when i was a senior of vanderbilt university, 1962, vanderbilt was segregated by race. a group of us objected that. the board of trust changed the policy that year. since then, universities have done a pretty good job of finding a whole variety of ways to take underrepresented students and make them part of a university community. vanderbilt has something called the posse, where they find kids of limited background who had never even thought of going to vanderbilt university but they select those of promise and then they go together and help each other. that's a good way to do it. you could do the same thing with points of view. arthur brooks, the head of the american enterprise institute is going to harvard. that ought to stir things up. the more of that the better. i think if universities and campuses recognize that conservative points of view are undervalued and underrepresented and use the same sort of and use the same sort of creativity and enthusiasm for making other points of view represented on campus that they did to make underrepresented students on campus --

people would recognize, that is the vanderbilt coachman or the carnegie coachman. they would hire her these men in part for their look. they wanted them to be handsome with a good physique. there were hiring people almost as male models/coachman. there was a lot of -- surfaces were important. debutante balls in the newport mansion. the coachman was another aspect of status. covetedhman was a very position among the household staff and often the highest paid. >> so affairs were going on? >> yes. while they drove around the young women, often alone, and they got to know the coachman. parents assumed there would be no relations between a servant and their daughter, especially when the servant was sometimes african-american. it did not occur to them. these young women became friendly with these coach drivers. they also saw that there other marriage options might be arranged marriages with his miss partners of their fathers. they got to know these young handsome men who were spending time with them on a daily basis. sometimes they went horse riding together. they really

this is cosponsored by vanderbilt's warren center and was funded by the ann true w. melon -- andrew w. mellon foundation. we have three distinguished speakers today. given the time limits for the session -- we have one hour -- i am going to keep my introductions very brief in order that you may have more time to hear from them about today's topic rather than to hear about them from me. each will speak for about 10 or 15 minutes, and we then plan for a lively conversation with the audience. the topic today is at the very core of our current national conversation, and i know we are all grateful to our panelists for providing us this opportunity as a community to explore more deeply issues related to polarization in the polls. our panelists include ken blake, professor of journalism at mtsu. blake earned his ph.d. in mass communication from unc-chapel hill. he is the cofounder and director of the america tsu poll -- mtsu poll, a once a semester, scientifically valid telephone poll of tennessee adults. a former newspaper reporter, ken blake has research interests that in

star of "boy erased," actor lucas hedges, music from boygenius, featuring the 8g band with franklin vanderbilt. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] that is fantastic to hear. in that case, let's get to the news. the new york city marathon was yesterday, and president trump freaked out because he thought the caravan was here. [ laughter ] "oh, no. oh, no. they're going to vote." [ laughter ] the midterm elections are tomorrow, and democrats would have to flip 23 republican seats to take control of the house. and if that happens, president trump will flip paul ryan. [ laughter ] after president trump tweeted a poster of himself in the style of hbo's "game of thrones," that said, quote, "sanctions are coming," hbo responded, and said it would prefer the tagline not be misappropriated for political purposes. they'd also appreciate it if he would return mike pence to "westworld." [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] according to the final national nbc news

franklin vanderbilt. of course, the 8g band. stay tuned for carson daly. we will see you tomorrow, everyone. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪

franklin vanderbilt, and of course the 8g band. stay tuned for carson daly. we'll see you tomorrow. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> carson: good evening, and welcome to "last call."

franklin vanderbilt, everybody.s [ chnd applause ] thank you for a great, great week. really appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> seth: our first guest tonht is an emmy nominated actor and comedian you know from "saturday night live," "30 rock," and "the last o.g." he'lbe performing at the beacon theater saturday november 10th as part of the new york comy festival. please welcome back to the show one of our favorites, our friend tracy morgan, everybody. ♪ [ cheers and applause >> seth: tracy morgan. [ cheers and applause ] tracy. tracy. tracy. always such a joy. >> that was a lot of love, man l >> set of love. >> i feel like a magical black dude. >> seth: yeah. [ cheers and applause ] >> i feel magical.f. >> seth: lot >> i'm feel like the black dude from "green mile." >> seth: you feel like that? [ laughter ] >> i could just touch a white dude and feel his senses. yeah. >> seth: a healing hand? oh, my gosh. my cold just left. >> cure your syphilis. yeah. s h: oh, my god. [ laughter ] there go the bugs. there go the bugs. you -- you're turning 50n saturday. >> ye

franklin vanderbilt, and of course the 8g band stay tuned for carson daly. we'll see you tomorrow. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> carson: good evening, and anlcome to "last call." i'm carson daly,ng out here at phd terrace at dream midtown, new york city for t' tonish.

check out franklin vanderbilt. our first guest tonight is an emmy nominated comedian and host of billy on the street available on youtube. you can see him in american horror story apock limicalypsap. please welcome him back, billy eichner, everybody. welcome back! >> what's up! [ cheers and applause ] i am very happy. >> seth: you're very happy? >> yes. we flipped the damn house! >> seth: there you go. it's a big deal. >> it is a big deal. >> seth: the last time you were here we talked about this initiative you started called glam up the mid-terms. you invested a lot of personal time. >> you're not going to ask me with the bowl that popcorn i'm asking? i brought it from the dressing room. now maxine waters is head of the financial -- what is it called? the financial committee which means she can ask for donald trump's taxes and i'm going to sit back and watchful thank you. >> seth: yeah. i would guess that would be donald trump's least -- that would be his last choice for who would be in charge of the committee. >>

parker, nbc news chief white house correspondent, hallie jackson, featuring the 8g band with franklin vanderbilt. ♪ [ cheers and appuse ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening, i'm seth meyers. this is "late night. how is everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] that is fantastic to hear. in that case, let's get to the news. president trump held a pre conference today after democrats took back control of the house. people thought he would be mad. but i don't know, i thought he was pretty energetic and upbeat. >> here we go -- >> well, if you don't mind mr. president -- >> come on. >> that this caravan. >> we need the people -- >> your campaign -- your campaain -- >> wait, that's enough. put down the mic. you are a rude, terrible person. >> in jim's defense, i've traveled with him, and watch him. he's a diligent reporter who busts his butt like the rest of us. >> well, i'm not a big fan of your's either. you aren't the best. [ light laughter ] >> why are you pitting americans against one another, sir? >> peter, what are you trying to be him? >> i don't why you s >> mr

vanderbilt has been undergoing -- they have actually removed confederate from confederate memorial hall, which was a dormitory established with a fellowship for decendents -- female descendents of confederate veterans there at vanderbilt -- it was peabody college at the time. winthrop in georgia had a similar program. but columbia, university of pennsylvania and vasser also had fellowships for descendants of confederate veterans. ironically, the very success that the union cause it had in talking about preserving the union led to its steady demise in the popular imagination. having fought to preserve the nation, unionists had encouraged former rebels to embrace the stars and stripes, to identify themselves as americans. the union had continued to expand in both space and time. and as symbols go, it was increasingly difficult to separate the united states from 1861 from the united states of the 1880s or 1920s. so if you're talking about the symbols themselves, the flags, it's difficult to look and see, oh, that's a 36-star flag. that must be a union flag, as opposed to more stars being a

. >> dan work, a traffic expert from vanderbilt university knows all about the phantom traffic jam. his scene even ran this test, demonstrating it's a real phenomenon. you can see it sped up in this video. 22 cars driving in a circle. >> their drivers are just told to drive normally. inevitably, eventually the cars go into a stop-and-go traffic pattern, where drivers are racing around one side of the track just to get caught in the traffic jam on the other side of the track. >> now here is video with data from an experiment that shows what we can do about it. these are the same cars with one exception. the arrow points to a self-driving car programmed to smooth the flow of traffic. the human drivers don't know it's there. but as a self-driving car drives more smoothly, all the other cars do too. >> what interest self driving car has to do is drive at the average speed of the person that is driving too fast and too slow. >> a human driver can't figure that out, but a car with artificial intelligence can. here in the bay area traffic of the berkeley lab are using sophisticated compute

it's called fisher island zip code three three one zero nine once privately owned by william vanderbilt the second the island is located just off the coast of miami and is now a haven for the world's richest only accessible by boat or helicopter the two hundred sixteen acre manmade island has a mix of condos and private homes not to mention a vast array of amenities you come to fish island and you literally can stay here for three months without having to leave the island so we have about eighteen amenities from the arenas to seven restaurants to eighteen tennis courts four different surfaces on tennis courts a great golf club we haven't. as you have seen and the beautiful beach club environment so we have private beaches we have a private school so this is an ideal. for families who want to come here who want to raise children there are about five hundred residents ranging from royalty to professional athletes to business executives and while only about twenty percent of them reside on the island full time. if the island's exclusivities that attracts people from all over the world. dif

he spent time in india with those nonviolent tactics with the breakout movement he was kicked out of vanderbilt for that he just needed to come back down south and to consider him to militant. because of that history book and then was agitating. and then to go through all these reports scores and scores of reports and photographs i count 48 different incidents and a lot of this is pretty amazing this domestic intelligence operation was because it looked at the broad scope it was a vacuum cleaner so it would kick back things like the fbi agent that he was questioning the virgin birth of christ. with details of his family and involvement and the peace movement to train young men to dodge the draft legally because lawson did not agree as a matter of fact he was a conscientious objector because he would not register for the draft. there was that ideological difference what adam was saying to break new ground with that broad archive and test it on - - domestic intelligence we have known that for years that but we don't know the micro. trying to dig in. who were these reformers? so that ability to li

view to personal gain which is why i need to founder tirana burke will share this year's prize with vanderbilt university neuroscientist beth mclaughlin who has been an outspoken critic of sexism within the science fields and founded me to stem the third recipient of the disobedience award was dr sherry marts who opened up about the harassment she suffered while in graduate school using it to help the american geophysical union to overhaul its code of conduct in order to build a more perfect future for all we must celebrate those who are willing to put their careers and her name on the line to do the right thing talk about what no one wants to and ultimately but the truth follow ups bro. i'm happy to see that award because look i'm a full supporter of the mood to move but i want to see it spread into a lot of different sectors not just hollywood not just entertainment and t.v. and things like that it's got to be at all levels before we can get better change and i happen i'm telling you it's coming whether you like it and that. i hope so i'll sign them congratulations to these women and you kno

he was kicked out of vanderbilt. he finished community school and came back down south. settled in memphis. the naacp leadership there. always trying to keep them at arms length. ernest had made a comment about them at one point. in a history book that he did. he thought that jim lawson was egocentric. out for himself and stirring up a lot of agitating. he kicked back a lot of information over the years. when i went through all of these reports. forty-eight different incidents. a lot of this stuff is pretty amazing. how broad the intelligence operation was. the congressional committee in the 1970s was the broad scope of these domestic intelligence investigations. the fbi's report. it was like a vacuum cleaner. all these pieces of information. kicking back things like the fbi agents. a sermon the other day in the church. details about his family. his involvement. trying to train young men and ways to dodge the draft. either legally or extra- legally lawson did not agree with the vietnam war. he did not agree with war in general. going to prison in the early 50s. he did no

competitor at memorial hall, which was a fellowship for female descendents of the confederates there and vanderbilt. georgia had a similar program. but columbia, university of pennsylvania, and vassar had fellowships for the descendents .f confederate veterans ironically the success that the union had and talked about preserving the union led to its steady demise in the popular imagination. having fought to preserve the nation, they encouraged former wearables -- encouraged formal .earables -- former rebels as symbols go, it was increasingly difficult to separate the united states from to the united states of 1880's or 1920's. to see a flag and say that's a 36 star flagged as a post more stars being added. even as the union cause became more amorphous the veteran -- the confederate cause remained distinct. its memory, it's symbols continue to stand apart, suspended in time and inseparable from the war, captured, of course in the and movieestseller gone with the wind. it appears as though the confederacy was the civil war. centennial, the lost of theo the long side reconciliation as the predominant

. >> charles: talking about pioneers, the vanderbilts and rockefellers of the world. the inspirational things. the closer to the present day can only see a company like general motors, big, successful company, just reported great corporate earnings, highest average selling price for a vehicle and company history and still laying off this many people, it makes people believe it's tough to get in the business world. >> actually mention alfred sloan who was the president of gm in the early 1900s. that company has been around a long time. i think all of us hate to hear when companies are making those cuts and i think everybody is an entrepreneur probably went through that before. there are ups and downs. we've had to let people go in and there's times that you hire people. hopefully this will get corrected in these workers will find another place to work. i feel confident, with the president being such a businessman, entrepreneur himself, that he's going to try to work with these situations. we know that he loves business and we know he loves growing business here in amer

it will be a must-win for vanderbilt here to keep their hopes alive. last night in the nfl was back and forth battles to keep playoff hopes alive. the seahawks rallying to fined a way to win. russell wilson giving them the lead with minutes to go. aaron rodgers tore them apart, and it was this incomplete pass. they decide to punt with four minutes to go. sacked five times by the seahawks in this one. in the nba, draymond green and kevin durant back on the court for the first time since their dust-up on monday. draymond saying despite the incident the warriors will win a title this season. they were far from championship form. draymond green scored zero points. the rockets romp the warriors on this one, and then afterwards steve kerr said his warriors are banged up physically and spir spiritually. >> thank you, coy wire. appreciate it. >>> a major crackdown by the fda targeting menthol cigarettes and flavoring vape. when heartburn hits... fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue... and neutralizes stom

carol swain, former professor of political science at vanderbilt university law school and civil rights attorney leo terrel. let's start with you. is this a direction that you want to see your party go? >> i want to see it go like you've been trying to tell mr. president trump throughout the entire program. trump place identity politics. he has sent out coded messages and democrats welcome his identity politics and they are intersecting race, identity and social issues such as criminal justice. they are challenging whites to join up because trump has alienated every face in the country. i've been watching your show. you see it. you have been trying to send trump a message. he plays identity politics and the democrats are seizing on it. orange county, also known as reagan country, is now all blue. orange county, california, . >> laura: i am aware that it turned all blue. there are a lot of reasons for that. democrats also lost the south over a period of time. that had to be slowly, slowly worked on by the democratic party. politics is not a zero-sum game. it changes over time, leo. you k

i am right now not far have vanderbilt. a professor i talked to said she has never seen this kind of enthusiasm. the early voting by people under 29 is up over 700% here. that will help favor redson. going to be an interesting day here in tennessee. as we look to see who can win this very close race. >> i'd say interesting is a gross understatement. thank you so much. now let's head to the swing state of pennsylvania. >> a big rush this morning. long line. people had to wait to vote. took about 10 minutes for the voters to go through. at stake, as you said, is the congressional seat in the first district in pennsylvania. this is one of the most closely watched races in the country. brian fitzpatrick and wallace. on the ballot today are very strong democratic incumbents for governor and senator and they are expected to win. the question is can that momentum pull scott wallace across the finish line? that's what makes this so interesting because bucks county where i am is famous for ticket splitters. they don't necessarily vo

tactic giving for years leading up to this breakout movement so -- he was kicked he was kicked out of vanderbilt for that, and was arrested and basksly made a praia to leave the south left school in boston college and came back down south and then in 1962 settled in memphis and he was not embraced by the -- by naacp leadership and trying to keep him at arm's length considered him two militant and ernest made a comment about him at one point in a history book that he did a picture in history book that heoi did not go. he thought that jim lawson was egocentric vimg out for himself stirring up a lot of agitating really was the view so he kicked back a lot of information about -- james lawson over the years. when i went through all of these reports with score and scores -- of reports and photographs, i counted i think it was 48 different incident in which he passed information about jim lawson now a lot of this stuff is pretty amazing how broad you know this -- domestic intelligence operation was because you know when the church committee this congressional committee was looking into kind of the bro

plus, billy eichner, soledad o'brien, featuring the 8g band with franklin vanderbilt. ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers! >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers. it is 12:37 a.m.od how is everdoing tonight? in that case, let's get to the news. welcome to "late night." we are live tonight and

star of "boy erased," actor lucas hedges, music from boygenius, featuring the 8g band with franklin vanderbilt. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] that is fantastic to hear. in that case, let's get to the news. the new york city marathon was yesterday, and president trump freaked out because he thought the caravan was here. [ laughter ]

fellowships for descendents of confederates at universities across the south and north at vanderbilt have been undergoing changes and there is a dormitory established for descendents, female descendents of confederate veterans with peabody college at the time. when drop in georgia had a similar program, but columbia, university of pennsylvaniaà there also had fellowships for descendents of confederate entrance. ironically, the very success that the union cause had had in preserving the union led to the steady demise in the popular imagination. having fought to preserve the nation, unionists had encouraged former rebels to embrace them and identify themselves as american. the union had continued to expand in both space and time. as symbols go, it was increasingly difficult to separate the united states from 1861 and the united states in the 1880s or 1920s because we were talking about the symbols themselves. it is difficult to see that that is a 36 star flag as opposed to more stars being added. even as the union cause became more obscure, the confederate cause remained distinct as s

plus, billy eichner, soledad o'brien, featuring the 8g band with franklin vanderbilt. ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers! >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers. it is 12:37 a.m. how is everybody doing tonight? in that case, let's get to the

. >> dan work a traffic expert from vanderbilt university knows abouetht he ran this test demonstrating a relevant phenomenon you can see it sped up in this video. 22 cars driving in circle. >> the drivers are told to drive as they would in rush hour traffic. inevitably eventually the cars go into a stop and go traffic pattern. drivers racing around one side of the traffic just to get he other side. >> here is video with data from an experiment that shows what we can do about it. these are the with one exception. the arrow points to a self-driving car programmed to smooth the flow of traffic. the human drivers don't know it's there but as one self-driving cars drives more smoothly all the other cars do too. >> what the self-driving car has to do is draf at the average speed of the person driving too fast and too slow. >> a human driver can't figure a car with artificial intelligence can. traffic researches he is at the department of energy berkeley lab use sophisticated computer modelling to predict what else self-driving cars can do. in this simulation cars programmed to behave like hu

parker, nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson, featuring the 8g band with franklin vanderbilt. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] that is fantc hr. in that case, let's get to the news. president trump held a press conference today after democrats took back control of the house. people thought he would be mad. but i don't know, i thought he

. >> dan work a traffic expert from vanderbilt university knows about the phantom traffic jam. his team ran this test demonstrating a real phenomenon. you can see it sped up in the video, 22 cars driefgt in a circle. >> they are told to drive as they would in rush hour traffic. inevitably inevitably the cars go into a stop and go traffic pattern. drivers race around one side of the traffic jam just to get caught in the other side >> here is data with an experiment that shows what we can do about it. these are the same karps with one exception. the arrow points to a self-driving car, programmed to smooth the flow of traffic. the human drivers don't know it's there. but as one self-driving car drives more mootingly all the other cars do too. >> what that self-driving car has to do is drive at the average speed of the person driving too fast and then too slow. >> a human driver can't figure that out but a cart are car with artificial intelligence can. >> here in the bay area traffic researchers at the department of energy berkeley lab use sophisticated computer marylandling to pre

. >> reporter: dan work, a traffic expert from vanderbilt university knows all about the phantom traffic jam. his team even wran this test, demonstrating it is a real phenomenon. you can see it sped up in this video. 22 cars driving in a circle. >> there are drivers who are told to drive as they normally would in rush hour traffic. inevitably, eventually the cars go into a stop and go traffic pattern where drivers are racing around one side of the track to go caught in the traffic jam on the other side of the track. >> reporter: here is video with data from an experiment that shows what we can do about it. these are the same cars with one exception. the arrow points to a self-driving car programmed to smooth the flow of traffic. the human drivers don't know it is there, but as one self-driving car drives more smoothly, all of the other cars do too. >> what that self-driving car has to do is basically drive at the average speed of that person that's driving too fast and then too slow. >> a human driver can't figure that out but a car with artificial intelligence can. here in the bay area

featuring the 8g band with franklin vanderbilt. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: good evening, i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how's everybody doing tonight? a [ chee applause ]ti that is fantto hear. in that case, let's get to the news. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg is ficovering in the hospital after she fell in her , and fractured three ribs. wow, if you had told me a

. >> dan work, a traffic expert from vanderbilt university knows about the phantom track jam. his team ran this test demonstrating a real phenomenon. can you see it sped up in the video, 22 cars driving in a circle. >> the drivers are told to drive as they would in rush hour traffic. inevitably the cars go into a stop and go pattern where drivers race around one side just to get caught in the traffic jam on the other side. >> here is video with data from an experiment that shows what we can do about it. these are the same cars with one exception. the arrow points to a self-driving car. programmed to smooth the flow of traffic. the human drivers don't know it's there. but as one self-driving car drives more smoothly, all the other cars do too. >> what that self-driving car has to do is basically drive at the average speed of that person that's driefgt too fast and too slow. >> a human driver can't figure it out but a car with artificial intelligence can. here in the bay area traffic researchers at the department of energy berkeley lab use sophisticated computer modelling to pre