Welcome everyone. Good evening. I want to thank you all for joining us tonight. On the evening of general and president Ulysses S Grants 200th birthday. This historic milestone comes at a time when grant star is rising. Ulysses s grante is being commemorated and proclamations and other special messages issued by states across the nation the District Of Columbia and living us president s. We have included in our dinner programs. Just one of the proclamations from grants birth state of ohio and all president ial messages that were available at the time of printing. What stands out in these messages . Also stands out in historys understanding of grants during the 21st century. Appreciation of his accomplishments is no longer confined to his military career in which he was the principal author of Union Victory during the civil war. It now extends to his presidency which included benchmarks in peace and equality that merit him a place in the pantheon of great president s. Grants contemporar
Theres no magical number. Boise has done wonderful things with their investments. Look around San Diego State, cincinnati, connecticut. You look, you put cases part of it is our geography. And our success. We were successful. Cincinnati as an example, they have an operating debt in the tens of millions of dollars. They are paying money every year , in some form or fashion, someone is paying interest on that debt. That was a decision made by the university to make the investment, going back to the question of what you were asking. They have done things to facilities. You look at the 12 since the television contract. These are schools that were established schools. You look at what has gone on andin the facilities boom the page of football coaches particularly in the conference. It has been a huge increase. They didnt have to ante up to get in. They were already there. You have to youre still playing the game. Is amazing. , it wellee this, you know this at Arizona State in terms of withi
Such amendments as may have been adopted. Any member may demand a separate vote on the house and any amendment accommodated by the committee to the bill in the nature of a substitute in part a or amendment number 1 in part c. The rule provides each such amendment in part b and part c of the report may be offered only by a member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report, equally dividing control by the proponent. The rule provides one motion to recommit with or without instruction. Following the rule directs the clerk to add the text of 219 as housed be the house as a new matter at the end of hr152. Conform the title of hr152 to conform the text of hr219 as passed by the house, assign appropriate designations and provisions for short titles within. I thank the gentlemen. Any discussion or amendment the rule . Yes. Gentlemen d. I have a question, mr. Chairman, just for clarification, am i understand the loomis amendmen
This, noholdsbarred discussion we are planning to have. Are we seeing the field hockey player . If not why not . Theres a law known as title 9 signed by Richard Nixon june 23rd, 1970, to changing the Playing Field of america. The most important honor of our country, we have just begun to see it works its magic. It is still in its infancy. If you have a daughter or girl next door or granddaughter you know how important that lot is and wait until these women are running for president in universities and businesses in 2013, 24 become a 2015 and onward. We ignore that law unless we go to an economic model for College Athletics the lead the university and academic settings. If we go there, i think my overall feeling is the notion of be careful what you wish for. I am not sure we would like what we create if in fact we start paying athletes and have a whole separate proles. End loose what has been such the popular pieces of all our lives which is the College Sports experience playing or watc
And as we know, nonreligious private schools often cost four, five times that amount. So as a consequence, over 80 , close to 80 of students in the program are attending religious private school. So florida is not alone in that regard although it was one of the first off the mark. Florida s. T. O. M. P. Program has been implemented in a number of different states from indiana to louisiana to pennsylvania. So north and south, east and west. Such that the wall street journal called 2011 the year of School Choice. And 2012 had even more School Choice programs being implemented around the country. So at this point we are serving a dramatically altered cascade. So thats kind of a preamble to the types of world in which we are living right now. You may want to ask yourself okay, why are we doing this . What why might we have moved from a choice environment where students had, families had very little choice. The choice was essentially limited to the residential location for all intents and p