members of the university community are invited, and only members of the university committee. our obligation is to educate. public university has a significant problem there. i would be deferential to the to make a to have tough judgment call, particularly in the case you are describing. which in the case are more real than i think a hopeful audience might think. i think that is a problem. i think particularly, in view of the divisions within this nation at this time, which are extraordinary, from my experience, i think we all have to protect the general welfare too. i appreciate free speech. those of us that run for office, run for office on the basis of being able to speak freely. thing tos another agitate. it is another thing to formant. it is another thing to attack. many of these speeches, it is one of the things a president would take into account, if a speaker is coming to campus for the purpose of agitating cases of speakers who post images of students on screens in order to intimidate or humiliate this didn't come a that has no place in a university. that is not an in

the university of chicago has adopted a policy that some of the universities have followed which i will put in the record that this policy prohibits university from suppressing speech that even most people on campus would find offensive or immoral and calls for counter speech rather than suppression of people who disagree with speech and while protecting protest expressly prohibits quote otherwise interfering the freedom of others to express views that they were jacked. finally it commits the university to protect that freedom on others attempt to restricted end of quote. we have a distinguished panel of guests that i welcome. senator feinstein. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. i'm going to put my remarks in the record and i'm just going to make a few reflections on some of your comments. i agree with some of what you said. i disagree with others. let's take a look at the first amendment. the first amendment says that congress shall make low -- no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press o

cohen is a graduate of the columbia university. and university of virginia. school of law. floyd abrams, senior counsel new york law firm of cahill gordon, wrangle and is leading first amendment litigator, he received his b.a. from cornell university. and his jd from yale law school. before you start to speak, zachary wood, two things i never gavel people down at the end of five minutes, but i hope when the red light goes on that you can sum up very quickly. also for my colleagues, we have two votes at 11:00 and it's going to be very necessary for us to keep the committee meeting going while we cast those two votes, so i hope people will take turns chairing while so we can keep the testimony and questions going. mr. wood, would you start? by the way your entire statement will be put in the record. your longer statement. >> madam ranking member and distinguished members of the committee. i am honored and privileged to have the opportunity to appear before you. my name is zach wood. i'm a senior and the president of uncomfortable learning at williams college. over the last tw

but in 2015 university of pennsylvania found with the university president's that came to reacting in basically doing puerto rico. that this does not reflect. but then two months prior to that incident happening. >>. >> is that important to say that these spaces are starting to address the needs? were just to remedy itself? but they come to the campus. >> so take it away kmele. >> with akio characterization's i am not defending the proposition. you are in quite frankly the most deeming evidence really is the survey data. with the 68 percent of those respondents of race relations on the campus and in another survey from the museum foundation they start -- the race relations on campus were good. a but there ribby a very significant problem to make this argument as they are hot styles basis with the expectation with some of these students which is a point in your favor of other campuses they don't see the problem which suggests that they will encounter these things. but for whatever reason that they may nazi these events happened but all of thesened. for to be addressed quite the contrar

american university happened twice in one year at american university. just happened a couple weeks ago. east tennessee state university had a guy, white guy, who decided to put a gorilla mask on his face and hand out bananas to students who are members of "black lives matter." it's not something -- oh, i almost forget about the confederate flag and the nooses that have been associated in terms of the pictures we have associated with fraternities, almost always happen on a regular basis. sometimes it's part of organized chapter events and we see this in social media but goes back to the 40s and 50s and 60s. get it out of your haven't campus racism is a new event. it's not new because we have social media. i saw campus racism issue inside newspapers, archives, yearbooks. one of the problems is that when we talk about campus racism we want to say that racism for all college campuses is wherever the other is. you want to say it's only in the south because the university of a.m., that's an easy place to stick it. but happens in missouri, yale, columbia, berk

top 10 private universities. top 25 public universities. on every single one of those campuses, every single one of them they have a chancellor of diversity of some sort. in fact, oftentimes there are multiple people who hold that title. they rule over the entire campus adjudicating various wrongs and making students feel one hopes safer. not only that, every single one of these campuses have an african-american studies program and an accredited one where you can get a degree, you can spend your entire time studying that. many have diversity credits you earn for taking classes on campus. that didn't exist when i was in school. but suffice it to say, there are significant investments being made in pursuit of this goal, and it's no surprise then this goal of creating diversity on campus. it's no surprise then since i believe the late 1970's, up until about 2015, the rate of - not the rate -- sorry -- the share of 18 to 25-year-old african-americans in postsecondary education has increased by almost 100%. twice the rate of white students. why

. >> we're here at the university of oregon campus. we're in the knight library in special collections and university archives and at the moment we're in the ken keezy classroom. he was an oregonian, he lived in springfield, oregon, and attended the university of oregon. he wrote two of the great american novels, one flew over the cuckoo's nest and sometimes a great notion. his papers are here at the university of oregon because he wanted his collection to be here. he felt that -- he was an oregonian, he had so many experiences here in oregon, and he felt it was the right thing for the collection to be here in his alma mater. today i wrought out a number of different examples of manuscripts that are included in the collection x that includes things like correspondence, his artwork. he was not just a writer, but also an artist. so we have examples of his artwork we have literary manuscripts in the collection, we have a diary that he kept when he was at the university which is a fabulous resource about what his experience was like when h

. >> we are at the university of oregon campus where in the night library, special collections and university archives and at the moment we are in the ken kesey classroom. ken kesey was an oregonian. he lived in springfield, oregon and attended university of oregon. he wrote two of the great american novels, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, his papers are at the university of oregon because he wanted his collection to be here. he felt he was an oregonian, so many experiences in oregon and he felt it was the right thing for the collection to be here in his alma mater. i brought a number of examples of manuscripts that are included in the collection and that includes things like correspondence. his artwork. he lives not just as a writer but an artist. we have examples of his artwork, literary manuscript in the collection. we have a diary he kept when he was an undergraduate at the university, which is a fabulous resource, what his experience was like at the university. because he was a student at the university we have the student yearbook and he is represented in the student yearbook, the oreg

, a nonsectarian university. stanford was successfully sued for having a speech code, for example. can universities turn the costs on controversial speakers onto students themselves? this has been something the universities have attempted pretty much every single year i've been at fire. this is an old strategy and it was addressed in a similar case called foresight v. nationalist movement. the supreme court said a mayor cannot just decide to charge a group that invites come that has a nationalist movement, more money, because they know the people, angry people show up. as the supreme court said in the case this would essentially empower bottle throwers. there's an incentive for people to respond violently, they're going to keep responding violently. does that mean in some cases universities have to shoulder a larger cost to controversial speakers to send a message that we are not going to tolerate violent response? because you can't. as soon as you make that effective and we've made that effective in california,

. >> from queens college, city university of new york. >> university of virginia. >> university of texas at austin. >> guatemala. >> unc charlotte. >> vanderbilt university. >> university of queensland, brisbane, australia. >> university of maryland. >> are you republican? >> no. and is and [applause] john: i'm in washington, d.c. this is e pce that could use a lesson in liberty. we'll try to give them one because, i'm surrounded by students here, more than a thousand of them who traveled to join a conference called, students for liberty. because here in washington life is dominated by democrats, who want to take away our economic liberty, republicans who often want to take away our pennal liberty. there are a couple exceptions to that. one is congressman justin amash from mesh ban. [cheers and applause] -- michigan. he is unusual because he has an economics degree. he worries a lot about america's coming bankruptcy. we are probably going bankrupt. how many of you students think, when you're my age medicare will be here to pay for your heart problem? >> no. john: you're wise, i'm sorry.

, a nonsectarian university. can universities turn the costs on controversial speakers onto students themselves? this has been something the universities have attempted pretty much every single year i've been at fire. this is an old strategy and it was addressed in a similar case called forsythe national movement with the supreme court said a mayor cannot just decide to charge a group that invites come that has a nice moment as a white nationalist group there more money because they know the people, angry people show up. as the supreme court said in the case this would essentially empower bottle throwers. people run piper with bottle throwers would not give a despicable. you had to take a bit of the systemic look because if you create a situation in which, there's an incentive for people to respond violently, they're going to keep responding violently picky base of the told a bully i'm going to stop you by giving you everything you want pics i guess, doesn't mean in some cases universities have to shoulder and la

university founded by jerry falwell in 1971. [applause] [applause] president trump: thank you very much, everybody. and congratulations to the class of 2017. that is some achievement. you have earned every minute of it. i am thrilled to be back at liberty university. i have been here, this is now my third time. and we love setting records, right? we always set records. we have to set records, we have no choice. it has been a little over a year since i have spoken on your beautiful campus. so much has changed. right here, the class of 2017, dressed in cap and gown, graduating to a totally brilliant future. here i am, standing before you as president of the united states. so, i am guessing there are some people here today who thought either one of those things, either one would really require major help from god. did we agree? we got it. [applause] but here we are, celebrating together, on this joyous occasion. there is no place in the world i would rather be to give my first commencement address as president than here with my won

that is also the story of liberty university. when i think about the visionary founder of this great institution, reverend jerry falwell senior, i can only imagine how excited he would be if he could see all of this and all of you today, and how proud he would be of his son and of his family. in just two days, we will mark the 10th anniversary of reverend falwell's passing. i used to love watching him on television. hearing him preach. he was a very special man. he would be so proud, not just of what you have achieved, but of the young men and women of character that you have all become. jerry, your dad is looking down on you right now and he is proud. he is very proud. congratulations. great job. [applause] president trump: reverend falwell's life is a testament to the power of faith to change the world. the inspiring legacy that we see all around us in this great stadium, this is a beautiful stadium. and it is packed. i am so happy about that. i said, how are you going to fill up a place like that? it is packed, jerry. [laughte

we're in the universe, we are part of the universe, and the universe is in us. and that is one of the most profound revelations of modern astrophysics that there ever is. of science. of science. and i'd like to... if you put together all the revelations of science, that we are biologically connected not only to each other but to all the life forms on the earth, that our molecules are the same molecules that we find in other plants, that this connectivity transforms, i think... i'd like to believe will transform how you view yourself. are you above and apart from everything, or are you a part of everything? because if you think you're above and apart from it, then what's to prevent you from just taking out the forests, and dominating all the creatures of the planet? >> hinojosa: and a lot of people do that, don't they? >> they do that because their ego sits high. but when you study the universe, the ego needs to take a different place. >> hinojosa: there's something else that happens, though. >> because we're not as... we're never as big as we ever thought we wer

, a nonsectarian university. ter alma mat stanford was successfully sued for having a speech code, for example. can universities turn the costs on controversial speakers onto students themselves? this has been something the universities have attempted pretty much every single year i've been at fire. this is an old strategy and it was addressed in a similar case, called foresight v. nationalist movement. i've been at fire. the supreme court said a mayor cannot just decide to charge a group that invites come that has a nationalist movement more money because they know angry people will show up. as the supreme court said in the case, this would essentially empower bottle throwers. bottleunpopular with throwers would not be able to speak anymore. if you grade a situation where there is an incentive for people to responding violently, they are going to keep responding violently. you basically tell the bullies, i'm going to stop you by giving you everything you want. does that mean in some cases universities have to sh

in religion in the public university. that is news. the berkeley center for the study of religion. you can google that. the programs are over for this academic year but they are coming back next year and will offer things that we can go to in various ways. gentlemen, now we know about your academic background. you are in confucian studies. where did you grow up. mark, let's start with you? >> i grew up in chicago. my father was a professor at the university of chicago that taught psychology and sociology. and i started learning about religion through -- kind of marxist sociological approaches to religion. and kind of critiques of religion. so history of religion and things like that. what was interesting about that was my father, despite the fact that he had this marxist plantation, was not really an anti- religious person. he grew up in rome. he was educated in classical -- latin and greek. i was brought up with this idea that religion is neither inherently good or inherently bad. that it was vital to understanding how t

to a 92% university. aren't universities part of the problem rather than a solution? >> well, there's an empirical question here and the data you suggest is very impressive. you know, i'm a little at a disadvantage because i spend most of my career at the university of chicago which on two counts is different from the picture you describe, one of it has been national leader and the administration, the university of chicago has done from my principal and coauthor and my friend jeff stone who is left of center is -- >> i think it play be fair i will say in your own scholarship show stability, continue. >> thank you for that. do i think that if any academic identifies himself or herself in a way that is very ideologically describable, they're not doing their job because it would be amazing if, you know, suppose you're a political scientists, if your views on 12 of the leading issues, on everyone lined up with one of our current political parties, that would be amazing in a bad way, yes? so i want to make one

it looks like universal basic income. you might argue it is dividends on an investment that the state holds collectively. that is what you see in alaska. to be clear, it is supported by a natural resource rather than taxation. host: in doing research to speak with you, i put it into a google search. 10 lines popped up. what is the deal? weiss and gaining steam? -- why isn't gaining steam? -- is it gaining steam? katherine: there is this idea of the robots are coming for jobs, and when they do, what happens to the money? one proposal is next income. it seems to solve that problem monthly. another reason is because welfare programs and their structures are controversial, and every step of the way there are so many partisan differences about these proposals, whereas basic income proposals are pretty trans-partisan. people all over find them appealing for their own reasons. have to argue that we could compromise in a way we are having compromising on other proposals. host: is there a case we can look to where it is working? k

education,g about universal education, universal massh care, universal public transportation which was also -- would also help climate control in all kinds of ways. these are some of this is very severely lacking for poor people, especially in the middle and rural areas of this country. and i think the proper couldment in these areas solve a lot of our economic problems. one, another thing we need is land reform. there is way too much land in the hands of way too few people. i could go on and on. i will let it go at that. thank you. host: interesting insight. but go to north carolina, jim on the independent line. caller: good morning, thank you. i would like to say the segment you had with a young lady was very well done. i liked her. and the discussion. but that is not why i called. i called about the enterprise debate or discussion. i was on disability from medications. i hate to say this because i ,ove the health care industry but the doctors that treated me, and they were close watching. everyone was close with medications. lot.s regulated a then i see all this happening. i don't s

the university of arizona was the first university to have ground control to run a mission, that was the phoenix mars mission which landed in mars in 2008 and now working on the second one, out there right now, it's headed for asteroid and it's going to bring back a sample. said your job is to interview the old-timers and capture their stories before they are gone and so one of the first people i talk to is whittaker and a dozen other people and by tend of the year, it was a year-long project and i went to mike and said, there are so many stories to capture. let me keep working on this. i did that for four years. i worked my way in undergraduate degree and i didn't know right away that it was going to be a book. it actually wasn't until michael passed away in 2011 that i sort of pulled all of that writing and i think i can turn into a story that would honor his vision that that was an important thing to capture. >> that turn intoed under desert sky. what are you doing in tucson now? >> i live up in flag staff now. i'm a science writer. i didn't know i was going to be a science writer

is it true that around these universities like stanford, university of oklahoma, university of kansas, tennessee, missouri grow complexes of industries who are attracted by the research and who as a result create jobs around these centers of research? >> that's absolutely true. if you look at the geography of where those places have sprung up, it is very much attached oftentimes to a university that is a generator of a lot of ideas and critical mass. >> is it also true that china is making an extraordinary investment in new research even though they have one fourth our gross domestic product they may exceed us soon in the amount of total funding for research and that as a result a number of the chinese scholars that our graduate schools and universities are being attracted back home? >> that is also true. recent paper published pointed out that in 2000 china spent 12% of what the u.s. does on biomedical research. by 2015 it was 75%. but spendable dollars on track to surpass us in the next three or four years. >> one of the more hair-brained recommendations in the budget that came up t

quote her comments do not reflect the values or position of the university.ome students told me they understood the school's decisi decision. >> yes, she has a right to say it. wary free country. you can. but no, she shouldn't have. like she knows where she works. she knows that she work with students and stuff and she -- most people would know consequence boss come with. >> reporter: u of d parted ways with her after she posted to her personal facebook page that college student otto warmbier quote got exactly what he deserved. warmbier died last monday after serving harsh imprison in north korea for an alleged act of vandalism while touring that country. detweiler went on to link the dead student to quote the clue less white males who quote lee tighe teenly get away with raping women. on campus monday we met 31-year-old james catalano back in college after a decade out of school. he says he had detweiler for an anthropology course in the spring. and claimed she often added her political and other opinions to the facts of her lectures. >> i agreed with her bu

university .r him by putting his name on a couple of buildings. we talk a lot about him. they ask that we take the name of woodrow wilson off the school and a residential college. we convened a trustee committee that considered that issue. we had what was not only a discussion, but communitywide discussion that involved a lot of alumni input. we are going to keep that name on both the college and the school of public international affairs, but we are going to change the way we talk about woodrow wilson in particular and our history more generally to recognize both his serious flaws , and moreue of race generally, aspects of our history we need to own up to but have not talked enough about. david: is it fair to say that woodrow wilson was a racist? chris: i would say that about him, david. one of the things that i learned in the course of those discussions was that woodrow resegregated federal several service. -- civil service. certainly, he was a man operating in different times then we live in to

the university responded to her comments on friday saying in part that the university of delaware valuescivility so we are tonight committed to global education and stud a broad. therefore we find those comments distressing and inconsistent with our values. our sympathies are with the warmbier families. detwiler has not spoken out since her firing or powe but we do understand now she will not aloud back on campus, alex and thomas. >> we will contact an attorney too to see how, remember with drexel there was a professor who had comments that had people upset but that professor stayed on. >> it happened twice. it raises the question on your personal facebook page it doesn't make a difference. in this case not so much. >> personal became public. >> yes. >> that is the issue. >> police in new jersey are transforming their personal smart phones into body cameras the new jersey city police department is first in the nation to test a new smart allows officers to turn their every day cell phones into body cameras. officers can strap the phone on to their chest and hit a button to start recording

behind me is the hayward field, home to the university of oregon's track and field team as we continue to look at the city's unique history, we learn about bill bowerman, inventor and cofounder of nike, his connection to this famous track and the impact on the running community. jennifer: the fitness and running culture here is one that is very well known in that that culture of jogging, running, and fitness really began here, particularly in the 1960's and 1970's, and then with the creation of nike here, it became this mecca for people coming to both, and run here at the university, but also to be in this space, this place, and get a sense of why that is so important, what does that mean to be connected to a place that has such importance for fitness and running and health. one of the most well-known track coaches here at the university of oregon, known here locally, but nationally and internationally, as well as very well known as someone who followingople jogging, running, and often well known as one of the founders of nike. came to the university of oregon to coach football in 1947

university, and virginia university of lynchburg. i point out that the nation's first elected african-american governor, douglas l. wilder, was a graduate of virginia union university. since the program was first authorized in 198 -- 1988, as mr. cook said, over 60 million in grants will help restore structures on these campuses. 2/3 has been leveraged for matching funds to maximumize the impact of taxpayer dollars. there is still a loft work that remains to be done at all 107 hbcu's. for this zation long overdude. i would like to thank my esteemed colleague from south carolina, mr. clyburn, for all his hard work to bring this issue to the attention of congress. with that, mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia reserves. the gentleman from california. i would like to thank my esteemed colleague from south carolina, mr. mr. cook: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia. mr. beyer: mr. speaker, i'd like to yield as much time as he may consume to the di

he has earned his phd at the university of georgia where he studied under john ensco. he published his master's thesis, which is unheard of, entitled "executing daniel bright: grace, loyalty and guerrilla violence and coastal carolina." in receipt the 2009 jewels and francis landry award for the best book in seven studies. university published his dissertation, a book entitled "rebel against the confederacy, north carolina's unionist." he is the next rotondaro aware fair. he has an edited warfare with brian mcknight and daniel sutherland entitled "the guerrilla hunters: irregular conflicts during the civil war." 2017, you are not going to speak on guerrilla warfare. after all this, he does more than that and i asked him to speak about robert e. lee. robert e. lee on the front lines of battle. let us welcome barton myers. [applause] mr. myers: i want to thank dr. carmichael for letting me speak about one of the greatest battlefield commanders and one of her most controversial american historical figures, robert edward lee of virginia. for the last five years i have been

>> first at the university of north carolina at chapel hill, then at city university of new york. the technology of the 1980s meant that one was spending more time in front of the microfilm machine rather than accessing old publications digitally on the web. brian lamb where else have you taught and where are you teaching now? >> i'm presently a professor of law and history at the university of pittsburgh law school. before we moved to pittsburgh, we were in cambridge, england for six years at the university of cambridge. a wonderful place. so i've had the privilege of being able to live in britain as well. >> i know you say in your book that you spent eight hours with barrack obama off the record. what can you tell us about those eight hours? where did it happen? and what did you see up close? and when did it start that you talked, started talking to him? >> my first visit to see barack in person was april of 2016, probably an hour and 20 minutes or so in the oval office. after that, i offered to let him read the manuscript, typescript manuscript of the whole first 10 chapters of

we have still not heard back from the university.hat is the latest from here in new castle gray hall channel6 "action news". >> and they are off. members of delaware law enforcement ran with the official torch of the summer special olympics last leg through wilmington today. the games are getting under way at the university of delaware. the run helps raise money to support the special olympics. delaware law enforcement has raised more than $6 million so far. >>> a philadelphia teenager was again honored for his heroism today. 17-year-old rudy edwards ran into his burning home in overbrook to rescue his one-year-old nephew from a fire. that was late last month. this afternoon mayor jim kenney and the fire commissioner adam thiel recognized edwards for his bravery and held a celebration at the fireman's hall museum in olde city. >>> coming up on "action news" tonight we'll ride along with matt o'donnell in some exotic cars and we'll hear how you can get a closeup view for a good cause this weekend. >>> and the eagles take a field trip

itayer university. let's get it, america. fans of carrie fisher say she died from suffered from heart dise fisher suffered a medical emergency on an international flight back in september. she died september 27th. her mother debbie reynolds died the following day. >>> a special good-bye for a bus driver on the last day of school in montgomery county. melvin spent 20 years behind the wheel of the school bus and n and the com main thing i try to tell the drivers is, remr thing, you were once a kid yourself. and you know how it is, so just treat them like you want to be treated. love them, that's all. >> well, he said he's looking forward to now sleeping in during his retirement. and i have a little bit of a correction from the last time. so i said that he bought flowers for his mom along the route, he buys flowers for moms along his route, the moms of kids. >> even better. and probably his mom, too. >> yes. >> how wonderful. >> great job. >>> time right now is 10:12. we'll take you outside to the front lawn of the studios in no

universities are established for that. by the way, -- >> tucker: what i have to stop it because i figured out the rhetorical trick you are using, it took me a while, you using the term resident which is different from citizen. a resident is just somebody who happens to be somewhere at a moment. i can be a resident of one of cyrus on vacation. >> julissa: to be completely clear about what i'm saying is that in order to be a resident in california to pay in-state tuition at the institution to have to live in california for three years or more and you have to have graduated from california school. by the way, that system is subsidized by taxpayers. undocumented people. >> tucker: on the way. >> julissa: undocumented people in california pay $3 billion every year in taxes. >> tucker: and take much more than that it services, which you know. if you want to have a math argument with me i will win on that, i can promise you. i want to have up very quickly philosophical question, do you think there is a meaningful difference betwe

that works like nothing else. >> you mention the importance of universities and the world class universities that we have is a great asset to the country. there are two elements of universities today that i personally find very dismaying. one is the emphasis on political culture. pc. and even administrators providing bubble rooms, for example. i wonder if you could comment on that. and the second situation is i found it dismaying to watch c-span in which there were two african-american professors and two feminist professors both in well known universities who were talking about the irrelevance of the constitution. since they were not blacks and women were not part of the decision making at the time. i was wondering if you could comment on that as well. >> very easy question, wouldn't you say? >> it is appalling. it is very disserving and unsettling and i personally in this too simplified response and may indicate i don't understand the actual workings of a modern universities day and life of decision. when that happens, it is a lack of leadership on the part of whoever is running the univers

as you know, nobody in this country for 20 or 30 years has been told that they have to have universalealthcare has been told that they have to have universal healthca re paid has been told that they have to have universal healthcare paid separately in order to qualify if they haven‘t worked for five years. what we have now is this term, i don‘t know if it is new, settled status. this term is settled status. if i understand it rightly, i am sure you are looking at your circumstances. if you dated back five years, march 2019, dated back five years, march 2019, dated back five years to march 2014, does it mean... did you arrive before that point? i arrived before 2014 foot all. the thing is most of us have arrived at some point in time -- 2014 have arrived at some point in time —— 2014 for sure. mrs may isn‘t talking about living in this country. she is talking about legally residing. the other circumstances you have to have a

in universities.o be a subject level assessment said i'm sure people will pay attention then. later it will be linked to tuition fees that universities can charge and i'm sure thatis universities can charge and i'm sure that is when people will really pay attention. around 30 boys at a devon school have worn skirts to lessons in protest at not being allowed to put on shorts in the recent heatwave. students at isca academy in exeter complained of "sweltering" temperatures earlier in the week. they say they were jokingly told to wear regulation skirts instead, which sparked the idea for the protest. here's simon hall. the uniform policy is strict at isca college and this protest took full advantage. when the boys complained about not being allowed to wear shorts in the recent heatwave, they were told, perhaps humorously, wear regulation skirts instead so today, around 30 did. because five people did it yesterday, so then everyone was like, if everyone else does it, then they can't stop anyone else doing

is this was a university in california.side from harry truman and john adams how many other presidents have you interviewed? [laughter] well there may not be many books in president trump library but the name and this big letters. but that leads me to second question as historian, what specific steps could andrew jackson have taken to prevent the civil war? [applause] [laughter] >> we can go all nights -- >> if we're not going to stick on question withs on that. i don't have anymore. >> you could be interviewing douglas tonight. [laughter] >> oh, my -- oh, my -- [laughter] can you believe it? [laughter] really it's -- it's wow. i'm, i want to restore our recognition of who we are and why we are the way we are, and what we stand for. and i -- i think more and more that as important as grade school, high school, college, university, advance degrees afl that is an essential that maybe is as important as anybody is how we're brought up as home. how were we raised to behave about telling the truth, for example? for treating peop

carnegie mellon university has prepared you for a life of purpose and meaning. and there are people and moments you will never forget. including, i understand, the spring carnival, which includes what i gather are some pretty amazing amusement park rides, booths, and buggy races. to bagpipe thing, which the school has made into an art form and my personal favorite, the band without pants. a tradition unique to carnegie mellon and i am confident to say, one you are unlikely to encounter in your first full-time job. you are graduating at a moment of great challenge for our nation, when our country will decide on matters having to do not look just commerce but conscience. not just with what we will gain but what we will give. powerst with our military , but with our deepest ideals. this is hardly the most difficult moment in american history. i believe you can safely argue that the civil war, two world wars, and the great depression have us beat by a long shot. you are a blessed generation in so many ways with opportunities unimaginable to past generations, and gra

theou please ask universities, especially state universities, how much they would lose in funding. how much they contribute to their own administrative facility funding or the money you give them, and whether it would be -- there would be more or less research as a result of this policy. in your report, and if it is appropriate, let us know about that, as well. i hope we can knit this idea in p this idea in the blood, and i hope it is just in there to stir up conversation, but it is a thoroughly awful idea. bad policy. it would not do what i know the president wants to do, create more american jobs, not fewer. more research, not less. this policy would be less. my time is up, but if you want a constructive way to get more money out of in, look at the national academies -- may a take 60 seconds? the national academies have done to report that says more than 40% of a researchers time is spent on administrative tasks. my guess is most of those came from the office of management budget, too. if you want to reduce some of those administrative tasks and free up more money for research gr

and transformed it into a great research university. we honor him by putting his name on a couple of buildings and talk a lot about him. protest ask that we take the time woodrow wilson off the school of public and international affairs and also off a residential college. we convened a trustee committee to consider the issue. we had whatnot only was a campus-wide discussion but community discussion that involved a lot of alumni input that came out of it and said we'll keep the name on the college and the school of public international affairs but we'll change the way we talk about woodrow wilson in general to recognize his serious flaws on the issue of race and more generally aspects of our history we need to own up to but haven't talked about. >> glor: would it be fair to say woodrow wilson, whatever his strength, was a racist? >> i would say that. others may characterize it differently, but one of the things i learned in the course of those discussions was that woodrow wilson resegregated the federal civil service after taking office