Henry thats barbershop talk. Michael when you were arrested at cambridge, did you know immediately when he answered that question this was going to be a big deal . Because it sounded to me like it was a very obvious point he made but did you see it immediately . Henry well, you know, my phones started ringing off the hook. I dont think you could use that metaphor anymore. Did your phone ring off the hook . [laughter] ken vibrated out of your pocket. Henry barack obama said it was stupid you got arrested. Yeah. But immediately he was attacked for doing it. So i knew he was going to have to pull back so i didnt know what he was going to do. Michael i got you. Henry so the idea of the you know, having a beer came up. And he asked my opinion about that and he talked to the policeman before he talked to me and i said, i think its a great idea. At that point, all i wanted was for heres what happened. We were making finding your roots, and my girlfriend and i flew out to l. A. On a friday. An
Good afternoon and welcome. I would like to thank the codirectors for planning our event today, which i know you have been looking forward to. I would also like to let to acknowledge the Susan Gessner for their generous support of todays program. We are grateful for all of those engagements. Today, we will address a very important question is there a student debt crisis . In many of us are well aware of the everexpanding student loan market and the latest estimates are that nearly 40 million americans are laden with 1. 3 trillion worth of student debt. The borrowers is either in delinquency or default. Last years graduating class had in studentof 35,000 debt. The Obama Administration recently announced two policy president ial candidates have focused on a variety of alternatives of ways to lower the debt burdens. While todays seekers. Peakers are two leading voices one was recently named special adviser to the u. S. Department of education. He previously served as the assistant directo
They are a problem. There are the important ones. The problem may be the needle that broke the camels back. It is not the burden that is causing the problems. I think it is right on who is hitting the default but there are reasonable people who have asked questions. The extent to which people are graduating with higher level of debt even if they are not defaulting. Of the graduates may be located in metro areas where cost of livings have gone up quite a bit. Are they pairing higher student loan payments . Higher in rent . Does that interaction, which we do not note too much about, does that have an impact on the some of the survey data may suggest how people are thinking about. Not really know the specifics. As you have mentioned, having better data about student understandl help us but i think mostly about the people who have defaulted, kind of like i think far from people not to here where there were very high level of foreclosures. Recognize crisis from an economic term, maybe it is
So almost immediately after the election, he started to essentially maneuver in such a way theory be another election. So if you cant win this time, maybe he hopes he would when i set a time. He maneuvered the process in such a way that is exactly what happened, which means there will be a new election november 1st bid in between we have an increase in the violence between the state and the pkk. That is quite puzzling to me in this that if you look at it from the pkk perspective theres absolutely no reason for it to escalate the process. Here you have htp. It has 80 seats in parliament, as many as a National Body that came in. Technically one member of parliament kicked them out. So htp has more seats in parliament and national. So you have a young, dynamic successful politician. Technically you think any Peace Process if it going to have real legs to a needs to be handled through parliament, through democratically elect members of parliament. The only thing one can assume is the way i
Because at the end of the day, the pkk itself will start saying, you know, okay, if you want to go and get rod car and you need the ypg support, they are going to say if you continue to back turkey and its actions against us as well, were not really sure we can do that. So i think there is a great tupbd here for the United States. I think it has leverage over turkey too. If it didnt, turkey, for instance, would not have opened the corridor to koe ban ya or end lock. And it prevail in ankara as well. Thats a a hard assumption to make these days, unfortunately. And what happens after the elections will be key. Indeed, whether we will have elections at all. If we do have elections and they are held free and fairly, the question becomes what kind of government will we have . Clearly a coalition between the ak and the mhp will be very, very unhelpful. So well have to hope, first of all, we do have these elections, they will be fair and free, that the hdp will be able to participate, the peo