Well, good evening. Im chris brown, the Deputy Director of the Smithsonians National air and museum. And it is my to welcome you to tonights aviation lecture. Since 1982, this lecture series has spotlighted more than 140 of the biggest names in modern aviation history. Like all of our public programs. This lecture is presented free of charge. This is possible. Thanks. Through the generous support ge Aviation Private contributions like theirs are critical to our programs and exhibitions and it is my privilege to acknowledge them for their longstanding and valued. Representing ge aviation with us tonight is lisa crerar barclay, Digital Solutions leader of military Systems Operations at ge aviation. Lisa, to you and your colleagues at g. E. , we thank you for substantial and enduring support. Since we opened the museum here on the mall in 1976 and the uber hazy in chantilly in 2003. More. 350 Million People have walked through our doors to be informed and inspired by the history of flight
And they ignore met, and then in 2011 i started speaking with dan cain of the record and then in 2012 when i was still talking to him, went to president fridays funeral, and i remember mittwill with him in 2010 and i felt really bad when i heard about the president friday and how important academic integrity was to him, and i spoke to my husband chuck about how upset was. He start started a blog. It went viral, and then dan cain said, youre base chris basically on the record now so off to the races we went, and then i met jay at around that same time, and his he personally and his athletic reform group, group of faculty have had my back and although it seems like i have had all this hate, which i have, fans are fanatics i have had many more supporters encouraging me on because many of us know that this is the truth and that we have seen this ourselves. And wed like to do something as well but iland to be in the right place at the right ty time have great support from my husband and fam
Division1 profit sports but well separate those and were going to pay you were going to give you benefits, maybe make you an employee like the Northwestern Football Team its suggest. We are waiting for nlrb to rule. Maybe these booster issues would goo away. Then the scholarship issue goes away and all these perks go away. So its hard to really it is a complex business problem. Youre getting to the money corrupts. I think its fruitless to try to control it so its better several the relationship. Thats my opinion. But mary is getting there. What . The immensity of the problem in bigtime College Sports where would you locate yourselves on the spectrum from optimistic to pessimistic insofar as Significant Movement toward a solution . Im optimistic because im in it to win it, as the ncaa says. And i think that were riding a wave right now that is pretty positive. As michael housefelled who fought opanon case he said the door is open a little bit to fix this. We have to take it off the hing
Programs for this weekend on the cspan networks. On cspan2s booktv saturday 10 00 p. M. Even would of afterwards, Grover Nordquist says americans are tired of ther is and is our tax system, and then susan butler on Franklin Roosevelt and joe stalin and their Unexpected Partnership behind in the war, and then on cspan3, on lectures in history university of virginias college of wise professor Jennifer Murray on how civil war veteranes reunions changed from the reconstruction era to the present and sunday afternoon at 1 00 American History tv is live from the appomattox courthouse come enemiating the confederate surrender and the end of the civil war. Up next a report on two decade of academic fraud at the university of North Carolina where studentathletes were given fake or paper classes to artificially boost their gpas. Good evening. I am not here because im a longtime North Carolinaan, im not here because im an expert on the specific subject at hand. Im here because of the heritage tha
But we certainly have heard from coaches, you know, espn, outside the lines, and locally we have heard from some coaches the last report they didnt know necessarily about what was happening behind the scenes in the academic support units, but we reported to them on a weekly basis from the academics unit for studentathletes. They had all the records. They helped with clearing athletes for tournaments like right now in march madness, before you go, to the tournament, you have to certify your students all over again. So youre constantly when youre in an academic support unit in athletics youre constantly looking at transcripts and letting the coach notes who is eligible, who is not who is sitting on the fence, where were Going Forward with all of that. Yes. Yes. Id like to thank you as well. Thank you. And i was wondering if you talked about Burgess Mcswain and wayne walden in their book and theyre involvement. We do. You hate to speak ill of the dead but but we do. Im sure when im dead l