Discussion about Academic Freedom and diversity on College Campuses panelists include a documentary filmmaker plus authors and filmmakers from Yale University and the universities of michigan in chicago. University of Chicago School of social Service Administration hosted the discussion. It is about 90 minutes. Okay, good evening everyone. I am the dean of the school of social Service Administration here at the university of chicago. I want to thank you for joining us for this evenings event. American universities have long been unique institutions that have unique and controversials ideas that bring to bear deeper analyses in evidence. Such ideas can fuel advances or even breakthroughs on many questions and problems of our day. One of the most indispensable pillars in education which makes as possible is the cardinal principle and practice of Academic Freedom. The pursuit of ideas, concepts, concepts, evidence and knowledge and the passing on of such in the education of our students.
incredible. one of those i learned about from lucy johnson was he was giving my children and me into her of this land, which was part of the national park, and she told us the story of her great-grandmother, lyndon johnson s grandmother, who again came from a family in the east, moved out into the country where a number of her cousin had moved for the land and one of their neighbors was killed by a comanches in a raid and all of the men went to search for the comanches that have killed those neighbors. she was alone with her baby. and she heard the horses being rustled out outside and rush them into her basement. she covered it and everything that she had in the house, her china and everything, and then there was silence in and the next thing she heard was her husband coming home and he was just obviously very devastated. so she emerged from the basement and said, i think we are going to move to san marcos. [laughter] so they did. but she also wrote the trails with her husban
and i know that day he imparted some kirchner and his consideration, but i can only remember one thing that he said. i remember as if it was yesterday. he said for years from now, 40% have you won t be air. last night and i looked last i looked right insulting my chair because i knew he was looking right at me when he said that. the irony of it was that four years earlier he wasn t here because president ford had called him to washington to the justice department brat after that catastrophe, the devastation of watergate. one of the things attorney general stopped to do to restore public trust in the justice department system of justice was to set up a public integrity unit in the justice department. one of the young recruits for the public integrity unit was the man i have the honor of introducing today. eric holder served there for 12 years and prosecuted some high-profile cases, including some arising from the celebrated investigation of congress. he was appointed by presid