University to follow a blueprint for change. Also spreading sickness, how the law in indiana helped to create an h. I. V. Epidemic. No one wants to go to gaol. Theyll share, the h. I. V. Is going to continue to be in scott bases. Thank you for joining us, im joie chen. Infectious disease experts imagined the major h. I. V. Outbreak would trike a big city. Instead the hot zone is rural indiana, where an unprecedented outbreak is under way. The ingredients dont have to be Large Population centers, and risky sexual beforehands. What is behind this outbreak is, in part, the actions of state lawmakers. As Jonathan Betz found in austin, indiana. I have the track mark here. Most of this is oxikotin track marks. Same over here. The part with my neck, thats new, thats opana. Reporter kevin admits hes an addict hooked on opana. Aint nothing like it. Reporter hes the face of a new epidemic, one thought was on the decline in the united states. A friend of mine and myself went down and got tested f
Can scandal force a university to follow a change concept . You were putting something out on the market that you didnt think would be safe . So i didnt go slumping anymore. America tonights michael okwu, is the gulf catch safe to eat . Thanks for joining us, im joie chen. Thisit is high season on the gulf coast. Five years since the worst owl spill in u. S. History. In 2010, the deep water horizon exploded and leaked huns of thousands of gallons into the gulf of mexico. There are deep questions about what lies beneath the surface. Michael okwu returns there to those who know just how much has changed. What kind of fish are you catching in these waters . Puppy drums drums,. Teresa and Donald Dardar are part of the point ocean india tribe. For more than 40 years these waters have put food on their table and money in their bank account. What would you guys do if you werent living off the water . What would we do . Yes. Oh, lord, i dont know. Reporter you never even considered that . No.
There mccaskill posted second in a series of roundtable discussions aimed at combating Sexual Assault on College Campuses. College officials and victims advocates. This is just under two and a half hours. Thank you all for being here today. Assume senator tester and senator blumenthal will join us at some point today. They will have an opportunity for putting anything on the record it would like. I would like to start by welcoming the participants. This is the second round table in a series of three focusing on the complex and various issues that surround Sexual Assault on College Campuses. Two weeks ago we had a discussion on the clary at and the campus safe act. On thursday we will be holding the third roundtable discussion on something i am very concerned about, and that is the coordination, working collaboration between Law Enforcement and University Campuses in terms of holding perpetrators criminally accountable. I am holding these roundtables to bring together a Diverse Group of
Funded its post secondary institutions, not funding institutions that had served large proportions of mexican americans, including many of those along the south texas border. And deborah has written about this. In effect, identifying that south texas was an education desert. We see that that is still the case with one of the counties that nick hillman talked about. People in my own department actually teach students at that institution that nick hillman identified. We actually bring a program out to them. So that they can have access to doctoral education and policy studies. Even though i live in a metropolitan area, even though we are located in a metropolitan area, we have to reach out to them. We are held to the same standards, texas is one of the 25 states with performance funding. We are held to the same standards of needing outcomes as other universities like the university of texas at austin that served half as many lowincome students or fewer and we serve over twice as many lat
Protected on the nations campuses. We enforce a variety of statutes that have relevance to the issue of Sexual Assaults. One, of course, is title ix of the education amendments of 1972, which we enforce in conjunction with the department of education and other agencies that Fund Institutions of Higher Education. We also enforce title iv of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans, moamong other thing, sex discrimination in Public Schools and schools of Higher Education. In addition we address the violent control act and the state streets act. And those statutes allow us to take a holistic approach, because it gives us jurisdiction over sex discrimination by Law Enforcement agencies. And as senator tester knows, we worked very cooperatively with both the university of montana at missoula, and the Missoula Police department to enter into agreements to address the handling of Sexual Assault complaints by students and members of the Missoula Community using all of these statutes. And i thi