No, your friend. Sidney crawford. She was the first fight i ever had in grade school. I was 10 years old and we started throwing rocks at each other. And i called him a sissy and thats when the fight turned on. Why . We learned at an early age that the worst thing you can be called as a boy, is a girl. I just came from Catholic School and here we were, fighting for dominance on the playground. As soon as i evoked gender in the conversation, that from the fight happened. Why did that incident that was you so much that you left it in your book . Because it was, going back to fundamentally how boys learn what it means to be a man and how we learn to juxtapose girls are in our lives. It was that moment. That thing that happened at a very early age. My will is i dont Like Fighting number one. And number two, what me to 10yearold boys start rolling in the gravel, fighting because one of them questions the others masculinity. In your book, you write, we do not raise boys to be men. We raised
College athletes ability to earn money from endorsements. They spoke at a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing. Good morning, everyone. The committee the subcommittee will come to order. Were honored to have the chairman with us this morning, and i expect senator blumenthal to join us momentarily. As chairman of this subcommittee with jurisdiction over amateur athletics i welcome all of you to todays hearing entitled name, image, likeness, the state of intercollegiate compensation. The expectation or hope is that we might limit ourselves to that kuip of conversation but i have no control over my colleagues or what the witnesses may say that may take us broader in scope. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses. Im appreciative of all of them being here but especially the chancellor of my alma mater the university of kansas, the president of the collegiate Athletic Association and two former student athletes. In my home state we have a rich history of College Athletics. The womens s
Have the chairman with us this morning, and i expect senator blumenthal to join us momentarily. As chairman of this subcommittee with jurisdiction over amateur athletics i welcome all of you to todays hearing entitled name, image, likeness, the state of intercollegiate compensation. The expectation or hope is that we might limit ourselves to that kuip of conversation but i have no control over my colleagues or what the witnesses may say that may take us broader in scope. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses. Im appreciative of all of them being here but especially the chancellor of my alma mater the university of kansas, the president of the collegiate Athletic Association and two former student athletes. In my home state we have a rich history of College Athletics. The womens soccer team won their first title last year. In my hometown of Manhattan College football at kansas staet university and a legacy continued by the current coach and Athletic Director gene taylor and who c
Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make
High School Scholarship recipient from last year. She came here and enjoyed herself, im sure. Patrick is the author of the land shall be day loosed in blood, a new history of nat turners revolt published by Oxford University press. It is one of the finest books i have read on southern history in a long time. It is a book i assigned to my undergraduates in this spring, and undergraduate are tough customers when it comes to books. Mr. Absolutely enjoyed breens scholarship and writing. Important book, and one thing patrick and i talked about, it is just a shame that one can go to southampton county today were turners revolt took place and you will but you state signage, will have no way of taking a driving tour to see the sites related to that important revolt. It truly is shocking. Patrick has tried to do his part and bring more awareness and attention, so audiences like us to go to battlefields, i suspect if we had the opportunity, we would take a bus to southampton county to look at th