Welcome all of you attending this symposium in person. As well as our audience on cspan to this Second Annual symposium on constitutional issues. This year, we examine the 15th amendment and invite a conversation as our Program States on suffrage in light of the hopes and realities of american identity and governance. In many ways, this university is the ideal venue for such a conversation. Envisioned as a Great National episcopal institution by a group of founding bishops in the 1850s, the university of the south by 1860 possessed more than 6,000 acres of land on the Cumberland Plateau in tennessee. It had an endowment half the size of harvards. I often think with my regents about what that would mean for us today. We wouldnt be lamenting an 8 return. And saw itself, in that vision, with colleges of different sizes, schools of law and medicine and business and theology. Saw itself indeed as americas first truly comprehensive private university a half generation ahead of Johns Hopkins
This is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. We begin tonight in nepal where the police say more than 1,000 people are dead after the worst earthquake there in more than 80 years. The quake hit nepal, a small impoverished nation sandwiched between india and tibet in the himalayan mountains, around noon today. To give you a sense of just how strong this earthquake was the magnitude of 7. 8 makes it 16 times more powerful than the earthquake that devastated haiti in 2010. Mount everest is in 53 nepal, and the quake caused a deadly avalanche at the climbers base camp. Tens of thousands of people in nepal are now spending a chilly stormy night out in the open. Heres Charlie Dagata. Reporter it was just after noon when the killer earthquake struck and triggered chaos on the streets of the capital kathmandu. Brick by brick, rescuers raced against time in a desperate search for survivors and any sign of life. But throughout the day, the death toll kept climbing. A Secur
This is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. We begin tonight in nepal where the police say more than 1,000 people are dead after the worst earthquake there in more than 80 years. The quake hit nepal, a small impoverished nation sandwiched between india and tibet in the himalayan mountains, around noon today. To give you a sense of just how strong this earthquake was the magnitude of 7. 8 makes it 16 times more powerful than the earthquake that devastated haiti in 2010. Mount everest is in 53 nepal, and the quake caused a deadly avalanche at the climbers base camp. Tens of thousands of people in nepal are now spending a chilly stormy night out in the open. Heres Charlie Dagata. Reporter it was just after noon when the killer earthquake struck and triggered chaos on the streets of the capital kathmandu. Brick by brick, rescuers raced against time in a desperate search for survivors and any sign of life. But throughout the day, the death toll kept climbing. A Secur
Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. And this is the western edition of the broadcast. We begin tonight in nepal where the police say more than 1,000 people are dead after the worst earthquake there in more than 80 years. The quake hit nepal, a small impoverished nation sandwiched between india and tibet in the himalayan mountains, around noon today. To give you a sense of just how strong this earthquake was, its magnitude of 7. 8 makes it 16 times more powerful than the earthquake that devastated haiti in 2010. Mount everest is in nepal, and the quake caused a deadly avalanche at the climbers base camp. Tens of thousands of people in nepal are now spending a chilly, stormy night out in the open. Heres Charlie Dagata. Reporter it was just after noon when the killer earthquake struck and triggered chaos on the streets of the capital kathmandu. Brick by brick, rescuers raced against time in a desperate search for survivors and any sign of life. But throughout the day, the death toll kep
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