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Monkeying around in the classroom
Q:Where did you go to school?
Sm a Californian. I grew up in
California, and I was an undergrad-
uate at University of California,
Berkley. I did my graduate work at
the University of California, Davis.
Also, I did postdoctoral research at
Rockefeller University in New York.
Q: When did you come to the
University?
I came to the University in 1990.
Q: What courses are you cur-
rently teaching?
Currently, I am on sabbatical
leave. However, I usually teach a
cross-disciplinary course between
the anthropology and psychology
departments. I personally call it
"Monkey for the Masses," but the
name of the actual course is Pri-
mate Social Behavior.
Q: Do you like it here at the
University?
When I look out my window and
Isee the snow, Isometimes ask why
I'm here. But the college and the
people ... are supportive. It's been
good. I'm a Michigan Man, despite
my roots.
Q:What is your researchabout
and where has it taken you?
I have studied the behavior of all
five species of apes: gibbons, orang-
utans, gorillas, bonobos and chim-
panzees. I've studied in Indonesia,
Rwanda, the Democratic Republic
of Congo and Uganda. I started off
doing field research on AIDS in
Asia. Currently, I study a communi-
ty of wild chimpanzees in Uganda.
Q:What is your teaching style?
I teach in a big lecture setting
with over 200 students. When I
first started teaching, it was like I
was looking at a sea of anonymous.
faces. I wanted to get to know as
many students as possible. So at
the top of the hour of each class, I
would work the room. I would just
walk around and talk to the stu-
dents. I try to start dialogue with
the students also. I try to get them4
to ask questions.
When I think students seem
interested in the subject, I like to
play "Stump the Chump." This is a
game where students are ableto ask
me questions, and if I get the wrong
answer, the students get a prize. I
really like to engage the students.
I want to make it a little more per-
sonal for me and the students. Anthropology Prof. John
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Racket at the Lock doesn't Film screening
tennis courts stop bike theft WHAT: The producers of
"Bright Circle" will pres-
WHERE: Varsity Tennis WHERE: 200 Fletcher St. ent their independent film
Center WHEN: Saturday at about about the history of Native
WHEN: Monday at about 3:45 p.m. American participation in
7:30 a.m. WHAT: A $1,200 bike was athletics.
WHAT: The rear window stolen near a bus shelter, WHO: University Library
of a University vehicle was University Police reported. WHEN: Tonight at 5:30
broken, University Police The bike, owned by a male p.m.
reported. Nothing was University student, was WHERE: Harlan Hatcher
stolen. locked. Graduate Library
Medical pot Intoxicated Religious
smloker accused
smoker acsed driver caught literacy lecture
WHERE: Vera Baits II
Residence Hall WHERE: Hill Street WHAT: Stephen Procuro,
WHEN: Tuesday at about WHEN: Monday at about a frequent guest on The
midnight 9 p.m. Daily Show and The Col-
WHAT: Staff reported the WHAT: A 24-year-old bert Report, will discuss
smell of marijuana com- man unaffiliated with the the importance of religious
ing from a resident's room, University was arrested for literacy in understanding
University Police reported. driving while intoxicated, American culture and world
When confronted, the Univeristy Police reported. politics. Procuro is a pro-
resident produced a medical The suspect was released at fessor of religion at Boston
marijuana card. 11:35 p.m. University.
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recreate it.
2University students
studying, abroad in
Cairo and Alexandria
were evacuated from Egypt
because of the recent anti-
government protests.
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high school graduates
in New York City are
adequately prepared for col-
lege, The New York Times
reported. The number is even
lower in upstate urban areas
like Rochester, Buffalo, Syra-
cuse and Yonkers.
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In stability effort, U.S. funds
electricity project in Sudan
Civil war left most
of Southern Sudan
in the dark
KAPOETA, Sudan (AP) - The
power lines, electricity poles and
street lamps that now dot the red
dirt roads of the Southern Suda-
nese town of Kapoeta seem out
of place next to the rusting tanks
and shot-up buildings.
The electrification project,
which was funded by U.S. gov-
ernment aid, is one sign that the
U.S. is intent on helping bring
development and stability to
what will soon be Africa's new-
est country.
The final results from South-
ern Sudan's January inde-
pendence referendum were
announced Monday, with nearly
99 percent of ballots cast for
independence. Southern Sudan
is slated to become a new coun-
try in July, and it will need all the
help it can get.
Southern Sudan President
Salva Kiir, in his first com-
ments since the results were
announced, said Tuesday that
the vote was the "crowning
moment of all the sacrifices made
during our long struggle."
More than 2 million people
died during the nearly two-
decade war that ended in 2005.
"It is a glorious day for Africa
and the world," Kiir said. "You
exercised your inalienable right
to self-determination freely, fair-
ly and peacefully."
Decades of civil war between
the mainly Christian-animist
south and the mainly Muslim
north mean most of Southern
Sudan has no electricity, roads or
other infrastructure, despite the
south's oil riches. .
In the barren scrubland of
Eastern Equatoria state, where
the U.S. has just funded the elec-
trification project in Kapoeta,
semi-nomadic herders from
the Toposa tribe carry spears
and automatic rifles for protec-
tion and wear leopard skins and
feather headdresses for celebra-
tions.
The U.S. Agency for Interna-
tional Development spent $1.1
billion in Sudan and eastern
Chad in the 2009 fiscal year.
More USAID workers are being
sent to Southern Sudan, where
most people live on less thant$1
day and only 15 percent of the
population can read. Quality
health care is almost nonexis-
tent.
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Wael Ghonim, center, the 30-year-old Google marketing manager for the Middle East and North Africa, talks toa crowd
in Cairo yesterday. Ghonim was a key organizer of the online campaign that sparked the first protest on Jan. 25.
Young Google executive adds
new energyto Cairo protests
Polish publishing house defends
controversial Holocaust book
Authors claims
Poles dug up Jewish
graves in search for
valuables
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A
Polish publishing house defended
its decision yesterday to publish
a book that has sparked contro-
versy with its argument that Poles
actively profited from Jewish suf-
fering duringthe Holocaust.
"Golden Harvest," by Jan Gross
and Irena Grudzinska Gross,
argues that rural Poles sometimes
sought financial gain from Jewish
misfortune in a variety of ways,
from plundering Jewish mass
graves to ferreting out Jews in
hiding for reward.
Gross said the starting point of
the book is a photograph show-
ing Polish peasants digging up
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human remains at the Treblinka
death camp just after the war in a
search for gold or other treasures
that Nazi executioners might have
overlooked. Scattered in front of
the group are skulls and bones.
The thesis challenges a wide-
spread view among Poles that
their nation, which was occupied
by Germany throughout World
War II, by and large behaved hon-
orably during that time. Six mil-
lion Polish citizens - half of them
Jews - were killed during the
war and memories remain strong
of Polish suffering and sacrifice.
Heroic Polish deeds - like the
Warsaw Uprising of 1944 against
Nazi rule - are a foundation of
the national identity, while the
state in recent years has regularly
bestowed honors on Christian
Poles who risked their lives to
hide Jews from the Nazis.
Henryk Wozniakowski, the
head of publishing house Znak,
said the book aims to make the
public aware of "cruel and often
difficult facts."
The book "challenges our col-
lective memory" and is an attempt
to seek some justice for Holocaust
victims, he said.
Speaking by phone from the
United States, Gross told The
Associated Press that he seeks to
"tell the story of the war as it hap-
pened" and show that the Holo-
caust is an integral part of Polish
history.
"Non-Jews were subjected to
a horrible degree of violence by
the Nazi occupiers and there is a
very prominent phenomenon of
resistance on a unique scale," he
said. But "alongside the heroism
there was also malfeasance, and
one finds that these stories run
in parallel. There was a signifi-
cant degree of collusion and per-
secution of Jews when it proves a
material advantage."
Activist released
after 12 days of
secret detention
CAIRO (AP) - A young
Google executive who helped
ignite Egypt's uprising ener-
gized a cheering crowd of hun-
dreds of thousands yesterday
with his first appearance in
their midst after being released
from 12 days in secret detention.
"We won't give up," he promised
at one of the biggest protests yet
in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
Once a behind-the-scenes
Internet activist, 30-year-old
Wael Ghonim has emerged as an
inspiring voice for a movement
that has taken pride in being
a leaderless "people's revolu-
tion." Now, the various activists
behind it - including Ghonim
- are working to coalesce into
representatives to push their
demands for President Hosni
Mubarak's ouster.
With protests invigorated,
Vice President Omar Suleiman
issued a sharply worded warn-
ing, saying of the protests in
Tahrir, "We can't bear this for
a long time, and there must be
an end to this crisis as soon as
possible," in a sign of growing
impatience with 16 days of mass
demonstrations.
For the first time, protest-
ers made a foray to Parliament,
several blocks away from their
camp in the square. Several
hundred marched to the legis-
lature and chanted for it to be
dissolved.
In Tahrir, the massive,
shoulder-to-shoulder crowd's
ranks swelled with new blood,
including thousands of uni-
versity professors and lawyers
who marched in together as
organizers worked to draw in
professional unions. The crowd
rivaled the biggest demonstra-
tion so far, a week ago, that drew
a quarter-million people.
Some said they were inspired
to turn out by an emotional
television interview Ghonim
gave Monday night just after
his release from detention. He
sobbed over those who have
been killed in two weeks of
clashes and insisted, "We love
Egypt ... and we have rights."
"I cried," a 33-year-old
upper-class housewife, Fifi
Shawqi, said of the interview
with Ghonim, who she'd never
heard of before the TV appear-
ance. She came to the Tahrir
protest for the first time, bring-
ing her three daughters and her
sister. "I felt like he is my son
and all the youth here are my
sons."
Yesterday's huge turnout
gave a resounding answer to the
question of whether the protest-
ers still have momentum even
though two weeks of steadfast
pressure have not achieved
their goal of ousting 82-year-old
Mubarak, Egypt's authoritarian
leader for nearly three decades.
Suleiman rejected any depar-
ture for Mubarak or "end to
the regime. He told a gather-
ing of newspaper editors that
the regime prefers to deal with
the crisis using dialogue, add-
ing, "We don't want to deal with
Egyptian society with police
tools." He warned that the alter-
native to dialogue was "a coup"
- a possible hint of an imposi-
tion of military rule. However,
editors present at the meeting
said he then explained he didn't
mean a military coup but that
"a force that is unprepared for
rule" could overturn state insti-
tutions.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden
spoke by phone with Suleiman,
saying Washington wants Egypt
to immediately rescind emer-
gency laws that give broad pow-
ers to security forces - a key
demand of the protesters.
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