Roy Disney's Resignation From The Board Of The Walt Disney Company; What Is The Mission Of The University Of California?; Green Cars
Roy Disney's Resignation From The Board Of The Walt Disney Company
Larry Mantle talks with James Bates from the Los Angeles Times, Katie Harris from Bloomberg News, and Charles Solomon, animation critic from amazon.com about the strife within the Walt Disney Company between Roy Disney and Michael Eisner. Roy Disney resigned from the board of the company on Sunday, and called for the resignation of Michael Eisner. Subsequently, board member Stanley Gold also resigned as a gesture for Roy Disney.
What Is The Mission Of The University Of California?
The recent flap over UC admissions underscores the fact that there seems to be very little agreement as to what the University of California is or should be. Larry Mantle talks with Laura Trombley, President of Pitzer College, and Matthew Murray, Student Regent on the University of California Board of Regents about the mission of the University of California, how the freshman admissions process relates to the role and identity of the UC, and how private colleges and universities differ in their mission from the public educational institutions.
Green Cars
California's strict Zero-Emission mandate drives clean auto Technology. In the summer of 2003, the Big Three automakers told Congress that it wasn't possible to meet a 40 miles per gallon standard by 2015. But the Japanese auto manufacture Toyota did it, without government subsidies, with the Prius, a car with a gasoline engine and an electric motor. Jim Motivalli, Editor of E: The Environmental Magazine and author of Breaking Gridlock, Todd Campbell, policy director for the Coalition for Clean Air, a nonprofit dedicated to improving air quality in California, Jeffrey Partain, environmental product planning manager, Toyota Motor Sales USA, and Joel Schwartz, Senior Fellow with Reason Foundation join Host Larry Mantle to discuss new "green" cars on the market, as well as new innovations coming soon.