[applause] my name is justin desmangles. I am the chair of the before Columbus Foundation. About eight years ago i proceeded in that position, our founder, ishmael reed, we are very fortunate to have with us joining the program today. There were some very big shoes to fill. Of course, i want to thank our friends at the San Francisco jazz center who had been so generous in their support of the american book awards for the last several years. Also our friend at cspan who continue to support the Historical Mission of the before Columbus Foundation and american book awards. I will say a few things about our direction that we embarked on recently. Over the past several years we have expanded our programming to include a number of partnerships in the bay area and nationally, including those with the San Francisco Public Library who i am very honored to say, one of the representatives, stuart shaw who has been instrumental facilitating the collaboration between the before Columbus Foundation
American universities have long been unique institutions that generate novel sometimes controversial and even classic ideas that will challenge and sometimes press popular wisdom bringing to bear deeper more rigorous analyses of evidence. Such ideas can at times youll advances or even breakthroughs of the most vexing questions and problems of our day. One of the most indispensable pillars in Higher Education, which makes such advanced wholly possible, is a cardinal principle and practice of Academic Freedom, the protection and the unfettered pursuit of ideas, concepts, evidence and knowledge, and the passing on of such in our education students. While the principle of Academic Freedom is a central freedom of american education, the university of chicago has a rather distinctive and deeply held approach to Academic Freedom, a which im sure youll be hearing more about this evening from some of our panelists. The school of social Service Administration has a a professional school of socia
And the universities of michigan and chicago. This is 90 minutes. Dean guterman ok, good evening everyone. I guess it is evening time now. The sun is setting so early. For those who dont know me, im neil guterman, dean here at the university of chicago. I want to thank you for joining us for this evenings events. American universities have long been unique institutions that generate novel, sometimes controversial and even iconoclastic ideas that challenge or sometimes press popular wisdom bring to bear more rigorous evidence. Such ideas can at times fuel advances or even breakthroughs on most vexing questions and problems of our day. One of the most indispensable pillars in Higher Education is the cardinal principal and practice of Academic Freedom, the protection of and unfettered pursuit of ideas, concepts, evidence and knowledge, and the passing on of such in our education of students. While the principal of Academic Freedom is an essential feature of american Higher Education, the
It does, why does it have a particular shape, why do we see one large cluster of skyscrapers downtown and another one several miles to he north in midtown. Theres relatively few skyscrapers even to this day in the area in between. So building the skyline, just very briefly, is a book about my research and im an economist at rutgers newark. Over last decade or so, my interests have primarily been in studying the economys of cities, the economics of real estate and skyscrapers. And much of this book discusses my findings from this Research Agenda over the last decade. So the book is an economic history of the manhattan skyline and from 1626 to the present, perhaps youre wondering what 1626 has to do with the modern skyline. Ill leave that for you to read in the book. The questions that i seek to answer in the book itself are, what were the early real estate decisions that ultimately gave rise to the skyline . What have been the economic of skyscrapers since the late 19th century, and how
You see a bullet rip through the minivan and little anila was just out of camera view. Including this woman and her son. It was heart breaking like watching one of my kids. 20 to 21 shell casing were at the scene from two caliber of weapons, that means at least two guns at the scene. But eyewitnesss saw only one man shooting. You see to men at the top of this surveillance footage, one of the shooters was wearing a white tshirt. A sad state of affairs where a 6yearold child on a summer evening would have to face Something Like this. Two other shootings occurred here in this area. But police dont believe the shootings are connected of the shooting of anila. Live in east german town, chad pradelli, channel 6 action news. Lets hope she continues to recover. Time for a check of the accuweather forecast. Lets go outside to Melissa Magee in for adam joseph. We are back in the soup tonight. Reporter yes, this is just the beginning, its not just the temperature but the dew point which makes it