file american -- final years of manpower articipation hosted by after tet the military war at university of kansas>> i would like to welcome back.ody i'm the executive director of eaarmy center and i would bailey and k beth hosting this great event and historical r colleagues at the u.s. army for their ms center ongoing collaboration in this nd other events around the vietnam 50th anniversary. the army has more than 500 professionalsseum bestrchive eists who do their to ensure that the historical perspective and critical thinking skills generated by a

a growing number of colleges and universities allow concealed firearms to be carried on campus. nic nikki battiste paid a visit to one such school, the university of kansas>> this is a smith & wesson 40. >> is it loaded? >> no. >> but you have it on you when you're on campus? >> i angle it up a little bit. >> reporter: you have to keep it conce concealed? >> yeah. >> reporter: what looks like a college student and a professor, gearing up for battle, is really their preparation for glass. >> how are you guys doing? good, good. >> reporter: you can carry in any classroom? >> yeah. >> reporter: university of kansas city victori s't waintil on campus.legal age tory she took thiscealarry class to prepare. why do you want to be armed on campus? >> women often fallimon campus, assaults. i felt it was upon me to protect myself. >> reporter: kansas is one of ten skates that allows university students to carry concealed firearms. 16 states ban campus carry and 23 leave the decision to each college or university. do you think allowing campus carry is a way to prevent mass shootings if a shooter comes on campus? >> i think it is a deterrent. putting guns in the happ

titled manpower and by theafter tet, hosted center for military, war and social studies at the university of kansas to welcome everybody back. my name is charles malory. on the executive director of the u.s. army center for military history in washington. i would like to thank beth bailey and the ku center for military, war and society studies for hosting this great event today as well as thanks to our historical colleagues at the u.s. army combined arms center in fort leavenworth, kansas for their collaboration in this and other events surrounding the vietnam 50th anniversary. the army has more than 500 historians, museum professionals and archivists who do their best to ensure the historical perspective and critical thinking skills generated by a study of hry

manpower and morale after tet, hosted by the center for military, war, and society studies at the university of kansaspplause] we will begin our discussion on morale, and to make this up, we are having this

of kansas city right now. we will keep you updated on damage from lawrence, kansas with the university of kansas is located west of kansas city. a messy situation with numerous tornadoes reported right now. >>> in southern california before -year-old boy recovering after being attacked by a mountain lion. happened yesterday afternoon in san diego county. the boy with the group of about a dozen people in the attack happened. witnesses say the boy's father kicks the animal in the throat and threw a rock to scared way. the child taken to the hospital with non- life-threatening injuries. wildlife officials later went back to catch the animal. >> while they were at the scene the mountain lion came to the location about 7:00 at night. at that point in time the animal was euthanized. >> officials tracking the mountain lion say the animal approached them and it was not afraid of humans. as he said it had to be euthanized. >>> san francisco fire crews is the jaws of life to rescue a man in a nasty crash. van had a smashup with the gray mini cooper on sale #2 80. the vehicles collided on and off from. fire crews pulled o

osage county is to the west and southwest of kansas. university of kansas is not far from this damage. notice the trees. some of the trees do not have one leaf left on them. it comes through and leaves the center of the tree. all of the leaves are completely blown off. in this case, that is a roof blown off. we have significant tornado damage for a 13th consecutive day in the midwest. tonight, it is the kansas city metro. >>> we have more breaking news, the fire crews put the damper on an early season grass fire in alameda county. chopper 5 flew over a fire , the burnt 2-3 acres. it got named the canyon fire. they used dozers to cut off the spread of it. despite the wet winter, experts predict an active fire season. >>> near tragedy at a school pool party, a boy was pulled unconscious from the water. >>> it was a close call. andrea is alive at the water park where it happened.>> reporter: this could have ended so much worse had it not been from the quick actions of one lifeguard. they remembered the skills they were top performing cpr and bringing

of weeks. there were 19 tornado reports. we have maybe one in northern new jersey, too. we'll get confirmation later today. the big one is out here, just missed north kansas where universityf kansas is, and it moved south of town and lifted and got weaker. the kansas city motor speedway on the west side of kansas city. it actually reformed on the other side of kansas city. it's amazing when you see pictures from linwood area, you see a foundation no home. you wonder where the home was. at one point, they had debris falling from the sky, five to ten miles away from where that tornado hit. so what are we going to do today? unfortunately, it looks like we'll do it all over again. 84 million at risk of these storms today. it's almost a repeat of yesterday. a little bit shifted to the east, a little bit shifted to the south. pennsylvania, northern virginia, washington, d.c., baltimore, philadelphia, new york city. of course, this area back to the west here from ft. smith, arkansas, to tulsa, to little rock. that's we've had kerry sanders out there standing in the arkansas river for the last few days. it's pouring there this morning. a little more ryain in pennsylvania. look at

beth bailey is the distinguished professor at the university of kansas. ofman camp is a professor psychiatry at virginia commonwealth university medical center. is a professor at george mason university and gary solis is a professor of law at georgetown university. >> hello, everyone. want to say how pleased i am to be included in the proceedings today. this is a special subject for me. i am honored to be amongst all the distinguished historians speaking and attending. i was really an accidental historian. i didn't set out to be one, didn't want to be one, but it came to pass. pleased. in 2015 the army surgeon general's office published my yearswhich represent 35 on death -- off and on to put together the pieces i could find alluding to the morale and mental health, and i will say crisis we ended up with in vietnam and i hope to illustrate that today. here is the book if anybody wants to look at it. all the references to what i'm going to put up here are in the book. areve some cards if you interested that have the website to the army surgeon general's off

she holds a juris doctorate degree university of kansas mba rockhurst university master of laws taxationnew york university and ambassadors degree in journalism university of kansas. finally ms. dudley senior vice president of global retirement and compensation policy for the american benefits council. she directs ms. dudley i should say directs the councils advocacy efforts regarding efforts regarding retirement and compensation policy, defined benefit, defined contribution plans and executive and nonqualified deferred compensation. she also coordinates the councils efforts to outreach in the international arena including benefit passport information serious prior to joining the council. she was a legal consultant for employee benefits systems in birmingham alabama. after earning her undergraduate degree at vanderbilt university lynn -- i'm sorry this is what it says. received her lm llm in taxation from florida university 1983 and a law degree from cumberland school of law stanford university 1982. thank you all for joining us. we will go left to right. >> thank you chairman and rankin

manpower and morale after tet, hosted by the center for military, war, and society studies at the university of kansas. [applause] we will begin our discussion on morale, and to make this up, we are having this time -- at this time, series of short presentations and talks by re-participants, -- by three participants and then there will be questions. is third participant jacqueline witts, the associate professor of strategy at the u.s. army war college, she tried to leap from harrisburg yesterday morning on a 7:00 a.m. flight and it turned out that the earliest she would be able to get in was 2:00 a.m. into kansas city yesterday. andhe is not here with us we have marjorie go lely, a graduate student here from military history and she will read jackie's paper. the questions will only be the other two participants, marjorie will not try to answer questions for jackie though show though i'm sure she could do a lovely job -- though i'm sure she could do a lovely job. the speakers of our second session, we begin with william donnelly, a senior historian for the u.s. army center military history and we are f

by a team of european and african scientists the project is led by professor john from the university of kansas way in germany the team has come up with a new system green use west water in order to cut costs while boosting efficiency. one develop a system for the market it's called research aquaculture so this is the. makes you soft hundred percent water reuse recycle so it's mentally very friendly because there's no water going through and there's no nothing spoiling the environment and we make use of renewable energy in order to reduce c o two footprint. in the tunnel on the side of the lake it's already in place the water is filtered using what's known as membrane bio reactor technology. in uganda has been using recycled water for the last eighteen months the used water is pumped into a tunnel from there it flows into this busines which contains toms and sun that help clean the water. now wants to use recycled water to have big bones too. so we already have a system and it has proved to be very efficient for us using that same water would maintain the same temperatures because that's also v

manpower and morale after tet, hosted by the center for military, war and society studies at the university of kansas. >> i wanted to start by setting .he stage we hold this manpower morale t.ter te and that suggests titling it manpower and morale after tet rather than in vietnam, that something changed. after the 1968 tet offensive, the media documented a growing ofsis, frequent stories malays, desertion, drug use, combat refusal, conflicts, andlenges to authority reports of scandals and atrocities, the most infamous of which was the meal i massacre. lai massacre. so and thinking about what happened after the tet offensive, we are thinking about things were different before 1968. as we thought -- as we talk , i thought itt would give you a picture of pre- tet. the most common claim that original -- that originated within the military and circulated through the press is that in vietnam the united states had fielded the best -trained, best-equipped, best-disciplined force in its history, a force of very high morale. general mel watt -- general west moreland speaking in 1966, their performance is excee

of an all-day conference hosted by the center for military, war, and society studies at the university of kansas. about an hour. ,> this is the final before the keynote address. it is the second section looking at the ways in which the leaders mission and attempt to confront the christ is that most of us have -- the crisis that most of us agreed have occurred. thisl be moderating sitting next to me is richard hunt, who has written a biography. it, is the world expert on the creation of the all volunteer force. mittelstaedtfer who has written military welfare state book. there is no way i have that much data as moderator. i will do my best. the questions i circulated,, i found myself in it because premise of this panel to my mind is somewhat tested. i think that everyone of us eating here -- every one of us alling up here that we waited to an all volunteer force, but it ties to military leaders to manage the columns of manpower and morale in vietnam. presumption is that we and the question by sitting here. i would argue that suggested link is misleading and fruitful. i measure with the rest of th

to have worked with marie ross, her colleague, who was the first black woman to attend the university of kansas school of journalism. i can remember working with these women -- i see someone nodding their head in the audience, because you remember -- i remember working with these women, and the remember the stories they would tell me about the press days and the struggles they had. none of them had a lot of money, but they were humble. and i think that is one of the things we learn also from dunagan about her humility, about her steadfastness, despite all the doors slamming, people telling her, no, you don't belong here, she knew that she did and she kept going. importantthink most is that she left her legacy through her writing. writing is fighting. we did something with the students of russellville school, because they didn't know about her. we had lessons in kentucky to teach people about alice dunnigan. one of the students coined a phrase that she says, she used her pan as a weapon -- her pen as a weapon. that is what she did. she was able to do a lot with that pen. thank you very much. [ap

this study from the university of kansas that shows people who buy into conspiracy theories are moreikely to be prone to in action. if you buy into conspiracy theories about climate change you are less likely to reduce your carbon footprint. if you think the elections are rigged you are less likely to vote. one thing conspiracy theories do is make ordinary people feel like there's nothing i can do, no one i can trust, no way for me to figure out what is addictively factually true so i might as well not bother and that is very effective for people who want to remain in power. >> host: not everyone who heard the pizzagate conspiracy theory picked up a machine gun and charged into the door and fired off a few rounds that hearing about things like pizzagate, climate change is a hoax, other things, this is the way to paralyze decision-making in the population. >> guest: makes you very mad and powerless. >> host: conspiracy theories are for losers, what do you mean by that? >> guest: that is a line from two professors from florida who have the best books about what we know about who believ

ruff holds a juris doctorate degree, university of kansas, mba rockhurst university, maste of law taxation, new york university and bachelors degree in journalism university ofnew kansas.urnali finally, ms. lynn dudley, senior vice president of global retirement and compensation policy for the american benefits console.americ ms. dudley directs the consoles advocacy efforts regarding efforts, regarding retirement and compensation policy defined benefit and defined contribution plans, and executive and nonqualified deferred compensation. she also coordinates the consuls efforts to outreach and international arena, includinge benefit, passport, informational sseries. prior to joining thes console, she was a legal consultant for sungard employee benefit systems in birmingham, alabama. after earning her undergraduate degree at vanderbilt university, then recede -- or, i'm sorry,,a this is what it says. received her ll m indexationhe from florida university 1983 and law degree from cumberland school of law samford universitr 1982. thank you all for joining us. part out. we would go from left to

manpower and morale after tet, hosted by the center for military, war and society studies at the university of kansas i wanted to start by setting .he stage we hold this manpower morale t.ter te and that suggests titling it manpower and morale after tet rather than in vietnam, that something changed. after the 1968 tet offensive, the media documented a growing ofsis, frequent stories malays, desertion, drug use, combat refusal, conflicts, challenges to

of an all-day conference hosted by the center for military, war, and society studies at the university of kansas. >> it is my pleasure and honor to introduce our keynote speaker, dr. e casey wardynski. assumed this position in mid-january of this year. his responsibilities include supervising manpower, personnel, and the department of the arctic it is the principal advisor for for training, readiness, localization, military affairs, equal opportunity, and marketing among others, which makes it striking that he has found time to come and talk to us today. we are very grateful for that. is a 1980 graduate at the military academy. he holds a master of public policy from harvard university. a phd in policy announcement from graduate school. year army career, he served as a special weapons officer in germany, the united states, and korea. he spent 10 years as an associate professor at west point where he was the director of the u.s. army's office of economic and manpower announcement, advising senior army leaders on talent management, marketing. my favorite piece of -- a keyion is recruiting tool for

manpower articipation hosted by after tet the military war at university of kansas. >> i would like to welcome back.ody i'm the executive director of eaarmy center and i would bailey and k beth hosting this great event and historical r colleagues at the u.s. army for their ms center ongoing collaboration in this nd other events around the vietnam 50th anniversary. the army has more than 500 professionalsseum bestrchive eists who do their to ensure that the historical perspective and critical hinking skills generated by a study of history are leveraged the african-american a learning organization, did army a learning organization. t has the capability that results in a more effective fort force and i'm honored to serve community's advocate at department of arm headquarters level. afternoon in our session. this morning we had a great discussion about the problems of morale in the post-tet every force in vietnam. we will build on that and talk which the armyin and nation's military leadership rappled with these issues in terms of manpower and force management. we will introduce our panel

>> that you are a university of kansas jayhawk? >> no. i'm not. i hail from alabama. but i could support the jayhawks. >> i thought somebody had told me -- >> rock chalk jayhawk i know that much. >> i am the jayhawk. >> ku about the time my daughter went through ku. we'll just -- i was going to express my tremendous condolences to ku for not winning their 14th or 15th straight conference championship. i can't remember what school did that. some school out west. obviously all of that doesn't make any sense since you did not go to the university. sorry. given the track record that esops have of creating wealth for their participants do you think creating the number would be one way to help american workers grow their retirement savings? >> absolutely. i'm a firm believer that employer stock can be beneficial to employees, not only in helping them engage in the plan and build retirement savings, but also it gives them a stake in the employer and allows them to grow with the employer, so i think it's a very useful tool. with the right parameters around it i think it works

stan dpord the other day, the administrators smeared an invited speaker, we saw this at university of missouri kansaslly assaulted and the chancellor blamed me for being invited and gave in to the hecklers and sen store sensors . the problem is admin tray tif blot and the way that we fight it is we can go in there, cut the salaries and get the useless deans of inclusion and diversity and deputy deans and assistant deans, get them out of there and get back to educating generations of americans. >> there's a job for everything now. you mentioned good on taylor university. i agree with you. and they put a statement out that i deeply appreciated saying, we're grateful that the vice president would visit our campus and help us celebrate the accomplishment os f our class of 2019. it's important to pay attention to the universities that don't back down and cave to the mob and the increasing universities that are going to allow diversity of commencement speakers and diversity of thought. we're a university and somewhere in here we have to ak nomg and respect this is supposed to be a place where diversity of

think that would be an opportunity to add to that >> there are a lot of stocks in that universe, chipotle, ford, gm, constellation, kansas city southern, union pacific. >> i bought some of the canopy recently look, i think, like, one of the things that is most frustrating about this business but it's the life blood of performance or it's the reason why we're all here, is that you could be, like, dead right on a stock and have a great idea and have everything lined up fundamentally and then this insane tweet comes out and it wrecks the chart of the stock that you wanted to buy and you have to have, like, the fortitude to be able to distinguish between this is a market issue versus this is an issue with my company. and then even further, you have to understand the difference between the climate and the weather. so, the climate right now is a good climate for business. it's a good climate for growth, for publicly traded companies, for investing in equity. it's a good climate. >> i disagree. >> but it's bad weather today. it's been bad weather for a few weeks and it could get worse and being able to distinguish between those

draft selection corey ballantine is out of hospital after being shot to name his university in kansas just hours after being chosen to play for the new york giants the cornerback anti made join simmons worth fired at near the campus in the early hours of sunday simmons was killed in the shooting valentine is expected to attend the giants rookie training camp this week but it's not yet clear when he'll be able to take part in football activities the most successful road cycling team of the past decade has begun its new era team sky is no more than our team any os with last year's tour de france champ thomas leading the rebrand at the tour of rome and the on choose day that he won six little titles in nine years but even their riders couldn't stop young traffic of the bahrain merida team winning the prologue time trial in switzerland thomas came home in fifth place. very different scenes in morocco where the titan desert mountain bike race was canceled on tuesday after the death of spanish rider finance. he suffered cardiac arrest during monday's second stage riders paid their respects

central oklahoma including the university of oklahoma are closed this morning due to the threat of severe weather. dozens of tornadoes carved a path of destruction across kansasska, and texas over the weekend. look at that home in oklahoma city. it was struck by lightning. two other homes in oklahoma fla flattened by a twister. 50 million americans under a threat of severe weather today. >> a "new york times" report says president trump may be ready to pardon several soldiers convicted or accused of war crimes. why would he do that? john avlon has our reality check. >> war crimes like executing surrendered soldiers are so reviled they are even a thing in westeros. >> in the name of the one true queen daenerys targaryen i sentence you to die. these men are prisoners. it is not over until they are defeated. >> they're on their knees. >> meanwhile president trump is considering pardoning several servicemen convicted or accused of war crimes according to u.s. officials who spoke to the "new york times." there are reports of murders including a young girl up to the desecration of a body of a taliban fighter. a navy s.e.a.l. accused allegedly bragged over text mess

kansas. most people were shocked at the arrogance or the insensitivity or the tone deafness of that statement. >> now you live in lawrence, kansas. universitytown. maybe a little more and liberal. were you offended by that comment? >> i was. i'm from her role western kansas - - rural. >> what do you do in lawrence, patrick? >> i work in kansas city. i am a tax attorney. >> one of the ways in which we assess candidates, uses as our filter. what do they really believe? we spend a lot of time trying to figure that out. candidates are so scripted much of the town but some candidates. there are exceptions. when we find a contemporaneous utterance, which tend to teach it as having special evidentiary value. when candidate obama talks about clinging to your guns and religion. candidate romney talks about the 47 percent who wouldn't support a republican anyway. when hillary clinton dismisses half of candidate trump supporters as a basket of deplorable. those are moments that become strong indictments by the other side because of our tendency to think, that's what they must believe because they said in private. one way to ask what the effect is is h

a native of both kansas and my home state of north carolina, clinton first came to capitol hill in 1993 after earning an urban planning degree and law degree from university of north carolina at chapel hill. i don't agree with his choice of university, he's a fine and upstanding human being who has had a fantastic career on the hill. he served under seven different full committee chairmen on the financial services committee, eight republican housing subcommittee chairman and ranking members, and helped draft some of the most important housing bills in this generation. including equality housing and responsibility act of 1998. the bigger waters flood insurance form modernization act of 2012. he's taught prelaw at howard university for over 20 years. as a single father to a wonderful 15-year-old son and great student, clinton the fourth, we hate to see you go, but we thank you for your service not just to this institution but to the american people. we cherish your friendship, the knowledge you have imparted. with that i ask my colleagues to give a moment of recognition to clinton jones. ield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewo

of the kansas -- the rest of the campus. this area remains the same it thein 1876 with construction of a large barn as it was in stanford today before the university -- in stanford's day before the university was constructed. leland jr. would have grown up -- he was born very late in life. he would have wound up owning this property. his death in 1884 after a visit to asia minor and europe caused leland and his wife to dedicate the property and their fortune to the education of california's children. now the education of students from all over. >> stanford university founder leland stanford was a lighted governor of california in 18 safety to i would later serve -- in 1862 and would serve in the senate until 1893. mr. stanford made his fortune during california's gold rush and was instrumental in building the first transcontinental railroad. we visited stanford university to view items for longing to leland and his wife, jane. >> i pulled a few items relating to the history of stanford university starting with the founder. papers,eland stanford we have several letters during his career as a student, as a lawyer, and eventually, kind of as a busine

lot of exposure to this tariff threat kansas city southern and union pacific shares both down 16% of kansas city southern revenue could be impacted according to citi research in trucking. universalcs and warner enterprises both do a lot of that cross-border business and probably because of china tariffs trucking rates have fallen by 18% over last year analysts say mexico tariffs would accelerate those declines and possibly put some smaller companies out of business. sara, back over to you >> frank holland, thank you. wilf, you've been looking at the impact on the banks, not having a great day. but not the worst performing sector >> not the worst performing but selling off once again let's dive into citigroup as an example because that has the highest foreign exposure they've got 21% of revenue in asia we'll come back to that. 14% in latin america about 8% of that is mexico or 6% in terms of their net income bann bannermex in mexico. exposure to the northern geographic region of mexico. one analyst i spoke to said citi's mexican revenue had been growing at 7% in their model per year if these tariffs come through they say that will only grow -- won't grow anymore, will be flat, bu

of this huge tornado in kansas on the ground. you could see it was inside the range. a helicopter pilot said it was a mile wide, barely missing the university of kentucky. town s destroyed. houses off their foundation. you can see, nothing to rebuild there. you have to start from scratch. amazingly, only injuries, no fatalities. pennsylvania was hit hard, too. look at this. we're looking straight up into the air at a tornado. that's debris that had actually been picked up near morgantown. we had hail reports, too, in pennsylvania. at one point last night, new york city, staten island was under a tornado warning. large hail reported there. let's get into what we're going to deal with today. we still have a chance of flash flooding. pittsburgh to philadelphia included. poor people here by the arkansas river, tulsa to fort smith, they'll have torrential rain later today. dallas is getting into it. severe weather risk, 84 million people from pittsburgh, d.c., baltimore to st. louis, dallas. maybe a few strong tornadoes in oklahoma and arkansas. i want to give the timing in the northeast of the storms. we're fine throughout the morning. this aft

of an all-day conference hosted by the center for military, war and society studies at the university of kansaspleasure and honor to introduce our keynote speaker, dr. e. casey wardynski. he is the assistant secretary of the army for manpower and reserve affairs. dr. wardynski assumed this position in mid-january of this year. his responsibilities include supervising manpower, personnel, and reserve component affairs for the department of the army. advisor for the secretary for he is the principaladvisor for the secretary for training,

of an all-day conference hosted by the center for military, war, and society studies at the university of kansas my pleasure and honor to introduce our keynote speaker, dr. e casey wardynski. assumed this position in mid-january of this year. his responsibilities include supervising manpower, personnel, and the department of the arctic i