world-class university. you are a force of nature. [applause] she even brought the sunshine today. there was no way it was going to rain on her last commencement. your groundbreaking efforts will leave an indelible mark on this campus for decades to come. thank you for your incredible service and best of luck in your next endeavor. i also want to acknowledge my life who is here today -- wife who is here today with our children. i want to thank my mom, fordfather, and my aunt being here today. she received her masters in psychology from ball state in 1992. i love you all. i stand before you as a u.s. congressman. i stand before you as someone who has lived a life like your own. i grew up in modest circumstances in greensburg, indiana. i worked my way through school to graduate from ball state -- wabash college. [laughter] in the late 1980's, i did not spend a lot of time here because ball state has girls and wabash is not. muncie working as a waiter. i had a lot of great memories of this campus. today i am go

class university. president, you are a force of nature. [applause] she even brought the sunshine today. there was no way it was going to rain on her last commencement. your groundbreaking efforts will leave an indelible mark on this campus for decades to come. thank you for your incredible service and best of luck in your next endeavor. i also want to acknowledge my wife, jennifer. she is here today with our children, emma, ava, and hudson. i want to thank my mom, my grandfather, and my aunt, andi, for being here today. she receiveder

athletics, we never lose sight of the university's larger mission. stanford is a university first. we believe the most important thing for our student athlete is to walk out the door is a stanford degree. 97% of our athletes achieve this goal, including 93% of our foot off student athletes -- football student athletes. other.hances the one out of every eight undergraduate student at stanford is a student athlete. his is not a separate group having a separate experience. classes,in the same same labs, same undergraduate housing. they have the same exam schedules. completiongree requirements as other students. the rigor of the enterprise begins with the admissions process. stanford is not met anyone who is not confident to succeed academically at the university. this evaluation occurs in the admissions office independent of the athletic department. our student athletes demonstrate how importantly they view a stanford education by taking all steps the need to complete it. andrew luck of the indianapolis bypass the opportunity to leave stanford with the year of eligibility left and ent

university in the future. many cases were commencement speakers and honorary degrees are targeted to people of means in the hope they will work with the university in building some particular program. typically, they will not be offered any fee at all. the university needs their money. nelson is former president of the american association of university as ansors and he serves english professor at the university of illinois and our viewers can find out more at your website. >> i also think once you have announced the commencement withdrawing it is an act of cowardice. happened and i think it is deplorable. when the university does not have the courage to stay with its convictions, that is while the worst things that can happen. it is also possible to survive a demonstration at a commencement talk. there is nothing wrong with an organized demonstration, ts, taking place for 30 seconds or a minute and then the people sit down and listen to the talk. a lot of people feel that any demonstration is unacceptable. i

at baylor university we're located in waco, texas. it is a private christian university. it is ranked as a high research comprehensive university, and it is a vibrant community home to over 15,000 students, including over 600 student-athletes. baylor is a founding member of the big 12 conference and established in 1994 we sponsor 19 varsity teams. we are very blessed at baylor to have student athletes to succeed him, but in the classroom and on the playing field. over the past three years barely university has been the most successful division one program and combined winning percentage is football and men's and women's basketball. but these accomplishments cannot counter ultimately mean in terms of what we emphasize at baylor. as commencement approaches next weekend on our campus we are celebrating our academic accomplishments. facts, we gathered together among the evening. baylor's federal center to do exactly that, to honor our student athlete performance in the classroom. during the prior academic year, mr. chairman, 86 percent of from seeing a student athletes at bay

his latest book is "no university is in iowa." -- is an island." how does that university go about screening who to choose for the commencement address? on the we do is we focus commencement speakers were going to receive an honorary degree which is rigidly that case across the country that has been speaker receives an honorary degree. the faculty senate has about 200 faculty members who are elected. they tie do consider them worthy of the speech and award a degree. in a senate meeting, we discussed the possible people. on a number of occasions, we have advised that the university not go forward with a particular person. just this year, we recommended against two people. they were not used. i'm not going to give their names. baggage a good test of whether they're likely to be a problem with other people on campus. it is a wide enough constituency that if there will be problems, the problems will be raised at that point. all i can say really is that this year there were no graduating senior responses. i think the problem of doing that is that if we'

loans to theand universities? the for-profit universities, from where?st: money for students to go there. many of those institutions, their revenues come from federal grants and loans that students are using from the federal government to finance their education. there is a very active debate about the proper role of for-profit education. theigher education look at obama administration has proposed new rules that set out for-profit,ld vocational programs, many at for-profit colleges, more accountable. and to income ratios default rates for individual programs. host: college was worth it back when you could get a decent education. these days it is all job training. another tweed -- why has the price of college sword? how do colleges spend their budgets? guest: that is another controversial topic in higher education. a lot of people have criticized spending my colleges and universities as perhaps one of the factors that is driving up costs, whether that is administrative costs or facilities and the sort of advent and the past decade or more of more lavish

baylor university is located in waco, texas. it is a private christian university. it is ranked as a high research comprehensive university. and is a vibrant community home to over 15,000 students, including over 600 student athletes. baylor is a founding member of the big 12 conference, and established in 1994. we sponsor 19 varsity teams. .. to do exactly that, to honor our student-athletes' performance in the classroom. during the prior academic year, mr. chairman, 86% of senior student-athletes at baylor received their undergraduate degrees. this past fall semester, our student-athletes achieved a cumulative gpa of 3.27. that's an all-time high. and 347 of our student-athletes were named to the big~12 commissioner's honor roll. so, these are remarkable times for baylor and its athletic program. yet the reality is that even in these best of times, college athletics, including at baylor, is not a profit generating activity. it does not generate profits for baylor nor for the vast majority of institutions of higher education. the nlrb regional director's recent dec

this is unionization in a private university. not a state university. athletes, mr. bishop come a couple things you can transfer now without loss of a time. if you transfer a different level. division one, division two committees can play immediately just to clarify for everyone. either mr. livingstone or maybe judge starr, i think this ruling, what concerns me, at least when i played sports, it was fun. it sounds like some kind of treachery here. for the most part sport are fine. that is why you play sports. as mr. eilers clearly said, he added a six years as a student athlete and it made him a better -- you mention it very eloquently. it taught me -- i learned a lot on the playing field i would never have learned in the classroom. i think this ruling could potentially call schools just to drop football or sports. >> well, we have to consider all options in terms of the best interest of the university. i know the president at the university of delaware has said he was a suit athlete and of the university of delaware would not be able to continue. so it really is rai

it's a big hammer for the university. >> certainly gotten the attention of the universities across theountry. congresswoman spear, thanks for bringing this to light and for coming in to talk about it. this week if f the world lost ange angela mayalou. we have this with a loan time frong of angelou. davis spoke with the author in 2012 about the power and beauty of friendship. >> her life has been populated with friends. and there have been many famous ones from civil rights' activist malcolm x to oprah winfrey. yet some of her closest friends have included people not as well known. you once explained to me the difference between friends and acquaintances. would you share that with me? >> friendship, it keeps you alive. it keeps you awake and it keeps yao trying to be the best. and in the middle of the night when you're lonely and feel most at odds with yourself and with life and even with god, you can call a friend. >> authors, singer, performer, actress, dancer and composer, angel angelou's achievement spanned more than four decades and she's also a filmmaker. >> we're very proud. >> i

the university needs there money. cary nelson is the president of the american association of university professors. he serves as an english professor at the university of illinois. her viewers can find out more at your website. cary-nelson.org. >> i also think, by the way, once you have announced the commencement speaker -- withdrawing that invitation is basically an act of cowardice. i do not think that should happen. that has happened this year. i think it is really deplorable. when a university does not have the courage to stay with its convictions. that is one of the worst things that can happen. it is also possible, in my view. to survive a demonstration i commencement talk. there is nothing wrong, in my view, with an organized demonstration, banners, chants, whatever. taking place for 30 seconds or a minute. then people engage and sit down and listen. a lot of people feel that any demonstration is unacceptable. i think you can live with a demonstration so long as the people demonstrating except that they have t

of montana. >> university of montana. and they agreed to a very detailed, lengthy set of principles that they would have to conform to. they would have to hire something called an equity consultant. there are such things. the equity consultant would be on campus through the year, monitoring their compliance. they would have to collect data. now, this was a firestorm inside the university community. every college in this country knows about that montana agreement. and what it means is, the sort of things jason is talking about has the force and authority of the federal government behind it. by and large, the justice department is siding with the leftists, who are complaining about a broad range of grievances on campus. >> and is this has had what effect across the entire academic establishment? >> well, the effect is that the presidents won't push back against the craziest things on their campuses. >> and so if -- >> because they risk title 9 fund figure they lose. their liability is significant. >> and that would include

a major private university?> so the major issue, i think, is that each institution is trying to pay up to the cost of attendance. that's the issue that's out there. that personal cost is different, and trying to figure out the exact number where we can at least try to be equitable. the other thing that mr. schwartz had mentioned as well is the resources that are, that would be necessary to provide that. not all schools are able to meet that cost of attendance, and it's a concern for them. or they'll have to make other decisions, and so that is a difficult one, and that's why we spent so many years trying to figure that out. i do feel because of the discussion and dialogue that we're closer. we realize we need to enhance that overall experience, but it is difficult from school to school since there are so few that are truly making revenue that they're able to far exceed their expenses with revenue? it makes it hard. makes it difficult. i do think we're making progress, but it's going to take a little more time. >

understanding the consciousness of the universe, to imagine a universe could have consciousness is a few steps beyond what you were talking about when you said up to a certain point in science, we didn't understand that other parts of the universe besides human beings could have consciousness. the question of how the integration of spiritual consciousness perry and material clearly this has been a question that science has not been able to answer and i predict will not answer in your lifetime or 9. in other words there's a way of understanding god that is quite different than the one that you rightly, i think, reject. and that other way of understanding god in which we are all part of that god and yet that god is way more, the entirety of the universe those in its material and consciousness face is something that i think you might want to explore in the future. >> guest: i do explore briefly -- i do talk about what science has been finding which is that a lot of things we thought to be totally inanimate are not totally inanimate. i suppose you could talk about a living universe. why

we contacted the university. after declining our request for an interview we met shawn bibb on campus. he is the vice president of administration and finance. his department conducted the investigation. >> so are you satisfied with your investigation? do you -- >> i'm satisfied the university received its funds back. >> the investigation concluded there were no fiscal impropriety. >> our definition is if we are made whole and we did not lose any funds, no fiscal impropriety occurred. >> how are you? do you have a couple moments? >> i don't. >> the dean also declined our request for an interview. >> are you satisfied with the conclusion of this investigation? >> if i weren't i would be doing more. >> what is your answer to their claim that you didn't go far enough? >> i think i told you it seems to me what i thought needed to be done was done. >> she's in charge of the justice studies department. we met him at the san jose airport. >> does it add up there were no fiscal improprieties. there are questions -- your s

the university, one of the persons of the university is to promote democratic values. >> yes, right.well, how is that going to occur in a non-democratic regime, in a non-democratic country. so the campus is built. the question is for the workers that will work there now -- >> right, right. and this is an ongoing question, right? it's not like the workers build the place and go off. >> no, exactly. the guggenheim is being built, a branch of the british museum. there are tons and tons of workers there working 14 hours a day in brutal heat and living ten guys to a room in isolated labor camps that look like pyongyang. >> there is another huge amount of construction happening right next door in qatar and what's happening right now in the nyu is peanuts compared to that story. we'll talk about that in a second, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> the situation in nyu's campus in abu dhabi, peanuts involving the site of the 2012 world cup. that story with espn's jeremy schaap is next. >>> world cup is just two weeks away, but in soccer mad brazil where the world cup is being held this year, t

the vice president of the university denied my appeal. can get to that when we talk about the sanctions. the president was quite aware of my case. clearly, there is a tolerance for them. i do not believe that statement. as for moving forward, that would have happened anyway. every five years, this is up for review. this is the year. they were going to redo the code of conduct anyway. >> you reported to the administration? >> there is a hearing on october 11. witnesses are present. withs this whole document a different night, which is not what happened. there's a panel with a professor, dean, and student. they make the findings. the findings are final. they make recommendations. a week later, i got a letter with a decision that he has been found responsible by the panel for all four violations. the sanction is he will be suspended until fall 2014. then he can apply. mission. i immediately am shocked that this is the case. i assume he will appeal. he does not appeal, i do appeal. the appeal process is three weeks long. he is allowed to stay

i recently graduated from the university of maryland law school. i am a lawyer now. >> that is the first time you have been able to say that. >> i am also the founder of survjustice which is a institution and handling sexual violence. welcome.r baldwin, we are glad you are here. i will turn it over to you. >> absolutely. i want to thank you along with some of our other senate colleagues for convening this first in a series of roundtable discussions on sexual assault on campus. i want to thank you for your critical work. to share some words of praise for the administration for taking very important steps to raise the profile of student sexual violence, including an establishment of a white house task force to look further into the issue. while i am encouraged by the advances we are seeing on this including the strengthening of federal law that we are going to be talking a little more about today, i also think we can all agree there is much left to be done. i wanted to just call attention to two quick issues. i was proud in recent weeks to introduce

>> well, absolutely, i think the university can bring charges according to their university handbookde of ethics. also, you know, any university throughout the nation has to go through certain accreditation criteria in order to remain in good standing, so there's probably some violations there, and so swift action is going to be needed by the president and the university to address this, but i also think that it's incumbent upon everyone else throughout the nation and there at the university to stand up in solidarity with the native american students there, who are feeling insulted and, you know, harassed by this kind of behavior. >> i got to quickly ask you this, wizipan, what do you tell your kids? what do native american parents tell their kids who see this? >> well, we tell them the truth. you know, one fact that is very little known is that actually, american indians have the highest rate of sobriety of any ethnic group in the united states. only 34% of native americans use alcohol, compared to 56% of whites in this country, and to face a stereotype like this is just insulting a

this is what's being done at brown university, duke university. they put a chip right on top of the brain. it doesn't hurt, because the brain doesn't have think pain accept to haves -- have any pain sensors. then this chip is connected to a laptop which then controls a wheelchair. this gentleman here had a stroke. he is a vegetable. finish he cannot scratch his nose, he cannot talk, he cannot do anything but blink. blink is the only thing he can do. at brown they put a chip in his brain connected to a computer. he can now surf the web, he can read e-mail, write e-mail, play video games, do crossword puzzles, operate his wheelchair, operate household appliances. anything you can do on a computer he can also do, and he is totally paralyzed. and we've now connected, also at brown university, this paralyzed woman through a mechanical arm. she also is totally paralyzed. he can only blink -- she can only blink. and when you connect her to a mechanical arm, she could pick up coca-cola for the first time in years and scratch her nose. and they asked her w

or, unfortunately, too many universities in my opinion try to do this themselves. this isn't their area of expertise. >> reporter: the university of florida has done that, by hiring an experienced management firm to run oak hammock and keep it solvent. but carle warns if anything goes wrong at a university-based facility, the school's reputation can still suffer, and not every university can run one successfully. >> you have to have enough student volume and enough alumni volume to warrant the demand for that. you need to have the amenities available. you're really looking at a significant level of athletics. a significant level of visual and performing arts. a significant ability to have a lifelong learning institute in place just for retirees. >> reporter: while oak hammock has remained viable for most of its existence, many university- based retirement communities had a declines in membership in the recession of 2008, a time when capital was scarce for new but senior housing was one of the first industries to make a strong comeback. occupancy levels are up, and

i am very proud to say the university of michigan is innovating. we created one of the first primary prevention programs. we have implemented a controlled group matched of that program so that we can identify its efficacy on the campus, that we are planning to launch a second to look at other stages of our efficacy programs. the university of michigan has an extraordinary wealth of resources. we have chosen to invest some in this effort. many campuses do not have that benefit and we need to be able to extend the ability to innovate to other campuses that do not have those kinds of resources. campuses look different and we need to have different kinds of innovations to address specific campus populations. it is important that they we provided the support and encouragement to do that research. >> michigan -- i am sure you do have a program you've put together that is excellent. one of the reasons you are on this panel. what are we doing to share that? if you put together a model that works, where you have an interdisciplinary approach and you have a

at florida a&m university's annual rivalry game against bethune cookman university, we knew we'd findes, like annette harris, class of 1962. >> it wasn't integration. you just had your choices. i wanted to get a higher education. i don't forget the bridge that brought me over. >> john smith met his wife christine. >> i'm actually a second generation a&m, third generation hbcu. grandmother went to bennett. mama went to bennett. daddy went to fam. >> what was it about the hbcu experience that's different from an experience you would have gotten at a florida state? >> definitely smaller classes and more people like me. you know, growing up in ft. lauderdale, didn't have a lot of people at my school that were like me. so going to hbcu meant lifetime friends and just an awesome, awesome experience. just a family. >> that's become a hallmark of historically black colleges and universities. the original hbcu mission was simple, to help blacks compete by enabling them to earn a degree at a time when they were barred from other institutions. nearly all 105 schools that exist today were establi

than a low-z more selective universities than a low-income kid is. steve napp the president of george washington university is trying to narrow that gap. looking at how to increase college access and graduation rates for low income students. i sat down with him at the milken conference to discuss the education gap. >> as much of a problem we have getting low income students in, an even greater challenge we have in graduating them. >> sometimes they're the soul supporter of the family they can't finish because they've got to go back to provide support for the rest of the family. some of those issues, it is very clearing emerged from many discussions in the studies, if families if they haven't sent a daughter or son to college, they can't figure out how to do that. >> it can be very onerous. >> know out how to get the information accurately supplied, they may not even know how to be guided to a correct matchup between the interests and the aspirations of the student and the institution, part of that by the way is caused by the fact that we have a very

now i'm at an university.ens to me again and that industry gets shot out from under me i will start taking this stuff personally, you know. i'm just very cognizant of the fact we had 25% unemployment, national socialism began looking good to a lot of people. of course so did the new deal. this could be some pretty heavy upheaval and i imagine it will start with the young. >> what role does government play in that then? because of potential, technology advances which are replacing so many jobs and so much money is being put into through venture capitalists through technologies and companies that don't necessarily hire the same way a general motors and some of these other companies in the past did with similar market capitalization? how does, what does the government have to do to make sure or to help people have jobs in the future? >> you know, that's a very broad question and that ranges from income redistribution, if necessary, because we may end up 30 years out with a class of people who have a lot of time o

this university has been built on tax dollars. three times as many dollars have been given by donations from institutions. the university of georgia is everything it is because of those who have given. you owe it to this university to give back. i have done it and you should do it. it is a great feeling. it is not a tuition you're paying. you are giving back what is been given to you. i love what will rogers said. a guy at the back of the room raised his hand and said you have known great artists and statesmen. tell us in one sentence what you think the secret to living a happy, successful, and filling life is. he said love people and use things. don't ever use people and love things. the fifth silent secret is faith. i am at a public institution that i know how far i can and cannot go. life is about success, but it is about trials and tribulations and it is about failure. you need to have an inner strength that and faith to carry you through. what got me through the losing years in politics and business was the faith i had and th

small colleges, and catholic universities and large schools like ohio state and the university of michigan at ann arbor. >> appearing on the list means that the schools are facing an investigation, not that laws have been broken. it came two days after greater transparentsy has been promised. >> no man has a right ever to raise his hand to a woman. it is assault if they do. >> the white house released a series of public service announcements as well. >> we have a big problem, we need your hech. >> it's called sexual assault. it has to stop. >> we have to stop it. >> if she doesn't consent, or if she can't consent. it's rape. it's assault. >> it's a crime, it's wrong. >> according to recent research cited by the white house one in five female college students is assaulted. president obama set up the white house task force to protect students from sexual assault earlier this year. the mandate is to strengthen enforcement efforts on the federal level and on campus. to provide tools to combat sexual violence. >> and joining us to talk about this is daniel carcillo, a cofounder of end rape on c

illustrous doesn't model the whole universe. all known space and matter is about 10 billion light years across and for the sake of time, these researchers build a coup that's 350 million light years across and only about 13 billion years of evolution. well, that's pretty lazy. right? well, no. it's that the cube is big enough to be representative of the rest of the universe. they can look at visible f phenomenon like the tours of gases and the disposition of dark matter, which is the unknown energy that supposedly binds the universe together. there is really no other way to watch these kinds of things in scale. we can't just step back and check them out. this simulation now gives researchers god-like powers in observation. small and detailed or enormous through gesturing. this gets to do both. >> that's what makes it hard to build. to generate the whole simulation, it required several months running inside a super computer that's 8,000 processors working on it simultaneously. compare that to a high-end gaming computer like the k

my papers were collected for a university library. these are the things that the librarian was getting and i snatched it away. future generations of graduate students can snicker at my political ideals or by love affairs but they cannot have this. this is my big secret. then it hit before years before i sat down and read it and transcribed it. my first thought was to imitate journal entries with some context so my children, my intended audience would know where we lived at the time for what was going on. with its rise from poverty to the middle-class suburbs and then declined in 20 alcoholism. so that in itself was a story but the central experience that the book hangs on. >> host: didn't have to do with the disillusionment of science? >> guest: i was never a disillusioned with science. i will admit i was not very good in the lab. i was not cut out for laboratory work. anybody here do it? i am too messy and to impatient. other people can do that. i will read about it. >> host: did you want to read a passage. >> guest: this is about th

get ortho®. >> i think the only real news is your graduation from this great university.impressed that your achie achievements attracted so much media attention. >> that was ousted executive editor of "the new york times" poking fun at the media circus that followed her to wake forest university. today's commencement address was the first time we heard publicly from jill abrams dzon herself. she gave the graduates a lesson in resilience yens. >> early last thursday my sister called me, she said i know dad would be as proud of you today as the day you became executive editor of "the new york times." i had been fired the previous day so i knew what she was trying to say. it meant more to our father to see us deal with the setback and try to bounce back than to watch how we handled our successes. she what you are made of, he would say. >> abe ramson's ouster sparked new debate about the role of women in the workplace and what they make when they make big jobs. author salzberger twice had to explain his decision when he again disputed claims about unequal pay. it doesn't help

from harvard university. a.b.a. from oxford university where she was a rhoades scholar.s been said many times, hails from hinton, west virginia. ms. burwell, welcome. thank you for your long career of public service. and your statement will be made a part of the record in its entirety. and the floor is yours. and i know you have some family and friends here. if you would like to introduce them, we would be more than receptive to recognize your family and your guests who are here. >> chairman harkin, ranking member alexander and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me here today. i'm honored that president obama has nominated me for secretary of health and human services and it's a privilege to be considered by this committee. with me today is my sister, my brother-in-law and two friends as well as my husband, steven. i want to thank senator mccain. [ applause ] >> i want to thank senator mccain and senator manchin for their kind words. and i'm honored to be introduced by such extraordinary public servants. i'm especially grateful for my husband, steven, and o

please, i'm begging you do not close this university.e need your support, okay, and the mayor's support to keep this 125-year-old building sustained and economically -- okay, i'm going to -- my name is sandra parker. my mother is alice parker. she lived here for three years now. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon. my name is eddy chung. my mother is also a resident of university ladies home. she's lived there 3-1/2 years. she likes it very much. most of -- all of her daily tasks are taken care of by the staff who are wonderful, exemplary people, but low-income people which represents the exact population that jane kim lippe who endowed university ladies home sought to protect, [speaker not understood] the staff is wonderful. however, the board seems to have operated independently and surprising residents and staff alike with the announcement they were going to close and that it what for financial reasons. but by throwing up their hands and saying nothing more can be done, they are [speaker not understood] the lives

outlined, the right way forward is not clear to many universities s.part of my frustration was along with the document didn't come a training dispute. we are trying but stumbling because we are not getting the guidance we need with expectations and regulations. >> what are we looking at? >> this is the promote i created together with my group. it was the first gallery that showcased, not anonymously. interesting the thing with this case is that this survivor's photo was targeted and vandalized. that photo is not here. >> what does it say that someone would deface. >> effectively it says keep quiet, know your place. >> annie and andrea believe sexual crimes are not underreported. every time i see zeros in a report it means that people are not reporting or the university is not giving accurate statistics. >> more guidelines are on the way, d u kating -- edute kating students about reporting sexual assaults. >> it's no longer training how not to be raped, but training mn and women about the issues related to sexual assault and teaching not to rape. that's

right now at my alma mater, brown university, a young man who was disciplined by the university for thepe and who was suspended for a year is now being allowed to attend the university alongside his accuser. as a result of the rape, the survivor says she was forced to take a medical leave of absence, telling the "brown daily herald," i lost my one semester of freedom, the same semester the rapist is allowed to come back and matriculate here at brown. at columbia, students filed complaints with the federal government, accusing systemic complaints of mishandling of sexual assault. one student wrote a letter, dear harvard, i am letting you know i give up. i will not longer receive e-mails from me, asking for something to be done, pleading for someone to hear me, my assailant will remain unpunished and life on this campus will continue its course as if nothing happened. we should also be pay attention to some of the most cherished liberal institutions who seem to be in the business of systemically mishandling sexual assault cases as well. joining me now, laura dunn, survivor of campus sexua

the university has a particularly responsibility here. we will take the students seriously. we will review these policies, ensure compliance and ensure fair and full investigation of these issues. our community should create a safe learning environment for everyone. however i think it's really important we put around all this a notion of education, a notion of what's acceptable behavior and what's not acceptable behavior and for people to understand there are significant consequence as a result of violating those protocols. >> is the administration of columbia support ef of the letters you signed as well? >> the administration has come out and said this is unacceptable behavior and not something that the university tolerates. really several messages along those lines. the faculty feel it's very important we support the students in their efertle and we'll continue to do that. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> a former minnesota state linebacker is fighting for his life last night. isaac colcalstad. looking for a second suspect. doctors are not optimistic

the university of illinois. our viewers can fine out more at cary-nelson.org. >> i also think, by the way, that once you've announced the speaker,ent withdrawing that invitation or honorarynounced an degree with a speaker, with drawing it is basically an act cowardice and i don't think that should happen. that has happened this year, and deplorable. really when a university doesn't have the courage to stay with its convictions, that's one of the worst things that can happen. it's also possible, in my view, to survive a demonstration at a talk.cement there's nothing wrong in my view demonstration,ed banners, chants, whatever, for 30 seconds or a minute. and then the people who engage in the demonstration sit down listen to the talk. so a lot of people feel that any unacceptable.is i actually think you can live with a demonstration, so long as are demonstrating accept the notion that they have on.et the speech go what is totally in conflict with academic freedom is if demonstrators try to prevent a speech from tak

world-class university. you are a force of nature. [applause] she even brought the sunshine today. there was no way it was going to rain on her last commencement. your groundbreaking efforts will leave an indelible mark on this campus for decades to come. thank you for your incredible service and best of luck in your next endeavor. i also want to acknowledge my life who is here today -- wife who is here today with our children. i want to thank my mom, fordfather, and my aunt being here today. she received her masters in psychology from ball state in 1992. i love you all. i stand before you as a u.s. congressman. i stand before you as someone who has lived a life like your own. i grew up in modest circumstances in greensburg, indiana. i worked my way through school to graduate from ball state -- wabash college. [laughter] in the late 1980's, i did not spend a lot of time here because ball state has girls and wabash is not. muncie working as a waiter. i had a lot of great memories of this campus. today i am go