harvard studenent newspaper reported harvard representative repeatedly declined answer whether administrators will recognize the harvard graduate students union, a chapter of the united automobile workers, the uaw. a climate change denier with no scieieific crededentials is seto helm nasa after he was narrowlwy confirmed by the senate in a 50-49 9 vote. oklahoma republican congress member jim bridenstine previously demanded president obama apologize for funding climate change research, and said falsely from the house floor that global temperatures stopped rising early this century. bridenstine will now oversee an agency whose earth sciences division is responsible for much of the satellite data used to investigate how human activity is driving g global warming. in a major victory for environmentalists, banking giant hsbc said friday it will no longer finance the development tar sands oil extraction, most coal-firired powower plants, anl and gas drdrilling i in the arc. hsbc sayays its new popolicy, wh willll also d fifinancing g to hydroelectctric and nuclear r pr projects that t don't meetet

you see long lines but you don't see studen ts enjoyin food. some of the food is good, but some of the food they just don't likd hey don't eat. >> many of the schools, there's mandatory rules where you have ick up a fresh fruit and a veggie in addition to your entre, do you do that and do you et everything on your operate? >> a l of the time, there's only one thing that the students want on the plate. so, a lot of it does end p getting wasted. >> so there's a lot of food wa ing on. >> yeah, a lot, because like she said, we stand in a long line for one item, butnd they up making you take three or four. and then you are left to waste it all. >> but, some of the items that you are throwing away, the mandatory rules are therer had a reason, they are nutritious, that fruit and that vegetable how much of this is about, how important is nutrion versus taste for you? >> it hand in nd, maybe it's supposed to be nutritious, but i'm notxatly sure how nutritious the food they serve is. so, iave just had too many bad experiences with mushy food that is rott

. >> our next topic is one that is close to many a studens heart. food. angel is a shomore at fremont high school. she and her fellow students pitched a sory about school lunches and did a photo essay and did interviews about where the food comes fromnd what students thin of it. they ranked how it tastes and rules that lead to waste. and santa clara high school, variety is not a problem. students there get indian pizza, roasted chicken and plenty of fruits and veggies, b according to this sophomore, the lines are too long and popular items frequently run out. allthree, join me now in the studio. stephanie murphy, a senior at san leandro high school, and angel brady a sophomore at fremont high and alina joffrey, a sophomore. tell me about the school lunches what are they like in your school? >> the schools lunch not too great. they often serve expired milk. so, have to double check the date.t the pizza is lly cooked, the dough is raw. the fruiis mushy and brown, most of it, a lot of times. the peanut butter and jelly that they serve is prepackaged and froz

studen. it is natural to think about what we would do. >> it's aver everyday hero. it's a hero in training. reporter: this is a professor at stanford university. he's phone for the study of the psychological effects of prisoners and guards and how good people can become evil. now days he's focused on the opposite. whether ordinary people can be inspired and trained to become everyday heroes. >> i'm here today to say the answer is yes. i'm doing this by creating the heroic project. reporter: he dawned his own personal super man outfit. he has taken his progame to schools around the world. >> we teach you to notice in every situation what can you do can improve the quality of life for everyone else. reporter: charlotte took the course and said the important thing is recognizing the situation and acting. >> it could be the difference between someone being isolated or life or death. reporter: she was stopped at an intersection when she saw a man stumbling across the street and car coming for him. >> i could only honk the horn. the car missed the man by this much. report

as students declared enough is enough, a 17-year-old studen was injured in another school shooting this morning. the shooter was taken into custody. >> it's a shame what society has come to. >> reporter: new polls suggest there could be a new shifting attitude in the american public over the course of the past decades the views around gun control remained relatively the same but a new abc news "washington post" poll revealed this morning that 57% of americans favor laws that prevent gun violence over laws that protect your right to own a gun. in new york mag yes reule, abc 7 news ama. >> maggie what was the reaction from most schools? >> well ama it's interesting to watch in the new wave of protests and student led walkouts schools have a difficult decision to make every time students say they want to walk out the. many schools say they can't endorse the walkouts. instead they have to hold students accountedable. many school districts saying if you walk out that's your choice but you will be given unexcused absence if it's the second or third strike you'll be punished accordingly. accor

it was an opportunity to enhance the rrrricul i was aeadydy teaching a my studen respded real well. d you got a s kidding when i said they could have cared less. could you imagine hundred lamar watching into the e school. hohow do the kids act? >> what is incredible is he w w a student that day. he was there to really listen to our students perform their work and like good teacher, he was really listeng to what they were saying. amy: wt t was ur r resnse sterdadawhen you heard that "damn" had won the pulitzer? >> just thrilled and humbled that my students and i wee able to play a part in bringing some awareness to some other educators and teachers around the world that his work can be is again hipnd rap hop colter can be used to teach and learn. i thought it was a long time coming. it was well-deserved. while hip-hop in many ways has been very anti-institutional, it is nice to get the institutional recognition i feel is very deserved. amy: the pulitzer committee said " was "a virtuosic some collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism offers affecting the

in atlta, geora, we're joed by anher form studen reverd dr. raael rnock. dr. waock serv as seni pastor othe ebener bapti church iatlanta,eorgia, which wathe spiritual home o dr. rtin lutr king, . we welme you a to demoacy w! our conlences. i wanto begin with verend dr. kell brownouglas. you wk so csely with dr cone at union illogical. -- theological. you are his student. it is even hard to talk k about him in the past tense. talk about his legacy, what he meant to you, and what he meant to this country. >> i think that his legacy is very hard to really quantify because it will be a very long cross that will generations because dr. cone always said that he did not want disciples. he did not want students who would come and simply imitate on thek and simply carry paradigms that he created. he urged as always to find our own voice. and he wanted us to bring our to perspectives, not simply our understanding of god, but to our understanding of the complexity of injustice so that we could understand more, the meaning of god's justice and the work we had to do. he wa

a are studene to succeed a college? let's measure things like violence in and around schools. >> reporter: parents like anika maews-feldman agree. >> there's absolutely no trust. you're not working for the children in the schools.yo re working for whatever the mayor just tells you to do for the schools. h>> reporter: jackson kno biggest challenge as c.e.o. is building the same kind of trust astem-wide that she enjoy a school principal. >> when i became a district leader, i noticed that people, they love the school, but they don't trust the system. >> reporter:nd she's aware that many see her as mayor rahm emanuel's political appointee. someone called you theayor's puppet. >> i disagree with that. the mayor has a vision that happen to agree with, and a vision that i think works. >> reporter: jackson realizes she has plenty of challenges ahead. declining enrollment and enormous debt, and the state is ioinvestigating special edn services. but, she says she's ready for the job. >> don't let the smile fool you! i believe i h

they have an obligation to treat studen students ekably, to set up processes to respond to schgs that are prompt, equitable and fair. i think it's important for us to understand those core concepts. as jess did a nice job of describing, there are pieces of a school's response that need to be examined under the lens how they balance the parties and students involved and whether or not they treat them fairly. one of the lightning rods is the standard on how the school assessing the information gathered. and decided what to do one there is an information of sexual violence and other forms that occurs. and when they are instructed or given permission to way the perspective of the stories from the experience of one party, more heavily than another. that is inhadn'tly not fair. that is a museum that's happening here on the national level and the per admissibility that the administration has give to school to use a standard that's not fair. it's happening in states across the country and at schools that are debating this and then sometimes i think misunderstanding and using a comparison to o