The cspan buss big ten fall tour kick off this week with washington journal interviewing University President s on policy issues that Impact Higher education, including costs, admission policies and curriculum and academic standards. Coming up, university of arizona president eric caleb. And here on washington journal this morning, we kick off the first of our Big Ten College tour with visits to Big Ten College campuses and talking to president s of the Big Ten Colleges and universities. The colleges that educate some half Million People each year and allocate some 10 billion a year to research throughout the country and beyond. Were joined this morning by eric kalor. And and on wednesday, james lindher, and joining us on our cspan bus is eric kalor, thank you for joining us this morning here on washington journal. Very glad to be with you. Tell us about the university of minnesota system. Is it a public system . A Land Grant University . Sure. Its minnesotas Land Grant University. We
Going into monday and tuesday of next week. You can stay in touch with the storm updates and see infrared satellite images and live updates on wbaltv. Com and our mall app. Lee malvo, the teenager who terrorized the maryland and d. C. Area says he was also abused by john mohammed. Jayne miller has more on what he had to say. He spoke to us from the prison in virginia where he is serving a life sentence. The two snipers killed and wounded people at random in 2002. 17 at the time of his arrest, now an adult, lee malvo described pulling the trigger 10 years ago, hidden in the back of the snipers car with a high powered rifle in hand. When i pull the trigger for the first time, this may sound surreal, but it is simply what happened. He described his devotion to john lonegan now claims he abused him. Describes his devotion to john mohammed. I was sexually abused by a babysitter, and then later on our relatives when i was 8, 9 years old. And then for the entire period when i was almost 15 un
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Operation. The university was founded in 1851. How long have you been president , president kalor . Well, less than that for sure. Im just starting my fourth year, im the 16th president of the university so people tend to serve in this job for a long time. What are some of your priorities as president . Well, its really Pretty Simple for me, im very interested in accessibilities and affordability. For qualifies minnesotan s and im interested in the university providing a truly excellent education for those students. Also interested in being sure that we help drive the economy of the state of minnesota, that were the home of inventions and innovations in medical care, science and engineering and we also have a critically important responsibility to maintain the liberal arts and be a place where Creative Work of all kinds takes place. So its a pretty broad span, but at the end of the day were interested in our undergraduate student, ensuring they get an excellent education. That they can
When the media was going to be there because hed show up and that was always a tip that things were pretty important. The business of the house has been a little bit corrupted. Not a lot. A little. Because its interesting to note its interesting to note that that money, that relationship with the media is one which generally squares the members of the house. It is always a situation where if you watch the members, you watch hes got his eye on there and if you look, youll find that instead of intelligent debate, all of a sudden, weve got a guy who is making a big speech being where he need somebody with whom he was having a discussion on important issues. Just to return to one point, ive done pret i well because i learned something. And that is how one can take a units of compound interest rule. And one of the reasons you know what is i have to report it. You can be pretty sure its fairly truthful. And it does very frankly keep me and the system sort of now on to some questions about th