the trustees, private universities, who are all garage watts of the universities who love the university will buy in veryings very quickly to the arguments that the presidents make about the importance of the arts and sciences. now we add to the responsibility of the presidents of the publics, they have to try to do the same thing with a board that's politically appointed and constantly changing. it's a major problem, but i think that president sullivan had it exactly right as to what they should be doing. >> well, let me comment on that al little bit. in july, the regions of the university of michigan approved the budget for ann arbor campus. they approved it on a 5-3 vote, one vote the other way, and it wouldn't have been approved. $6 billion a year, the size of which i'm a chair of the board of directors' governance committee. the university of michigan is infin nitly more complex, it's a global institution, but i could not imagine in a thousand years picking a board to govern that would have accountability in the way that we pick governing boards for the universities today. this quai

that one might find the top universities -- private universities. michigan might be an exception. i wonder, does that limit the areas where you could have research breakthroughs? does that say it will only be in some areas that we really compete? >> the question has to be one of balance, the right proportion, and the context within one who finds -- which one finds circumstances. your question note said the importance of differentiation, -- notes that and portents of differentiation. that is where the investment should take place. there might be things that we do not have high-quality or particular distinctiveness, and perhaps we have to declare that given the constrained budgets that we live with we certainly cannot do certain things anymore, but i think that is strategic and it permits us to make investments where we have strength and comparative advantage as, and perhaps engage -- advantage is, and perhaps engage much more on the collaborative, court-sharing on the research side. we do not do that particularly well. jim would know this. i am remin

i also new penn state is a great university, a great university that will endure as it has always in short, will recover and will continue to advance teaching, research and service. in those early weeks i heard from penn state's many constituents through 5,000 e-mails and letters and hundreds of phone calls and personal contacts. people were shocked, upset, concerned, disappointed, and yet support of of the university. meanwhile comment as the story played out in the media, alumni circles and in every corner of our campuses voices that remained silent for many years began to speak up. victims of child abuse wrote to my office. these individuals were abused by family members and acquaintancess. only 10% of sexual abuse is perpetrated by a stranger. they were part of the chilling estimates, in five girls and one in ten boys are sexually abused by the age of 18. the majority of those victims will never tell anyone even if they have been asked. the letters were powerful, expressing bottled up pain, shame and struggles these individuals have lived with over many years. for some this was t

universities. the organizers kicked things off by comparing private universities to public universities, including faculty of funding, and the ability to availability of major's that lead to jobs. this is about an hour-and-a-half. >> welcome back. sorry about that. morning. welcome. the concluding day of precipices or crossroads symposium on the future of public research universities. before i introduced the panel, just to remind you all, as you may see, we are being filmed for a c-span. will we get to the q&a portion today it is important to use the microphone. you will do better than i. so thank you for your interest. i want to introduce the topic that we are going to focus on first this morning and then turn it over to a discussion with our panelists. then to get you involved. we are talking right now about research, scholarships, and the arts. the great public research university. and, in essence, what we're talking about, i think, is the faculty. and the faculty role and to the faculty are and

to university to land.patch holes is to simply expanded role meant but hold the faculty size constant that means they're increasingly dependent on part-time faculty. . >> you want to situation where the facts of the look at -- look out where they spend a large percentage of their time realizing students and the institution will be at risk based on their decision as well. if you have incentive plans they will do the right thing >> i think this city in the context of support of education in general terms. that is the background driving the declined. >> with the entry point* into academic careers and the great public universities are great traders of the ph.d.. jim, you alluded to many new ph.d. is have a concern of the adjunct carrier. should phd programs the graduating as many as they are with there are not jobs? >> you have to recognize there is the enormous difference the way the education occurs with engineering most don't have an interested in academic careers. so they do not necessarily intend to be fac

this is about the state university in georgia, a public university bound by the first amendment. little did hayden know that they started looking into his background. and this all came out in discovery during the case. he ordered that they look into hayden's religion and a psychological record data that they look into his medical records. to make the case for punishing the student or kicking him out. hayden was a little bit upset that he got such a bad dressing down by the president, and so in protests he made a collage that he put on facebook that included no blood for oil, all the concepts he thought would happen in this parking garage. and he called it the environmentalist group on campus that he thought was falling on the job. the zakaria memorial parking garage, the joke being that this president thought this would be part of his legacy, his memorial. the university, which was, as i said zakaria was already looking for an excuse to kick hayden out of school and she seized on this. he flips a note from the university slips a note under hayden's door claiming this proved with

the trustees of the private universities were all graduates of the university's who loved the university and would apply in very quickly to the arguments that the president would make about the importance of the arts and sciences and so now we had to the responsibility of the presidents of the public. they have to try to do the same thing with the board that is politically appointed and constantly changing and it is a major problem but i think the president's president had it exactly right as to what they should be doing. >> in july the reason they approved for the campus which was 6 billion the approved it on 5-3 vote. one voted the other way. 6 billion a year it's about the size of the unit that i'm a share of the board of directors governance committee. the university of michigan is infinitely more complex as a global institution. but i could not imagine in a thousand years picking a board to govern that would have accountability in a way that we take for the universities today. this dates from the colonial years and it comes from the scottish tradition overseeing these extraordinaril

at the university of michigan, we are very much a public university. but the public we serve and the public that supports us have very little to do with michigan. only four% of our budget is paid by taxpayers. but we seem to have adapted to that very well. so, think perhaps of the future of these public research universities. they are loosely coupled, but highly adaptive. >> [indiscernible] what would it take to make the university of vermontand other ones more easily governable? is this a model that you see? >> well, we are not quite so loosely linked as the university of michigan. but there has historically been a great deal of centripetal force at our university -- centrifugal force rather, that has placed a lot of power in the hands of deans and the college and school. i want to speak to the question, tamar. these are hard jobs. i think i agree with peter and jim that they are quite different from being ceo's of corporation's. they do have a baffling amount of complexity. i do say there is great joy in doing that. i'm sure that thomas sullivan had

. >>> next, penn state university president speaks about the future of his university, and he'll alsonswer questions about the on going child sex abuse investigation and the former charges against former university president. this is about an hour. >> it's a picture-perfect college town nestled amid the central hills of central pennsylvania. an enormously popular university boasts the largest alumni association in the country, but things were anything but happy when our guest assumed the presidency of penn state last november. the school reeling from a child sex abuse scandal involving long time penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky. the coverage non-stop, and joe paterno fired, and the former president, forced to step down. both men along with others at penn state accused with covering up the scandal to protect penn state's reputation. this was the mess that rodney inherited. that mess is slowly being cleaned up. sandusky in jail, probably for the rest of his life. the football program has been severely sanctioned by the ncaa, but has a new and popular coach, bill o'bria

jackson state university university, and no student show not threaten offend or degrade dined any own operated property the. >> every one of view is guilty of doing this there was a code that included the definition of harassment inappropriate directed laughter. [laughter] where did you direct that? again everybody is violating that but i do seal the fare at -- the parallels are strong and the gulf coast university this expressions deemed inappropriate. please do check out the buck. and there is more whacky political crisis -- cases was the one in indiana he was publicly reading a book and accused of public harassment. it was notre dame and eight -- against the klan and celebrates the defeat the because and had the picture of rally related to the defeat he was found guilty of racial harassment because it made somebody comfortable. he said no. it is the anti-klan book. that is all that mattered. it also applies to the flat out political speech. with houston state university they were made to terror down. and then of course, the phenomenon of free speech zones. and to restrict freedom o

even in private universities you have that problem. when he was first president of cornell, it seemed like the activity was going down to the competitors but there were getting better at a slower rate than competitors. his reply was, how selective you have to be to be a prestigious university? the next year when he saw the number of pell grant recipients fell, we went through a wall. he convinced the board it was important to do that during the worst education -- economic decline. the key role of the president in making clear to the board what fundamental objectives of the university should be. >> those are good stories. there is also the president of a well-recorded university in a state going very fast so it cannot serve everybody whose contract gave him more money if he got into the top 10 public research universities on the world report. who is in the competition for more merit scholars from out of state. has an honor student college set mostly serves the out of staters. there are bad stories. those are the ones -- and similarly, o

not only american, but very visible president of the great university in the middle east. there was no more higher profile example of an american involved in that region than the presidency of a you be. >> the american university, beirut, back in the 1850's, what was a paper like? >> was and still is a multi cultural cosmopolitan city. then and now muslims, jews, and christians all next and co existed to a significant degree. in the american missionary presence was particularly significant in better, and it became sort of a launching pad for creating what became the greatest university in the region because of this american missionary connection. >> kid that university had been put in and other middle east and cities? >> perhaps. but the american presence was never anywhere else. the in visionary and practical of compassion. very patriotic the american. other nationalities to my other interests. he wants to create a school that represented the american model of education, lived american values and that gave people in the middle east and awareness that an american education

at younger, a private university. but the promises in his contractual promises to students that you shouldn't be allowed to mention the unmentionable and think the unthinkable and say the unsayable, is really stirring free speech like this. but the trend for quote was a bridge too far. people really took notice of that in that piece. i also had a piece at the same time, my first piece on breitbart.com. but a lot of people have an article in new times and breitbart the same day. make a point of the presidential debates took place at universities including oscar that a pretty ridiculous speech codes. and i had some fun pointing out that if you were to apply to the presidential candidates by the plainly which of these codes, they all could of gotten in trouble. and i made the argument that probably surprised people that i wish they enforce them against the candidates because the reason why speech codes are able to survive is because they're kept in a backdoor for when they're needed if they really were applied across the

. >> great, now i know how the universe ends. >> please welcome sean carroll.rs plaus how's it going, nice to see you, dr. carroll. >> mr. doctor doctor. >> you can call me sean. >> stephen: thank you, dr. sean, thanks for coming back, a tv psychiatrist, dr. sean, theoretical physicist who theoretically helped you. okay, now you're back again to talk about one of the great mysteries of modern theoretical physics. and that is the particle at the end of the universe, how the hunt for the his bosan leads to us the edge of a new world. okay, you are, this is the second time you've been on to talk about this i think you're like the fourth or fifth guy who had to come on and explain to me what the hell is happening at the large hedron collider over there in switzerland, right. >> and not america, okay. not america. >> we had our chance. >> we did. >> it makes it hard to trust if it doesn't happen in the united states, doesn't it, science is everywhere. >> the same science,. >> really? >> in geneva as in new york city. >> but during the cold war when we were fighting

the affordable care act as i said earlier does not create universal coverage. and it builds upon and leaves fairly intact a multi-tiered unequal health system of private insurance, public insurance, different insurance for the middle-class and poor, for the employed and unemployed, the young and the old, et cetera. i don't mean to dismiss the achievement of this reform. it is historic, and it certainly brings us closer to universal coverage than anything we've had before, but it doesn't change the system fundamental nature of separating people into many different categories in a way that is inefficient, very expensive, and in many ways unjust. aske.. in the time remaining in the attack but to other women there natalia century who refuse to except the american way of rationing and tick is denim behalf of health care as a ride. so are going to a jump ahead three decades ago after florence greenberg speech after the passage of medicare and medicaid to september of 1971 the american novel association held its annual meeting in houston texas. the american hospital a

in geography from the university of washington.consin, he is a 17th president of penn state and plans to step down in 2014. no doubt much of his time will be dealing with the fallout from the scandal and restoring penn state's reputation. please join me in welcoming rodney erickson to the national press club. [applause] >> good afternoon and thank you for your kind introduction. as well as your flexibility rescheduling this event, giving -- given the weather challenges. i am honored to be here and i appreciate your interest in penn state in higher education. a special welcome to all of the penn staters here along with those covering education all issues. again, thank you for joining us and bringing along the penn state cookies. according to google news, there are over 45,000 stories about penn state and sandusky. you have written them, you have read them, and i imagine that most of you have formed an opinion at about penn state and our actions over the last year. beyond the headlines, there is another reality, one that exists for p

>> if liberty university loses, that liberty university will be back at the supreme court probably next'm not taking a bet against you. we'll talk about it if it happens, of course. marcia coyle, thanks again. >> my pleasure, jeff. >> suarez: we'll be back shortly with a look at the age gap in the votes cast in this year's presidential election. but first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. and that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> brown: for those stations not taking a pledge break, we take a second look at a pacific northwest tribe struggling to reclaim land threatened by rising sea levels. our story was a partnership with the public media project, earth- fix and kcts-seattle. again, to hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: to much of the world, the quileute are known as the clan of shape shifting werewolves in the popular book and movie series, "twilight." >> it's brought us a lot of national attention, and, you know, there's still people that are just so amazed when they come out here to visit us. wow

that the university of north carolina put out. this is a history -- her book and rather her talk today will be partly the history of rights and rations in the united states from the great depression to the present and the book just came out this month by the university of chicago press. i have seen copies of it flying around. i wish i had one to hold up here. by all accounteds, dr. hoffman has simply nailed this big historical topic up to the present moment. i'm going read a few blerp from the early review how that is being received. author of the "healing of america" writes this, in the american political debate, everybody condemns the notion of rationing health care. but beatrix hoffman's history shows that rationing by income, age, employment, et. cetera has been and remains a central element of america's medical system. she demonstrated that our various attempts at reforms over the decades have kept the rationing mechanism firmly in place. talk about death panel too -- i don't know if that is. johnathan writes, excuse me, my a

>> if liberty university loses, that liberty university will be back at the supreme court probably next'm not taking a bet against you. we'll talk about it if it happens, of course. marcia coyle, thanks again. >> my pleasure, jeff. >> suarez: we'll be back shortly with a look at the age gap in the votes cast in this year's presidential election. but first, this is pledge week on pbs. >> suarez: finally tonight, we turn to politics and a look at the impact of the youth vote in this year's presidential election. in 2008, young people went to the polls in record numbers, with 66% of 18- to 29-year-olds supporting president obama, helping to sweep him to victory. but this year the president's support among that age group dipped to 60%, although young voters proved much more critical to his reelection win. that's the subject of a new analysis by the pew research center, and we are joined now by michael dimock, one of the study's lead authors. michael, there were confident predictions before election day that youth was simply not engaged, not enthusiastic, and not going to show up on election

university of the oil would children and now it is impossible to get into. why pete carol arrived and donations to the school soaredlet >> but they are soaring because they are tax exempt. to bill's point. the colleges and universities are out of control because they are nonprofit. they have 40 administrators for every one student. and i don't know why stunes are giting squeezed when football is so profitable. nand they stand up for the university of the sphoil would children, go ahead, rich. >> and pete carol was running out and scandal trailing him the whole way. sc is a great schooll and more frominent over time and i don't know how you correlate it to pete carol. >> so far, no one is going for bill baldwin's solution. nand my reform plan would eliminate the ncaa. enthe football. thanks to the web education is upend football will be like the minor leagues for like baseball training and university, you are going to do it on computer and so enjoy it while you can. >> with that thought. we'll look on that for a while. unions strike a busy shopping center of

can only dream of universities like these. it is the only institution of its kind in the world. >> we are traditionally an internationally oriented university, so it is a logical step to export our vision of education abroad. i think it will hugely boost our international reputation and the perception of our university abroad. >> the student dormitory is next to the campus. tuition is 5000 euros a semester. >> i miss my family, my mom, my dad, my sisters. but it is something that has to be done. >> the campus is still quite empty. in future a to play home to up to 500 students. >> finance ministers from the group of 20 nations will meet in mexico this weekend and discuss many issues facing the global economy. one key topic is how to shore up international banks that are considered too big to fail. >> since the to the as a crisis, banks all over the world have faced regulatory action, but the g-20 is considering regulatory actions to shore up some of the world's top financial institutions. >> one of them is germany's biggest ba

. >> again, who owns the american university or who runs it is it associated with the religion or another school? >> non-secular and nonsectarian. what does it cost to go? >> i have no idea. i don't know the answer to that question either but i do know over time it began to open the story's not just the offspring of the middle east but regarded none of religion. the class's and religions and that's appeal. it sets its merit. >> how is it viewed in the middle east when i think those were two separate questions. that would provide suspicion on the part of the middle east when the school opened in the late 1860's who didn't have deep roots in the region, but rather quickly it became apparent to the middle easterners who were not just orthodox christians, but muslims and jews because this was the best place to get the best possible education and at the generation by 1900 had become what it remains to this day which is part of the middle east and what's magnificent about that is it is an all-inclusive institution founded by serving the interest of the people of the middle east regarding of bac

of the university. he graduated from the university of minnesota and obtained his ph.d. in a geography from the university of washington. he is a native of wisconsin. he is the 17th president of penn state. he plans to step down in 2014. but it is time in the next few tears will be dealing with the fallout from the scandal and restoring penn state's reputation. please welcome rodney erickson to the national press club. [applause] >> good afternoon. thank you for your kind introduction as well as your flexibility in rescheduling this event given the weather challenges for the week. i appreciate your interest in penn state and higher education. a special welcome to all of the penn staters here. we need your continued engagement. thank you for joining us. thank you for bringing along the penn state cookies. according to google news, there are over 45,000 stories about penn state and sandusky. you have written them and read them and i imagine those did you have formed an opinion about penn state and our act

thames, a reporter for the spartan daily, was listening to her police scanner when she heard ten universityficers dispatched near the event center. "by the time i got here, the ambulance was showing up, and i heard over the radio that they guy was being taken to regional medical center." a 22-year old man was stabbed near the corner of third and san antonio streets he made it back to campus, leaving a trail of blood, and was picked up by paramedics between the event center and sweeney hall. although this phone at sweeny hall did it's job ... there's another point of concern .... that is u-p-d did not send an alert s-j-s-u notification to the student body. "the incident appears to have happened far enough away that there was not a concern that there was an immediate threat to university students here on campus." the alert s-j-s-u system sends emergency text messages and e-mails to students who are registered for the service. thames says had not been listening to her scanner, she would have liked to have known about the incident ... she's also concerned about so many broken phones. "to have b

but they study the theater and do theater in universities in the liberal arts universities, completely democratic -- democratic. they went from having an experience and a free-market. you have to please the audience. have the unfortunate experience of growing up in trying to please the teacher. that is not theater. and so the playwrights, they come to new york. he picked up a flexion place. who is going to be in the barrel this season so we can come out humming the fact that x, y, z our people to and feel good about ourselves. you have to have a place to fail. i really get a clue. look at some of these present days. one the following play competitions. you don't have to read. they can't write. >> just a follow-up on that. i would love to get your opinion on the work of your new york times colleague. >> he's going to work his side of the street not going to work mind. he is a very good writer. we have very different political views. it's the great thing about free-speech. [applause] i get the right to put on my place if i can find enough suckers to invest in them. so busy. and i'm glad

his cleverness was outstanding from his university days. however, what his personalities are, once again, is not well-known. >> reporter: both leaders worked in rural areas when they were young, and both have strong patrons backing them. many analysts expected li keqiang to surpass xi jinping in 2007 because president hu jintao supported him. but xi managed to outmaneuver li at the last party congress. he emerged in sixth place in the politburo standing committee, just ahead of li. professor takahara tells us how he did it. >> hu jintao failed to put li keqiang, his favorite, in the position to succeed himself in 2007 because all the forces were against hu jintao and the communist youth league camp. they got together. xi jinping was somebody that all the anti cyl forces could agree on. he has experienced being a county leader in a rather poor country. that sort of experience of hardship and knowledge about the poor peasants, that helped hu jintao to accept his defeat. >> reporter: that was part of my conversation with university of tokyo's

service funding, and i'd say we're a bit behind on the universal service funding side. we've got it right focusing on broadband. i think in large part, um, trying to make money available to carriers to build broadband out to consumers who can't get it today, but there's much to be done. there's much work that needs to be done. and unfortunately, it's going to be, um, behind the intercarrier compensation piece. so that's what i'd say we've got to get right. the fcc's working very hard on it. i just think we all have to be committed to work hard and get this done fast. because one to have fundamental concerns -- one of the fundamental concerns about our members at united states telephone association is we do it in a way that maintains the financial stability of our companies. in order to do that, you really have to deal with both these complicated issues at the same time. >> and this fund, the reform of this fund is one of the many policy initiatives to get broadband into rural areas, right? >> guest: uh-huh. yes, it is. and i'm very proud of our, um, our company, first o

we are following new developments after howard university student was attacked at knife point in our own dorm room. police caught the suspect as some students have raised concerns about security in >> not only will buried -- whether the extra counseling on campus but also extra security after this violent attack at howard university. the 19-year-old female student was attacked at knifepoint and sexually assaulted in her own dorm room. the man was seen on surveillance video. he has been arrested. there has been two separate attacks over the past week. is supposed to be a secured building. students and staff held a closed-door meeting over the weekend to discuss the issue and the university has beefed up its 24-hour security. we talked about the original attack that happened before the one here. a woman was in her home and stabbed multiple times. she was able to fight off her attacker before she was sexually assaulted. both women were treated and are expected to survive. it is very alarming at howard university and they say they are troubled by what has happened and the police chief ca

well, number one point that i can draw out of my look at the material is the universe is one. that's the identity, we are a part of it, we're not separate from any other aspect we are interconnected, that key word again. relationship; to live in harmony with the tao many of you have heard of that term in terms of taoism, but the way, the power, the essence the stuff, the force be with you that's what keeps coming back to me from the force. to be connected to that and once connected all relationships, all activities hopefully will work in harmony. and that's, it's a principle through which nature works. so that's the experiential dimension. couple of other key points, key words here; and you'll have to forgive me, i got a d- only because the teacher was nice, in my chinese. actually i didn't take any chinese, that's why i did religion in america, so i can get out of grad school sooner. people who took the east asian religions are still searching out their phds as they struggle with this language. so forgive me but basic terminology that we see drawn out of the tradition of chi-

ghana had only three universities. he started small, 10 years ago, just 30 students.ennasity and generosity of those in the united states there are 600 students on a new larger campus. the goal was to create change in a region bogged down in government corruption. needsbe successful, one¢ to be ethical. they were going to be successful because they had integrity not in spite of it f someone is running a bank they want to hire ethical people. >> today, 350 students graduated from the university. >> importantly we're giving hope to next generation. they're going to change the world. his son who inspired him is now 17 years old, and part of the next generation of ghanains. >> after a search a chancellor has been selected at uc berkeley. he's a 61-year-old professor of history who is currently at columbia university at new york. >> spencer is back now. >> yes. forecast that has been wacky today it has. interesting clouds this afternoon. low and mid level clouds moving over the bay and across the bay area. looking over live doppler 7 you!w!vy can see there are mainy light

romney at george mason university in fix. we have a preview. >> after nearly a year of campaigning it comes down to a final day on the campaign trail. last chance or candidates to get out the final push before polls open. in less than 24 hours voters will have r head to the polls. >> i haven't made up my mind. >> the candidates and running mates are chris crossing the swing states today. president barack obama will hold events in wisconsin and ohio and vice president joe biden will be in virginia. mitt romney will stop in florida, ohio and new hampshire and paul ryan in colorado nevada and iowa. >> i want to show what you real change looks like because i fought for it. because i delivered t. we can't give up on it now. >> we hoped president obama would live up to his promise to bring people together to solve big problems but he hasn't. and i will. >> polls show the race is dead looked. 49% of likely votersobama and 48% romney. nearly every poll is just that close. we already know this tens of millions of people have cost ball

. >> reporter: the bowie university strap pus is healing after a violent fight it roommates ended in death and traumatized the school community. >> i heard she was bullied. in a scary situation like that, you're going to try to defend yourself. >> reporter: alexis simpson admitted in court that she plunge add knife into the neck of her roommate dominique frazier but she testified it was out of fear, an act of self- defense, a rare and risky defense. everybody was surprised. >> it was a gamble and paid off. i did it because my life was in danger. i did it in self-defense. >> reporter: administrators were among those disturbed by testimony that both young women kept fives in their dorm rooms. >> it's definitely a violation of university policy to have weapons of any kind in the rooms. the fact that they were there certainly a disciplinary matter that would be dealt with if it had been known. >> reporter: still unanswered is the family of the murdered victim will file a civil suit against the university or alexis simpson. bowie state says it has not been served with any legal papers. an

and the notion of universal app, have we looked into that at all? >> it relates to item 13 . yes. >> chairman nolan: thank you for the public comment. consent calendar. >> [indiscernible] >> chairman nolan: motion, second. all those in favor? aye. >> item 13, amending transportation code section, 1109, 1109, 113, 1114, to extend the deadline for implementation of electronic trip data and backseat passenger information. >> director -- >> chairman nolan: -- how does the universal app fit into this? >> we have issued a uniform solicitation rfi for the development of the system that will pull real-time information from all the dispatch services that will basically provide the framework for the creation of a universal app so that just as members of the public have said, people through an app, developed by third-party, would have his ability into all the taxis out there. i concur wholly but that is something absolutely needed, probably the single most important thing we need to do to strengthen our taxi industry. we have issued that rfi; responses were due on november 30th, we may

inner loop and outer loop at university boulevard. let's start with the inner loop. you have to stick to the right lane. approaching university boulevard on the outer loop, two of the left lanes are blocked, stick to the right. that should be just about wrapped up. traveling along 395, nice and clear. a look at glebe, no issues northbound. southbound all lanes are clear as you cross over the 14th street bridge. aaron, back over to you. >> danella, thank you. >>> president obama's first day back at work since being reelected. he will urge congress to avoid going over the fiscal cliffme. the president is not expected to offer a specific plan. instead, he'll tell both parties to put their differences aside. they must reach a budget by the end of the year to avoid a series of tax hikes and budget cuts. a grim picture offered of what will happen if we plunge off the fiscal cliff. the cbo warns we'd go back into a recession with the unemployment rate jumping to 9.1%. the report assumes that no budget deal will be reached for a while, which means the tax hikes and spending

he went to a prestigious university in beijing from 1975 to 1979. and then he spent the next quarter century holding down key positions in the communist party and the government in few engine, joe general and shanghai. xi gained domestic and international prominence in 2007. he skipped the stage of politburo member and went straight to the politburo's standing committee. ♪ >> xi's wife is a well known figure in her own wife. she's a popular singer in the troop belonging the the people's liberation army. analysts say she's helped xi's career. xi shas 13e7b9 the last couple years cementing his position as successor to president hu jingh engine toe. he visited the u.s. in 2012 to promote relations. his counter part, vice president joe biden was with him for much of the visit. >> xi showed on some issues the two governments will not necessarily see eye to eye. >> reporter: xi will likely be joined at the top by lee cow tow tao, the man widely expected to become china's next premier. lee became a member of the politburo standing committee in 2007. he ski

of the wind stream corporation and he is chairman of us telecom. >> we talked about universal service fund reform and one issue facing the f.c.c. right now is how to pay for this fund going forward. they took a historic step to broad band service rather than telephone service. and for years while the fund supported telephone service it was paid for by telephone customers. how should the f.c.c. approach this issue and who should pay into this fund? >> it's a real difficult issue. it's ironic it's being funded by the part of the industry that is declining which doesn't seem like it's going to be able to keep up with the need there. and so a broader technology agnostic approach is probably called for. as you know very well, there are a lot of political implications. there is a lot of sensitivity around tacksing the internet. so i understand those issues but i do also just economically and with the trend we see in our country, you've got to broaden the base somehow. i don't have the answers to that today but i think that's something that we're going to have to really work together over th

and our galaxy is nothing compared to the expanse of the whole universe. so how are you gonna be going through the universe when you can't even get to your galaxy, it's not gonna take you 20,000 years. if you're traveling at high, high speed, you might get there in 5 minutes. and if you travel at the speed of light, how far away would it be from a speed of light frame of reference. what's the distance between things. i remember leon russell used to sing that song, "i love you in a place where there's no space and time. i love you forever, you're fend of mine." a place where there's no space and time. that makes sense? how can there be no space. how about the speed of light frame of reference. from a speed of light ame of reference, what's the length between one edge of the universe and the other... when v is c? zero. from a speed-of-light frame a reference, there is no distance at all between the one side of the universe and the opposite. and from a speed-of-light frame of reference, how does the duration of time travel? it's frozen: no time, no space. did

his cleverness was outstanding from his university days. however, what his personalities are, once again, is not well-known. >> reporter: both leaders worked in rural areas when they were young, and both have strong patrons backing them. manynys expected li keqiang to surpass xi jinping in 2007 because president hu jintao supported him. but xi managed to outmaneuver li at the last party congress. he emerged in sixth place in the politburo standing committee, just ahead of li. professor tack ha ra tells us how he did it. >> hu jintao failed to put li keqiang, his favorite, in the position to succeed himself in 2007 because all the forces were against hu jintao and the communist youth league camp. they got together. xi jinping was somebody that all the anti-forces could agree on. he has experienced being a county leader in a rather poor country. that sort of experience of hardship and knowledge about the poor peasants, that helped hu jintao to accept his defeat. >> reporter: that was part of my conversation with university of tokyo's akio tak

an assessment on the george washington university campus is causing quite the uproar after the universityhe u.s. news and world report's list of the nation's best colleges. >> the university admits a mistake in calculating the high school class rankings of incoming freshmen. bob barnard explains. >> reporter: on gw's foggy bottom campus, students were coming up to us asking if the university's ranking scandal was what we were here to talk about. >> i think it is upsetting because it is kind of deceiving. >> i think it is like a decade- long mistake just in the methodology. that is a little bit disconcerting. >> reporter: in its september issue, u.s. news and world report released its annual ranking of the nation's colleges placing gw51st on that prestigious list. after university officials recently told the magazine it was overreporting by 20% the number of freshmen ranked in the top 10% of their high school classes, u.s. news wiped gw off the list. >> it is a little embarrassing that the admissions staff did mess up a lot. they said 78 and it was actually 58. that is a bigger. >> reporte

service funding, and we're behind on the universal service funding side.e got it right, focusing on broadband. i think in large part, trying to make money available to carriers to build broadband out to consumers who can't get it today, but there's much to be done. there's work that needs to be done, and then unfortunately, it's going to be behind the intercarrier compensation piece. that's what i say we have to get right. the fck is working hard on it. we have to be committed to work hard and get it done fast because one of the fundamental concerns about our members at the united states telephone association is we do it in a way that maintains the financial stability of our companies and in order to do that, you have to deal with the complicated issues at the same time. >> and this fund, this fund is one of the many policy initiatives to get broadband into rural areas; right?ñh4j4(p. it is. i'm very proud of our company, first of all, windstream, who even though we're in very rural markets, i mentioned earlier, 93% of the customers get broadband today, an

>> the university of arizona.hey tried to crowd out any -- not only form of traditional ideology, conservative ideology, and also any ideology that does not fit with their leftest propaganda they force on to the students in classes and threaten they won't pass the class unless they adhere to it. >> sean: penny, the point is, i'm proud of america. america has paid a very heavy price around the world for freedom. we shed our blood. we pay the financial burden. people have been injured for the cause of human liberty, human dignity, human rights. and why don't they teach that? they could talk about america's strengths and weaknesses? no country is perfect. we're not perfect. but we do have a pretty good history of righting wrongs, correcting injustices. doesn't this seem off? shouldn't we be teaching real history? >> this is one professor and one syllabus, so we can't say it's illustrative of the entire butler university. i went to baylor university, and we had the reverse, where we had policies in place that you coul

a big reason is universities are in the midst of a sports building binge. example, renovated its stadium to the tune of $321 million. the list is endless. michigan's athletic department floated $226 million in bonds to upgrade the big house. what are you chasing? >> brandon: we want to win championships. >> keteyian: you're going to get a big payout. >> brandon: we're going to have excited fans, we're going to fill stadiums, we're going to be on tv, we're going to accomplish all of the goals that we need to accomplish to keep this department moving ahead. >> keteyian: and that's where the phrase "arms race" comes up. >> brandon: if you don't keep pace, if you don't stay competitive, you're going to have a problem. >> keteyian: inside a recently built indoor practice facility that many an nfl team would envy, we spoke to michigan's head coach brady hoke. can you recruit a top player without facilities like this? >> brady hoke: you know, it matters. i'd be sitting here lying if i didn't think it mattered. i think the other part of it, though, the people have