2A- Wednesday, January 19, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Wednesday, January19, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Questions on Campus Professor Profiles Campus Clubs FRIDAY: Photos of the Week Bringing Colombia to the classroom Q: What classes do you teach? to Peru, where they stayed in the rural the idea of the museum as a satellite. I'm I teach Spanish 102 and Spanish 232: Museum of the Andean Region. It's about four countries - Colombia, Ecua- dor, Peru and Bolivia. We mainly learn about traditions in these four countries, but for me the most important thing is how thesetraditions arestillrelevant to the present. The traditions are the capi- tal - the human capital of the world. Q: What experiences made you familiar with these traditions? I'm a mountain girl. I was born in Sogamoso in the Andes of Colombia. And there was something about Peru that kind of called me and that I was kind of intrigued about. I wanted to go ahead and really experience the culture and bring it here first hand, so I wrote a proposal to the University to go to Peru for two months. I stayed with a rural community with my friend Maria, where she taught me how to weave, and I took more classes in her house. Then I wrote a proposal to take 10 students community and learned to weave. Then last year, again through the Global Intercultural Experience for Under- graduates, I took 14 other students to Peru. After experiencing the culture, I can transmit that passion, and now they want to experience and participate in the culture. Q: What is your teaching style like? Something that I do in my classes is that I try to bring the culture in the class materially. I bring a lot of objects. I've won several grants to go back to Peru and Bolivia and gather materials so that's one less degree of separation between the student and the culture. I wear my costumes from Peru and Colombia, and I teach class like that. I bring a carnival to class withlots of cos- tumes. That's my goal - that students do not learn from the book but have a hands-on experience. I also take my students to the museum because I like like I can'tjust teach in my classroom - there is life outside. Q: How do you like teaching atthe University? Ilove it, and it's all because of the stu- dents. I can have fun with them. Some- times I feel I'm in a playground and I hope they feel like they didn't go to class, but that they did something. And the students give so much if you ask. One of my favorite activities is to have coffee with my students, especially ex- students. They talk about what they do, what they eat, what they watch, same for me. I like to dedicate time for them. Q: Do you do research? My research is going to these places and bringing the culture back to Michi- gan. 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TWo cars collide Thief pilfers with 'U' bus CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Vladimir Orientation Putin lecture leader meeting WHAT: History Prof. Eliza- beth Wood will give a lec- ture on how Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has promoted hypermasculinity. WHO: Center for Russian and East European Studies WHEN: Today at noon WHERE: School of Social Work Building WHAT: A meeting for stu- dents interested in becoming summer orientation leaders. WHO: Office of New Student Programs WHEN: Today at 7 p.m. WHERE: Anderson ABC, Michigan Union Talk It Out projector WHERE: University Hospital WHEN: Monday at about 2 p.m. WHAT: A projector last seen Dec.15 was taken from a room, University Police reported. There are no suspects. WHERE: 1520 Fuller Rd. WHEN: Monday at about 6:30 p.m. WHAT: Two cars and a University bus were part of a minor accident, University Police reported. There were no injuries and only minor dam- ages to the vehicles. 2011 Winter support group WHAT: Students are Career Expo invited to share their personal concerns with WHAT: More than SO a small groupof peers. different companies will WHO: Counseling and particpate in a network- 'Psychological Services ing fair. Students can meet WHEN: Today at 3 p.m. with company representa- WHERE: Michigan tives who can assist in job Union, room 3100 and intersnhip searches. CORRECTIONS WHO: The Career Center WHEN: Today from * Please report any 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. error in the Daily to .WHERE: Michigan corrections@michi- Union, second floor gandaily.conm. Scientists at the Univer- sity's Comprehensive Can- cer Center have found a new way to attack breast cancer cells, according to a Univer- sity of Michigan Health System press release. Blocking a signal from the bone marrow may stop the replication of the cells. Donald House became the first Michigan Stu- dent Assembly president in 1976. House assumed the position after the previous stu- dentbodypresidentwas forced to step down from his role due to a lawsuit against him. "FOR MORE,SEE THESTATEMENT The trainers of police dogs in the central Indi- an state of Chhattisgarh have been suspended after the dogs under their supervision became pregnant, the BBC reported. The commander who suspended the trainers said it was a "serious security lapse." BASKIN From Page 1A as the Palestinian Authority plans to unilaterally declare statehoodby the end of the year. Baskin argued that the only solu- tion is to create a separate Palestin- ian state. Otherwise, he said, the conflict will remain one of identity rather than territory. "Today the circumstances are different because we have a Pal- estinian leadership which for the first time in the history of the Pal- estinian national struggle is doing everything right," he said. Baskin noted that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad have committed themselves to imple- menting the obligations set down in President George W. Bush's 2003 "road map" for peace. Meanwhile, Baskin said, the Pal- estinians are in talks to gain the support of the United States when it petitions to become a member of the United Nations later this year. Becoming a UN member state, Baskin said, would be a "game- changer." "It may not change anything on the ground, but ... once Palestine is 'a member state of t eUnfited Nations, Israel is io longer occupy- ing undefined disputed territory," Baskin said. According to Baskin, solutions do exist for the many conflicts the Israelis and Palestinians face, including questions of what to do with refugees and how to come to an agreement on the status of Jeru- salem as the capital of a future Pal- estinian state. "This conflict is resolvable, and we know how to do it," he said. "There isn't a single issue which we don't know how to resolve. It is the mostcresearched conflict in the his- tory of conflict." Baskin was invited to speak on campus by J Street U. In an inter- view last night, LSA sophomore Yonah Lieberman, chair of the organization, said J Street U's mis- sion is to "fill avoid" inthe dialogue on campus about the Israeli-Pales- tinian conflict. "Our slogan is, 'pro-Israel, pro- Palestine, pro-peace"' Lieberman said. "We really think that both sides have legitimate qualms and legitimate points when it comes to where the final status and final agreements are goingto be." Baskin, an American by birth, said he's long been vocal on Israe- i:Palestiniai peace issues.Fiis organization, IPCRI, functions to develop policy options on the subject, according to the organiza- tion's website. "The belief that I grew up with was that in moving to Israel, it's important to dedicate my life to making Israel a better place," Baskin said in an interview after the lecture, "and I have dedicated the last 33 years that I've been liv- ing in Israel to working for peace. Lieberman said he has been interested in the Israeli-Palestin- ian conflict for nearly his whole life, adding that Baskin gave the best speech he's ever heard about the topic. "I've never heard anyone speak so eloquently and so brilliantly about the conflict in a way that matches up with my own ideals," Lieberman said. In an interview after the event, Baskin said the audience seemed very receptive of his arguments. Business sophomore Allison Ber- man, however, said she wasn't con- vinced. "I thought it (was) a lot of rheto- ric," she said. -Daily Staff Reporter Adam Rubenfire contributed to this report. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (l-Conn.) speaks during a news conference in Washington on Dec. 18, 2010. Lieberman has decided to retire in 2012, according to Democratic officials who requested to remain anonymous. Oficials: Li*eberman wil end Senate caerin 2012 Cartoonist faces attacker in court Man tried to break into Westergaard's house with axe COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - He lives under round-the- clock protection and travels in an armored SUV. Bodyguards are posted in a shack outside his home, which is equipped with a panic room that saved him from an ax- wielding intruder. With a few strokes of a pen, Kurt Westergaard's life changed forever: hisdrawingoftheProphet Muham- mad wearing a bomb-shaped tur- ban has made him a hunted man. This week, the 75-year-old car- toonist faces the man police say tried to kill him on New Year's Day, 2010, as the Somali's terror trial gets under way. "I lead an existence that is full of angst,"Westergaard told The Asso- ciated Press in a recent interview. His caricature was considered among the most offensive of the 12 cartoons of Muhammad published by Danish newspaper Jyllands- Posten in September 2005, trig- gering a firestorm of protests that rippled across the Islamic world four months later. The angry mobs calmed down after a few weeks, but the Islamist extremists did not; Denmark, Jyllands-Posten and Westergaard became high-profile targets in their jihad. Authorities feared Westergaard - a tall, bearded man who walks with a cane and speaks in a grave- ly voice - was at risk of an attack similar to the 2004 murder of film- maker Theo van Gogh, who was killed by a Muslim fanatic angered by movie the Dutchman made that criticized Islam. The cartoonist was placed under policeprotection inFebruary2008, after police said two Tunisian men plotted to kill him. They were deported without charges. When the attack finally came, at his home in western Den- mark, Westergaard reacted out of instinct, following instructions drilled into him by Danish police. He didn't even see the intruder. Upon hearing the glass door fac- ing the garden shatter, he rushed inside the bathroom - reinforced with a metal-plated door to serve as a panic room - and alerted police."I thoughtto myself: Now it's happening," Westergaard recalled. He heard his then 6-year-old granddaughter Stephanie scream from the living room, as the ax- wielding attacker tried to break down the door of the panic room. "Then the longest minutes of my life started," Westergaard said. "He hammered the ax against the door and I wondered whether the door would resist. Would he leave Stephanie unharmed?" The door held. The attacker left the house, and was confronted by police, who pepper-sprayed him, then shot him in the knee as he hurled the ax at an officer, investi- gators said. Westergaard and his grand- daughter were unharmed. "I got away. But he's the real victim, who is likely going to sit behind bars for quite a while and will have enough time to think through what happened," Wester- gaard told AP this week about the intruder, a 29-year-old Somali man charged with terrorism and attempted murder. Lieberman plans to announce retirement today, officials say WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Joe Lieberman, the 2000 Demo- cratic vice presidential nominee who angered the party by back- ing Republican John McCain for president in 2008, will retire and not seek a fifth term, Democratic officials said yesterday. Word of Lieberman's deci- sion came just hours after North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad also announced he would retire, leav- ing Senate Democrats with two seats to defend in a difficult politi- cal environment. Lieberman plans to announce his decision midday today at an event in Stamford, Conn. Lieber- man nearly won the vice presi- dency on the Democratic ticket with running mate Al Gore in 2000. Democratic officials, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said yesterday that the independent who usually votes with Democrats would not run for re-el Iction in 2012. Lieberman, 68, was defeated the last time he ran for the Demo- cratic Senate nomination in Con- necticut, in 2006, but won a new term running as an independent in a three-way race. Top Democrats like Sen. Chris- topher Dodd and President Barack Obama who had supported Lieber- man in the 2006 primary instead backed Democratic nominee Ned Lamont in the fall general elec- tion. Lieberman was disappointed that some old friends weren't loyal to him. In the years since, he aligned himself with Democrats in the Senate, who permitted him to chair a committee in return. Yet in 2008 he supported McCain, the Republican presidential can- didate, who put the Connecticut lawmaker on his list of potential vice presidential running mates. Lieberman's decision to speak at the 2008 GOP presidential nom- inating convention angered Dem- ocrats, and the speech he gave contrasting Obama to McCain angered them more. "In the Senate, during the 3 1/2 years that Sen. Obama has been a member, he has not reached across party lines to . accomplish anything significant, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party to get something done," Lieberman said atthe time. Connecticut Democrats also have criticized Lieberman's strong support of the Iraq war, although they were pleased when he led the recent Senate fight to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military. Lieberman's poll ratings in his home state had slipped in recent years, encouraging Democratic' challengers and sparking specu- lation about the senator's retire- ment. Lieberman's colleague, Dodd, recently retired from the Senate. Former Connecticut Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz said Tuesday she'll run in 2012 for Lieberman's seat. Two Connecticut House Dem- ocrats, Chris Murphy and Joe Courtney, are also considering a run. There had been speculation about whether Lieberman would run in 2012 as a Democrat, Repub- lican or independent. After the 2008 election and at Obama's urging, Senate Demo- crats decided notcto punish Lieber- man for supporting the GOP ticket. They voted to let him keep his chairmanship of the Home- land Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.