Extraordinary accountability. I want to compare and contrast what is happening with university of oklahoma and at the university of virginia with other context. This is march madness this weekend, next weekend kicks off determined kicks off the tournament. You have had to members that lost members of their team because of allegations of sexual assault. The universities did not close down the teams, they simply discipline the individuals. They do not discipline the womens track team because of what happened on the mens basketball team. But fraternities and sororities when these types of situations occur, a are being punished in a variety of fashions, not just as individuals, but the chapters are being closed, often by the impetus of the national organization. In the university virginia, thousands of students who were suspended by the University President for an allegation that eventually was proved meritless by an investigation i the washington post, they were held accountable but something they had nothing to do with. Most notable for that john, you had thousands of Women Leaders sororities are the largest Leadership Organization for women on campus. They were held accountable and suspended for an allegation of sexual assault, which is a terrible message to send. Host pennsylvania is up next, line for democrats. Caller im sorry to hear you wrap your fish in the new york times, but maybe that speaks to the gentle general intelligence level of fraternities and sororities. Guest maybe it does. I read it i read a great deal of publications. The caller is misinformed him and does not realize there is a strong correlation between the member of a fraternity and sorting and completing college. One of the reasons these host institutions are eager to partner with them. They help retain freshmen into sophomore years and they a significant difference in making sure folks complete their college experience, earn that degree, and are capable of going out in the job market and getting a job that will help them pay the student debt they have incurred in the process. Host one of our colors but of a drinking issue at a fraternity i believe he said he attended, i want to run these numbers by you, this from a bloomberg story, 59 students died in incidents involving fraternities since 2005, thats 2005 to 2012, about half of them out of all related. I want to i what you to address the issue of drinking and wreaking deaths in fraternity houses drinking deaths. Guest the issue of alcohol on College Campuses is complex. The government chose three decades ago to raise the drinking age to 21, and that has proved to be that has transformed the way students use alcohol and are educated about it. Before raising the drinking age it was very common for folks to drink in high school and to learn at home, under their parent supervision, how to handle our call and make responsible handle alcohol. Folks are still drinking at that age, now they come to College Campus and they are unsupervised , they have seen all the media depictions that they need to go crazy. Efforts to control that are hemmed in, the universities are at a difficult position in trying to teach responsible behavior at the same time they are trying to kill 90 of the student body that they cannot engage in alcohol use. It sets up a difficult situation, where College Students, the vast majority of them, are breaking the law regularly by dragging alcohol by drinking alcohol. A lot about a lot of universities, if not turning a blind eye, are not enforcing it because it is difficult to enforce. Eternities and sororities inherit a part of that problem. It is externally rare for a College Students to arrive on campus and have their first ring on campus. They learn that behavior before they get there. Colleges are dealing with the aftermath of that learned behavior. An environment host is a lower drinking age something you would advocate for . Guest we do not have a position on whether or not the drinking age should be changed. We do have a commission on alcohol that is looking at ways they can continue to better educate members and students at large about how to make responsible choices, some of the policy issues involved and how freaking occurs on College Campuses drinking occurs on College Campuses. College president s would tell you that those issues concern them greatly. The weight the law is today, it encourages dangerous behavior. Students know, if they will go to a bar, they will be carded, they now pregame, drink in the room, with illicitly obtain alcohol. By the time to get to their destination, that alcohol is in their blood system and it hits them at once and it can lead to dangerous situations. It is probably time for members of congress and others at the state level to have a discussion about how to address these issues. Host tennessee james, our line for democrats. You are on with kevin oneill. Caller how are you doing this morning . Guest good. Caller i want to know how can you sit there and say that it is regulated and it is not something that has been going on . Everybody knows where i am from at least, the community i live in, not to do with race for turner these fraternities are more likely to do Community Service . We are kept out of that gate for life. You cant tell me, that i can do things. \ i can have a car in my yard. I can have a certain color, and i have to pay this and that. Ive talked about you, the people that sit there and have the power you just sit there and feed into it. Guest you bring up an important point about the history of fraternities and sororities. The article referenced in the interview, talking about they were founded as elitist when all universities were elitist. The history is vastly different. Most of the womens organizations, some are as old as 150 years old those organizations were founded, in part, because women were having a difficult time having an access to Higher Education. Sororities were a useful tool to make sure they had a handout the latter. Up the ladder. National fraternities were formed because they made an opportunity for different segments of the community to get into an organization of likeminded individuals who would support one another, learn to be Community Leaders and get engaged. I think its very rare to have what the reviewer said, the system shuts anybody out, the system is inclusive, there is a place for everybody, it basically look for the right opportunity. The right place where they will feel comfortable with the values. If not, we incurred them to start a group that reflects their values. We encourage them. We would be happy to welcome them to our community. Host park hills, missouri, independent line. Caller good morning you dont mention about this bar the Bar Association they were under a flag in this country, how come your not talking about that . Host we are talking about fraternities and sororities and the greek system. Did you want to jump in . Guest i think shakespeare said it well, i will leave it at that. Host kevin oneill is the executive director of the fraternities and sororities Political Action announcer on the next washington journal, Bill Richardson talks about congressional involvement in negotiations with iran over its nuclear program. President obamas request to use force against isis and other issues. James kendall will talk about a possible 2016 president ial candidates who are spending time in New Hampshire. And a roundtable discussion on legalizing merkel marijuana medical marijuana. Its as always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Announcer monday night on the communicators, and clyburn on their recent Net Neutrality ruling. What i am proposing that we do is overhaul the Lifeline Program, make it concurrent and in sync with the information age. The prices and opportunities have been more explosive for the rest of us. Yet those providers are out of the certification business. It is a vulnerability in the cyst in in the system that we need to close. Next, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker speaks at a republican activist workshop in New Hampshire. Then a Memorial Service for edward brooke. After that, an interview with gary stein gart and joseph oneill. Scott walker spoke at a Republican Party grassroots activist workshop in concord. Governor walker is said to be considering a run for the 2016 president ial nomination. New hampshire traditionally holds the first residential primary in the nation. This is approximately 40 minutes. [applause] thank you. What a great job. Thank you. Thanks. What an honor to be here today thank you. Well, first off, i want to think youre great chair. We have been around the state the last two days, but before that, i got a chance to really sit down with Jennifer Horn and get to know her. And know her love for this party, and more importantly for the state and this country. We are at a meeting earlier in the year, and she said the rnc chair extra grew up about 15 miles down the road from me. Ironically, paul ryan grew up about 15 miles down the road from me in the other direction. It mustve been something in the water in the 1980s. [laughter] paul and i both flipped hamburgers as kids at mcdonalds. My first job was washing dishes, and then i moved up to flipping hamburgers. The only difference was i was in delving, he was in janesville. Pauls manager told him he had to flip hamburgers in the back because he didnt have the interpersonal skills to work the front Cash Register. If you see him, kid him about that. A true story. But i think about being here in the state and being joined today, my wife, the first lady of wisconsin is with us today. [applause] Governor Walker we have two sons, they are 20 and 19. Both in college. Both active as college republicans. Matthew was just the statewide chair. He knows your statewide chair here, as well. It is kind of fun to see people who know your kids, not just yourself. So we are part of that of matt and alex. They have twisted arms to maybe take part of the semester off and come to New Hampshire and come around the country and talk to young people like themselves because they are real proud of the fact that in our state, in the last election, now is the number one target in the country, at least one of the network exit polls showed that among 18 to 23 euros old years old, we won we went from 29 to 48 . How about that. We got the message out. [applause] Governor Walker and i want to tell you how much i appreciate all of you not being here just today, but many of you helped us out over the last couple years. Back in 2010, i was target number one at that point in the recall election. And so many people across this country reached out here in New Hampshire and elsewhere, and made a 20 dollar, or 25 donation. A lot of people at home reached out and went online and made phone calls for us. Most importantly, a lot of people said they prayed for us. The recall for us and our family, even with 100,000 protesters, even with the Death Threats and all the other nonsense, the support meant the world to us. So thank you to all of you here who did that along the way. When we had all the protesters i remember Time Magazine had the headline, dead man walker. They didnt think i was going to get past the recall, let alone get reelected. We knew that our reforms worked. I remember our polls were so bad about this point in the spring of 2011 that they thought, you know, there was no way we could win. Yet two things happened. By that fall, when our kids and all the other kids went to Public Schools, the schools that used our reforms found that their schools with the same or better. Then in december, when property tax bills came out and after a dozen years of property taxes going way up, property taxes in our state actually went down. I am proud to say today, in my state, property taxes are lower today than four years ago when we started. [applause] Governor Walker and we knew that would make a difference. Sure enough, when people saw they didnt have to see the tv ads attacking us, they didnt have to believe all the protesters, when they can see for themselves that the reforms were working, the tides started to change. By june 2012, we won that election. In june of that year with a higher percentage of more actual votes cast than we had in november 2010 two years earlier. That shows that results matter right . [applause] and the reason i tell you that is not just for background. The reason i tell you that is because i look at america today, i have a lot of the same mores that we first had when we first thought about running for governor. Many years ago, 2009, we sat down and talked about, thought about, prayed about getting in the race for governor. In our state, we havent carried the state for republican since 1984. That was when i was in high school and still had a full head of hair. But when i think back to that, back early 2009, we knew it would be tough in our state to run and win. But we knew we had to. Because we were worried for a sense, then in high school, that they would grew up in the great state we grew up in. As a parent, that is unacceptable. So we got to the election, we won that title. It was all the better because when we faced all the grief we did four years ago, it was worth it because if it had just been about a title or position, we might have backed down. But because we knew it was because of our sons, matt and alex, and all the sons and daughters like them and yet to be born, we knew it was with standing up and fighting for. We knew that even though the groups we knew the tactics they were using in our state are like the texas tactics they use around the country. Instead of intimidating us, it reminder us exactly who elected us. From that point toward, we never lost floor. And that is what we need more of in america today. [applause] today, as much as i am proud, as jennifer talked about, the transformational changes we have made in our state, i am proud of the fact that for my sons and their generation, i can say that today not only is the state that are, it is as good or better than it was when i was growing up. And that was my goal because i wanted my kids to grow up in a better place than we did. [applause] but i have to tell you, as a parent, im worried. I am worried for our country. Im worried about my sons and your sons and daughters, my nieces enjoy nieces and nephews and granddaughters and grandsons, i am more in that we are headed down that same path that worried me years ago. But i am an optimist. So i am not just worried. I have optimism that if we can put the kind of leadership in place in this country that we have done in my state and many of my neighboring states, where commonsense leader stood up and said we are going to change things, we are going to lead in the way that common sense republican principles i believe we can do the same thing in america. Let me give you three examples. When i look at this country, i think there is a clear contrast out there, particularly when it comes to growth. You listen to the president of the United States, and he talked a lot i try to listen to him to see, as an american first, i hope for the best. But i hear our president , and many of his allies like clinton and others out there, who i think you grow the economy and washington. Last year, there is a report that showed that six of the top 10 wealthiest counties in america are not in new york or california or florida or texas. Do you know where they are at echo in and around washington. In and around washington. I believe in america. We believe, the vast majority of the rest of us from outside of washington which, by the way, i call 68 square miles surrounded by reality. That is what washington is. The rest of us in reality understanding that we grow the economy all across this great country. That people create jobs, not the government. It is about time we have leaders who want to grow this country. [applause] it is why it is why im proud of the fact we have lowered the burden and our state and other state in glowing unemployment. Done so by lowering the burden on hard paying taxpayers. Some question my section my session with lowering taxes. We have lowered them. Why are you so obsessed with lowering tax burdens . I have a simple way of explaining this. On every six last month, we celebrated our 22nd wedding anniversary. [applause] she is probably amazed that she hung with me that long, but particularly after the last four years, but but i made a critical mistake not long after we were married. I went to Kohls Department stores and i bought something at the price it was marked that. [laughter] right . Now, i have been trained well. I know, after many years of practice, that if i am going to buy a shirt, i go to a rack that says it was 29 99, now it is 19 99. And i take it up to the Cash Register along with michaels credit card. And then i take the mailer that we get, because we shop there a lot, and sometimes it is 50 or 20 or if we are really lucky, it is 30 , right . We get 30 off, and then we pose out the kohls cash and we laid on the counter. And next thing you know, they are paying me to buy that shirt, right . Right . [applause] a little aside on this, i was exit wearing a sweater yesterday i actually stopped by kohls and bought the sweater in the rack where it was 70 off, and we paid one dollar for it with our kohls cash. Living the high life. [laughter] [applause] i say how does a company like coals make money . They make it off the volume, right . They make it up on them. They could charge 29. 99 for the shirt, or they could lower the price, brought in the value, and broadened the volume and the thing you know, all of us are buying things at a place like that. That is like your money, the taxpayers money. I could charge you a higher rate and few of you could afford it or i could lower the ra