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Exploring education
For English Lecturer Aric
Knuth, the time and space stu-
dents and teachers have together
should be "something other than
a humanized version of reading a
book."
Instead, Knuth said he believes
classroom time shouldbe spent as
almost a back and forth between
students and instructors, allow-
ing students to relate better to
the text.
"I think a lot of times people
want a model of education that
isn't necessarily top-down,"
Knuth said.
Knuth brings this philoso-
phy with him when he travels to
Maine every spring as director of
the New England Literature Pro-
gram. The program takes 40 stu-
dents to a camp in the wilderness
to read texts on a dock or a rock in
the woods. There, students work
together and put themselves in
the context of the texts they're
reading, according to Knuth.
Knuth said some of the most
valuable things about the pro-
gram are the opportunities
afforded to students like getting
to hike and live in the cold with
limited heating and electricity.
But, he said one of his favorite
things about the program is liv-
ing without cell phones, comput-
ers, e-mails and Facebook for six
and a half weeks.
Knuth said that during his 13
years of involvement with the
program he has seen a variety
of responses to being away from
technology for this period of
time.
"It's amazing to be without
your computer for two months,
your brain does funny things,"
said Knuth. "I believe in experi-
mentation. And different things
have happened over time because
people have changed and because
people have changed the way that,
they use those technologies. Peo-
ple freak out now, those things
are such important parts of our
lives now."
He added that NELP aims tov
take students out of their comfort
zones because "that is where dis-
covery occurs."
Knuth's ties to the University
go beyond his current teaching
post and his long career with
NELP. He attended the Univer-
sity and majored in English.
After graduation he partici-
pated in Teach for America and
worked at a financial firm in New
York, before deciding to return
to the University for a graduate
degree in English and the oppor-°
tunity to teach undergraduates.
"I have a passion for teaching,"
he said. ANNA SCHULTE /Daily
- SABIRA KHAN Prof. Aric Knuth is the director of the New England Literature Program.
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hall meeting
WHAT: Vice President Ste-
phen Forrest hosts a discus-
sion open to all members of
the University research com-
munity.
WHO: Office of the Vice
President
WHEN: Today from 4 p.m.
to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham Gradu-
ate School Amphitheatre
Workshop on
repatriation
WHAT: A discussion of the
repatriation of the approxi-
mately 1,400 Native American
remains that the University's
Museum of Anthropolgy has
in its possession.
WHEN: Tonight at 6 p.m.
WHO: Museums Theme
Year
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Social identities
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invites participants to reflect
on their identities and how
those identities have affected
their workplace relation-
ships.
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p.m. to 8 p.M.
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Chamber
concert
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students.
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caught the thief.
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rent national debt is just
over $12.4 trillion. At the end
of Bill Clinton's presidency the
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Suspect pleads guilty of plotting
terrorist attack on NYC subways
Haitian orphans
detained in route
to United States
The Afghan man
told a judge he is
willing to be a
suicide bomber
NEW YORK (AP) - A former
airport shuttle driver accused of
buying beauty supplies to make
bombs for an attack on New York
City subways pleaded guilty yes-
terday, admitting he agreed to con-
duct an al-Qaida-led "martyrdom
operation" because of U.S. involve-
ment in his native Afghanistan.
Najibullah Zazi told a judge the
terror network recruited him to
be a suicide bomber in New York,
where he went to high school and
once worked a coffee cart just
blocks from the World Trade Cen-
ter site.
"I would sacrifice myself to
bring attention to what the U.S.
military was doing to civilians in
Afghanistan," Zazi said in court.
The Associated Press learned
earlier this month that the jailed
Zazi had recently volunteered
information about the bomb plot
in the first step toward a plea deal.
His cooperation suggests prosecu-
tors hope to expand the case and
bring charges against other sus-
pects in one of the most serious
terrorism threats in the U.S. since
Sept. 11,2001.
The officials spoke on condition
of anonymity because the terror
investigation is ongoing.
Zazi, 25, pleaded guilty to con-
spiring to use weapons of mass
destruction, conspiring to commit
murder in a foreign country and
providing material support for a
terrorist organization. He faces a
life prison sentence without parole
at a sentencing in June.
The bombings "could have
been devastating," Attorney Gen-
eral Eric Holder said in Washing-
ton. "This attempted attack on
our homeland was real, it was in
motion, and it would have been
deadly."
Zazi said in court he traveled
to Pakistan in 2008 to join the
Taliban and fight against the U.S.
military but was recruited by the
terrorist network in Peshewar
and went into a training camp in
Warziristan, a region of Pakistan
where al-Qaida is known to oper-
ate.
Zazi said he received weapons
training at the camp and learned
aboit explosives. He also said in
court that he had been in contact
with al-Qaida operatives while in
Pakistan, but he did not identify
them.
"During the training, al-Qaida
leaders asked us to return to the
United States and conduct mar-
tyrdom operation," he said. "We
agreed to this plan."
The Pakistan Embassy in Wash-
ington declined to comment on
Zazi's case.
Zazi admitted using notes taken
at the training camp to build
homemade explosives with beauty
supplies purchased in the Denver
suburbs and cooked up in a Colo-
rado hotel room. He then drove the
materials to New York just before
the eighth anniversary of the Sept.
11 terror attacks.
Missionaires were
trying to bring the
children to U.S.
families
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP)
- Six U.S.-bound orphans seized
by Haitian police despite having
their papers in order remained in
a government-run nursery more
than two days later, the orphanage
director said last night.
"The youngest has developed
diarrhea and is very dehydrated,"
said Jan Bonnema of Prinsburg,
Minnesota, founder and director
with her husband, Bud, of the Chil-
dren of The Promise orphanage,
where the children originated.
The seizure of the orphans and
their escorts' brief detention Satur-
day came amid fears foreigners are
exploiting post-earthquake chaos
to illegally take children form the
country. The ongoing case of 10
U.S. Baptist missionaries who tried
to remove children without proper
papers has fueled such fears.
Bonnema, whose orphanage is
located in the northern city of Cap-
Haitien, said the six children had
been bound for the United States
via Miami, where their adoptive
parents were waiting for them.
Police detained the children and
the four women escorting them,
including the orphanage's Irish field
director and one adoptive mother
from Minnesota, Sarah Thacker of
Ferbus Falls, as they were about to
depart this earthquake-shattered
country from Port-au-Prince airport
on Saturday, according to Bonnema.
"They were just inside the ter-
minal. They hadn't gone through
immigration," she said in a phone
interview from Minnesota, because
they were waiting for U.S. Embassy
staff to come with adoption papers
signedby Haiti's prime minister.
"A large group of Haitians
attacked them," Bonnema added.
"They were swearing at them and
saying, 'These are Haitian babies.
You cannot take them. You are
child trafficking."'
U.S. and Haitian officials had
earlier confirmed the detention
but without providing details.
The children, ages 1 to 5, and
women were all detained by police,
and the women were released sev-
eral hours later from a nearby police
station after U.S. diplomats 'inter-
vened.
But the children remained in a
government nursery in a tent camp
on Monday night, Bonnema said.
"Our staff were not allowed to
stay with the children," she said.
"They're very traumatized."
She said U.S. and Haitian offi-
cials were expected to meet Tues-
day to resolve the situation.
'Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobu-
char has intervened on behalf of
the women. She told The Associ-
ated Press that the orphanage is
legitimate and said the adopting
families in Minnesota have been
working with her office.
"The main thing now is to make
sure the kids are reunited with the
women and get to the families that
have been waiting for them," she
said.
The incident occurred after 10
Baptists were arrested trying to
take 33 Haitian children across the
border to the Dominican Republic
without the proper paperwork.
The missionaries said the chil-
dren were orphaned in the devas-
tating Jan. 12 earthquake, but the
AP established that they all had
parents who willingly gave their
children up in hopes they would
get an education and a better life.
A judge released eight of the
missionaries last week, but leader
Laura Silsby, 40, and her assistant,
Charisa Coulter, 24, remain jailed
as the investigating judge inter-
views officials at the orphanages
the two visited before the quake.
Bonnema said all orphans in
Children of The Promise "have
been in our care since they were
infants."
She said most are "true orphans
or they've been abandoned."
UNICEF says Haiti had some
380,000 orphans prior tothe quake
- nearly 4 percentofits population
- and an estimated half were not
true orphans. Child trafficking is a
major problem.
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