we are following breaking news, kate cox, the pregnant woman from texas who asked the court to allow an emergency abortion has left the state to obtain the procedure, that s according to a statement from her attorney. her faded that s my fetus has a fatal condition and doctors told her continuing her pregnancy threatens her ability to have more children. the texas supreme court has blocked her from terminating the pregnancy. ed, what are we learning about her decision to leave? reporter: well her lawyers say that because she has been caught in this legal limbo for specifically the last several days and much of the last week, because of that, she has decided to leave texas, and get the abortion elsewhere. her lawyers are not saying exactly where she s going but in a statement they did say that she had offers of help from places in colorado, kansas, even canada as well. let s get to some of the statements that her lawyers released, where they said that her health is on the li
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 what that does, to draw a line that for the purposes that michael i think just described betweenprofessors private activities and their professional activities in order to protect the right of the freedom of professors to be politically engaged outside of the classroom. Of course the rubber hits the road when the professor is teaching politics. And those are the places where we see the most challenge in these environments. For example professor of the middle east who has particular position on the middle east, that might cross the line between instruction and advocacy. That is not a simple line to navigate. And many of the controversies sweechb seen at berkeley are students who are concerned about or disapprove of the positions that professors may profess in those particular kinds of settings. And i think that is one of the arenas where weve seen the most stress and it has come from both the left and the right in different cla
Leaders of liberal arts colleges universities,s of all of whom share a lot of similar concerns and issues. Im sorry . Louder. Ok. Do i need to start again . So that means everyone has to speak directly into these microphones. I want to introduce our panelists. We have the president of davidson college. She is a long accomplished administrator, and has spent much of her career in houston, where she was a Vice President of international disciplinary initiatives. To her left is the provost of northwestern university. Until he moved to northwestern last year, he was the dean of morgannd the edmund s. Professor of African American history and studies at yale. He is working on many interesting projects, and has written an introduction for the dubbois epicf souls of black folk, still used in many universities to address the issues of our time. We have the executive dean of colleges of letters and sciences at the university of california, berkeley. She is a professor of history and a scholar w
So that means everyone has to speak directly into these microphones. I want to introduce our panelists. We have the president of davidson college. She is a long accomplished administrator, and has spent much of her career in houston, where she was a Vice President of international disciplinary initiatives. To her left is the provost of northwestern university. Until he moved to northwestern last year, he was the dean of yale college, and the edmund s. Morgan professor of African American history and studies at yale. He is working on many interesting projects, and has written an introduction for the new addition of dubbois epic souls of black folk, still used in many universities to address the issues of our time. We have the executive dean of letters and sciences at the university of california, berkeley. She is a professor of history and a prizewinning scholar with 20 years of experience teaching at berkeley. To her right is the president of Wesleyan University in connecticut. He was
We are going to get started here tonight. My name is seth mnookin im the director of the Communications Forum and a couple of quick announcements before we start. First Communications Forums are held three times a semester, six times a year. If you would like to be informed of future events theres a signup sheet over their. Put your name and email and we promise we will only send you information about our six events a year. We had judge john hodgman last semester. We have great stuff planned for next semester already. Also tonights form is being filmed by cspan so during the question part of the forum if you would go up to one of the microphones and hopefully state your name and your question. Another reason we ask you to state your name is we then go right up to the forums afterwards which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on our web site and the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius which is another group here at m. I. T. I am t