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Coming up today on cspan, a discussion about the future of College Sports and pay for student athletes. Look at early attempts to treat posttraumatic stress disorder. Supreme Court Justices samuel alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas reflect on the nations highest court. Later, her series of congressional our series of congressional retirement interviews continues. This thanksgiving weekend, we continue our fourday book tv in American History tv programming. Saturday at 10 00 on book tv, j...

Good afternoon. This is the second of a series of tamils on College Athletics. Thank you for joining us here today in washington, d. C. , online, and on cspan as well. The numbers in College Sports are staggering. Something easily be we are talking in terms ofs of points scored, yards gained, or a number of things ushered quantitatively attendance, participation, and money. According to filings with the department of education, in 2011, the most recent year for which the numbers are available, C...

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Were providing unbelievable opportunities for young people. I hope the train hasnt left the station where we can regain some sanity in the amateurs model. As someone who played the sport, i hate to say it but football has become too big and overbearing and dominated so much that i fear were losing sight of some of the thing that is make our universities great. The opportunities for women in sport. I dont say that because i work at the program, but we also have athletes that come from sports that...

I er the last four years, have done enough back and forth, ttweeted both parties equal further, that people will now come to grudgingly say, okay, you are someone we can do business with. The Senate Majority pac, which affiliated with harry reid, they stopped answering my questions midway through the Campaign Season because they felt they were not getting a fair shake for me. Pm sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. On the cspan , networks. Here are some of our future programs....

The next initiative was we worked with a native energy in 2,007 to be the very first to offset all the carbon emissions. That was an important thing. People thought that was nuts too. I had people at cocacola and other Large Companies saying, kid, what are you doing . This makes no sense and i said i care about it and i could use all my little cans and little bottles to tell a story about carbon offsets. So i actually used the Beverage Business because of our over consumption with a story on the...

Is id imagine for texas football. I want to close with a question to each of you. If you had to fix one thing regarding the money aspect of where we are heading or one thing that concerns you most of the road were heading down, what is it, pete . I think one of the things one of the places where were headed right now, jimmy, thats scary to me, is that as and especially at the lower tier schools in the big five, as they struggle to build buildings to compete, as they struggle to catch up, i think...

Moment. In our first or a five minutes your thoughts on changes you would make to the Affordable Care act. Have to are a recipient. Perhaps you are a recipient. You can give your thoughts on changes you would recommend to the administration on changing it. Heres how you can call us on different lines. If you are a medical professional or if you are uninsured. Everyone else can call on2027488003. Buchanan also continued the conversation on this on our face up page facebook. Com cspan. About the t...

Hes been called an elite thinker. His books including finding your element, and out of minds. York. Ken robinson, you have been described as one of the worlds leading thinkers. What goes through your mind when you hear that . Its all true, obviously. I mean, i. I dont know, people apply these epithets to you. Its a slogan that comes out. There are a lot of exparts on creatist experts on creativity. I dont take it seriously, but i try to clarify what i think and can. Speaking of creativity, what ...

80 of the students would be considered black and universities. There are even a couple of historical black colleges and universities because of the history who actually have student populations that are more predominantly caucasian. They represented an opportunity for blacks at that time to get an education, and overtime has evolved into worldclass institution such as ours. Host as far as the role they serve today, how would you describe that particularly as colleges as a competitive thing and a...