wisconsin. during the 1960's, it was the site of many anti-vietnam protests at the university of wisconsin at madison. hosted by our charter cable recently c-span staff visited many sites showcasing the city's history. learn more about madison all weekend here on american history tv. the personality of madison is a fascinating thing to study. historians look at cities the same way that biographers look at people. when i looked at madison, i wanted to know, what are the qualities of the city? toorder to do that, you have study the whole city, and you have to learn what the essence of the city is and how it developed and why. out of that process, i came to some interesting conclusions. they begin with key facts. 's leaderse, madison have always thought of themselves as living in a very special place. tighte that requires regulations to control the quality of the environment. because it is special, many leaders have been quite visionary in the way they have viewed the city. those kinds of qualities lead to certain characteristics. number one, madison is a very special place. the second quality is that w

wisconsin idea. madison had many ways to grow. it could be a city of business, it already was a home of the university of wisconsin. it was the capital of the state. therefore, it's legislative center. one of the real questions about madison was what shall it become? one of them was to be a very wonderful northern resort where people would come here in the summertime from places like st. louis an new orleansd and enjoy the beautiful lakes and the cool weather. that was one option. another option was we could also have factories here. and that was a fight starter question. if you wanted to get discussion going in madison, then you throughout the idea of turning madison into a factory city. this was one of the very few places in the country where that particular feature was vehemently rejected because most leaders at that time, the 19th, early 20th century, felt very strongly that it was very important to keep madison beautiful. this did not mean that they would not be interested in business. they wanted business, but they wanted something they called high grade factories. people who would come here with skills,, wor

wisconsin idea. madison had many ways to grow. it could be a city of business, it already was a home of the university of wisconsin. it was the capital of the state. therefore, it's legislative center. one of the real questions about madison was what shall it become? one of them was to be a very wonderful northern resort where people would come here in the summertime from places like st. louis and new orleans and enjoy the beautiful lakes and the cool weather. that was one option. another option was we could also have factories here. and that was a fight starter question. if you wanted to get discussion going in madison, then you throughout the idea of turning madison into a factory city. this was one of the very few places in the country where that particular feature was vehemently rejected because most of the civic leaders at that time, the 19th, early 20th century, felt very strongly that it was very important to keep madison beautiful. this did not mean that they would not be interested in business. they wanted business, but they wanted something they called high grade factories. people who, would come here wit

it was one thing to get started on the campuses, university of wisconsin, columbia university, in a burst of california berkeley -- university of california berkeley. but you could not stop there. you had to use it as a basis to reach the rest of the population. we knew that from the beginning. the movement grew very slowly through the balance of 1965 and 1966 to the beginning of 1967. to our good fortune, the movement began to accelerate in the spring of 1960's seven. we sent many busloads of people to the big national antiwar demonstration at the you in building in new york city. from madison. in 1967, an event happened on campus about a mile that way that would have important ramifications for the antiwar movement. >> ♪ almost started a period unlike any other in american history were every week something would change. we had come off the summer of love. the climate was changing. vietnam was becoming more intense. the civil rights movement have moved through much of the sludge of the moment. completelypuses were embroiled in what was going on in the world. in october, dow chemical comp

annual conference of the society of american indians that took place here on the campus of the university of wisconsin, madison. because it seems that this conference at the time started a relationship between the university and the tribes of wisconsin. shortly after this conference, the university began to reach out to the american indian community in the state of wisconsin sending its researchers, sending other personnel and we get the beginnings of a research relationship. i think it's time we look back on that 100 year history and look forward to the next 100 years of the relationship. >> throughout the weekend, american history tv is featuring madison, wisconsin. our cities doorstep traveled there to learn about its rich history. learn more about madison and other stops on c-span's cities tour at www.c-span.org/local content. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> this thanksgiving week, c-span is featuring interviews from retiring members of congress. watch the interviews monday through thursday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> everything has become so that to, w

fourth annual of the society of american indians that took place here on the campus of the university of wisconsin madison. it seems that this conference at the time started a relationship between the university and the tribes of wisconsin. conference,r this the university began to reach out to the american indian ofmunities in the state wisconsin, sending researchers and other personnel. we get the beginnings of a research relationship. i think it is time that we look back on that history and look forward to the next 100 years of the relationship. american history tv is featuring wisconsin's madison.ital, the city was named for james madison, and many streets surrounding the capital square are named after other signers of the constitution. posted by our charter cable partners, c-span staff recently visited many sites showcasing the city's history. learn more about madison all weekend here on american history tv. we are standing on observatory hill on the campus of the university of wisconsin madison. effigy moundstwo on campus. madison is lucky. it has more effigy mounds than any other campus in

they would get paid more money, they could buy houses, and they would send their kids to the university of wisconsin. that was not the image that many people have the so-called grimy worker who works in steel mills in that type of industry. the formative years in madison set a pattern that is even evident today. we'veattern was, look, got a very special place. we need to keep it special. that idea has run all through madison's history. it has caused an interesting phenomenon. people have come to the fore at key junctions -- junctures and madison history to say, we need to take the road less traveled. we need to take the difficult road. we need visionary ideas. we need to try to achieve them. these are the kinds of things that all flow from that fundamental perception that madison was special, and we need to do everything we can to keep it that way. >> all weekend long, american history tv is featuring madison, wisconsin. raised in wisconsin, architect frank lloyd writes contributions to the madison skyline include the unitarian meetinghouse. our charter cable partners worked with c-span staff when w

the next 90 minutes we will explore this capital city surrounded by water and home to the university of wisconsin badgers. ♪ >> coming up we will visit a world war i exit at the university of wisconsin madison, talk with local lawyers about the city's history and collective bargaining process that took place in 2011. [shouting] >> governor scott walker introduced the budget repair bill in which he tried to fill a gap in the budget and at the same time proposed an end to collective bargaining for public employees in the state of wisconsin. >> we start our feature with a look at madison, architect frank lloyd wright as weakened travel to his studio outside the city to learn about his personal and professional life. >> we're sitting in the first studio of frank russell lloyd wright, b was first built in 1911 and destroyed in 1914, rebuilt in 1915, destroyed in 1925 and rebuilt, this is a close third persian of taliesin any has a story to tell. the first was an architectural solution to a personal problem which was how he and his lover could live together out of the eyes of the chicago press, and enj

. >> reporter: laura was a student at university wisconsin madison. two men left the fraternity to head to the next party. she thought she was safe, because they were fellow students, fellow rowers, friends of friends. >> they started to walk me the wrong way. i remember saying "that's not the direction of the party." they said "we are stopping by the apartment, it's fine." i was stumbling, i had a few more shots that they had given me before i left. i was leaning on one. we were trying to walk. as ceyse. i fell face first on the stairs, and they picked me up and carried me up. >> reporter: alcohol is the fuel in 50% of sexual assaults, including rape, according to a study by the national institute of alcohol abuse. the victim or the perpetrator or both are drinking, intensifying behaviours and risks. >> it's almost like it wasn't happening to my body. and at 1.1 of them got on top of me and started pressing himself into me. and i remember putting my hands up and saying "no, i'm a virgin, please stop." >> reporter: the attack destroyed laura's sense o

. >> we are at the ninth memorial library, special collection the university of wisconsin madison middleof an exhibit called 1914 -- "world war i 1914: then came armageddon" to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the outbreak of the work by highlighting the collection the university of wisconsin madison as well as the wisconsin historical society at different artifacts related to not only wisconsin's role of the war, but also what was happening in each combatant country when the conflict began in the summer of 1914. the war broke out in the summer of 1914 after the archduke and heir to the hungarian throne was assassinated in theory a vote by a member of the serbian military group called the black hand whose goal was to bring all served together in one country independent of hungarian control. after the assassination of the heir to the throne about austria put pressure on serbia to allow them to connect in assassination austria acquiesced on all of serbia acquiesced on all of austria's demand except that austria was able to use their own police and serbian territory. this led to a st

recognition of the anniversary of the conference that took place during the campus of the university of wisconsin-madison, because it seems that this conference at the time started a relationship between the university and the tribes of wisconsin. shortly after this conference, the university began to reach out to the american indian community in wisconsin, sending researchers and personnel and again a research relationship -- it isnk the time time that we looked back on that 100-year history and look forward to the next 100 years. throughout the weekend, c-span3 is featuring madison, wisconsin. learn more about medicine and other stops on c-span's city tours -- learn about madison and other stops on c-span's city tours on c-span3. >> each week, american history tv brings you archival films that help to tell the story of the 20th century. on behalf of the people of the united states, i am pleased to be here and accept the precious gift of the pandas

wisconsin historical society where we house our museum collections. going to look at artifacts related to the sterling hall bombing of 1970. darling hall is the physics department on the university of wisconsin campus in madison. it housed the physics department and the mathematics research center in 1970. it was a think tank for the army and was created around 1967 to find ways to improve access to the enemy and in this case, it was the vietnam war enemy. also to be more efficient and killed more people than they were at war. the madison campus was very much in an uproar at the time over the vietnam war in general and they tended to focus a lot of their hate -- not hate, but their uncomfortableness and anger at the army mathematics research center. they felt there were creating theons to destroy not only enemy being soldiers, vietnam war soldiers, but also civilians. i felt this was not a good approach to the war, but these are mathematicians sitting around trying to figure out how ratios, but they did not think of themselves so much as creating weaponry. itre was an attempt to bomb in 1970. it was the largest mystic terrorism incident until oklahoma city in the united states.

recognition of the anniversary of the conference that took place during the campus of the university of wisconsin-madison, because it seems that this conference at the time started a relationship between the university and the tribes of wisconsin. shortly after this conference, the university began to reach out to the american indian communities in the state of wisconsin, sending researchers and personnel and again a -- and we get the beginnings of a research relationship. and i think it is time that we looked back on that 100-year history and look forward to the next 100-year relationship. >> throughout the weekend, american history tv is featuring madison, wisconsin. visited tour staff learn more about its rich history. learn more about madison another /localat www.c-span.org content. you're watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3.

wisconsin. you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> we are standing on observatory hill on the campus of the university of wisconsin two of the effigy mounds on campus. madison is very lucky. it has more effigy mounds than any other city in the united dates. approaching chamberlain rock, which is a glacial erratic that was moved to the top of the hill from the lakeshore just a short distance below us, and coming up on the wing tip of a bird effigy mound built here around 1000 years ago. are difficult to photograph. they are quite shy. every time they see a camera, they sink down into the earth and hide themselves. they are not very spectacular earthworks, but they are special. the body comes down the hill towards the lakeshore, and then the other thing is just out of sight on the other side of the body of the mound. body is extending down the slope toward the lake in front of us, and the wings extend off to each side as if it is flying up toward the hill. a kinduld be considered of tombstone. really, they mark the graves of the dead and are carved in the shape of animals and spirits, just as sometimes

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> we are the special collections at the university of wisconsin in madison and in 1914 that goal of the exhibit is to commemorate the 100 year anniversary to highlight the collection of the university library system as well as the historical society with artifacts related to not only wisconsins role in the war but what was happening in each country when the conflict began in 1914. war broke out summer of 1914 and a hang gary and was assassinated and by a serbian whose goal was to bring all served together in one country independent of sunbury and control after the assassination to the air of the throne austria put pressure on serbia to give them -- allow them to have an investigation and austria are actually serbia acquiesced meet to use their own police in the serbian territory. when they mobilized against syria that they would help defend the serbs in germany asked them to mobilize and russia would not back down in there was a cascading effect in support of russia and britain declares war. >> that is the strength of the holdings of the universit

wisconsin. you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> we are standing on observatory hill on the campus of the university of wisconsin two of the effigy mounds on campus. madison is very lucky. it has more effigy mounds than any other city in the united dates.

she's a graduate of cornell and harvard law school and has a masters degree from the university of wisconsinrofessor at the university of maryland school of law. professor gibson is the author of a book that i hope many of you have purchased and will read, and it's called "young thurgood." a wonderful biography of justice marshall's years growing up here in baltimore and beginning to practice law here. professor gibson himself grew up in baltimore, attended howard university as an under graduate, then earned his law degree from columbia. the first african-american law professor at the university of virginia before accepting a faculty position here in maryland. he's been engaged in many civic activities in maryland and served for a time in the u.s. justice department as associate deputy attorney general and director of the national economic crimes project. to my far right is my colleague here at the university of baltimore school of law, jose anderson. jose is one of our finest professors. has taught here since 1989. teaches criminal law, criminal procedure and trial practice. before joining

it is home to the university of wisconsin and is the state's capital city.ith the help of our charter cable partners, over the next two hours, we will look at the history of the city named after our fourth president, james madison. learn about the protests that pitted city police again student activist during vietnam. >> i was about halfway down the corridor. all i know was in a matter of what seemed seconds, all the people in front of me disappeared. as we slowly backed out because there was a narrow staircase behind us, i was now at the front of the crowd with four or five police officers approaching. they grabbed me and beat me. effigyt two of madison's mounds built by native americans thousands of years ago to honor the dead. >> these can be considered a kind of tombstone. they mark the graves of the dead and are carved in the shapes of just asand spirits, sometimes you see modern headstones carved in the shapes of urns or other architectural things. the campus has more mounds than any other place in the world that i am aware of. >> explore the man consi

it seems that this conference at the time started a relationship between the university and the tribes of wisconsin. shortly after this conference, the university began to reach out to the american indian communities in the state of wisconsin, sending researchers and other personnel. we get the beginnings of a research relationship. i think it is time that we look back on that history and look forward to the next 100 years of the relationship. >> american history tv is featuring wisconsin's state capital, madison. learn more about madison and other stops on our city store at www.c-span.org/localcontent. you're watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. >> president gerald r ford pardoned former president richard nixon. up next, john logie and jill wine-banks recall the events up to the pardon. this was at the gerald r. ford presidential museum. this event is one hour and 10 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, hank. along with our audience here at the beautiful gerald r. ford presidential museum in grand rapids, i would also like to welcome our c-span audience to this event.

according to the university of wisconsin milwaukee, the under 25 regular users showed cognitive declinemory, even a lower iw. >> people on both sides of this debate actually come down on the same side of this issue. >> jamie spencer is legal counsel for texas normal the national organization for the reform of marijuana laws. >> of course, children shouldn't have access to marijuana. >> brain imaging studies of the regular users between the ages of 16 and 19 revealed abnormalities in the part of the brain associated with intelligence. >> it's potentially possible because the brain has not fully matured at that age. whether it occurs, at what doses, how potent the dose is would make a difference. >> the apa research suggests marijuana is likely more dangerous presently because some forms have higher levels of thc. the major psycho active chemical ingredient. >> if you leave it in the black-market you have no control over that. if you regulate it, you can make sure that thc content in marijuana is essentially all the same. >> some experts worry the younger users are much more vulnerable to

we asked one of the nation's best-known labor economists, university of wisconsin professor jack barbashchange. the adversarial interest was pushed too far at the expense of this narrow community of interests. and what we're seeing now, from a broad analytical standpoint, is some enlargement of that area of common interest, like profit sharing, like worker involvement, like quality of work like employee ownership, illustrating the basic principle of cooperative relationships. a business-as-usual wage increase and price hike could have sunk chrysler. but government loan guarantees, the uaw's agreement to temporary pay-cuts, and chrysler's willingness to give the union unprecedented access to management's top councils kept chrysler going. they had discovered that staying afloat could sometimes force two old antagonists to take the same tack. we asked richard gill what accounts for the trend away from confrontation and toward cooperation. the change is quite dramatic. the central fact is that union membership as a percentage of the american labor force, has been declining for 30 years. the

houses, and they would send their kids to the university of wisconsin. that was not the image that many people had of the so-called grimy worker who worked in steel mills and that type of industry. the formative years in madison set a pattern that is evident even today. and that pattern was, look, we have got a very special place here. we need to keep it special. run all through madison history. it is caused a very interesting phenomena. for people, civic leaders, who have come to the fore at key junctures of history, to say, look, we need to take a road less travel. we need higher standards. we need visionary ideas. and we need to try to achieve them. these are the kinds of things that all flowed from that fundamental perception that special, and we need to do everything we can to keep it that way. >> throughout the weekend, american history tv is featuring madison, wisconsin. our cities tour staff recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. learn more aboutm and other stops on c-span's cities tour at c-span.org/local content. you are watch

partners, but the next 90 minutes will explore the capital city surrounded by water and the university of wisconsin badgers. ♪ >> we will not run. [inaudible] >> governor scott kerr introduced the budget repair bill and what she was trying to fill a gap in the budget and at the same time he proposed collective bargaining for public employees in the state of wisconsin. >> first, we featured madison native and architect frank lloyd wright as we travel to his studio just inside the city. to learn about his personal and professional life. >> we are sitting in the first studio of frank loyd wright. his home was first built in 1911 and destroyed in 1914, rebuilt in 1915, destroyed in 1925 and rebuilt it misses the third version and each version has a story to tell. the first is an architectural solution to a personal problem and that the one that was how frank lloyd wright and his lover could return from europe in 1911 and live together out of the prying eyes of the chicago press and live unobtrusively and enjoy their life together because they weren't married to each other. they hope to be, but they cou

then, an instructor at the university of wisconsin examines the role of monitoring federal elections, and as always, we take your calls, and we would join your conversation on facebook and twitter. it is live on c-span. >> throughout campaign 2014, c-span has brought you more than 130 candidate debates from across the country in races that will determine control of the next congress, and this next tuesday night, watch the live election night coverage to see who wins, loses, and which party will control the house and senate. our coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern, and you'll also see candidate's victory and concession speeches in some of the most closely watched. we went to hear from you with your calls, facebook comments, and tweets. election night coverage on c-span. >> wednesday in the british house of commons, prime minister david cameron took questions aboutd miller band immigration reviews. -ther questions focused on u.k. european union relations and british troops coming home from afghanistan. this is 35 minutes. >> order. less chance to the prime minister. the primens to mini

wright, long structure at the university of wisconsin, talks about the justice department's role in monitoring federal elections. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. coming up next, british prime minister six questions in the house of commons. senator rand paul and president obama in philadelphia. an event on the democratic and republican campaign strategies in the 2014 midterm campaigns. wednesday in the british house of commons, minister david cameron took questions from ed miliband about immigration reviews. other questions focused on u.k.-european union relations and british troops coming home from afghanistan. this is 35 minutes. >> order. questions to the prime minister. >> number one, mr. speaker. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this morning, i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings today. >> ian lucas. >> as i walked to parliament this morning passing increasing numbers of people who are sleeping on victoria street pavement

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department has a role that and joining us from madison, wisconsin is steven who served in the justice department in 2007 to 2010 and a instructor at the universityf wisconsin. mr. wright let's begin with why department ce elections. watching >> sure. so part of the mission of the is to ent of justice ensure that citizens have equal access to the polls. has passed a series of act and the voting rights and the help america vote act all designed to ensure that individuals have a full to participate in our elections. enforcing part of that, the department monitors elections in order to ensure state and local jurisdictions are complying with constitution.n the >> how does the justice department do that? >> sure. the department has two different programs that helps election day.s on the first is the federal program. it was created in 1965 as a part of the voting rights act. congress wanted to give the general special tools o confront the widespread discrimination particularly in the south. a select s identified number of jurisdictions where send torney general could in poll observers. most importantly without the jurisdiction.the and o, sections three

briefly at they university of wisconsin before he decided to take off and find his fortune in chicago. he decided he should come out to this part of the country, which is where her family, the lloyd jones is, and spent his summers here. he's been his teenage summers in this valley. that is where he got two things. he got his love of nature and his understanding of nature. he also got his understanding of the typography of these hills. >> watch all of our events from madison, today at 2 p.m. eastern on c-span3. he served as chief justice of the supreme court from 1836 until his death in 1864. majoritydelivered the opinion in the dred scott case. -- talks about him and how it was shaped in a changing political landscape reading up to the civil war. the supreme court historical society hosted this event. it is a little under one hour. [applause] >> thank you very much, mr. goldman. historians like me because every respectable law faculty has a legal historian on it but how important they are depends on how much you think the history behind the constitution or any other statute depends up

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a graduate of cornell and harvard law school and has a masters degree from the university of wisconsin. to my immediate right, larry gibson is distinguished professor at the university of maryland school of law. professor gibson is the author of a book that i hope many of you have purchased and will read and it's called "young thurgood." a wonderful biography of justice marshall's years growing up here in baltimore and beginning to practice law here. professor gibson himself grew up in baltimore, attended howard university as under graduate, then earned his law degree from l columbia. the first african-american law professor at the university of virginia before accepting a faculty position here in maryland. he's been engaged in many civic activities in maryland and served for a time in the u.s. justice department as u.s. deputy attorney general and director of the national economic crimes project. to my far right is my colleague here at the university of baltimore school of law, jose anderson. jose is one of our finest professors. has taught here since 1989. teaches criminal law, crimi

then, an instructor at the university of wisconsin examines the role of monitoring federal elections,nd as always, we take your calls, and we would join your conversation on facebook and twitter. it is live on c-span. >> throughout campaign 2014, c-span has brought you more than 130

. >> the event registered on the richter scale at the university of wisconsin milwaukee and actuallympact they noticed on their seismograph there's. >> the terrifying accident is caught on camera by an employee of the occupational safety and health administration, a federal agency charged with setting and enforcing workplace safety standards. osha inspector pat ostrenga is on site that day for a scheduled visit. seconds before the collapse, his colleagues begin recording the crane, not for work but for pleasure. >> we were videoing it just to see, and it turned out to be the best evidence we have. >> ironworker jeff kasinski is watching the lift from a man basket, a bucket suspended from a crane inside the stadium. >> you don't go to work expecting, you know -- you don't expect to see one of the most catastrophic construction accidents we've ever had. >> the retractible roof is the showpiece of the ballpark, but lifting it into place isn't easy. it weighs 400 tons. >> you may as well be lifting the world. that's a lot of iron to be lifting at one shot. >> the crane, nicknamed big blu

. >> reporter: a sociology researcher at university of wisconsin has studied for years.ules the existence is there for large high tech companies to operate. >> it is a flexible labor regime. most of the time they are placing skilled people with the needy firms in the u.s. >> reporter: as for workers he says he just wants a fair playing field for all courageous enough to pursue their american dreams. how wide spread is this? >> it is all over the country. i can't say a specific state where it is not happening. it is across the country. >> reporter: who is at fault here? experts say current federal law as it is designed allows for this abuse by some companies and those experts want congress and the u.s. labor department to change those rules before more people get trapped in a body shop. you can read more about all of this plus find a link to the center for investigative reportings article on our website. just go to nbcbayarea.com. >>> much more ahead on today in the bay. coming up our friends are here. i will introduce you to tony who is ready for his forever home. - ( he

wright, long structure at the university of wisconsin, talks about the justice department's role in monitoringeral elections. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington

and then steven wright, from the university of wisconsin law discuss his role in several elections. we will take your calls and look for your comments on facebook and twitter. liveington journal" is every day beginning at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> monday night on "the ," the author and former technical advisor under president obama. >> if there is one message from the book to take away is it even though the state is characterized by handshakes and handoffs, it speaks to your question as to who should do what. handshakes are what washington has been doing lately. .aybe behind the curtain shaking hands on the key principles of the state. opening up data, encouraging collaborative standards, issuing challenges and so forth. the opportunity to have a more open government starts with that foundation. what is critical in that state is that you are handing off to the american people, entrepreneurs and innovators on the local level, to take that moreata and develop interesting products and services. >> monday night, 8 p.m. eastern on "c-span2." >> in south carolina, lindsey is running fo

madison, spent his teenage years there and attended some of -- very briefly a few years at the university of wisconsin before he decided to take off and find his fortune in chicago. decided he should come out to this part of the country which is where her family was, the lloyd-jones. welsh pioneers. and spent his summers here. so he spent his teenage summers in this valley and on these hills. and that's where he got two things. he got his love of nature and his understanding of nature, and he also got his understanding of the topography of these hills. >> watch all of our events from madison saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's booktv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 on american history tv on c-span3. >>> the carnegie endowment for humanitarian --. this panel looks at the rise of extremists and the return to authoritarian rule following the arab awakening. it's 90 minutes. >> good morning. i'm catherine wilkins, deputy director of the middle east program here at the carnegie endowment. i want to welcome you all to this all-day conference this morning. the topic is isis and the shifting geopolitical dynam

he points to a university of wisconsin study of suspected rors of concussions in high schools and determineshere was no connection between concussion and model and age of football helmets high school players use. >> we know that the things that cause a concussion in a particular circumstance in most cases are not related to the helmet performance. they're related to the other circumstances, other variables. the health of the player. prior injury history. how well the helmet fits. >> reporter: oliver also tells us the reconditioning process helmets go through each year is rigorous. >> all the pads are taken out. the face mask is removed. and the helmets are examined for cracks, splits, other things that might disqualify it from being used. >> reporter: reconditioning and recertifying a one-star helmet does what? >> from my point of view, doesn't do anything. you know, an old design, if it's cleaned up, is still an old design. >> reporter: upper darby school district tells us they'll keep the vsr4s for next season, as they continue to transition to higher rated helmets. >> they're still in our

briefly at they university of wisconsin before he decided to take off and find his fortune in chicago. he decided he should come out to this part of the country, which is where her family, the lloyd jones is, and spent his summers here. he's been his teenage summers in this valley. that is where he got two things. he got his love of nature and his understanding of nature. he also got his understanding of the typography of these hills. >> watch all of our events from madison, today at 2 p.m. eastern on c-span3. he served as chief justice of the supreme court from

aneesh aneesh, a sociology researcher at the university of wisconsin milwaukee has studied h-1b visas aneesh says as long as consulting firms play by the rules, their existence is critical for large high-tech companies to operate efficiently. >> it's a very flexible kind of labor regime much of the time they are placing very skilled people with the needy firms in the u.s. >> reporter: as for workers like rajeesh, he says he just wants a fair playing field for all courageous enough to pursue their american dreams. how widespread is this? >> it's all over the country. i can't list a specific state where it's not happening. it's across the country. >> reporter: so who is at fault here? experts say current federal law as it's designed allows for this abuse by some companies. and those experts want congress and the u.s. labor department to change those rules before more people get trapped in a body shop. you can read more about all of this. plus find a link to the center for investigative reporting's article on our website, just go to nbcbayarea.com. i'm stephen stock, nbc bay area news. >

prior to that, he held a doctoral fellowship and taught at the university of wisconsin, administration. yell, the university of pennsylvania, and texas amm. at texas a&m, he was the 52 professor at the bush school and director of programming for the institute for teaching and mentorship. amm, he received a silver star award for teaching and membership committee distinguished teaching award from the association of former and the university system chancellor's teaching excellence award. the numerous articles and books he has written and edited, cold war at 30,000 feet 1/8 prize. -- won a prize. of thet recipient norwegian nobel institute senior fellowship. he is currently writing "when the world seemed new. should george h.w. bush, a surprisingly peaceful were. >> thank you very much and thank you to the society for inviting me to speak any particular, for organizing this. it is great c-span is here. many more people can join us in our discussion today in our homes. the people here have an advantage. doesty wisely gave me tea free drinks before they start listening to me. hopefully, that

wisconsin on c-span cities tour. all of madison's history's offering in one block, including the protests in the 1960's at the university of wisconsin. the mayor participated in one of the protests -- of violent clash between police and protesters. >> october, 1967 was often to as the dow demonstration. been at the l has -- had been at the university to recruit. they came back and they were notorious as the manufacture of napalm. so we planted today demonstration. we planned a two day demonstration. be first day was going to an informational picket, then the second day was going to be citizen involving civil disobedience in the hallway of the commerce building, now known as ingram hall, where the dow recruiter was located. on the le gathered the famous l -- baskin hill -- and started sitting down inside, spelling. inside the -- became a building. it freedom movement, a freedom of speech, because the students who wanted to get the get to see couldn't the dow people there. the campus was pretty divided -- >> madison, wisconsin the subject of the programming. not only on "american history but also "book tv". joining us now

wisconsin. he earned his bachelor's degree from the university of wisconsin whitewater. worked as a committee staffer in the wisconsin legislature, before moving to warmer climates, earning a law degree from the university of miami. after several clerkships he practiced corporate law, ran unsuccessfully for the wisconsin senate, and in 2007 was elected chairman of the wisconsin republican party, the youngest person ever to hold that job. in 2009 he became general counsel of the republican national committee and in january of 2011 became r.n.c. chair. he was re-elected in january of 2013. the chairman and his wife, ally, have two young children. now on to the ritual recitation of ground rules. as always, we're on the record. please, no live blogging or tweeting no, filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway to actually listen to what our guest says. there's no embargo when the session ends. to help you resist that relentless selfie urge, we will email several pictures of the session as soon as the breakfast ends. if you like to ask a question, please do the tradit

founded as a newspaper at the university of wisconsin in 1988 and is now completely digital and has branchedut into youtube channels. they own the av club. more for your thanks giving turkey than you did one year ago. turkey production is down more than 3%. the industry is still recovering from the record high cost of feed grain during a drought two years ago. some good news. themry stores often sell convince customers to buy other items like cranberry sauce. new threats of government shutdown. peter cook is in washington. >> you just heard the president say he is to move forward with his immigration exec of action. he did not list a timeline. but republicans are bracing for something as soon as next week. there is a split right now among republicans. conservatives led by ted cruz pushing for the gop to block or inund any executive action the spending bill. democrats and the white house would never accept that. that raises the prospect for a government shutdown. john weiner is warning the immigration trigger -- john boehner is warning obama to not pull the immigration trigger. >> this is exa