This is CBS I in the World. I'm John Batcher. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California,

in the midst of the genius of the digital age these last decades. And yet Stanford University

troubled now by incident serial incidents that add up to puzzlement about Stanford and

its present administration, its present opinion of the world outside of the leafy and

balmy and beautiful campus. I welcome Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, who

is also at the same time a happy graduate of Stanford University. Victor, good evening

to you, writing an American greatness. You take us through several notes that suggest

that Stanford has either lost its way or needs guidance. Most notably, the incident at

the Stanford Law School recently, which has gained national attention, but is still alarming

each time I run, I walk through it. What happened? And why do you believe it happened? Good evening.

There was a lot of reasons that explain this catastrophic chain of events that we saw at the law

school where a federal judge was shouted down and people suggest calling him scum and disrupted

the diversity, SARS, hijacked the lecture and took over the podium and then chastised the lecture

himself. I outlined in the article about eight or nine incidents and they're very striking.

I mean part of it, John, is that there's $9 trillion of market capitalization next door in

Silicon Valley, which Stanford birthed. So there's no consequences because if you look at the

interchange the mutual boards, a number of Stanford people who are on internet boards, Silicon

Valley boards, Silicon Valley people that are on Stanford boards and the cross fertilization.

There is so much money there that things that we think are so egregious that would hurt the

reputation and eventually it's $35 billion in down but don't exist because they're flush with cash.

So there's a sense of entitlement and there's very young people there who graduate or feel they

will graduate into $400, $500,000 of your jobs. So there's a sense of entitlement.

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