2A- Wednesday, February 9, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Wednesday, February 9, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom The id~iigan Dail 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG BRAD WILEY Editor in Chief u esinessManager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 eat. 1241 steinbergs~michigondailycom tmdbusiness@gnsail.com 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 -PATRICIA SNIDER research on apes. 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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. S & NOTES CORRECTIONS . An article in the Feb. 8 edition of The Michi- gan Daily (" University gateway website gets a newlook, more changes to come") misidentified Cimone Scott's gen- der. She is a woman. " An article in the Feh. 8 edition of The Michigan Daily ("Egypt, Tunisia uprisings discussed in round table') misiden- tified the name of the Egyptian president. His name is Hosni Mubarak. " Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. Finnish scientists are analyzing beer recov- ered in a 19th century shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, the Associated Press reported. They hope to identify the ingredients of the beer so breweries can recreate it. 2University students studying, abroad in Cairo and Alexandria were evacuated from Egypt because of the recent anti- government protests. FOR MORE, SEE THE STATEMENT Only 23 percent of high school graduates in New York City are adequately prepared for col- lege, The New York Times reported. 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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. 0 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 A 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. :S 0