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Have an interest in health care starting with the consumer, the patients, the parents, and then going into doctors and all the other adjuncts that go along with putting together a health care package, they havent done that. they dont know what the reaction is going to be overall and a lot of members are nervous about that. they think theyre going to get this thing voted and off the table and were going to focus on infrastructure a trillion dollars and then tax cuts. we dont know how much thats g...

Job. yeah. >> because adjuncts and graduate teaching students are doing the teaching that we should be doing. so we benefit from the subsidy of teaching assistants so its our job to say no, this is not right. said university. we need more tenured track lines, to go back actually in many ways to the way higher ed -- we have the best system of higher education in the world or we used to primarily because of the model of full time faculty being able to have time for teaching and research. so we nee...

Campus who maybe dont have ph.d.s or there are fewer sort of courses to be taught and therefore sort of less to go around. that tends to be the counter argument. >> well, thats probably, that would be an argument but i think there would probably be some sort of a transitional phase. i am of the old school of adjuncts, professional who is coming into this world without any knowledge of the academia per se but bringing my professional experience from the performing arts, from the music business. s...

Students because students pay exactly the same tuition for courses taught by adjuncts as for taught by full time faculty so they should get the same support. >> as you think of the labor organizer here then, and im hearing okay, theres the same fear that we heard when we were talking with colby harris about the idea someone could be fired or rather not renewed. how do you start to build on a campus from the folks who do have relative privilege and voice, thinking about tuition paying students, t...

Vernence, people who are adjunct faculty almost never have a vote on the decisions being made. >> this is an example of one of the institutions, higher education and seeing the walmartization, i made that up, but seeing the walmartization of higher education, jobs. what were seeing in terms of the economy is affecting every kind of institution. so greater reliance on part-time, and adjunct faculty with no benefits. it does affect student learning conditions. if you are running around trying to p...

I appreciate it. >> greta: remember, tomorrow, oscar pistorius will be back in court. we will bring you the latest on the murder case tomorrow night on the record. now to a controversy over defense secretary nominee chuck hagel. now fuel for the fire and senators raising remarks for renarcs in 2007. cording to the record, hagel says that an adjuncts to the israeli office. and making the comment at rutgers, and today another bombshell accusation. the person who brought senator hagel to russia was...

I appreciate it. >> greta: remember, tomorrow, oscar pistorius will be back in court. we will bring you the latest on the murder case tomorrow night on the record. now to a controversy over defense secretary nominee chuck hagel. now fuel for the fire and senators raising remarks for renarcs in 2007. cording to the record, hagel says that its an adjuncts to the israeli office. and making the comment at rutgers, and today another bombshell accusation. the person who brought senator hagel to russia...

No mention of afghanistan, at all, as if there was no war, something the democrats were quick to point out. the obama campaign has accused governor romney of offering few specifics. now, we have pulitzer prize winning journalist, judith miller and adjuncts -- adjunct fellow at the manhattan think tank. >>guest: during his acceptance speech, governor romney uttered exactly 202 words about foreign policy. that is about 5 percent of the speech. that being said there is a difference in tone, a marke...

militarys explanation of what happened. and north korea set to launch a satellite next month that is going to mark the 100th birthday. there have been missile tests in disguise. the state department is calling the news highly provocative. and its game on. president obama is raising money in chicago to raise more campaign cash. vice president biden, he is in fighting mode and in a speech to auto workers yesterday blasted republicans who opposed the industry bailout. >> he made the t...

Defection other than the deputy believe this may not end the same way the other revolution did. listen to our guest. >> people think qadaffi, or mubarak but saddam hussein is the bet analogy people who use whatever violence is needed to world complained but stayed on the sidelines and i predict there is a high likelihood that assad will survive. >>jonathan: and that increased by his very real willingness to do anything no matter how heinous. >>shepard: when you murder your own men, women and chi...