The probe centers on whether Trump used military aid and other inducements as leverage to press Ukraine to open investigations into a political rival Democrats are aiming for a final House vote before the Christmas recess that would likely set the stage for a Senate trial in January Windsor Johnston n.p.r. News Washington President Trump plans to declare Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations came as welcome news to members of the northern Mexican community impacted by a recent massacre but some are worried about the implications from the frontiers desk an air must see 0 earth he would house from member station has more family members of the 3 women and 6 children killed in November 4th ambushes in rural Sonora recently put together a White House petition urging that designation organizers of the drive celebrated trumps announcement and see it as an important tool in the fight against organized crime in Mexico but others are concerned it could undermine an ongoing bi national investigation which the f.b.i. Is assisting with what gets me near. The walk just you know walk right now. Work well work well that's Matthew Langford who sister was killed in the attack he says he trusts u.s. And Mexican authorities to bring justice and doesn't think they need any new labels to do that for n.p.r. News I'm Murphy Woodhouse Wall Street is closed today in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday You're listening to n.p.r. . Looks like the winds are cooperating in New York City the iconic balloons of the annual Macy's Day Thanksgiving Parade have been taken out of the netting and they will fly in the parade at low altitude their flight had been in doubt as a strong with storm winds hits the area. The New York Supreme Court judge has denied a number of motions filed by lawyers for former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein as N.P.R.'s Rose Freedman reports his lawyers were trying to have parts of that case thrown out Harvey Weinstein is charged with various felony sex offenses relating to 2 different women Weinstein's lawyers had tried to get some of the charges dismissed in pretrial motions they tried to prevent an expert witness from testifying about sexual assault and rape trauma they tried to have a detective's personnel file turned over and they tried to elicit testimony from an expert witness about quote human memory in a 12 page decision the judge denied each of these motions at one point writing quote the defendant's argument is factually and legally flawed Harvey Weinstein's trial is expected to begin in January rose Friedman n.p.r. News New York South Korea says the North fired 2 and an identified projectiles its 13th test so far this year a brief statement by South Korea's joint chiefs of staff says there were they were launched in eastern direction but had no further information including where they landed this comes 3 days after Pyongyang said its troops performed artillery drills near the disputed sea boundary with South Korea could all prices are trading lower at this hour down about 3 tenths of a percent of $57.95 a barrel I'm Janine Herbst And you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include Hanes donating 250000 pairs of socks to homeless shelters in all 50 states and more than 3000000 pairs since 2009 information on how to help the homeless is it hands dot com slash sock drive. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep how if at all Could a new u.s. Law change the fight for democracy in Hong Kong China's government has summoned the u.s. Ambassador for a conversation it is safe to say that Chinese officials are telling Terry Branstad of their displeasure President Trump signed a law passed by Congress that law promises sanctions on Chinese officials who violate human rights in Hong Kong David Rennie is with us this morning to talk about that and more he is the economists Beijing bureau chief Welcome back to the program David a look 1st I have to ask as best you can tell is Beijing symbolically upset or seriously upset by this law but they are seriously upsets and you can tell that's because if you are based in Beijing and you have off the record conversations with pretty senior Chinese officials as I have in the last few days they all full of the idea that all of these protests being whipped up paid for organized by the CIA or by the British government by hostile Western forces that is a plot to contain and destroy China by trying to foment a revolution in Hong Kong they have promised consequences if the United States goes ahead with implementing this law which could end up sanctioning some Chinese officials could it also affect the broader u.s. China relationship and particularly the trade talks over u.s. Tariffs you can see when you talk to the Chinese that they feel a bit stuck it's very interesting the extent to which when they fulminates about sentences members of Congress the vice president Mike pencilled a section of state and they say how outrageous this new law is they say how outrageous some recent very tough speeches about China that you've seen from the vice president and the Texas state the one thing they don't do is really go off to President Trump they pull their punches and the reason for that is that they would like to do a quick and see trade deal without make. In really painful concessions about you know the way they do Kathleen is a more the way that they operate and they think that in that fight Donald Trump might be something of an ally in a way that the machine around him the kind of the American Deep State as they see it is not an ally Wow So they are looking still for an opportunity to get out of the trade war without the fundamental changes the u.s. Is demanding but let me circle back to the other part of this Hong Kong and this theory by Chinese officials that this is a United States plot a CIA plot isn't there a huge piece of evidence against that just in the last few days because Hong Kong held local elections and while they are for advisory positions local council positions they were overwhelmingly won by pro-democracy forces by people who were against the power of the central government how are Chinese officials explaining that and how are they responding to it but it's very telling that the kind of state propaganda machine which we've seen you know for months now this drumbeat of propaganda about the violent protesters how they're bent on revolution how they're in cahoots with the Americans after this election result which was not just a kind of landslide it was a white pipes you know you saw 17 out of 18 councils change hands against the probe aging policies they went silent so the real crisis for the company's policy in Beijing is that the people of Hong Kong they have this hybrid identity it is legally possible China but it is one of the Great Western world's cities it's a vibrant financial city I'm sure many of your listeners have been there and if asked to choose between that Weston liberal uncensored free speech style of life and being part of a kind of rising China in a much more like another city in China the people of Hong Kong on making it absolutely clear that even as China gets richer and stronger they want to be part of the western world not part of that Mainland China. That's a gigantic snub to an otherwise very self-confident Chinese government on the mainland now I do know that the probe aging chief executive of Hong Kong gave a kind of humble statement saying that she would respect the results of the elections but what does that actually mean is just China actually likely to give ground here the truly tragic truth is that it could turn out to be a pyrrhic victory because these district council elections that's symbolically a gigantic kind of sign of discontent by the people of Hong Kong but these districts they control things like refuse collection bus stops they don't have much power and it is entirely possible that the conus leaders in Beijing will look at this election results and say Ok then we are never giving these people meaningful democracy because look what they do when they have any ability to choose their leaders and so it may be tragically that although in many ways we should share this kind of fantastic the brave election results it may be the last time they get to vote in that way David Rennie of The Economist thanks so much thank you climate change is making sea levels rise that's become very clear this fall in some areas along the East Coast where high tide levels are breaking records in many areas there's been flooding during so-called king tides times when because of the moon's gravitational pull tides are higher than usual N.P.R.'s Greg Allen reports from the Florida Keys where for months king tides and sea level rise have left a community flooded. To walk a pall Butler's house it's best to where did you see the no excite the no wake signs for drivers not boaters there are several inches of water on his street and others in this Key Largo neighborhood Butler has lived here 25 years and has seen this kind of flooding before it used to happen like once a year during king tide but it would only last for like a week or 10 days this year it's been going on for about 75 days I think Neighbors say it's been. 80 days and counting the water doesn't drain because there's nowhere for it to go during king tide another neighbor Brian Boylan says sea water overtops the canal in his backyard this is actually this the bay it's even with the bay and you can see it coming right out of the ground sometime you can see it bubbling Needless to say boiling and other neighbors aren't happy that they're now surrounded by water the biggest problem just driving through it you know you're ruining your vehicles much less all rusty underneath because it's salt water and gross all that salt water Yeah you know we washed off and you can't get it you know and the price will probably go making things worse the neighborhood was built on Phil and residents can point to areas where the ground has settled but Borland who's lived here for 40 years says it's clear Another factor is rising sea level obviously things that's going up because I can tell from from my doc when I built that dock it's probably up that 6 inches higher than they used to be not far away on Virginia key scientists are also charting the rising sea level so there's actually 2 different kinds of tie gauges here one gauge in Miami belongs to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or Noah it's just outside the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School in the green and atmospheric science where Brian McNulty is a researcher Bignold has been monitoring this gauge and comparing it with historical records he says for 5 months running the average here has broken past tide records right now are running about 8 to 9 inches above them but there have been times in recent weeks we've been up to 18 inches and that definitely is impactful increased flooding from high tides is a problem not just in Florida but also in other low lying coastal communities around the us Boston Charleston and Norfolk are just 3 cities that have seen flooding this year during exceptionally high king tides William Sweet is an oceanographer with Noah who released a report earlier this year warning of the increasing threat of high tide flooding he says unfortunately the predictions are already coming true and now sea level rise decades worth of it has caught up in these sort of garden variety of then soon seasonal high tides winds blowing all. Off shore that used to not be a problem our problem although it's a global issue for now it's local governments that are faced with the challenge of addressing high tide flooding in Monroe County home to the Florida Keys local officials are hoping to get $150000000.00 in federal funds money that's supposed to out the area rebuild stronger after 2017 hurricane Erma they want to use it to raise roads and buildings and improve drainage one of the projects would be in Paul Butler's long flooded Key Largo neighborhood but that will take years in the meantime he says residents are making their own adjustments Well it's kind of tough to go out walk your dog in less you have hip boots on and there is people that are going to work that will drive their vehicles through here and they park up to the grocery store up up on us lawn and they'll walk up Butler and other residents say if history is any guide flooding should subside soon in their neighborhood at least until the next king tide Greg Allen n.p.r. News Key Largo Florida every day as many as 500 babies in sub-Saharan Africa are born with HIV Now a study out of Botswana finds that if newborns are given treatment right away the virus becomes almost undetectable N.P.R.'s Ping-Pong reports if a baby tests positive for HIV standard practice in many sub-Saharan countries is to give them treatment but not for weeks or even months after they're born the concern is that newborns can't tolerate these powerful drugs for some time though researchers about a hunch that cheating right at birth is better Deborah for side as of Iraq just at Johns Hopkins and she wrote a paper 6 years ago about a baby girl in Mississippi with HIV who was treated 30 hours after birth that baby was known to be infected went off and then for $27.00 there was no. H. I.v. But researchers weren't sure if this abortion other babies and the clinical trial in Botswana gives an answer 10 HIV positive baby. Were given a 3 drug cocktail within their 1st days writing in the journal Science Translational Medicine the researchers report that 2 years out these babies have very little virus in their bodies Daniel Korecki is a study co-author and a doctor at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston says the kids are cured at such a likely that we may have set them up for the possibility of long term remission of their age and the kids that started drugs months after birth had 200 times more virus in their blood than those given treatment right away for Saddam Johns Hopkins who is not involved in the study says it shows that giving drugs soon after birth keeps the virus from taking firm hold in the body giving this very early treatment limited establishment of a long lived reservoir Well it's great to know that treating earlier is better Krzycki says one of the biggest hurdles will be getting drugs to babies that need them you really need the kind of infrastructure that exists in Botswana or in countries like the United States in order to be able to identify and rapidly intervene and these children about half the babies in sub-Saharan Africa infected with HIV don't have access to antiretroviral drugs researchers say that needs to change paying long n.p.r. 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It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin Wishing you and yours a very happy and peaceful Thanksgiving and I say peaceful because we all know holidays in general can be tense you gather with family that you may not have seen in forever you may not really have anything in common with them outside your d.n.a. And then you add in different political idiology s. And things can get stressful layer on top of that the possible impeachment of the president and well you've got yourself a thanksgiving for the ages and not necessarily in a good way you know who's really smart about this stuff Celeste Headlee veteran public radio journalist and the author of the book we need to talk and we are so lucky that Celeste is in our studio Hi It's great to see you so nice to see you so you talk about how people's anxiety about just the mere possibility of having intense exchanges with friends or family around the holidays is not based in reality what does that mean well it means that you know they do a Hugo of Huff Post poll a survey on this topic and turns out that the number of people who say it's quite likely they'll get into an argument is 4 percent yeah it's a very small amount and sadly the reason for part of this is because we are so illogically separated people tend to marry people who agree with them people tend to hang out with people who agree with them so that means that less than 25 percent of Americans are going to sit down at the table with someone who doesn't agree with them on politics but it also means that the for the vast majority of Americans again 96 percent not likely to get into an argument because we're self-selecting but we're self-selecting but also where we're basically polite. You know yeah which you say isn't necessarily a good thing I mean you want people to talk about complicated subjects and you say we shouldn't be afraid to discuss politics yet you know instead of avoiding topics like politics and religion because you're afraid of a fight. I would rather people learn how to talk about those things without fighting because what ends up happening when you avoid these subjects is it just makes you particularly ignorant about those particular subjects and so yes I would very much rather people simply learn to talk about these subjects together and allow other people to hold a different opinion realizing that there's no stakes right nothing no policy is going to change because of your argument about politics look at the relationship change yes absolutely the issue isn't what relationship changes after the conversation what I really have a problem with is when people go into a conversation or choose not to on principle write I'm not going to talk to this person because their opinion is so outside the pale right that's the problem because what you have to understand is most arguments are caused by trying to change someone else's mind. So let me just free you of that forever if you will not change their mind so then the purpose is not to change someone's mind is to is to understand right it's empathy Exactly and you're right it's not if you come armed with stats and reports like you know this particular uncle is going to show up at Thanksgiving and you know he feels this way about this issue and print out all the news articles that's just not going to work no I mean that means you're coming prepared to talk you're not coming prepared to listen I mean if you want to say hey it's going to be tough for me to listen to what my uncle says I think about what I need to do when I start feeling angry when I yell at him let me prepare for that but bringing in all your statistics is probably a waste of time what if someone stirs up trouble so I try not to ignore that it happened let me give you an example from my personal life when I was very 1st meeting my fiance's family I'm mixed race and his dad told an extraordinarily racist joke and he looked at my fiance looked at me like oh God. And I turned over. I said you know what I'm part black that was a really racist joke so let's between you and I let's find some more jokes that you could tell because I don't want you to ever tell that one again and of course he was like oh no I'm not racist I was like Well that was a really racist joke I mean there's just no way around that but I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and let's move on right and let's talk about something else you can do I mean I also tried to diffuse it with humor exactly which people say all the time and I understand those who say you know money right it's not funny right and yet you have to ask what your goal is right what is your goal in calling out that person is it to feel better about you and to get that feeling of sort of release of yelling at somebody or is actually maybe build a bridge where there isn't one bridge of understanding Ok so we've talked about you know politics and religion and race and identity Those are big issues that immediately get provocative quick what if it's just an uncomfortable question that someone asks you you know like hey you know what he is going to have a kid what am I going to ground baby or hey you seem to have dropped a ton of weight why even so much on things giving Yeah so here's what I often say to those things when people ask me inappropriate questions I turn around and say well that's a really personal question why do you ask. Or if somebody says Are you still on that diet and I'll say yes it's yes going fine house how's your eating. I mean if. He did that said when you put it that way it's like we what exactly and you and I think sometimes people just say stuff and they may again I try to give them the benefit the doubt and assume they don't realize how inappropriate is but in classic journalist fashion if you turn the question back on them it may make them go oh I don't like answering that. And it may actually get them to stop asking that question again but that's usually. What I'll say is some version of why do you ask if you have to you can say wow do you like to be asked about your diet I sure don't but I would say don't want to don't ignore it but that's what I love about all of this advice just don't ignore it just kind of acknowledge things and be respectful come from a place of love call things out when you need to and no one who has a loved one of whatever permutation of loved one that is knows you don't agree on everything it may be something Latin like how you load the dishwasher right which it turns out is a huge bone of contention in a lot of partnerships so of course these people that you see once a year or twice a year you're not going to agree on a lot of stuff that's Ok it's not the end of the world Celeste Headlee she is the author of We need to talk thank you so much my friend my pleasure my friend. This is n.p.r. News. 50 years ago a group of Native American activists laid claim to Alcatraz Island through a purchase said Build a Treasure Island for $24.00 a glass beads a red cloth a pressure he said by the white man's purchase of a similar Island about 300 years ago the protests lasted for 19 months this Thanksgiving hundreds will gather on the island to honor the anniversary of that story this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly The Washington Post reports President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani had been in negotiations with Ukraine's top prosecutor earlier this year to line up work for his firm at the same time Giuliani sought Ukraine's help to investigate former Vice President Biden and his son the post says Giuliani was negotiating to have his company represent the prosecutor as the prosecutor sought to recover money believed stolen from Ukraine's government Post reporter Matt Sam Pitofsky spoke to N.P.R.'s Morning Edition but the same time that retooling Arni is pressing this Ukrainian prosecutor a guy named Yuri let Sankoh to help him investigate the Bidens he's trying to kind of a side deal where Yuri let Sankoh will pay $200000.00 or $300000.00 as a retainer fee to help Yuri with Sankoh with this kind of asset recovery mission on social media Giuliani says he did not pursue a business opportunity in Ukraine and that no deal was ever done it's unclear whether former White House counsel Don McGann will be forced to testify to House lawmakers last night a federal appeals court issued a stay of a lower court's ruling that ordered McGann to comply with a congressional subpoena and appear on Capitol Hill the appeals court will consider a longer stay at a hearing in January this is n.p.r. News from Washington. China is criticizing President Trump for signing legislation designed to support pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong Beijing is threatening to retaliate and Trump acknowledges the move could hurt u.s. China trade talks Here's N.P.R.'s Julie McCarthy paging called the new law malicious in nature and it could complicate bilateral trade talks with China the law would sanction senior Hong Kong and Chinese officials responsible for human rights violations in Hong Kong and hurt its special trade status Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters say the law gives them leverage in their struggle to preserve their freedoms President Trump has hedged his backing of the protesters balancing his support for them against his relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping the bill however has near unanimous congressional approval and the president had few options but to sign President Trump did however leave questions about its enforcement saying some provisions interfere with executive power over foreign policy Julie McCarthy n.p.r. News authorities in southeast Texas say they don't yet know what sparked yesterday's initial explosion at a chemical plant in Port nature as it left 3 workers injured and blew out windows and doors of nearby homes a 2nd explosion occurred 13 hours later leading officials to expand a mandatory evacuation to a 4 mile radius of the t.p.c. Group's plant a fire there continues burning I'm Dave Mattingly in Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from t.i.a. Committed to the idea that while most things in life run out from clean shirts in the morning to a favorite dessert at night lifetime income in retirement shouldn't learn more at t.i.a. Dot org slash never run out and from f. J.c. a Foundation of donor advised funds working to maximize the impact of charitable giving and to create customized philanthropic solutions learn more at f j c dot org . It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin it feels like a familiar story explosions at a chemical plant in Texas on Wednesday 2 huge blast sent plumes of dark smoke above the city of Port Nature us 3 workers were injured and thousands of residents have been evacuated the disaster comes days after the Trump administration reversed a series of chemical safety regulations Matt Dempsey is a data editor on the Houston Chronicle investigative team he's reported on the regulatory failures of the chemical industry and he joins us now but thanks for being with us thanks for having me so what exactly were these regulations that the trumpet ministration has now reversed Yaz my reporting partner primitive Izo and I wrote last week the new rules would make it so that companies are no longer required to do 3rd party audits or root cause analysis after an incident they will also not have to provide the public access to information about what type of chemicals are stored in these facilities either so just to be clear that's the situation now that the trumpet ministration has reversed Obamacare rules Yes Ok got after they were yes this is after the reversal Ok we should know the safety regulations as I noted they were introduced under President Obama in response to a 2013 explosion at a fertilizer company in Texas 15 people died in that I mean what difference did those regulations make when you think about that disaster Ok I mean this started the Obama era regulations never actually went into effect they were designed to be implemented over a series of time but they were rolled back before they could be fully implemented and on top of that those regulations were fairly industry friendly it mirrored industry group standards or acquire more reporting and analysis require companies to consider safer technology but it didn't require them to do those things like to change the tech they were using there were just wasn't a lot of teeth in the roll back regulations. So in your reporting you say the story of chemical incidents in the in the Unite. States has a history of quote near misses explain what that means right so in the last few decades the u.s. Just hasn't seen the worst of what a chemical incident could be so even in incidents where people have died or properties been destroyed we've been fortunate but those cases weren't worse and like for example this week's explosion if it had happened when school was in session last week or if it happened at one in the afternoon sort of 1 in the morning we'd be a completely different scenario when it comes to fatalities and injuries. So what's the bottom line here I mean if if the previous rules were too lax didn't really make a difference and learning really implemented and now the Trump administration has rolled those back I mean what's how safe are chemical plants in Texas right now. I mean the companies are very tightly regulated but they're not really police very much so the e.p.a. And OSHA don't come in very often so we have to rely on companies doing the right thing 100 percent of the time and like airline crashes these are low freq these low frequency but high consequence events but unlike airline crashes this could kill thousands or hundreds if something goes really wrong so it's really important for facilities to be operated properly and for government regulators to be on site and do something when something goes wrong or before something goes wrong it's really interesting too because you say the onus is really on these chemical plants to police themselves and that was the situation with Boeing after these 2 deadly crashes it came to light the Boeing too much of the responsibility for its own safety checks resided with the company itself yeah I mean it's a really good example are analogy because one of the things people talk about a lot here is well 1st responders aren't getting all the information they need about hazards before they come in well even if they had perfect information about what was at a facility they have to lean on the individual facility tell them what's actually happening we still don't know the next day what's happened at the t.v. Exposure for example Dempsey report at the Houston Chronicle we appreciate you sharing reporting on this thank you so much and Happy Thanksgiving to you thank you happy Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is the traditional start of the ski season in the United States there's usually enough snow around for resorts to open by now but ski areas need something else seasonal workers who are becoming harder to find Wyoming Public Radio's Maggie Mullen reports David Berg. But the National Ski areas Association says for a long time ski resorts had one big incentive to attract all the workers they needed a season pass those days are long gone that's true says Lauren Duke with Steamboat Springs ski resort in Colorado she says it's tough to hire with unemployment around 4 percent nationally the resort industry usually trends with the economy here at the base of the skilled boats Kristie peak express lift Duke says that means resorts have to do more I think everyone in this game history is always looking for ways to make their workplace the best workplace has increased base wages to $12.50 an hour about a buck 50 above Colorado's minimum wage seasonal workers stay on for 9 to 11 months get benefits like health insurance and pay time off and parental leave those only on for the ski season get perks like warm lunch or dinner for $3.00 to $5.00 and discounted lift tickets for friends and family plus their season pass can be used at other resorts in the area Deb Holloway a $26.00 season veteran of Steamboat ski patrol says she's seen affordable housing become more of an issue the amount of reasonable rental properties I think is certainly diminishing over time and that's tough as 2nd homes and services like air b.n. B. N.v. Are b.-o. Are reducing housing stock in reserve areas more resorts are offering workforce housing steamboat offer some staffer intell 435-2450 dollars a month about 2 thirds cheaper than the lowest and local free market rentals plus steamboats units are right next to the resort Norman Nickerson says I kind of proximity is important you're not going to drive from Denver all the way to Vail every single day as a worker Nickerson directs the University of Montana Institute for tourism and Recreation research and I know that some of the ski resorts have said well if we don't get full staff or you know we're right on that edge and then of course some. To get sick or they can't be there for a few days the administrative people are out there doing those jobs just to fill land and when that doesn't cut it she says resorts cut down on services like reducing restaurant hours and closing particular runs you're leaving money on the table they don't want to do that but they're forced to another wrinkle in the industry's labor market resorts have traditionally depended on foreign workers and the u.s. On Jay one visas but a trump administration executive order placing restrictions on that program means that pool of employees has also been reduced David Bird says it's not just a problem across the Rockies what I hear a lot from Skiri owners and operators and it's true from large resorts down to small resorts we're not feeling close to all the jobs that we have that are available and if you do land one of those jobs you'll still get the season pass but ski resorts now know that alone just isn't a sweet enough deal anymore for n.p.r. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin campuses around the country are struggling to balance free speech with incidents of bigotry and hate speech this month at Indiana University Bloomington the provost condemned tweets from a tenured professor named Eric Rasmussen the provost described the tweets as racist sexist and homophobic but she said the school could not fire him meanwhile Syracuse University in upstate New York is dealing with a run of anti-Semitic Islamophobia and racist incidents on their campus N.P.R.'s Anya Kamenetz has been following these situations and joins us now hi Anya Hi Rachel so let's start with Syracuse what's the back story there so it Syracuse the f.b.i. And local law enforcement are investigating a dozen different incidents including racist graffiti threats and slurs being yelled at some students at least in some cases by fellow students and in response anti-racist protesters held a sit in lasting several days and once your case Professor I talked to called the campus a powder keg and Indiana University so it Indiana an economics professor Eric Rasmussen and he shared an article from a right wing website on Twitter with a headline about women destroying academia and some of his previous public statements were unearthed been found to be racist sexist and homophobic and this is where reintroduce the provost of that school right Lauren Robles she should condemn this right she issued a kind of unusual statement in which she said that no one would be forced to take classes with this professor but that the university wasn't going to fire him because as a public university they're bound by the 1st Amendment and Rasmussen has responded on line should say he said that and he's been mischaracterized he called the holding a professional so on you there isn't any explicit connection between these 2 situations at least on the surface Ok so what do they have in common Well they're both examples Rachel of an increasingly common trend where racism and bigotry are rearing a head on college campuses. And colleges are struggling to respond because colleges have this institutional commitment to freedom of speech and actually a diversity of thought and ideology and debate and so some experts are saying that Rasmussen's case is probably best understood as a question of academic freedom and not only the 1st amendment meaning on campuses there's sort of a super 1st Amendment the core of what it means to be a scholar is to be able to research and debate unpopular ideas and not be silenced and what about Cirque use so at the same values Rachel our intention also is here accuse you know there's a history here the hashtag of the activists that they using is not again as you because there isn't it's in about a year and a half ago a fraternity members were suspended for creating racist videos and since then the campus has been reviewing its policies on free speech and civil discourse and also trying to increase diversity and inclusion but you know there's a bigger picture here as well the f.b.i. Reports that hate crimes are on the rise on campuses nationwide since 2015 in fact just the last few weeks there's been incidents involving swastikas and nooses and other messages at the University of Georgia at all Burnett Iowa State and the University of Wisconsin Yeah so what the activists here he's are saying is that this is part of a pattern and they don't want this to be swept under the rug and the university leadership is accepting many of the activist mans but there's still a lot of dissatisfaction This is Jen Jackson She's an assistant professor of political science at Syracuse the purpose of a university is to teach students and to prepare them for the world is a place where they can. Then the university is not with its primary goal. She told her students of color immigrant or Jewish students they're scared and that's not conducive to learning or free debate N.P.R.'s On your coming thank you so much for your reporting on the Sonia We appreciate it thanks Rochelle. The at the. This is n.p.r. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin here with our poet in residence Kwame Alexander Hello Kwame Hey there rate Joe How you doing pretty good how you do it I'm super super you're always super So can I say I'm back in the. Undefeated nice life as they call me ace. Ace when we were last together we shared some sports poetry and we asked our listeners to send in their masterpieces and they did write how many did we get over 500 wow you know pretty good I know I say this a lot but this poetry thing really works it does I think people love it because it lets them feel more connected to others Yeah I found an interesting quote about poetry from a Polish poet whose name I can never pinout correctly Cheshire me wash. The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person for our house is open there are no keys in the doors and invisible guests come in and out at will so to write Ok with that shall we present our Morning Edition community poem about sports game on Rachel Martin you start. Your day here we go the trail has been treacherous rocky and twisting I'm tempted to quit my poor legs resisting but up this steep hill I continue to rally envisioning flowers that bloom in the valley I'm a hurricane force with the Blue Jackets thing I flash to the finish like my feet have wings you think you got skill with your high jump technique I spring through the air while you trippin on your feet I heard through the world while you stub your toe. I'm the queen of the Fast Lane Now everybody knows so bring your best your talent your speed the ladies from Daniels don't follow we lead the girls got hoops and she's 59 a skinny Brown being Pole I'm so proud she's mine I had pushed for ballet slippers she quietly agreed graceful but lovely she did it for me now on that quote with the ball in her hand more graceful than ever the dance finally began crisp movement catching the eyes of everyone in the room gliding across the floor as if on water jumping with the beat of the melody there's something about the arc the ball makes as it traces the path between us catch and throw catch and throw the warmth of the early spring sun the slap of the ball into leather the movement of muscles automatic familiar we do it loosening our arms with throws casual and snow we have played this game with Nerf balls baby sleeping in the other room with tennis balls and swimming pools showing off our. Acrobatic diving catches a 10 from the American judge on a grassy fields with bases giggling kids racing between caught in a pickle through 40 years of friendship and 30 of marriage this has been a constant Shall I compare the 2 a stand up double art more welcome and more absolute Hey honey gotcha glove now we take it more seriously then when we were any good before the joint surgeries when we could still hit without pain when we had legs now we play not to lose but today everyone that shows up wins the sun this guy these companionable partners these comprehensible lines when you have ice blocks for feet icicle fingers and a lump in your throat to tremble your body with cold tomorrow you doubt the sanity of waking at 5 to 8 year old on ice by 6 blades carving shapes you can't name and when your boy looks through his coach's face on the bench red cheeks a fire in each wood I complains about tripping that number 16 with the Black Mask says out chopping down next time you doubt this game at that hour you venture into the warm room to thaw out your spine and hear a father break down his son's back and highlight spanner in a voice loud enough for all to hear you know the annual backyard ice sheet was a bad idea. This is not what forgiveness is supposed to look like fast food tacos and football the game should be a reason to talk but as players flatten each other we watch with flat faces football steals Sundays on weekends or for family help with these damn kids stop imagine the universe green sign the planet or whatever where this is poetry where Monday morning papers put a poet mouth open arm rising on the front page and in its own section there are statistical landscapes ranking metaphors and similes top 10 rundown of the season's best opening and closing lines investigative articles on the billions of hours of lost office productivity due to online fantasy poet leagues there's a big burly man in a headset somewhere weeping and waving his hands about Kwame Alexander before 4 sportscasters in matching Tweed blazer slap each other on the back and stage an analytical replay of an Emily Dickinson stanza with unseen markers drawing arrows and lines across the screen the sky was clear the snow was deep I pray the lord my soul to keep then launched myself down the mountain steep in search of Alpine glory I skied the bumps with grace and flair I hit the jumps and cuts mare I didn't know that Rock was there and that concludes my story our listeners are ballers that was an awesome cornucopia of a whole year of you will a poet for poetry of the wild world of sports we had to as a baseball track cross-country of course football we had some ballet in there and basketball and hockey Thanks to all of you all of our listeners who submitted poems we so appreciate it we can share all of them but there's so many wonderful contributions it's such an honor to read and to help create this community crowd sourced poem we love it every time we do this Kwame Alexander is a regular contribute. To Morning Edition a huge mystics fan we should say and the inaugural innovator in residence at the American school in London Happy Thanksgiving. Yes it's Thanksgiving but Black Friday is almost upon us and we want to hear from you any privacy questions about gadgets you might be shopping for this holiday season or. A creepy moment because of intelligent technology currently use we want to hear your stories you can tweet us at Morning Edition with your questions and comments. Industry. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News on this Thanksgiving Day I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep. Public radio for the north coast of California and the southern coast of Oregon you're listening to cage s u h d. H s our Crescent City and s.g. Garberville Su's translators r k 260 b Q Willow Creek and k 204 ga for. Old. Good morning Rudy Giuliani reportedly pursued business deals with Ukrainian The news is next. Live from n.p.r. 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