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Brianna Brochu Now Faces Hate Crime Charge, Is No Longer University

West Hartford Police Department Brianna Brochu in her mugshot. Brianna Brochu is now a former University of Hartford student and is facing a hate crime charge for harassing and intimidating her ex-roommate, Chennel "Jazzy" Rowe.

Brochu, 18, of Harwinton, Connecticut, admitted that she licked her roommate's "plate, fork and spoon, put tampon blood on (her) backpack, and mixed Rowe's lotions with other lotions also on Rowe's desk" out of "spite," according to court documents obtained by Heavy.

 Brochu is white and Rowe is black. The case gained national attention Tuesday after Rowe posted a Facebook Live video documenting the treatment she received during her first weeks of college.

Brochu's name was trending worldwide on Twitter Wednesday morning as she made her first appearance at Hartford Community Court and learned the case would not be taken as lightly as it originally appeared.

In an Instagram post, Brochu wrote, "Finally did it yo girl got rid of her roommate!! After 1 1/2 month of spitting in her coconut oil, putting moldy clam dip in her lotions, rubbing used tampons (on) her backpack, putting her toothbrush places where the sun doesn't shine and so much more I can finally say goodbye Jamaican Barbie.

Brochu, who was charged with second-degree breach of peace and third-degree criminal mischief, both misdemeanors, faced Judge Tammy Geathers Wednesday morning at the community court, which is typically where minor cases are heard.

Cases there end with community service and eventually lead to the charges being dropped and expunged.

But the state prosecutor said her office has decided to move the case to Hartford Superior Court, the criminal court where more serious charges are heard, because of the "severity" of the allegations.

She is currently free on $1,000 bail. The judge barred Brochu from the University of Hartford campus and issued a no-contact order with the victim.

She told Brochu that if she contacts or tries to contact Rowe in person, by phone, on Facebook, on Instagram or elsewhere, she will be found in violation of the conditions of her release.

Brochu, who was flanked by her parents in front of the judge, responded, "Yes your honor." She did not say anything else during her brief hearing.

Brochu and her parents did not comment at the courthouse and she is not yet represented by an attorney.

Shortly after the hearing, West Hartford Police sent out a press release saying they are seeking to add an additional charge, second-degree intimidation based on bigotry or bias, a class D felony that carries a potential sentence of 1 to 5 years in prison.

The intimidation law states:.

A person is guilty of intimidation based on bigotry or bias in the second degree when such person maliciously, and with specific intent to intimidate or harass another person because of the actual or perceived race, religion, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression of such other person, does any of the following: (1) Causes physical contact with such other person, (2) damages, destroys or defaces any real or personal property of such other person, or (3) threatens, by word or act, to do an act described in subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection, if there is reasonable cause to believe that an act described in subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection will occur.

It was also announced Wednesday morning that Brochu is no longer a student at the University of Hartford. It is not clear if she was expelled or withdrew from the university.

"I am writing to provide further updates on the deeply disturbing situation involving our students. As of this morning, Brianna Brochu is no longer a student at the University of Hartford.

She will not be returning to the institution," University of Hartford President Greg Woodward said in a statement. Woodward added, "There has been an outpouring of concern for the victim of these acts from across the University and the country.

In my meeting with her yesterday, I reiterated my personal commitment to ensuring she has all available personal and academic resources the University can provide.

It is clear there is work to be done at our University to ensure that all students feel safe, respected, and valued. The conversations that began with student groups, faculty, and staff yesterday are going to continue and involve our full community.

I am dedicated to that mission and will continue to share additional information about opportunities for our path forward in meaningful dialogue and action.".

Also on Wednesday, court documents in the case against Brochu were released by the court. You can read the documents below or by going here:.

West Hartford Police Department spokesman Lieutenant Michael Perruccio said, "The department is in the process of reviewing the entire case to ensure the proper procedures were followed.

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Professor Pyg (Explained in a Minute) | COMIC BOOK UNIVERSITY - Duration: 1:26.

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Hey, guys, Professor Bill of Comic Book University and I'm going to explain Professor Pyg in about a minute.

Professor Pyg's first appearance was in "Batman #666" in July 2007 and he was created by Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert.

Pyg is Lazlo Valentin, a brilliant chemist who worked for Spyral, the organization that Dick Grayson became a spy for.

Lazlo developed a chemical that could control minds.

He experimented on himself, often, and this contributed in driving him insane.

Pyg is a horror-show of a character who kidnaps people, operates on them, and exposes them to his mind-control chemicals.

He calls the result of these experiments "Dollotrons, and they are lobotomized, genderless, automatons with doll masks surgically grafted to their faces and brains, making reversal surgery impossible without killing the victim.

They follow his every word and they can be dreadfully silent, allowing dozens, even hundreds of Dollotrons to sneak up and surround a target.

He is the mastermind behind the "Circus of the Strange", a cult-like criminal gang.

He has a son named Janosz Valentin, aka Johnny Valentine, who refers to himself as the Son of Pyg.

Janosz is a precision marksman with firearms and is capable of shutting down his own pain receptors, allowing him to ignore pain.

The spelling of Pyg's name is a callback to Morrison's inspiration for the character, "Pygmalion", a play by George Bernard Shaw, that deals with the search for perfection.

And that's Professor Pyg in about a minute.

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University of Chicago announces $125 million gift to support economic scholarship - Duration: 0:57.

The Griffin gift will play a major role to affecting society in the best possible ways

we can.

We can go on and on and on and think about

what have economists done over the last century, and nearly every major innovation would include

some direct link to Chicago economics.

We have theories like rational expectations - that's Bob Lucas.

Monetary economics – Milton Friedman.

We can think about social economics or family economics – well that's Gary Becker.

But when I think about what can Ken's gift do, when I say game-changer, I mean it.

When we fast forward 50 or 100 years, we're going to look back and we're going to say:

The 21st century, do you know what that was?

That was a ton of economic innovation, and the Chicago School of Economics was at the

center of it.

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Online MBA Program at Santa Clara University - Duration: 25:14.

Hi everyone and welcome to this live Q&A on the Santa Clara. New online MBA

program. We're gonna wait just a couple of minutes for people to join. But what

we hope to do today as once we get started is to talk a little bit about

the online MBA program that launches in January. And give you some insight to the

differences between the online program and the on-the-ground program here at

Santa Clara. As well as answer any questions that folks out there might

have. My name's Nidia McGregor I'm the faculty director for MBA programs here

at the Leavey School of Business. This is my partner in crime. Good morning or good

afternoon, evening. Hopefully we have a lot of people around the world. My name

is Toby McChesney. I'm the senior assistant dean of graduate programs here

at Santa Clara University Leavey of Business. Right so we're just gonna wait

for just a couple more seconds. Grab some coffee

and please share this video link with anybody that you think might be

interested in the online program or the on-the-ground program for Santa Clara. Did

you have a good Halloween? I did how was yours? It was pretty good it wasn't as eventful as sometimes

it is. You have events at your house though I think. Yes so we ran out of candy

so we had about 400 trick or treaters and around 300 I screamed to my friends

go get more candy So we survived but we had about 400

trick or treaters. Emergency candy run I'm sure that happens to people sometimes

yes now I know for next year not to give out four Milk Duds at a time.

Maybe slow it down a little hold back. But it was fun.I think I'm in a

candy haze right now oh so you actually ate all the candy it's not that you gave it away

I ate some so but we have our coffee so

that's good so Cheers Santa Clara

tasty well I suppose we should get started as I said earlier this is a live

Q&A about the new online MPA program at Santa Clara University at the Leavey

School of Business again my name is Nydia MacGregor I'm the faculty director

for MBA programs here and I'm gonna be talking today with my my friend and

partner tobe McChesney what we wanted to do first is talk a little bit about what

the online MBA program is and then and in particular give us a contrast between

the online of you program and the on-the-ground program but first maybe

Toby you can tell us a little bit about the landscape out there for online

programs in general and then you can jump into our specifics yes I think it's

important actually ironically today's my one year anniversary of being in Bronco

nation so I boarded a plane from Atlanta Georgia I was previously one-way ticket

landed a year ago today to join levy School of Business and we're really

excited me about joining Santa Clara I came from a very large research public

institution and wanted a smaller kind of vibe and so we have our graduate

programs we have 740 to be exact MBA and master science students so you

have we have three MBA programs here at levy and four master science programs

and so as excited about that but I was also very interested in leading and

helping the school with online MBA program so I was at Georgia State

University for eight years and for whatever reason we just couldn't get an

online program going and I always was kind of jealous of my peers across the

country launching the online MBA program so when I heard that our Dean and the

faculty and trustees here at Santa Clara were really excited about our online MBA

I said definitely Santa Clara's for me so hit the ground running and we made

some some major tweaks and improvements for the evening and

program which we will we will talk about we've had some amazing wins here at levy

and it's been fun fun - to help believe that so in my role as an itty knows but

for our obviously our viewers so I ever see admissions student services and

career services so what that means is I see the whole the whole timespan of our

graduate students again for all of our grant programs here at levy so the

online MBA will be our seventh program come come January so when you apply that

if but when do you apply to our online MBA program just know that you'll see

knitting I quite a bit virtually but also you have a great support staff that

will also help you through your two year online program and we'll talk more about

the details of that but definitely online MBA is is one of the

up-and-coming programs and in the universities in kind of ecosystem we're

seeing employers really gravitate towards that as well and really

celebrate an MBA and online on-campus hybrid there's so many things out there

but now at levy you can do both which is exciting so so let me talk a little bit

about maybe the differences between the on the ground and the online or or the

places where they're similar and I would say at first they're more similar than

different in some ways and that's because the curriculum itself and the

content is the same across both programs Toby made an allusion to relaunching or

refreshing our program last year what we did is we really heighten to the

relevance of the innovation and really the connection between best practices

with people in Silicon Valley and sort of bringing them to life here in the

classroom and to prepare students but also to make it highly relevant we often

hear from students that they'll learn something in the classroom one evening

and the next day they're able to apply it at work and it's not just exciting

but it really speaks to the value of the program for for students and

lets them know that they're really able to change their career trajectory right

to make that inflection point after they're done with their MBA so the in

that way the content being the same it means that those are very similar

programs from that perspective it's all about the scheduling though and the

interface that's a little bit different so in the online space what that means

is that the structure of every course is on a weekly basis meaning the modules

span over a week but each student gets to define for him or herself the

flexibility to decide when they're going to get all of that work done as opposed

to showing up Tuesday and Thursday or when Monday and Wednesday which would

happen in the ground program and and then the student then you know some

students like to take things at a measured pace you know a little bit of

time every day some students would rather you know hit the ground Friday

night and do most of their work for the entire week and with the online MBA

program you can make that sort of choice I think that you mentioned there are

some students who prefer that kind of schedule there are so so so what happens

is what we've seen so we are for those who don't know we're about 45 minutes

from San Francisco at the heart of San Francisco without traffic keep Edomite

so what we see is if you live in San Francisco or Oakland or you live in

Portland Oregon wherever you live and you always want to

do an MBA program at Santa Clara given our brand and our rankings and you

should mention our great ranking so as I mentioned is Nitti mentioned the the

programs online and evening are identical obviously one is online ones

on campus same curriculum so we were ranked in March top 25 by US News &

World Report for part-time MBA so that same stature also is applied to our

online MBA program which which is exciting but what we're seeing is with

traffic and families and consultants a lot of money to Thursday you are you

know traveling to Boston for work how could you ever do an on-campus program

so that's why our online MBA program is very flexible for the working

professional or the person that just wants to kind of do at their own pace

it's really a nice combo pack so to speak so that's another

kind of exciting thing with our online and be a program building on that I

should mention that the professors that teach in the online MBA program are the

same professors that teach here and in the on-campus program and it is those

same professors that actually author every course meaning they take a look at

the content that they have that they know that they want to cover and they

match it with a really dynamic and interactive environment online in some

ways all the only using tools that you can only use online differently than you

might be able to use tools that are you can only use and on the ground and so

that's another way that we ensure that the the program is innovative and that

it matches the same quality as as our on-the-ground program the other thing I

would say about it is that we have booked into the program the two

intensives so the first intensive takes place at the very beginning of the

program and covers most of the material for our leading people in teams course

and then the end intensive is a course that's called the challenges in course

which allows you to go deep dive and basically leverage everything that

you've learned across the two years of the program in that one intensive

weekend let's see and you're on campus so you can see us again live we'll shake

your hand we'd like to do a celebration toast at orientation so you also get an

orientation from our staff and we'll give you a tour of our campus and we

debate about doing that today but we've been structured on campus and they're

cutting grass we don't want to be too too loud but we do have a beautiful

campus if you're not familiar to Santa Clara or the Bay Area so when you come

to the two residency's we'll definitely obviously experience that you'll get to

go to the bookstore you can buy this fabulous mug this Santa Clara tie you

can see not sure if you can see it actually but it is a Santa Clara time

and really see our facilities go to the library get your ID card so you are a

Santa Clara students we're just virtually online

majority of the time so coming that residency is really unique part and

definitely a lot of online I made probes do not have that touch feature with the

students which is which is really exciting I think that's right and it

helps people coalesce around what it means to be a Bronco right and what it

means to be a Santa Clara student it also gives them the opportunity to get a

sense for campus and to know that if they're able to any networking events or

other kinds of deaths that we have ongoing throughout the year they're

welcome to do that and they would feel comfortable sort of slot again

so I think it's drunk to Silicon Valley so when I moved out here Silicon Valley

to me was great what is Silicon Valley what is still I didn't know I knew

Facebook and Google but until you live here or actually visit here it's it's

just it's for me at least so we really a purposeful given our location of course

to really bring silica bow to our students and vice versa

so as Nydia mentioned we did retool our evening MBA program so we added in a

core analytics course so that all of our students have to take analytics same

with online MBA which is exciting yeah so Santa Clara's really hanging their

hat on the analytics space we also designed a brand new course doing

business in Silicon Valley that you would take in the earlier quarters under

arlynn and be a program and again we're bringing in speakers from various

companies Google Facebook etc IBM pc's VCS there you go so there's a lot of

touch points with Silicon Valley that are really really incorporated in and I

would say not just set the stage but are these bright threads that grow

throughout the program right so we have these some of these core courses that

helped define those attributes but that is carried through so that other faculty

members use cases that are based in Silicon Valley there they talk about you

know it might be a finance class or a supply chain class but they're still

talking about innovation it's it's not just in you know a new product

innovation marketing class where you might get that I think the other thing

that we that we have going on is that in particular differentiated for the online

program is our Silicon Valley professional

dashboard and this is what I would call an electronic portfolio and allows

students to monitor curate and to really visualize what the plan is and the

personalized path they'd like to take both while they're here but also from a

career perspective so while that is you know innovative and it's really grounded

in the skills and values of Silicon Valley it's also something that we think

is a differentiator for the online program in general in comparison to any

program across the nation yeah definitely let's see I think that some

people might wonder though if you're in an online program how you would actually

connect with people right you're kind of distant we're not all here on a regular

basis and one of the things that we've done is we ensure that coursework and

includes group work so groups meet virtually of course you can meet with

your faculty member virtually as well in addition to any of the just interactive

features of the courses as you go through the other thing is the program

is small that's true so you know we already have a relatively small program

here in the on-the-ground program but our cohort size is about 20 22 people

for the online program so that means you're actually always working with sort

of that you know a tight cohort of people that have begun to get arrived at

the same time but also go through the program together and so that also brings

a lot of community connection and gives you a sense of home even if it's

virtually yeah so that's a good point idea so do your research obviously so

there are a lot of online MBA pros out there but to Nina's point and given kind

of our Jesuit notion and it really having a small tight-knit community we

really are believing in that 2022 cohort base but again do your research because

some online MBA programs are definitely not that small so you kind of lose that

control and that that kind of direct connection with with our amazing faculty

members and of course when you're on campus as well well it's also exciting

is noon as mentioned we do have a vibrant evening MBA program on campus so

if you live in a big area or you happen to just travel to

Valley area and can you want to stop by campus of course you can do so we have a

lot of different career workshops and different workshops on building your

network a resume review LinkedIn we do some fun social events we do we some

wineries in the areas sure you know so we take our students to do wine events

you get to pay on your own of course but another kind of chance to really kind of

really get to know that MBA MS students on a deeper level so that's all opening

to our online MBA students which is which is unique and exciting I think

yeah I mean they're fully fleshed our students as well just like just like

anybody in the program let's see what else could tell you I'm just trying I

know so you know I'm so in a candy phase I

apologize I wonder if there any questions that people have posed so let

me just ask folks out there if you have any questions please be sure to post the

questions and we will address them as they come in we're getting questions

right now let's see okay here's question is there a cost or

tuition difference for the online MBA so they're the same so the cost for online

and even MBA program is roughly around $75,000 total for the two-year two-year

program that includes your tuition fees does not include books or when you're

here on campus for the residency does not cover your your airfare or a hotel

or whatnot but does cover the tuition and fees part of the program yes they

are identical yeah this is another question how will online students feel

like a cohort okay so we talked a little bit about that so there's a closed a

small set of people who all start at the same time take their core courses

together and so there's a very cohort you feel from from that perspective of

course you meet those folks in your intensive when you begin so I would

think that that's that one of the biggest ways that you start to feel like

a cohort is is that you're you're all going to be in it together from the

beginning and you get that that initial connection with one another when you're

but so what's exciting too so yes your first few quarters you are current in

your core classes but as you get to elective phase you'll start taking

electives summer I believe right so when you start taking electives summer and

beyond the other online MBA students so we actually start which is probably

questioned yeah we start the online MBA program every quarter so winters granule

will be our first launch will start again in March then again in June where

the quarter system and then again in September so every quarter were bringing

in 2022 online MBA students so when you get to elective phase the other online

of these students will pick and choose their electives too so you may be a

court of twenty for the court classes and then ten of you may decide to do

this marketing elective and ten from the spring cohort when you decided to do the

marking elective with you all so then that's another 20 so it's a nice

building block and it also you know obviously broadens our horizon and

network which is great yeah great question so far what else is out

there let's see how will online students benefit from the Silicon Valley context

of the LSB maybe you could talk a little bit about that especially it relates to

maybe alumni sure so we are just about we will hit $100,000 for us and overall

so go Proclamation yes and we are deeply rooted in Silicon Valley so we are known

as a Jesuit University in the heart of Silicon Valley that's that's our tagline

and I really do see that so what's what's amazing to me where I sit and I

get only been for a year about the alums that are really reaching out to us to

want to help wanting to help our students they want to mentor students

open the doors is truly amazing and we've already talked to numerous alums

that are very excited about our online MBA program so definitely there's great

context out there from our alums and then through the Silicon Valley

dashboard and the Career Center down the road

definitely you will meet a lot of great faculty excuse me professionals in

Silicon Valley that will help you with with getting you a job in Silicon Valley

or elsewhere so that is definitely our theme Silicon Valley

absolutely what do you believe the advantage of silicon event I'm sorry

SC you online MBA program is over other MBA programs okay well so I would first

obviously we have a deep connection with Silicon Valley I don't think anybody

else can claim that other people can talk about innovation or

entrepreneurship or those kinds of things it's in the water here and we

made sure to incorporate it all the way throughout the program in a way that's

authentic and and really well-rounded in what we know to be relevant for Silicon

Valley professionals yeah so I think I think do your research so there are a

lot of online and B promos out there so first of accreditation that is that is

definitely important so we are AACSB accredited we were one of the first

business schools in the state of California to be a CSB accredited we

actually are some people don't know this some people the other school down the

street is but we are the oldest and first established University in the

state of California that's correct 1851 so a few years back so do your research

though because there are online MBA programs out there that may not be

accredited by AACSB and that is the gold standard of business school world and

ironically which is I think exciting our dean Karen Beck Dudley is a next chair

of ACS be so if Karen's watching but she is we're very proud to have our dean be

the chair of ACS B so definitely we're obviously accredited so I would

which for the quality of the adjustment to the quality of the curriculum the

faculty the students we bring in also what I would looked into is again that

size so do you want to be in a smaller core like ours or do you want to be in a

big kind of group and maybe kind of loss of the C so to speak so really ask when

you're applying their various programs what's your average class size and

really kind of you know really ask that question and also ask them how they're

connecting the online students with the on-campus students we've definitely

talked about that here but ask those questions because there may be a

disconnect so do your research that's right

certainly say not all online MBA programs are created equally

especially because models tend to be where you get really large class sizes

within TAS that are dealing with its sections whereas we don't have any TV at

all right the question is yeah that's great I'll take one more here at least

what will be involved in the Silicon Valley professional dashboard what

classes are activities so the silicon that my professional dashboard is as I

said it's grounded in the skills and values that are needed here in Silicon

Valley for an innovative and vibrant career basically a career that will

prepare you not just for the pivot that's happening now but the multiple

pivots that will happen throughout your your lifetime so that's that's one piece

but what it means is as we've gone through and defined with those skills

and values are we've ensured that every class that you that you encounter names

and enhances each one of those and as you go through its data-driven so you

actually see how you're making progress I should go through the program on each

one of those skills and values that also means you know Toby comments about

electives at the end toward the end of the program that when you get there and

you're trying to make choices you can make really informed choices about

what's really best for you and again it's data driven so you can

see oh I've really got a lot of competencies and you know innovation and

communication skills but I need more competencies and data analytics okay

great I'm gonna I'm gonna dive in there it also gives you a platform for taking

work that you've done or taking activities and achievements that you've

done and sending them up to a mentor to get feedback from that mentor to help

you then further define and refine what your program path is going to be we're

we're really excited about it a new dashboard it's great like you know I'm

sorry that they don't have a screen here but I would soon we would be able to

show you actually what what it looks like and how it really encapsulates in

some ways the idea of fun and David driven and a little gamification for for

your process and your program as you go through them and again that's a very

unique thing so I see other question a quarter mile that's the great question

start dates and so we are launching at home again in January so the deadline to

apply for the winter cohort is December 8th and we do require obviously an

application we require two letters of recommendations interview so the

interview would be either with myself or Tao Sanford our director of admissions

or manda bream who is our assistant director of the online in the space we

really like that interview because that's a chance for us over zoom if you

don't live in the Bay Area that's fine but to really kind of here why Santa

Clair and why our onlin and B programming and why you'd be good fit

for the program we look at your undergrad transcripts of course your

resume and we do require three years of work experience we do really focus in on

that because it gave me what are professionals to have deeper

conversations about their jobs and we do require either the GMAT or GRE with a

case-by-case consideration for a waiver you would contact admissions for those

kind of nuances so great great questions you know most of the requirements sound

standard but as we sit and evaluate somebody we're really evaluating them

holdable person right it's the whole person it's about who you are as an

individual and the kind of engagement you have with your community and why you

think this program would be a good fit let's see Oh last question that's

question it let's see oh I'm mr. information about class sizes for online

as well as the on the ground could could you repeat sure so I'll take the online

so our class sizes online our twenty person people excuse me twenty people

per class that's the cohort size for starting with

and as you go through your core courses that's what you would experience um it's

a little different from the on the ground program so on campus we bring in

we believe 420 total evening MBA students and we bring in roughly about a

hundred every fall and forty in the spring so 148 each year and when you

experience a course in on the ground club on average the number of students

per class 35 to 40 now tend to be the average at the core classes and

electives it kind of hands on the students what they're

trying to do but still is a small class size just like Naaman MBA again we feel

very strongly at having a direct connection with your faculty members

which is great so if we could leave you with anything what we'd like to say is

online MBA starts in January admissions is December 280 is the deadline for that

we have some information for you if you need more specific so you don't remember

all those dates that we just said you can email online MBA at SU edu for

questions let's see November 15th is the info session that's at 6 p.m. that's

right or there's a webinar coming up as well

where you can you know review some of this information but also maybe have

some time to think about specific questions you have and you could post

them at the webinar and that's November 21st at 6 p.m. in a pleasure ask you all

up to see application soon yes take care go go broadcaster Broncos

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WHY I BELIEVE A UNIVERSITY COLLEGE EDUCATION & CORPORATE MEDIA ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR BRAINWASHING THE - Duration: 12:14.

WHY I BELIEVE A UNIVERSITY COLLEGE EDUCATION & CORPORATE MEDIA ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR BRAINWASHING

THE MASSES

BY ARJUN WALIA

A declassified document from the CIA archives in the form of a letter from a CIA task force

addressed to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency details the close relationship that

exists between the CIA and mainstream media and academia.

The document states that the CIA task force �now has relationships with reporters from

every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation,�

and that �this has helped us turn some �intelligence failure� stories into �intelligence success�

stories,� and has contributed to the accuracy of countless others.� Furthermore, it explains

how the agency has �persuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold, or even scrap stories

that could have adversely affected national security interests or jeopardized sources

and methods.�

Although it is a document outlining their desire to become more open and transparent,

the deception outlined by various whistleblowers (example) requires us to read between the

lines and recognize that the relationships shared between intelligence agencies and our

sources of information are not always warranted and pose inherent conflicts of interest.

Herein lies the problem: What is �national security,� and who determines that definition?

JFK bravely told the world that the �dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of

pertinent facts far outweigh[] the dangers which are cited to justify it.� He also

said that �there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will

be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official

censorship and concealment.�

�National security� is now an umbrella term used to justify concealing information,

but who makes these decisions? You can read more about our world of secrecy and the Black

Budget here.

Not only are countless documents classified every single year in North America, but false

information and �fake news� are routinely dispersed, mainly by mainstream media outlets

� a reality that is clearly conveyed in this document and has been expressed by multiple

mainstream media journalists themselves. And as with the NSA surveillance program that

was exposed by Edward Snowden, it�s a global problem.

Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, a prominent German journalist and editor for more than two decades, is one

example. He blew the whistle on public television, stating that he was forced to publish the

works of intelligence agencies under his own name and that noncompliance with these orders

would result in him losing his job.

Sharyl Attkisson and Amber Lyon, both well-known mainstream media reporters and journalists,

have also exposed funded movements by political, corporate, and other special interests, and

have revealed that they are routinely paid by the U.S. government as well as foreign

governments to selectively report and distort information on certain events.

Let�s not forget about Operation Mockingbird, a CIA-based initiative to control mainstream

media.

The document not only outlines the CIA�s role in media, but also the entire entertainment

industry in general, lending further weight to revelations offered by celebrities like

Jim Carrey. He appeared as a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live, saying that, �For years now,

talk show hosts, people on television, people in sitcoms have been, hired by the government

to throw you off the tracks, to distract you, to make you laugh and stuff like that, make

you happy and docile so you don�t know what�s really going on.�

While some question whether he was merely joking, the facts still remain. Another celebrity,

who was clearly serious, is Roseanne Barr, who referenced the CIA�s MK Ultra mind control

program � a previously classified research program through the CIA�s scientific intelligence

division that tested behavioural modification and perception manipulation on human beings.

What we seem to have here is an attempt to manipulate public perception of global events

through mainstream media and news publications. But what�s perhaps most interesting is the

fact that a lot of people are now waking up and seeing through many of these lies and

manipulation tactics. Instead of just blindly believing what we hear on television, more

people are starting to think critically, do independent research, and examine a wide array

of sources and information.

So many opportunities have emerged within the past few years allowing others to see

this more clearly. One was the recent �fake news� epidemic, where evidence surfaced

exposing information that threatened the global elite. Wikileaks is perhaps one of the greatest

examples. For mainstream media to basically label everything else as �fake news� was

quite ironic, given that it seems the majority of people consider mainstream media themselves

to be the real �fake news,� and this is now even more evident given the information

presented above in this article.

The documents also touch upon the fact that they are constantly in touch with the entertainment

industry, giving advice on scenes and direction, as well as how things happened in certain

situations. Personally, I feel the industry is largely used to push propaganda, like patriotism.

Patriotism is pumped into the population to support a large military in the name of �national

security.� We are being fooled, wars are not waged for defence, but for offence and

to push forth political agendas.

So you see, there are multiple reasons for these CIA connections to various industries.

Academia

From a young age we�re taught that getting an education is the key to living a good life.

Getting a decent job, making good money, even finding the right partner � all depend on

following a certain path. Yet many concepts and topics are, as previously illustrated,

kept from public viewing, and this includes plenty of important science.

The U.S. intelligence community investigated parapsychology (ESP, remote viewing, telepathy,

etc.) for more than two decades, for instance. Russell Targ, a physicist who has spent several

decades working in a U.S. government program exploring these concepts, recently shared

his experience doing so in a TED talk that is now approaching 1 million views.

Another great example of Black Budget science comes from Ben Rich, the second director of

Lockheed Skunkworks, who worked there from 1975-1991. He�s been called the Father of

Stealth, having overseen the development of the first stealth fighter, the F-117 Nighthawk.

Before his death, Rich made several shocking open statements about the reality of UFOs

and extraterrestrials.

�We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked

up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit

humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do it.�

�We now have technology to take ET home. No it won�t take someone�s lifetime to

do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability

to travel to the stars.�

�There are two types of UFOs � the ones we build and the ones �they� build.�

To read more about those comments and examine the sources, you can refer to this article

that goes into more detail about it.

Information like this, including testimony from hundreds of others, suggests that the

�classified world� is much more advanced than our mainstream one.

This particular document states that the agency exposes administrators of academic institutions

to the agency on a regular basis.

Obviously, as with any other job, the CIA would be looking for what they consider to

be qualified individuals. But the document does outline its close relationship with academia

in general.

This is because certain developments and information that stem from academia could threaten national

security and therefore must be kept out of the curriculum, and the public domain.

Take, for example, documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that

reveal how the U.S. government has been using a secret system to withhold the approval of

some applications.

This 50-page document was obtained by Kilpatrick Towsend & Stockton, LLP, who commonly represent

major tech companies that include Apple, Google, and Twitter (to name a few). You can view

that entire document here. (source)

The program delaying patent applications is called the Sensitive Application Warning System

(SWAS). Usually when an application is submitted for a patent approval, it requires a couple

of examiners who work with the Patent Office to go through their process of approval. This

process usually takes one to two years, but applications that are filed in SAWS must be

approved from several people, and can be delayed for a number of years.

One great example (out of many) of delayed patent applications comes from Dr. Gerald

F. Ross, who filed a patent application for a new invention he had devised to defeat the

jamming of electromagnetic transmissions at specified frequencies. It was not until June

17, 2014 (almost 37 years later) that this patent was granted.

It�s important to note (as reported by the Federation of American Scientists � see

annotated bibliography) that there were over 5,000 inventions that were under secrecy orders

at the end of fiscal year 2014, which marked the highest number of secrecy orders in effect

since 1994.

Steven Aftergood from the Federation of American Scientists reports:

The 1971 list indicates that patents for solar photovoltaic generators were subject to review

and possible restriction if the photovoltaics were more than 20% efficient. Energy conversion

systems were likewise subject to review and possible restriction if they offered conversion

efficiencies �in excess of 70-80%.�

This is all thanks to an act many people are unaware of. It�s called the �Invention

Secrecy Act,� and it was written in 1951. Under this act, patent applications on new

inventions can be subject to secrecy orders, which can restrict their publication if government

agencies believe that their disclosure would be harmful to national security.

Final Thoughts

So, as you see, science and academia in the mainstream world can only go so far. We continue

to rely on government institutions to define truth and reality for us, to outline the limits

of what is possible. In many instances, these places to which we go to �learn� are actually

diminishing, not supporting, our creativity and critical thinking skills. That�s not

to say that there aren�t good aspects of the experience, but overall, we are not accessing

our full potential.

When information is hidden from us as well as manipulated at the same time, it�s only

going to spark more curiosity among the people. And that�s one aspect of the current shift

in consciousness that�s happening on our planet. We�re beginning to see the human

experience in a different light, and starting to recognize that the time for change

is really here. What are we going to do about it?

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Being Social Media Savvy | Talie & Kathie | University of Lincoln - Duration: 4:53.

Hi I'm Talie.

And I'm Katharyn and today we're doing a vlog just have a bit of a

chat about the use of social media.

And basically just making sure you don't say

anything that could damage your reputation in the future and not posting

anything you wouldn't want to be seen.

So should you have separate channels for your personal and professional accounts?

I do. I mainly started because I study Journalism so I tend to post a lot of news and stuff on my professional

account and then kept my personal account for more kind of just my

everyday life and like what I'd prefer for my friends and family to see.

Yeah, I agree with that I think I have professional channels for like

blogging, journalism and that sort of thing so I can make some like connections and then

I've got personal accounts which is more I'm just posting for like my friends and my family.

My personal account is on private just to make sure that the kind of

employers can't see it and it just doesn't get kind of in to the wrong hands.

Yeah my personal account on Twitter is on private.

So, what's appropriate to post and what's not?

Well obviously not like swearing in every post

I mean I think if you're effing and blinding all the time that might give off a bit of a

bad impression that you don't want people to sort of know you as that

And I think don't post excessively we don't want to see your breakfast every

single morning on snapchat, like less is more.

Just kind of make it so as if you wouldn't want your relatives or a potential employer to see it

just don't post it begin with.

Yeah I agree with that.

And so how would you engage with promoting yourself across different social media platforms?

I like to make sure that my user name, my profile picture, my bio and everything

is the same on all of the profiles that I post on but then also making sure that

the content I post on each platform is slightly different so as it doesn't get

boring if someone follows you on all of them and you post exactly the same thing

with exactly the same caption it's just, it's boring so mix it up.

My personal accounts I've got the same username for my

Twitter and my Instagram and then again it's the same for my professional accounts like

I've got the same Twitter, the same Instagram, like the @ handle so I think

it helps, if for example someone finds my blog and then they can see

oh okay this is their Instagram and then they've found my Twitter.

To promote across each one I'll tweet my Instagram pictures for example, my Instagrams

tweet automatically or then like I put my blog post on Instagram and my blog post on

Twitter but you just look like change it up a little bit so I think that's one way I do it.

How do you manage your social media accounts?

I use this app called TweetDeck for Twitter which is really useful.

If you log in, you just login normally with your Twitter account, and then it puts everything in

columns so you've got like your home feed, your notifications, your messages,

then you can personalise it, add in sort of any lists that you want in there so

again because I do journalism I'll have like a list first like the general news,

like breaking news, I have a list for Lincoln news, so I've got all these lists

and then it helps me when I'm like looking for something specific,

in particular, I can find it quite easily.

Yeah, I'd say just aiming to post frequently as well so there's no point keeping your profiles basically inactive.

I didn't post anything on my professional Instagram for about a week

and was really scared that I was gonna have lost blog connections and

followers because of it. And there's an app that you use I think...

Yeah, I've got this app called Preview which is really useful. You can just sort of put your pictures

in there that you're thinking of posting on Instagram, you can sort of drag them

about to decide like what looks best and then you can sort of schedule it so give

you a notification of when you need to post that picture because I'm dreadful for

forgetting to post as well and so...

What would you look to use in the future?

I think the kind of one social media I haven't adventured into the most is

LinkedIn and I think it would be the most beneficial to me for kind of career

prospects and business prospects for making connections with people in the

industry and I know a lot of people, that I know, are using it for placements and

stuff at the moment.

I was gonna say, LinkedIn I think more when I'm looking to get a job that sort of thing I will make

a very professional account on there and because it is aimed at more of getting

connections in, sort of like, the working world.

So I hope you've enjoyed listening

to us talk about our social media tips. Talie wrote a blog post all about

this on you UoL student life so it should probably be linked below somewhere

So yeah, I hope you enjoyed it and...

Thank you for watching.

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University of Chicago Student Pushed To The Ground, Robbed - Duration: 0:49.

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Stairs. On one set of the main lobby stairs is a pillar in the middle of the stairs.

I walk right into it. When I finally find the handrail on the

right side of this bizarre column it doesn't lead me up the stairs to the landing.

Instead it loops me past the top of the

column and back down the adjacent stairs. There are stairs with angled railings

outside the building going up to the front door. The main lobby staircase goes

up two floors. Railings divided into four parallel sets of stairs. The right

handrail is skewed to the left cutting in front of a person as they walk up the stairs.

The left-hand rail is at a skewed angle too. If you hold the railing like

I did your feet are guided in the wrong direction. This is a tripping hazard for

blind people and for those with balance issues. Staircase railings should never

be angled. Designers may think it looks cool but it creates safety and

accessibility problems. On the sixth floor is a room called the beach area

for students to hang out and study. The stairs go from the front of the room up

to the back of the room. There's a landing between each short flight of

stairs. The stairs don't follow a straight path from the front of the room

to the back. Speeding up the video see how lost I get. Ramps. Here's an outside

ramp to get from the street level to the building's front entrance one floor up.

The ramps route is quite a maze.

Normally ramps follow a simple pattern a straight line or switchback. That outdoor

ramp has no railing.

People with balance issues need a railing. I need one to follow a maze-like ramp.

Angled pillars. Nothing should ever protrude at any height into a path of

travel. No pillars should ever lean at an angle. When I go up the outdoor ramp from

street level to the front door there's a leaning pillar on my left side.

My shoulder brushes right up against it. When I take that exterior elevator to

the ground floor and walk outside there's a leaning pillar in my path.

I hit my head right near my right ear. It's troubling that this building won

architectural awards. Here's a web page announcing that it received the Canadian

Architect 2011 Award of Excellence. Accessibility deserves greater priority.

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Gardner-Webb University Octoberfest 2017 - Duration: 1:38.

[MUSIC]

And they're taking pictures with us.

We have these little cut-outs for them.

You see one of their faces, like, light up.

Like, "Oh my gosh, it's Beauty and the Beast!" And they come over to us wanting a picture.

Octoberfest. Gardner-Webb. It's awesome. Because we get to do it as a family.

That's right!

It's just a giant fall festival for our community.

We reach out to all of our local elementary schools. All those children.

Their families, friends. Just a good, free, family fun event.

You get a lot of candy! And you get to

see all the cute kids dress up.

[MUSIC]

We are fishing. So the kids come up,

throw the line over, and then whenever they pull on it they get a fish.

I'm not really here. I'm a fish.

So, we got kids from all over the community. We got

booths everywhere. We got athletic teams have a booth.

We've got academic clubs. It's a pretty awesome day.

Rocky Balboa.

[MUSIC]

We made it like 200 cookies for all of the kids, and they just come here and decorate them.

This place has so much free candy, and it's just so gnarly dude!

I love it here, because I get to see all the, you know, amazing children. They're so cute.

[Music]

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Huntington University women fall to Olivet Nazarene in season opener on 10/31/17 - Duration: 0:29.

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One dead in University of Utah shooting as police hunt for suspect # breaking News - Duration: 2:20.

Welcome to Top Daily Breaking News and here is the latest news update for you.

Police are on the hunt for a suspected gunman after one person was killed in a shooting

near the University of Utah Monday night, police said.

Suspect Austin Boutain, 24, is still at large, hours after a victim was fatally shot during

a carjacking at the gate of Red Butte Canyon just east of the school, according to University

of Utah Police Chief Dale Brophy.

Salt Lake City Police received reports of a man with a gunshot wound to the head shortly

after 9 p.m., and students were advised to take shelter with an alert that read, "Shots

fired.

Red Butte Canyon.

Shelter in Place."

Boutain's wife was injured when she appeared on campus and reported that her husband assaulted

her while they were camping in the canyon just east of the school, Brophy said.

It remains unclear when Boutain's wife made the report, and how the alleged assault was

linked to the carjacking

Boutain, who was last seen in black clothing and a beanie, has a cross tattoo on his face

and may have also been driving a forest green pick-up truck with a Colorado license plate,

according to the university.

The Department of Public Safety dispatched a helicopter crew to assist the University

of Utah Police and several authorities, including the FBI, swarmed the area as the manhunt continues.

Police have not yet identified the name or gender of the carjacking victim.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert issued a statement on Twitter, writing, "Fervent prayers for

all dealing with the #UofUShooting tonight.

Stay safe and follow directions to shelter in place."

Boutain's brother Lee Boutain told the NY Daily News he was shocked to learn his brother

was a suspect in the shooting, since he hadn't heard from the 24-year-old for several months

months since he skipped parole in Wisconsin.

Lee Boutain would not elaborate on his brother's criminal history, although public records

show Austin Boutain has also been arrested in Ohio and Alabama.

That is all from the News Room.

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The Make to Learn Presidential Design Challenge at Clarkson University - Duration: 2:15.

(upbeat music) MAN: In celebration of the naming of the David D. Reh School of Business, I'm

really pleased to announce the first Presidential Challenge, "To Make to Learn."

To provide context to this --- over 30 years ago, when we looked out, the world of

higher education, we saw that personal computers would be a mainstay of the way

of life that would lead to innovation and support creativity. Clarkson was

amongst the first, if not the first, university in the country to provide

personal computers to each incoming student. Think about that and the impact

it has had! Now think about what industry is doing these days with intelligent

autonomous technology. Higher education has not been very inventive or creative

around technology lately. Yes, we have adopted technology in terms of teaching.

There's a large movement, obviously, to go online, and you will get a lot of support

that way here at Clarkson. However, fundamentally, how we run and operate the

University using intelligent autonomous technology is not very advanced. No

university is very advanced. I've challenged the incoming class to form

teams to come up with the most creative intelligent autonomous technology that

they can think of, and eventually, when we get through to the spring semester, we

will select the best. We hope that we will be able to implement those ideas.

We will be disturbing about $25,000 in prize money. We will be working particularly

with the deans of engineering and business to formulate the team rules and

will be preparing you through the fall semester, and then in the spring semester,

we'll let you go with your imaginations and your ingenuity. Think about learning

lunches with faculty and alumni. Alumni love to come back and share their

experiences! We're going to teach you how to form creative, innovative teams. You'll

be inundated with how to develop your skill set and mindset on how to be

innovative and creative. We will launch you in the spring semester on how to

advance this University. We will ignite our students in the spring semester to

advance this University. Through the President's Challenge, we'll partner with

our students make this University the most creative

and innovative in the world!

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State of the University - Duration: 20:54.

David, thanks for the introduction and especially thanks for facilitating this event here today.

Really appreciate the great turnout and especially that you have such strong ties to Ole Miss

and we really appreciate all you do for the university.

And I want to give a special shoutout to you and your wife, Ken, for your passionate leadership

in establishing the William Magee Center for Wellness Education, which is going to make

a really difference here for our students, so I appreciate it.

And David is accepting donations.

He's already raised quite a bit this morning and Ross in athletics is matching those gifts.

So welcome everyone to the second annual Town Hall!

Thanks for coming!

I'd like to especially extend a warm welcome to a few guests that we with us today.

In particular, we're very pleased to have, from Oxford, the Honorable Robyn Tannehill,

Mayor of Oxford.

Also former ASB president, former law school president, Gregory Alston from Sen. Cochran's

office.

Where is Gregory?

And we have Mark Huelse Alderman from Ward II here.

Mark here?

Ok, he's doing business for Ward II apparently.

So we're truly lucky to live in a place with an amazing town-n-gown relationship.

And we're fortunate to have advocates of the caliber of Senators Thad Cochran and Roger

Wicker, and Rep. Trent Kelly, and other members of our federal, state, and local delegations.

Today's event provides an excellent opportunity for us to gather as a university community.

It allows us to share all the great things happening on our campuses.

It also gives us a great venue to exchange ideas about how we can continue developing

plans for our future so that we can fully harness that transformative power of higher

education.

And it's especially rewarding to me that we are building upon the success of last year's

Town Hall meeting in this room.

You know how Abraham Lincoln said, "the best way to predict the future is to create

it."

So I know you will be as excited as I am when Provost Wilkin unveils the new Strategic Plan

later today for the Oxford campus.

It's a plan that's a direct result of the meeting here last year that generated over

550 ideas and for that reason, we couldn't have a better venue than to launch that new

strategic plan than here at the second annual Town Hall meeting.

As chancellor, it is my honor today to give the State of the University address.

You know over and over since Sharon and I arrived 21 and a half months ago, we are reminded

daily that this university is a special place, with extraordinary people, and tremendous

offerings and opportunities.

In my investiture speech last November, I urged the Ole Miss family to imagine what

we can do and how far we can go.

I shared how we are standing atop a peak, but yet from where we are, we can see yet

higher peaks.

And the real question that remains is how do you reach those peaks?

How do we have those important conversations from going from great to greater?

And how do we get there?

No doubt you're familiar with the four pillars that emerged during the Flagship Forum, which

was the 100-day listening and learning tour from the first half of 2016.

And what came out of those discussions with over 200 groups across the campus, the state,

and even the nation, were the four resonating themes that became the four pillars of our

new strategic plan:

Academic excellence, Healthy and vibrant communities,

People, places, and resources, and Athletics excellence.

And they're mirrored here on the boards on both sides of the room that are going to be

part of the exercise we go through today.

And Dr. Wilken will soon present the strategic plan talking about that roadmap to get us

ever-greater into the future as a flagship university.

So today, I just want to share with you some of the achievements and successes around those

four pillar areas because we're poised now to move forward and make further progress.

In academic excellence, as an institution of higher learning that is always first and

foremost to us.

Every day and in every way we see evidence of the academic excellence across our campuses.

We are Mississippi's only Carnegie R1 highest research activity university, that puts us

in the top 2.5% of colleges and universities nationwide.

This year's freshman class has the highest ever entering GPA of just about 3.6.

And not only do we lead the state in enrollment with nearly 24,000 students, we are listed

as the 10th fastest growing public doctoral institution in the country in the Chronicle.

But we're not trying to grow in fact what we're doing is bringing together out standards

and our enrollment and the quality of our education that we provide.

As an example of our programs, all three-degree programs in the Patterson School of Accountancy

are ranked number 8 in the nation by the Public Accounting Report and our master's program

is the top-ranked program in the SEC.

And our Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College — which is a crown jewel for our university

and what I truly, totally unbiasedly believe — is celebrating now 20 years old.

And we are continuing to grow our academic excellence, including our brand new Biomedical

Engineering program which the very first year in the School of Engineering has an inaugural

class of 54 students with an average ACT of 31.

Now if any of you have recently heard about the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics,

you know that faculty and researchers in our physics department have been an integral part

of the international LIGO collaboration that contributed to that work.

What an honor it is for the University of Mississippi to have played a part in such

astounding breakthrough that resulted in a Nobel Prize in Physics!

Let me quickly share a major initiative we have undertaken to enhance our research excellence.

This year, we have established the Flagship Constellations research initiative to find

new, meaningful solutions to some of the grand challenges affecting not only Mississippi

but the country and the world.

The inaugural four Constellations consist of cross-disciplinary teams of thought leaders

from all campuses including Oxford and the Medical Center to address the grand challenges

of:

Community Wellbeing, Disaster Resilience,

Brain Wellness, and Big Data.

So be on the lookout for information at an upcoming event on Friday, November 17th to

highlight our Flagship Constellations.

We have quite a list of achievements!

But I want to take a moment to highlight one exceptional appointment to help ensure that

we continue to enhance and expand our academic excellence.

So let me particularly give my congratulations to Dr. Noel Wilkin, who was formally named

Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor last month for the university.

As a university, an important part of our mission is to improve our communities, and

we accomplish that through our next pillar — building healthy and vibrant communities.

At Ole Miss, we impact lives and communities whether it's across the street or around the

world.

And with the state's only academic medical center, we are committed to keeping our communities

together.

So take, for example, our new Bower School of Population Health at our medical center

in Jackson.

It's only the third of its kind in the country, the Bower School is truly transforming healthcare

practice and delivery in Mississippi and beyond.

In keeping with our Medical Center campus accomplishments, we recently opened the new

151,000 square-foot School of Medicine, which will have a tremendous impact on increasing

the number of physicians in a state that has the lowest per capita of physicians in the

country.

And just last week, UMMC was recognized as a model for national telehealth expansion

by being designated one of only two Telehealth Centers of Excellence in the entire nation

by the Federal Health Resources and Services Administration.

We also recognize that building healthy and vibrant communities means having a deep commitment

to serving others with our unique talents and innovations that have the ability to transform

the quality of life for Mississippians.

One of the ways that the university has committed to expanding its impact is hiring a new Vice

Chancellor first time every for Diversity and Community Engagement — Dr. Katrina Caldwell

— whom we welcomed in January.

So let's please give a round of applause to Dr. Katrina Caldwell.

Under this community umbrella, we are preparing in January to launch another major initiative

called M Partner, formerly called the Big Idea, in which the university will partner

with towns and cities in Mississippi — one at a time — to enhance every aspect of community

life.

Through M Partner, we will find solutions to community challenges and exploit opportunities

by matching the creativity and talent across our entire university - all of our campuses

- with that of the community, ranging from medicine and population health, to science

and engineering, to the humanities, to business and entrepreneurship, to education, to arts

and culture, to law and public policy.

So be on the lookout in the coming year for more about M Partner and how students and

faculty can get engaged in making a real difference in Mississippi.

The third pillar we'll talk about is people, places, and resources, which enables the success

in the prior two pillars I just described.

And how do we judge success in this category?

Well, how about the fact that we have been named the "Great University to Work For"

by the Chronicle now for 9 years in a row or our university has a Purple Heart designation

as a military friendly university?

How about the fact that our passionate alumni and friends have donated over $100 million

now for six years in a row?

And we have recently hired to make sure that continues, Dr. Charlotte Parks, our first

ever Vice Chancellor for Development, to lead us to ever greater heights in that area?

Charlotte, why don't you stand up and let people welcome you?

What about the more than $1 billion in construction, going back two years and including what's

about to start, including our recent purchase of Baptist Hospital here in Oxford to support

the growth and space needs of the main campus, a new 1,500-space residential garage, the

renovated Gillom Women's Sports Center, the expanded Student Union.

We are also working on a $32 million project on the south end of campus that includes a

new recreation center and transportation hub.

We have a $23.5 million renovation and expansion of GHM (Garland, Hedleston, and Mayes halls),

which will provide a new home for the School of Applied Sciences, as well as new classrooms.

And major new buildings at UMMC including a new Medical School, a building for Translational

Research, and a new wing for the Children's Hospital.

And our largest ever project at Oxford will begin soon and that's a $140M STEM Building,

which will be a game changer for our students and education.

All these accolades and enhancements promote our academic goals, they help us extend our

reach and our impact, and they enhance our ability to attract and retain the very best

students into Mississippi and to keep the best and brightest into Mississippi.

So let me get to our fourth pillar which is athletics excellence.

Because you know athletics is our 'front porch' to the university.

It's the most visible part of the university on a regular basis, across the nation and

the world.

It plays a very important role in bringing people, by capturing their hearts and passions,

bringing them to our beautiful campus, where they can experience the full richness that

our extraordinary comprehensive university offers.

And this past year was a banner year with our Rebel athletes achieving their highest

cumulative semester GPA in recorded history with just over a 3.00.

More than half of our student-athletes earned a spot on the Athletic Director's Honor

Roll for a 3.00 or better.

And 25 student-athletes recorded a perfect 4.0.

In addition, Ole Miss recorded its highest Graduation Success Rate for student-athletes

at 81%, which is well above the school average.

Athletics is truly a central part of the university's overall mission of educating the next generation

of leaders.

And we pride ourselves in providing exceptional opportunities for our student-athletes to

benefit from the discipline, the leadership, the teamwork, the camaraderie gained by competing

in the SEC.

And along the way, they deliver some thrilling performances.

Like, you can remember the Ole Miss softball team last year bringing home the SEC championship.

Or how about Braden Thornberry winning our first-ever NCAA golf national championship

individually and winning the Haskins trophy, which is the Heisman trophy for golf!

And how about our women's cross country team being ranked #12 in the country!

Most recently, we've seen the unifying role that athletics can have on our university,

with our student government leading an effort to have a more widely-embraced mascot.

As you learned last Friday, we are moving forward with the Landshark as a mascot that

unifies, inspires, and depicts the positive spirit and strength of our athletic program

and our student-athletes.

So I want to give a big Fins Up! to the ASB and all our students for their passionate

leadership, and to our students, alumni, faculty, and staff for the enthusiastic support to

make that change.

And let me quickly update you on two other final items of interest to our university

community.

The first is our on-going commitment to being a leader in STEM education.

This commitment is reflected in the new STEM building, which is our largest ever project

as I mentioned in Oxford campus, and our Gates Foundation-funded PLATO project, which will

revolutionize how we teach in many classes.

It is also reflected in our recent hosting of the 2nd Annual Tech Summit here in this

room with industry and government leaders.

All of these efforts are imperative as we continue our focus on stimulating world-class

research that drives innovation as well as preparing the next generation of students

as lifelong learners who will make an impact in our technology-driven world.

And this past summer, the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on History and Context concluded

a thorough 15-month long process - scholarly process- that was part of a larger process

lasting more than four years that included the 2014 Action Plan, which urged the university

to "offer more history, putting the past into context" and to do so "without attempts

to erase history, even difficult history."

The result of this process is that we are adding contextualization plaques and markers

to nine sites on campus.

Since one building's namesake (namely, Vardaman Hall) was judged to be exceptionally at odds

with the values of the time, we will seek to rename it.

As an educational institution, we were guided in this effort by our overriding responsibility

to teach and foster learning, especially from parts of our history that are painful.

Contextualization was determined by this community to be the most effective approach to achieve

that goal.

So I greatly appreciate the efforts of the community for their scholarly and fact-focused

work.

I also appreciate the members of our university, including all the members of the broad network

of alumni and friends, that took time to provide us with their input, whether it was through

our online portal or in person at our listening sessions.

The process represents a committed effort to recognize university's troubled history

and to learn from it so that we can truly be a bright beacon of opportunity — to transform

lives, communities, and the world.

And before I close, I want to share what I've learned it means to be an Ole Miss Rebel.

We — and only we — control the meaning of Ole Miss Rebel.

An Ole Miss Rebel is a Rebel with a cause, to make a difference in our world as an innovator,

a mentor, a teacher, a teammate, a caregiver, a champion for others, a fiercely loyal family

member, an entrepreneur, a trendsetter, a leader.

That's our meaning of Ole Miss Rebel.

And when we look at the world around us and the many, many challenges we face, we recognize

the responsibility we have as Ole Miss Rebels and as members of the state's flagship university.

Because being an Ole Miss Rebel means we stand up for one another, it means we do not shy

from difficult discussions, it means we neither hide from nor hide our past, it means every

voice matters, and it means we move forward together with a shared vision for our future.

So I want to conclude my remarks today by a fun 30-second video narrated by Morgan Freeman

that illustrates our commitment to excellence in all we do and what it means to be an Ole

Miss Rebel.

Thank you.

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Physical Therapy at Brenau University - Duration: 2:28.

The first time I worked in the pro bono clinic, I was solely responsible for my

first patient. So I did the evaluation. I diagnosed him with what I thought.

I treated this patient and at the very end I actually got so excited I cried,

which is kind of silly, but I had actually helped that patient. The patient was so happy

that I was just like "this is what I want to do." Because you get so wrapped up in

school and tests and papers and computers and all this stuff, and then you forget,

like, you're dealing with people. Then you put your hands on that person and

they're so happy and excited, it's just like, "wow!"

The way that it works at Brenau is you have all of these clinical exposures, whether it's through wellness

clients or whether it's through the hospital, or the faculty clinic and the

pro bono clinic. You have plenty of opportunities to get involved with

patient care. So when you go learn something in, let's say, anatomy or

musculoskeletal, you bring that back to the clinic and you can apply it to a

patient immediately. And your ability to retain and apply that information is just out of this world.

When I came to this program I was terrified of going to the hospital.

I took part in the early mobility program. We were just

implementing a simple program that's under research, which is getting patients

out of bed early after surgery. People had this idea in their minds that "oh you

know, it's all terrifying. There's equipment and there's needles and

there's body fluids." But then when you're there you kind of forget the scary stuff

because you're working with the patient. I absolutely want to start my career in a hospital.

All of my professors, they have an open-door policy. There's not one

professor that I feel like, if I was struggling in something, I couldn't go to

their office and tell them, like, "hey look, I don't understand this concept."

They really take the responsibility of making sure, if you come to them, if you don't have it

they will make sure that you walk out of their office knowing the material.

Brenau has prepared me to be a good physical therapist because they

have emphasized and given us many opportunities to work with patients,

and remind us that that's the reason that we're actually becoming a physical therapist.

It's not to treat diseases. It's not to have an ideal work schedule.

It's to help impact people's lives, and they remind us

because they give us the chance to do that at an early stage and make that be

the desire throughout our program.

For more infomation >> Physical Therapy at Brenau University - Duration: 2:28.

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International Education Week 2017 | Maryville University - Duration: 1:05.

Hi I'm Dr. Mark Lombardi, the President of Maryville University, and I want to

invite all of you to celebrate International Education Week November

13th through the 17th this year. This is a special week and special set of

events started by the United States Department of State and Education

designed to celebrate and honor the intercultural awareness and the

diversity and the rich exchange of ideas that take place when we bring so many

wonderful international students to our campus into this community and here in

the United States. Please join the entire Maryville community in celebrating all

the various events that take place during that week saluting our

international students and of course honoring the rich cultural diversity

that makes up this great community we call Maryville. I look forward to seeing

you with those events. Take care

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The Translational Biomedical Science Graduate Program at the University of Rochester - Duration: 2:01.

One of the things that's really fun

about the TBS program is when we get together

all of us have very different research and very different backgrounds,

so when we talk about our research to each other every other student can give

us a really unique perspective.

What I really want to do for my project is to develop new technology

that can interpret the physician-patient conversation

and then automatically generate all the paperwork and all the documentation

that goes along with patient care.

Right now, I'm doing research about non-communicable diseases in Saipan

and also a tiny island, called Tinian, off the coast of Saipan.

Right now, we're hoping to build community

or build some relations among the community to investigate

what's causing or what the causes are of non-communicable diseases.

We feel that it's important to develop that sense of community

to have a better understanding and help people better understand

healthy food choices and diet.

I study skeletal stem cells.

It's a type of stem cell that lives in the bone marrow.

As they go from stem cell to the bone forming osteoblasts,

they start to use their mitochondria way more.

We study the mitochondria and how it becomes up-regulated

and what can go wrong in that process,

causing things like low bone mineral density or osteoporosis.

The focus of my project is about community engagement,

where communities actually take care of their own environmental risk

using communications information communications technologies.

I chose the TBS program because they allowed me to stray from the traditional

bench-to-bedside aspect of translational science and they allow me to really

explore the data science side of it and to build clinical tools that we can

actually trial in our hospital to see if they work.

I'd like thank the CTSI for establishing the TBS program, which has such wonderful

flexibility to allow me to find my passion and where I really want to be.

It's a wonderful program and it's been a wonderful experience here.

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Clarkson Ignite: Ken Camarco '85 at Clarkson University - Duration: 1:50.

MAN: More than anything, I want them to take home the fact that

they probably haven't seen everything that they are going to see,

and, really, that life is a bunch of boundless possibilities, right?

You can take it in a number of different directions.

Certainly, where my career and where my personal life took me

wasn't anything that I really envisioned when I first graduated from Clarkson.

Hopefully, they get a feel for a lot of different things

and a lot of different avenues that

their career can take them in.

WOMAN: I'm excited to have Ken Camarco '85 back and interested to hear his take on bringing

technologies to market and serving customers and humanity.

It's really important for our students to hear from successful alumni like Ken

as they aspire to reach those heights of success in their careers as well.

We can hear from Ken firsthand the ups and downs of a career

and how it might take twists and turns along the way.

It's a really valuable experience for our students to hear as they make decisions in their future.

MAN: Even in the corporate world, there was a lot of entrepreneurialism that was involved in

my career and certainly a lot of collaboration across disciplines.

So although I'm a graduate engineer,

much of my career was in manufacturing

and it also took me into finance,

it took me into information technology,

it took me into HR spaces, and it really involved everything.

I think Ignite is really to try to get the student body to understand how that cross-disciplinary

track can really, to use the word, ignite their careers and certainly different aspects of

the creative process and really providing value to someone else.

If they can get that message, that a lot of this is really selfless acts --- that you are

doing something, and by virtue of that, you can get your own self-satisfaction, but it's

really delivering value to somebody else

in how you both progress your

personal and professional life.

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Reach Your Potential | Ashford University's Fall 2017 Commencement - Duration: 1:21.

DR.

DONNA BEEGLE: For me, this is more than work.

I have a lifetime of being homeless.

I have a lifetime of experiencing hunger.

Watching the people I love not have their fundamental human needs met.

And no one in the history of my family ever benefiting from education.

At 26, I went back to school with the support of many, many incredible mentors and achieved

my GED.

And from there, I got an associate's, and then a bachelor's, a master's, and my

doctorate, studying poverty all the way through the doctorate.

I identify with the journey that the Ashford class has made.

And now is really when you get to share what you've learned and make our communities

better.

That's the planet I'm going for: one where everyone reaches their potential.

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Supporting Military Students and Student Veterans | Ashford University - Duration: 3:48.

Ben: Hi, I'm Ben Gothia and this is Promoting Awareness and Wellness in Students. With Veteran's

Day celebrated each November, the PAWs team likes to use this month as a chance to highlight

some of the efforts across Ashford that focus on supporting our military students and student

veterans. This November, we caught up with Heather Albin, Strategy Manager of Military

& Veteran Services, as well as Kiri Storlie, Student Success Program Coordinator, and asked

them to tell us what's in the works. Welcome to PAWs.

Ben: As the Strategy Manager of Military & Veteran Services, Heather tells us what events are

taking place at Ashford this November.

Heather: Ashford University is proud of our student veterans and committed to supporting

all of you through achievement of your educational goals. In honor of Veterans Day and in partnership

with Ashford's Teaching & Learning Conference we will be hosting four online speaker events.

Topics include: (1) how to work with professor and advisor; (2) how to engage with other

student veterans, service members or spouses inside and outside of the classroom; (3) finding

purpose after military service; and (4) understanding the value of a veteran. All events will be

recorded and available if you cannot attend during the live session.

Ben: Recognizing that there are some unique challenges for military students and student

veterans, Heather tells us about the resources she sees as effective in supporting academic

success.

Heather: Ashford has a great online military resource center. It includes access to resources

both internal to the University and national external resources such as Military One Source.

You can access it at military.ashford.edu. I think the best resource for our students

who are still on active duty is the military outreach team and events page. You can visit

the page to see if one of our team members will be visiting your installation in the

upcoming weeks or months. You can then set up time to see them face-to-face. Each year

we try to travel to each installation at least once. We also have a great peer-to-peer program

known as CHAMPs.

Ben: Following up on to the August edition, Kiri was happy to join us for a deeper dive

into the ways that the CHAMPS program supports military students and student veterans.

Kiri: The CHAMPS peer mentoring program has a customized track for service members in

which the activities inside of each of the milestones are designed to speak specifically

to the lifestyle of our military population. From the very first milestone, getting connected,

we introduce an understanding of how critical peers can be to transitioning veterans. In

milestone 4 we reiterate that Ashford University is recognized as a military friendly institution

while providing activities that include videos comparing military versus college time management

and college academics. In the final milestone we teach students how to showcase their military

experience on LinkedIn that translates to civilian employers. All of our service member

students in the CHAMPS program are always paired with other service members.

Ben: In an effort to make us aware of additional options to get connected and find support,

Heather leaves us with a couple recommendations.

Heather: The two easiest ways to stay connected and get additional support is to join the

Student Veteran Organization which is currently hosted on LinkedIn and sign up for the Military

Community Newsletter which you can access at military.ashford.edu. From all of us at

Ashford University, we are grateful for each and everyone one of you and the sacrifice

you and your families have provided to us through your service. Thank you and happy

Veterans Day.