Antisemitism on campus. While agreeing that the problem is more prevalent nationwide with a pushback on occupations of their universities condoning antisemitism and take. This hearing is just over three hours 15 minutes. Good morning. The disrupting classrooms the principal agents of antijewish harassment and violence and have made an absolute mockery of socalled University Leaders. Thats why the committee is getting gas yet again calling for accountability for those in charge of universities. Today with mr. Michael schill of Northwestern University, dr. Jean block of ucla, and dr. Johnson holloway of Rutgers University. Each of you should be ashamed of your decisions to allow antisemitic encampments to endanger jewish students. You should be doubly ashamed for capitulating to the antisemitic rule breakers. Our job today is first and foremost to hold those who are supposed to be in charge to account. Dr. Jean block, you will testify to the horrific violent events that unfolded at ucla,
The president founded Nyus Furman Center for urban policy which has become one of the nations leading Research Centers on housing. Welcome to the committee, president. Thank you. Our second witness is the president of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, new jersey. The next witness is the secretary and ceo of this society located in washington dc. The fine witness. The chancellor of ucla and los angeles, california. We thank you for being here today and look forward to your testimony. We will remind the witnesses that we have read your written statements which will. In full in the hearing record. Pursuant to Committee Rule 8d the Committee Practice i ask each limit your oral presentation to a fiveminute summary of the written statement. I also remind the witnesses to be aware of the responsibility to provide Accurate Information to the committee. I will first recognize this president for five minutes. Thank you. And also thank you to the representative for the kind introduction. I agr
Is the generational transition which holds great promise. Still as i mention the ongoing problem it is hard to imagine that despite all the efforts, more than 70 of afghans over the age of 15 cannot read or write. Half of all afghan girls are still not in school even though they are 40 and 9 million are back in school. Of those who are back in school, if you stay long enough to make it through secondary school, forced marriage, Child Marriage is still a reality. So how do we address this, what are what are the tools in our toolkit . The afghan women, i often get asked by audiences dont we try to take solutions, or possible solution and we try to prescribe something that would never work in their culture. There is never a onesizefitsall. One of the best approaches that we have used in afghanistan, the lowcost, sustainable effort effort has been because the partnerships. Judy mentioned before my basic approach to a lot of International Global issues and challenges, is is finding a way to
Nap under your desk, you think no one will see you, hide underneath . No, ive never done. That will have you done that . But sounds like good idea. Im roof to do just that. I tell you the principal had that hat on, that nice warm eagles cap, not a bad idea. On a morning like this, when some of our temperatures are in the 30s this morning. Could be little frosty in spots. National cupcake day, national, National Chocolate cupcake day, cupcake might be frozen. Temperatures in the 30s, 40s, bus stop buddy all bundled up this morning, because it is 48 degees in the city. And we have southwesterly breeze at 3 miles an hour, sunrise time 7 15. Looking at some other temperatures, 41 in mount pocono. Allentown, reading, lancaster, 41 in wrightstown, 43 Atlantic City and 42 in wildwood. High of 71 today. Cool afternoon, just perfect for autumn. And tonight, were down to 49 degrees, not quite as chilly, but still on the cool side. We will talk about what happens over the weekends, coming up in t
Chilly start to the day. Weather and traffic with tucker and erin. Overnight lows in the 30s there. Definitely chilly conditions and beautiful tuesday. Details on the weather, erin. Roads are in full swing. Lot of congestion 95 northbound crawl there thats not a only slow zone. 66 eastbound closer look at those and look at metro with first full look at traffic, allison an steve. Erin thanks very much a minute past the hour breaking over night we start with tram academy Northern Virginia violent crash. The car slammed into utility pole guardrail and free. Two other people in the car went to hospital in non lifethreatening injuries. Airport after chaos erupted over flight cancellation after Spirit Airlines cancelled in my opinion flight because of legal dispute. And video posted to switer showing angry passengers at the Spirit Airline Pilot Association over labor negotiations union says thats not the case and several were taken into custody, the white house reportedly considering expandi