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Fingerpainting and toxic masculinity training. a college professor demanding kindergartners learn to suppress their masculinity. ellicott in the university of wisconsin calling on schools to create programs aimed at, quote, finding ways to prevent unhealthy masculinity early and teaching boys and young men to challenge, simplify toxic masculinity, essential to creating cultural change. to a college this ellicott once school to implement what are called men's project similar to university programs. fifth-graders in one district are calling for less homework and the administration is considering...

Chief washington correspondent james rosen has the story of what unfolded on campus. james? >> reporter: good evening. black student activists on the columbia campus of the university of missouri where the black african-american population is just 8% has toppled two of the university's most powerful figures, today the chancellor lofton is stepping down at year end to lead university programs following a dramatic announcement from university president tim wolf who in buckling to mounting president acknowledged, quote, inaction to pons to racial incidents. >> you should really love everybody her...

Chief washington correspondent james rosen has the story of what unfolded on campus. james? >> reporter: good evening. black student activists on the columbia campus of the university of missouri where the black african-american population is just 8% has toppled two of the university's most powerful figures, today the chancellor lofton is stepping down at year end to lead university programs following a dramatic announcement from university president tim wolf who in buckling to mounting president acknowledged, quote, inaction to pons to racial incidents. >> you should really love everybody her...

The difference between the urgency of social activism and too much patience. that's one of many lines that has crossed over that is, of course, a part of black american history and a part of all-american history. skip, i wanted to get your thoughts on where this book fits into the larger effort to diversify our history, diversify the cannon. because when we look at people who have been marginalized out of it, women, minorities and others, one argument is let's make sure we have dedicated programs, discussions, and entire, you know, university programs for that. and another is, well, we've got ...

Or a decision to go with a kid out of stanford and take the risk and all of the headache and all of the years, or do something else with that money? >> well, the innovation, as john talked about in the tape that you just saw, and i think he said in his interview, young people sometimes don't know any better. and the exciting things that come out of university programs and i think you heard about google and yahoo! and sun microsystems and vm wear, that's 100,000 jobs actually that got created, if you add those numbers up. so young people innovate, and our job is as venture capitalists is to tak...