You can also get through on social media. Lively conversation already going on on facebook. cspanwj. T to or email address is journal cspan. Org. Do u. S. Colleges have a race problem is our question. Here is the wall street journals morning alarticle. Universities are struggling to balance the Free Exchange of ideas with students growing desire to be shield by offensive views. At the heart of protests that have roiled campuses around the country. The missouri to yale to university of california, public and private schools have become embroiled in conversation and controversies that has faculty concerned about the stifling of free speech, and many students upset that their appeals to rid campuses of intolerance and racial insensitivity are being given short strip. While the tension between Political Correctness and open en colleges foriv decades, a Hunger Strike in protest over racial incidents that forced of the university of missouris president s on monday have supercharge the debate
Women. I went to graduate school not planning to do womens history but it was 1970 and the Womens Movement had begun to affect my life. Person to belucky in that first generation of grad students who had isolated wonderful mentors just beginning to do womens history. I assisted the first class in womens history at the university of michigan. The first year i was in grad school, i kept getting assigned the womens papers. About the wonderful, brilliant women. Thosented being given. Standing in the halls and said to a friend of mine, girly getting into womens history. As im really getting into womens history. A prominent historian stuck his head outside the door and said womens history, that is the history of dishwashing. My first reaction was i was really angry. Women have done all the great things men have. Been ught, they everything ive thought of as history. Three months later, i decided he was right. He thought dishwashing was trivial and not historical. To do waslly wanted look at t
With the general an think taking place . I know whether its emerge or care, i helped start a Youth Leadership symposium in houston where im from and its still very, very difficult for us to get people engaged to sign up for these programs. So you can talk about putting these programs in the mosque or starting a sunday school class about it or putting ads in your local paper, but theres still a very, very large divide in having people in the Community Involved in this. What are suggestions practically speaking on apathy . Okay, ill go first. And thank you for sort of thank you for the question. Something that id eventually speak about when i was up there. One of the ideas we have tried to quote unyoet get the Community Involved and engaged is to get them to run for Political Office at the lowest level. There are thousand chairs in the city of houston. And about 10 of them are from our community. Our population is less than 1 or 2 approximately. Many times, its not that difficult to get
Testimony, things are beginning to wrap up today in the Phillip Chism trial. The final witnesses took the stand today as the defense rested its case. Good afternoon. Thank you for being here with us. The testimony today, the Mental Health of thdanvers teen accused of murdering his math teacher. Nicole has the latest on the breaking news. What can you tell us . Defense rested. The words the juvenile rests. Those are the words. We want to give you some video from inside the courtroom this morning. Of course, both sides started prosecution trying to rebutt the defense testing. Some cognitive tests were performed and questioned the Mental Illness that the defense claimed. He might have a life where he chooses to retreat. He does understand the difference between reality and fantasy and he didnt show any signs of getting lost in the faint si word. Reporter on two separate occasions, the jury didleave the courtroom while the defense did object to the testimony of the two doctors saying that
Like normal and actually already in the 40s from plymouth down to the cape, coming down a couple degrees, 38 in boston, buddington, vermont sitting at 23, keene New Hampshire 25, 30s elsewhere, advancing through the vineyard in nantucket, about to make their way from chatham and some of these showers may reach up otosouth shore, pockets of live rain, edgarton and nantucket, the planner goes this way, sunrise, 7 00 a. M. , mostly cloudy skies today, clouds in place with cape rain through lunch time, couple of showers on the south shore, temperatures in the lower 40s and just an isolated shower left over for the ride home, temperatures right around 40, tracking a warming trend, on the roads, traffic and weather together, high, robi. Hi, an accident north of boston, pop up on the map, in andover, 495 the scene now southbound, off of 495, thats a busy stretch and that could cause problems, also on 93 south, its bumper to bumper between commerce way and montphaliat and lowell connector, the