They have a free are looking for ideas but it is a broad incentive for colleges to counsel students how much they borrow. Right now the action makes the hard for colleges. So the federal government is a but for that unemployment ruled that is but this is the mandate applied to all colleges a and universities. They dont have to do principate but tennessee has 13 Community Colleges and two are dropping some of and broaden there he was. But what kind of a response did you get . To with that accreditation more than anything else just to give them more flexibility maybe that is true but i can tell you about a student aid and then i can tell about the regulation. To provide students and is there any advance on that . A good reaction the problem i have been authorized eight times since 1965 with the of wellmeaning senators and bureaucrats here is the clause is regulations and stack them up stack of up the stack was already as tall as i was it the new would double the stack that is why we need
Admiral howard president jackson, dean, faculty, students, thank you for this wonderful privilege that youve given me, this honorary degree. I will tell you, my fellow on arend this is pretty cool. It feels a lot like a superman cape. I want to know, does it stop bullets . [laughter] i could use that in my job. President jackson, fellow on i class of 2015 come its a sincere honor to join you on this extraordinary occasion. Today marks a triumphant milestone in your lives. Symbolically crossing the stage you will also cross over into the next phase of your lives. With each step, you will pound into your souls this week feeling of accomplishment. Years now, you will recall the challenges of that last calculus class, the anxiety of preparing for your last test, the excitement of your last big red freak out night and the last witnessing of the Shirley Ann Jackson weather machine. [laughter] [applause] avriladmiral howard i thought it appropriate that i start this speech and share with you
We spoke about the research. This interview is about 20 minutes. I understand youre getting close to completing your dissertation. What is your topic . My dissertation topic is slavery and involuntary servitude in the southwest. I am looking at both mexican debt peonage and indian slavery as two forms of involuntary servitude that existed in that region in the southwest. I am contextualizing those two systems of slavery within the idea of slavery in the american south. A much more familiar form of slavery to most people in the United States is the plantation style race based black slavery in the south. Many people are not aware that other forms of slavery did exist in america being indian slavery and peonage. I am looking at those two forms of slavery in the 19th century. What does the term debt peonage mean . It was a form of servitude that existed in 19thcentury southwest and later in the jim crow south. It was basically a form of a course of labor, whereby a creditor became master a
We spoke about the research. This interview is about 20 minutes. I understand youre getting close to completing your dissertation. What is your topic . My dissertation topic is slavery and involuntary servitude in the southwest. I am looking at both mexican debt peonage and indian slavery as two forms of involuntary servitude that existed in that region in the southwest. I am contextualizing those two systems of slavery within the idea of slavery in the american south. A much more familiar form of slavery to most people in the United States is the plantation style race based black slavery in the south. Many people are not aware that other forms of slavery did exist in america being indian slavery and peonage. I am looking at those two forms of slavery in the 19th century. What does the term debt peonage mean . It was a form of servitude that existed in 19thcentury southwest and later in the jim crow south. It was basically a form of a course of labor, whereby a creditor became master a
I would be honored to have your support on february 1st, and then i will need your help as we move toward the john election because i dont want this election to be about me. I want it to be about us and the agenda we want to set for our country. You know, when i campaigned so hard against then senator obama i was working as hard as i could, he was working as hard as he could. And at the end of the day he won. And then i went to work to make sure he got elected, our president. And i was so relieved and happy when that finally happened. The sunday after the election bill and i went for a walk in an area that sarah would know. A big kind of Nature Preserve near where we both live. And we just wanted to let down because wed been working so hard to elect then president elect obama. So were wandering through the woods, and bills phone rings. Which is sort of a miracle since we have terrible cell coverage there. And he pulled it out of his pocket, and it was the president elect. And he said i