to go to higher court. what the feds are recommend

that's amy fisher versus the university of texas. me, where she claims that she, a white woman, was denied admission because the school allowed less qualified black and latino students over her. >> this is the university of texas, my ala mater, by the way, it was nice to see that video. how does that case impact california? >> the very concept of affirmative action, particularly since the court has limited its use going back, by the way, to 1978, that conservatives -- the concept is just -- liberals say discrimination persists to this very day and public institutions are hardly reflective of the nations demography. this case may be decided by the 5-4 vote with, of course, justice anthony kennedy being the swing vote again. >> so students who may be applying to universities here in california, i mean, affirm ativ action was outlawed, right? >> that's why this case hardly affects california. in 2011, though, more recently, governor jerry brown vetoed a bill that would have reinstated affirmative action. still, public institutions here

space and the universe. they said no, no, there's only the universe. but how can the universe be expanding? what is it expanding into? they begin with the balloon thing, how you blow up a balloon. but balloon is expanding into space. >> jon: is the whole thing balloon orientd? (laughter) every question is just "think of it as a balloon animal." like everything is balloon orientd? >> a lot. >> jon: a lot of balloon stuff. so when you see the little group of physicists how many times do you see people going just -- pulling out balloons and blowing stuff up? (laughter) i find that very interesting because i would have the exact same thought that you had which is how do you expand -- >> if there's nothing to expand into. you're not creating -- they're talking about the singularity. you know what singularity is? >> jon: one. >> nothing. >> >> jon: it's not one, nothing? >> it's zero. >> jon: but not zero, empty. >> empty, nothing. >> jon: so that's the singularity of the universe. >> it started with the big bang,

diversity is coming out the ears at the university of california. so i don't know what the university administration is wanting except the complete ability to discriminate. that's what this is really all about. >> reporter: well, uc says without affirmative action they are hampered. private schools like stanford, for example, have the ability to try and recruit students of all varied backgrounds, something they can't do because the law says they can't and therefore stanford has the advantage to show backgrounds that reflect more of california's population. >> someone a public school. someone a private school. that always plays into it as well. linda yee at cal. thank you, linda. since the supreme court didn't rule against affirmative action in college admissions, there is a chance california schools could see it again. >>> national schools may still be able to use affirmative action, but california universities are an exception. >> i am used to waiting. we have been together 10 years. a few more days will not make much of a difference. >> we have li

the bad news, university boulevard near silver spring.ee here that those eastbound lanes are closed and you're getting detoured there at dennis. you either have to go left or right which is what those arrows are telling you. we're getting reports that that crash had injuries so they are doing that investigation wrap-up at this point. we'll let you know as soon as that clears. in the meantime consider using new hampshire or georgia. not looking too bad on the belt way. 95 southbound after prince william park you may run into some delays. only the two right lanes getting by there and 9:00 5, at glebe road, it is starting to pick up little bit. you can always get more updates by meteorology me on twitter at gridlockgoddess. check that before you head out the door. back to you. >> all right. 5:33 now. our top story. an uncertain future for the owners of frager's hardware store. a fire destroyed the popular business. >> we have more on what a lot of people are considering to be a real, you know, aufrl big impact on that area. >> absolutely, th

i assume this must be a standard role of universities. when the internet came along, and lifted up and found found that some did it the opposite way. some had it on all four corners, and that davis, have the people had it on left, and half on the right area i finally figured out it was to keep the tassels out the way of your face when your picture is being taken. very seldom do we pay attention to the fact that life does have rules if you look for them. my wife and i recently went to a basketball game at stanford am a university of colorado versus stanford. was sitting in the colorado seats in thesection. i got recognized, they put me down in the front row of the stanford athletic directors box. there we were, wearing colorado colors, written for colorado. [applause] from early on in life, we learned to be loyal to our school. my school, right or wrong, my team, right or wrong. it might just what city i happen to live in. does that make a better person because i am in a city that has a better team? not really. it is a lighthearted, a game

to the as a report imax kaiser riots broke china after students were prevented from cheating on university entrance exams parents stormed the school shouting we want fairness there is no fairness if you do not let us cheat yes this is the taxation without representation of our day there is no fairness if you do not let us cheat let us rob grannies of their savings let us defraud municipalities across the world let us rig global interest rates let us masel interest rate swaps of small businesses and miscible organizations back securities and pension funds there is no fairness if you do not let us face it as mike this is part of the global insurrection against banks or occupation but while most in the west around the world are demanding that we punish the banks thirst for their crimes here they're saying let us commit crimes as well riot after chinese teachers try to stop pupils cheating what should have been a hushed scene of eight hundred chinese students diligently setting their university entrance exams or up to to siege warfare after invigilators try to stop them from cheating now inves

it's a good area to avoid university between shattock.on the nimitz freeway, northbound and southbound, it traffic looks good. let's go to steve. >>> a lot of gray skies, mainly low clouds. had a lot of high cloud. most of those have thinned out. monterey peninsula, gray skies. not much of a breeze. there's a little bit of -- more leaning towards a west or a southwest or northwest wind. there's a lot to go around. concord, napa, say mostly sunny. everyone else says cloudy. unless you are out at fairfield and antioch and then mostly sunny. we started off mild. wouldn't take much to warm up. but by the coast, the fog may be tough to get rid of. 60s, 70s and 80s. right about really where we should be this time of year. not much of a difference for a couple of days. looks quiet this week compared to what we had over the weekended a on monday. a little -- weekend and on monday. a little warmer but not much change. a cooler pattern sunday into monday. >>> a very important warning this morning for students at a major bay area university. what ha

we're going to look at the speech of the american university, 50 years ago next week. at the time after the face-off of the soviets and the cuban missile crisis, the war was focused on the nuclear threat. you see in this cartoon from the "washington post." just two weeks later kennedy want -- warned that the genie would be out of the bottle if an agreement were not found soon. against that background came kennedy's historic speech at american university. >> i'm talking about gene win peace. the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living and the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and build better lives for their children. peace for americans and for all men and women. not merely peace in our time but peace in all time. our most basic common link is at we inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures and we are their example. >> michael beschloss, an amazing speech. i discovered it years ago but here's a president in the middle of the worst part of the cold a war just coming off the cuban missile

iny understand that we are a very complex universe. they think in terms of probability and not in absolutes. distrustfulhtfully of people who claim to have all the answers. they are not type a personalities. they know it results from a .ombination of skill they exuded a zen like calm that can master this. these are especially helpful when it comes to insights in a vast array of fiscal data. i suspect they will be just as helpful in many other areas. most political pundits are that are wholly disconnected from reality. isfor jules stein, his money from fiscal thinking. he references a study showing that people in their 20s are a little bit more narcissistic than people a little older. that may be true. it has everything to do with age and nothing to do with your generation. you can find magazine articles dating back to 1907 which has accused them of being lazy, entitled and shallow. somehow they managed to defeat the not tease, send the man to a moon. and to bestow great works of art. it?s obvious just by looking at you, and by feeling

meredithrs ago james was denied a position at the university of mississippi because he was black. in the years sense, the u.s. has tried to level opportunities were black and minority students through affirmative action. and that is why campuses like this one better reflect the racial mix of america. it has always been contentious. is its role now redundant? >> i think in the united states which is increasingly diverse, we cannot have a legal regime that sorts people according to skin color and national origin. >> critics hope that abigail fisher's argument persuades the court to pass a sweeping judgment that strikes down affirmative action. aresupreme court decisions not just dry legal rulings. they changed american life, its culture and its value. it was only 60 years ago that the courts ruled that segregated schools for blacks and whites were unlawful. now the question is whether colleges and universities can consider a candidate's color in admission. this is as much a signal about -- this is as much about the signals it sends as the law. students wrestle with the role someone

abigail fisher brought against the university of texas back to a lower court. fish he shall schooled the school claiming she was not admitted partly because she is white. >> i hope the court rules student's race and ethnicity should not be applied. >> factors in race, test scores and student activities to help select freshman class. lawyers for the school argued the policy is necessary to improve diversity. >> most americans would like a day when we don't need to take race and ethnicity newly account. -- into account. we are not to that dpa. >> the justices ruled 7-1 that the lower courts did not use the right standard to decide if the policy is constitutional. they want that court to take another look. >> justice thomas said he would have gone further saying race should not be a factor for university admissions. justice ruth was the only justice to vote against the ruling. >> reporter: and we're still waiting for some big rulings from the court on same-sex marriage and voting rights. the court will hand down more decisions tomorrow morning. live at the supreme

and university hospital. big institutions. they all have a lot of taxpayer money in from. education money, medicaid money, hospital money, medicare money, they are sitting there and unlike big corporations that can come and go they can't go anywhere. the chart a weaker institutions. you have them too. every city has got them. in that core neighborhoods they buy $3 million in goods and services every single year. did i say million? i meant billion with the beat, not an m. leaving aside their salaries that is separate, their construction is more, just what they buy. none of them from the community. taxpayer money, for community, why not ask them or request more organized pressure or force -- helped develop an entire economy based upon worker ownership or building of the community as a whole, using this public money to do that and that is what is happening in cleveland, ohio and in atlanta and in many other cities around the country including amarillo, texas of all places, and many other cities, the light bulb h

of texas. >> reporter: but the university of texas, like most major american universities, does consider race and ethnicity in order to promote diversity in the student body. the university's vice president for diversity and community engagement says so many factors are considered, the decision of who to admit never turns on race alone. >> diversity, and must be more appointed, racial diversity is used as one factor among many. so much so that it's very difficult to pinpoint, oh, that student would have gotten in if they were white or if that student would are got in because they're black. what we know is that there are african-american students who are denied admission with higher credentials than white students. >> reporter: lawyers for the obama administration, in defense of affirmative action, pressed that claim to a skeptical supreme court. here's an excerpt. >> the two applicants are entirely the same in all other respects. >> the point -- >> and if the ability to give a racial preference means anything at all, it certainly has to mean that the minority student gets in and the othe

>> i think the problem is more institutional wide in our colleges and universe universities in that thist of liberal activism in the classroom is sort of protected by the university structure. it's protected by these absurd campus speech codes and diversity policies where you can't say anything that would slightly offend somebody which is ironic given what happened to this ryan who was deeply offended. but photographers can do or say whatever they want. but if students step outside the leftist orthodoxy even slightly, they are subject to these sensitivity training classes, to being kicked out of classes to even being expelled. that's sort of the lockdown of intellectual diversity and the free and open exchange of ideas. the whole point of our university system and then we're see what happens, the chilling effect that's happening on public discourse in general where you can't say anything hurtful or offensive. so there is no conversation anymore. it's just a hurling. >> bill: you can't >> you can't say anything hurtful or offensive on the right. you can on the left. you can call christian

the university of texas, a case brought by a white student. and sort of the analysis was the court punted and kicked it back down. is affirmative action safe for the time being as it exists? >> it is safe for the time being. i think proponents were very worried that justice kennedy the fulcrum of the court on that and other issues would join the more conservative justices to impose a flat categorical prohibition on colleges using race in add admissions. when the court granted certs there was speculation kennedy was moving in that direction. he didn't do that at all. he simply said the lower court in this case the fifth circuit court of appeals really didn't look hard enough at what the university of texas had done. so they sent the case back down to the fifth circuit to apply a little bit more careful review. but it left intact the legal framework that we've had since 2003 that allow universities to take race into account. and my gut sense is that universities are going to continue to do more or less what they've done now. they may have to exp

it is these three fundamentals that are universal. there are others as well. what is it that really sets leaderships apart from another. leaders rely on decision-making on the very important personal input of their value system, things that matter to them. many leaders go so far as to actually develop guideposts. let me share some key guidance. to encourage you to think about this notion of values based decision-making and to pose the question for yourself. what are my values customer i believe in the importance of trust in relationships. i want to make sure the decisions i make can contribute to increasing that trust at both the personal and interpersonal level. you must communicate very openly and honestly. trust is integral in meeting commitments, getting done what you commit yourself and your organization to get done. those who depend on you must have confidence in your reliability. this applies to just about any relationship that you have whether it is business or in your personal life. leaders must build trust with multiple stake holders. trust across gl

and it's not the university of california berkeley. get 11 out of 16 signing a petition -- >> you have 11 people that say something stupid. that proves -- >> out of 16. >> it may be a pattern. >> these kids grew up with a bunch of liberal loans that don't know what they're talking about. >> if those kids don't want to watch this program or disagree, they don't have to, but they should be fighting to the death to protect our right. that's what the first amendment is all about. >> i don't know about the death, but -- i know you -- >> we have millions of people fight until the death to protect -- >> i think bad things are happening in general on college campuses. and here is an update on a program to help severely wounded u.s. vets. we're trying to get hundreds of high-tech wheelchairs called track chairs. they skoft about $15,000 each to help the cost, the five living american presidents signed a petition. we are awarding those pictures to the eight highest donors to the independence fund which buys the wheelchairs. if you would like to