Administrative bloat in running universities. The ideological faculty. University enrollment is starting to decline because of demographic reasons and of course the whole of the issue of the Overland College dispute where the gibsons bakery was awarded 44 million in damages which was a very exciting thing and as people in the college are beside themselves. I think one of Charles Cousins went to over land and totally turned her into a marxist. So i am steve is a fellow at Governmental Affairs at berkeley and i hired steve back in 1991 he was our second hire. Lisa sawyer who was there when i joined pri. He and steve was a Ronald Reagan distinguished professor at pepperdine and a first conservative professor in a university of colorado bolder, 20132014. I think one of the most exciting things about steve, hes behind powerline. If you dont read powerline you should. The best things are the pictures. And every weekend we are laughing over the pictures. If you dont get it, you will. And one
Good morning and welcome to sunday today on this june 4th. Im willie geist. Tensions are heightened this morning between the United States and china after two close calls with chinas military in just the last few days. Yesterday a chinese warship cut in front of a u. S. Destroyer coming within 150 yards of it in an aggressive maneuver. That near collision coming just days after a chinese fighter jet flew in front of a u. S. Air force plane. Well tell you how the white house is responding this morning in a live report just ahead. Plus, on this first weekend of pride month our sunday focus on some of americas Favorite Brands like bud light and target under fire from a small but vocal group of protesters because of the companys outreach to the Lgbtq Community. The boycott having an impact. Then we will turn to our sunday spotlight on the extraordinary violins of hope. String instruments saved from victims and survivors of the holocaust and making beautiful music once again. And later, a n
Librarian at the library of congress. All day here at the library of Congress National book festival, we are recognizing and celebrating the importance of reading and authors and books. The library of Congress Makes it easy to do this every year, but the truth is the National Book festival is a huge undertaking. Its a huge financial undertaking. And it has been made possible by generous support from our sponsors. You can see who they are in your program and on the video monitors around the convention center. But we cant take for granted that this event will continue to exist, so i would ask you to consider making a contribution right now using your cell phone. You can send a text to make a onetime gift that will be added to your mobile phone bill. The details are on the screen and on the back of your program, and as soon as you finish making that contribution, please silence your cell phone. And now on to the main event. Id like to introduce cochair of the National Book festival, david
Hello. Im [inaudible] librarian at the library of congress. All day here at the library of Congress National book festival, we are recognizing and celebrating the importance of reading and authors and books. The library of Congress Makes it easy to do this every year, but the truth is the National Book festival is a huge undertaking. Its a huge financial undertaking. And it has been made possible by generous support from our sponsors. You can see who they are in your program and on the video monitors around the convention center. But we cant take for granted that this event will continue to exist, so i would ask you to consider making a contribution right now using your cell phone. You can send a text to make a onetime gift that will be added to your mobile phone bill. The details are on the screen and on the back of your program, and as soon as you finish making that contribution, please silence your cell phone. And now on to the main event. Id like to introduce cochair of the Nationa
Project that youre work on. This is something you have continued past the life of the book. Could you talk a little bit about what youre doing there and how its succeeded since the book and the movie have come out . So. Yeah so, yeah, the human computer project. Essentially, what i was so surprised to discover doing the research for Hidden Figures is how many women were involved in computing, as i talked about before. Not just at nasa, but at all of these other organizations. And so this is really a way to try and catalog all of the women who were involved in doing this work in the early days of computing and really understand, you know, what kind of work they were doing and also to get a snapshot of women in these fields and see if theres something that we might learn from those early pioneers that we can apply to women working in these fields today. So if people want to participate, they can find it onlinesome. Yep. The humancomputerproject. Com, or you can reach out to me at margo l