More on the state of college byletics at an event hosted the big 12 conference. Athletesters, former and University Officials discuss the pros and cons of the current how things might change if some athletes were paid for performance. From the National Press club in washington, this is about 1 15. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us here. Of our panelion discussion today, organized and sponsored by the big 12 conference. Collegeathletes athletics occupies a unique position in our culture. The athletes themselves can be among the biggest stars in sports. Think about johnny football. Not, theyr stars or will likely work hard. Colter, former northwestern quarterback, testified before the National Labor relations that he spent 50 to 60 hours a week during Training Camp in the summer and once the his commitment to a student, he be said, in light of his athlete. Ns as an a finding of that same nlrb likely a significant step in radically changing further how College Athletes i
Senator carl 11, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services committee, why are you retiring . I just felt that there is too much at stake now and i have a responsibility for some of those things as the chairman of the Armed Services committee, and i want to spend my time basically with my wife. My wife and i have been married 50 years, and now 32 of those have been in public life. O we felt that it was time i am also 80 years old now. Time toelt that it was basically go home and spend a andbit more time these last two years have gone by and have been so important for america being at war, but also in terms of recovering from and his german of the permanent subcommittee of investigations, there are really important investigations that need to go on and as chairman of the permanent subcommittee of investigations, there are really important in investigations that need to go on. I dont want to be out there campaigning. And also, the present situation here has led to a crazy way of budgeting
That was on the top of their agenda, ptsd i am hearing two questions from you. One is for the cases of people who were not diagnosed early on, and are still decades later exhibiting posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, acute symptoms that are interfering with their daily life, is it something new that you all are trying or recommending, or is it those three courses of treatment . In the army, we would not be necessarily treating a veteran, first of all. Of course. So the three that i mentioned are what is shown by the evidence to be the most effective, but obviously they are not going to be effective for everyone, and there could be Something Else that is more effective for your wife. Or it could be that she is always going to carry this with her. And we have many people still in the army who have ptsd, but they are able to function with it and they are able to get through, weather with their colleagues or because they know how to manage it, they continue with it, but they still hav
Should motivate a candidate who runs for president. This is how you can respond on the phone lines. You can contact us on twitter. You can post your thoughts there. There is email. Is the story from the weekend section of usa today your co. This is the cover of it. This is why people run for president. If you go to the pages underneath and look at some of the reasons, we will read a couple to you. Maybe you will add to your own list about why people should run. Reason number one, to change the countrys direction. That is the change the country direction. To make history is number two. That goes on from there adding other thoughts why people should run for president. If you want to add your own thoughts on what should motivate a political candidate to run for president , this is how you can do so this morning. You can make your thoughts known on facebook as well. We will start with johnna. He is in houston, texas. He is calling on the republican line. Caller the problem is in my opinion
Media or around the world there is a monarch who could serve as head of state and we in this country have combined sort of head of state and head of government in the one office. Therefore, the president , first lady do everything from turn the lights on the Christmas Tree at the holidays to roll the easter eggs on the holiday to welcome heads of state. We do have a fixation on this in this country. I do think the highly feminine aspect of this will be minimized when we have a first female elected and the first man will try to define what his role is. The idea also of matterial infidelity if the office and high matterial infidelity of the office and wilson had affairs. We all know about about john kennedy, president johnson and president eisenhower and his terrorist. There is a long history of both parties with this. There is a long history of scant scandals. Mary todd lincoln was scandalous. She was shopping buying tons of dresses and gloves and she even bought a very expensive China