2 - Tuesday, March 23, 2010 MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Professor Profiles Before You Were Here A forum for dialogue THURSDAY: FRIDAY: Campus Clubs Photos of the Week Afroamerican and African Studies lecturer Scott Ells- worth said he started teach- ing at the University three years ago as a way to thank the University of Michigan Health System for detecting and curing his prostate can- cer. "I teach here because of cancer," Ellsworth said. "The University of Michigan Hos- pital saved my life." Ellsworth's courses range in topic from Southern lit- erature to African-American history to crime and justice in the United States, and he said he tries to promote lively discussion in the classroom. He is currently working on a novel about race and basket- ball, set in the 1940s. "I try to -get a cross-racial dialogue going because in America we tend to talk about race with people who look like us," Ellsworth said. "I try to have honest con- versation in a diverse class- room." Originally from Tulsa, Okla., Ellsworth said watch- ing the civil rights movement unfold sparked his interest in race relations. "In American society, race is both the source of our greatest failings but also of some of our greatest art," Ellsworth said. And though Ellsworth said he has seen much of the civil rights movement first- hand, he said he likes to keep his classroom environment informal so that he can learn as much from his students as they learn from him. "I'm really still a rookie teacher," Ellsworth said. "The students and I are exploring a lot of this stuff together." He added that he hopes to keep teaching at the Univer- sity so that he can continue to work with engaged stu- dents and colleagues. "The students here are all so sophisticated," Ells- worth said. "I am so deeply impressed with them." While Ellsworth enjoys his time teaching, when he's not in the classroom, he can usually be found cooking for his wife Betsy and his twin sons. Ellsworth - who was a stay-at-home dad - said he estimates he changed about "10 million diapers" during his five years at home with his sons. - LIZZYALFS ANNA SCHULTE/Daily Lecturer Scott Ellsworth says that overcoming prostate cancer, being a stay-at- home dad to twin boys and meeting his wife Betsy have all made him the man and professor he is today. The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JACOB SMILOVITZ DAN NEWMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-3336 734-764-0558 smiltzec@ihigandaity em nmdbusinessfgraiteeom CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom officehours:sun.-Thurs.11at.-2a.me. 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Republicans in the Senate are planning parliamentary maneu- vers to keep a companion bill from reaching the president's desk. And lawmakers in at least 30 states are working to prevent what they say is an unconstitutional mandate forcing Americans tohave health insurance. Experts say none of it is likely to work, but it will keep the issue, and the outrage, alive until Election Day. "I am surprised by the mobiliza- tionofthe states. It does strike me as a kind of civil disobedience, a dec- laration that we're not going to fol- -low the law of the land," said Mark Hall, a professor of law and public health at Wake Forest University. "It doesn't make sense. The federal Constitution couldn't be any clear- er that federal law is supreme," Hall added. The House passed the plan late Sunday, sparking a variety of pro- tests and threats less than a day later. yuU U lear ntrea ouuut ate taty excttng car eer opportunities pharmacy can offer you. . 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