Talk about recent debates over historical monuments, discussing how people could make decisions about removing or contextualize exam based on Historical Information and public sentiment. The american historical so cetacean associated and recorded this event. Good afternoon. And i say that with some trepidation, because our audience is national and international. So, good morning to some of you and good evening to some of you. I am jim grossman, the executive director of the american historical association. And this is an initial experiment in something that we are likely to call history behind the headlines. The aha considers Historical Context and perspective essential to decisionmaking in public culture and especially in all aspects of public policy. The aha is a membershipsupported organization, just a reminder. , one has to say these things, anybody who watches Public Television or listens to public radio is ready for this. If you would like to become a member and support this type
Were take a live look with the fire is still burning under control. See a home right there. Right now all of the home is impacting the bay area. Good morning friday, october 25. Here are the latest numbers. 16,000 acres have burned. 2000 people have been ordered to evacuate. At least 49 structures are burned. There is a look at the evacuation zone. All right east of highway 128. We have Lifetime Coverage all morning long. Mary is tracking conditions in the northbay. First lets begin with katie who is been covering this fire all morning long. She was there yesterday near the front lines. We are going to bring in katie nelson later on for live report. First we will talk more about the fire and some of the weather conditions the firefighters have been battling. Before that was check in with mary. Thankfully the winds has definitely eased up. Especially up near the kincaid fire. That is the good thing. Now that showed you live with our tower camera. Looking east. Right now temperatures are
warmest spot at 48 degrees right now now tonight is going to be another icy cold evening and us a freeze warning takes effect by be a good idea to plan on covering some plants if you didn t already do so this previous evening as conditions will drop below freezing not just for the north bay, but also for some of our inland and even bayside areas with temperatures falling into the 30 s right along the bay 20 s for some inland spots, 50 s for daytime highs later today, sure beats our morning temperatures but it s still going to be cool enough for a jacket making our way into the afternoon. erica. well if you re planning on taking the bay bridge into the city right now it s not looking good. we just had a traffic as you can see on our camera view here before the toll that the barely moving our drive times will start to go up. here s some more details on that so it s near the a treasure island agus said ah this is a semi truck of this is ite sedan we have the 3rd sig alert has b
Gratitude. E will be discussing pathologies, undeniable pathologies that exist in american Higher Education these days. Ompromising of compromising of academic education. The lack of Viewpoint Diversity. The phenomenon of trying to win debates by labeling other people haters. T bigots or those pathologies are undeniable. They exist. They are very widespread. Many people in the academy across the political spectrum not only recognize them but recognize that they present an urgent problem and truly a stanford ovost of university recently in a public letter called that threat the threat from within the you university within the university. Saying no threat to Higher Education come interesting outside the universities is the equal of the threat inside the universities stemming from a certain kind of ill liberalism. A lack of Viewpoint Diversity among faculty and students. A tendency to group think and unwillingness to question established orthodoxies or permit discussions of key issues to
The final panel for the day addresses issues having to do with liberal Arts Education and the search for truth. We have a distinguished group of panelists to address the question. I want to begin though with a bit of personal testimony of my own and then really an expression of gratitude. We will be discussing pathologies, undeniable pathologies that exist in american Higher Education these days. Compromising of Academic Freedom violations of Core Principles of freedom of speech, the lack of Viewpoint Diversity, the phenomenon of trying to win debates labeling other people as bigots or haters or what have you. Those pathologies as i say are undeniable. They exist. They are very widespread. Many people in the capital across the political spectrum not only recognize them but recognize that the present an urgent problem and truly a threat. A provost from Stanford University recently the public letter called that threat the threat from within the university saying that no threat to Higher