2A - Wednesday, March 30, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com iEhfiicoganDaHM 0 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG BRAD WILEY Editor in Chief BusinessManager 734-41e-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 seeinberg@michigandaily.com rmdbusiness@gmailcom Learning and loving Latin Where are you from and when did you come to Michigan? I am from Naples, Italy. I came to Michigan in 2006 and started teach- ing in 2007. I came to the United States for the first time, just for a visit, in 1993. I had a scholarship from the Italian government to pursue an Ital- ian doctorate. I visited Princeton, and I loved Princeton so much thatI decid- ed to apply to earn an American Ph.D. in classics. What classes do you teach at the University? I am teaching Classical Studies 121, called "Africa, Race and Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean." I teach how to talk about each other in a world that is increasingly diverse as well as the academic writing style. I am also teaching Latin 232, which is on Virgil's Aeneid. It is taught in Latin. What is your teaching style like? If I was observed teaching from someone else's perspective I would think I am very traditional, but maybe not. When you tell someone how to write you're basically telling people how to think, so it's a little uncomfort- able. But it's a very important skill. In my class we are going to talk about uncomfortable topics because you are going to be evaluated about how you think about these controversial topics. What do you like most and least about teaching? Let me just start by saying I love teaching. My favorite thing is the exposure to young people and see- ing how the world is changing with them. When Ican see an idea spark in somebody's head it is one of my great- est pleasures. 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There are no sus- nects. Donut craving WHERE: North Ingalls Building WHEN: Yesterday at about 1:45 a.m. WHAT: A staff member was observed stealing a donut from an unattended case near the cafeteria, University Police reported. She was interviewed and released. Money bag lost, then found WHERE: Brighton Health Clinic WHEN: Monday at about 12:45 p.m. WHAT: A caller reported a deposit bag missing, Univer- sity Police reported. Soon after calling the police, the bag was found hv staff. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Greek Week finale show CORRECTIONS WHAT: The Greek commu- nity will be holding a sing- ing and dancing competion to celebrate the finale of the University's Greek Week festivities. Tickets cost $7. WHO: Office of Greek Life WHEN: Today at 7 p.m. WHERE: Hill Auditorium Lecture by Nobel Laureate WHAT: Dr. William Phil- lips will deliver the Ford Motor Company Distin- guishd Lecture in Physics. 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Obama, who is pushing a rewrite of the nation's educa- tion law that would ease some of its rigid measurement tools, said policymakers should find a test that "everybody agrees makes sense" and administer it in less pressure-packed atmo- spheres, potentially every few years instead of annually. At the same time, Obama said, schools should be judged on criteria other than student test performance, including attendance rate. "One thing I never want to see happen is schools that are just teaching the test because then you're not learning about the world, you're not learning about different cultures, you're not learning about science, you're not learning about math," the president said. "All you're learning about is how to fill out a little bubble on an exam and little tricks that you need to do in order to take a test and that's not going to make education interesting." "And young people do well in stuff that they're interested in," Obama said. "They're not going to do as well if it's boring." The president endorsed the occasional administering of standardized tests to determine a "baseline" of student ability. He said his daughters Sasha, 9, and Malia, 12, recently took a standardized test that didn't require advance preparation. Instead, he said, it was just used as a tool to diagnose their strengths and weaknesses. The girls attend the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington. Obama, who has been push- ing his education agenda all month, has expressed concern that too many schools will be unable to meet annual profi- ciency standards under the No Child Left Behind law this year. Israeli soldiers on patrol following clashes in the West Bank village of Beit Omar on Wednesday, March 23. Israel threatens to annex West Bank settlements 0 Ultraconservative Muslim sect more assertive in Egypt Salafis served as counterweight to Mubarak's opposition CAIRO (AP) - Members of an ultraconservative Muslim sect clashed with villagers south of Cairo over demands that a liquor store and coffee shops be closed, officials said yesterday, a sign of the increasing asser- tiveness of the fundamentalist Salafi movement. nOne villager was killed and eight others were injured in the armed clashes, which erupted late Monday in the village of Kasr el-Bassil in Fayoum prov- ince, a security official said. The fighting broke out after Salafi followers ordered the owner to close the liquor store and coffee shops as they try to forcibly impose their strict interpretation of Islam by ban- ning the drinking of alcohol. Salafis were tolerated as a religious group under ex-Pres- ident Hosni Mubarak to coun- terweight Mubarak's top foe, the Muslim Brotherhood group but has gained power as it rises to play a more political role as followers now ponder nominate a presidential candidate, fol- lowing the 18-day uprising that led to the ouster of the former regime. That has alarmed many of the secular and liberal forces in Egypt because of the group's extremist discourse and imposi- tion of Islamic sharia law. Dozens of Salafis also staged a protest yesterday in Cairo, accusing the church of abduct- ing Camilla Shehata, a Coptic priest's wife who some believe converted to Islam and is being held against her will. Salafis also have accused the police of col- laborating with the church by handing Shehata over to Church authorities to reconvert them. The woman's whereabouts are currently unknown. Such protests were held almost weekly by the Salaf- is over the summer as they accused the Coptic Church of conspiring to "Christianize" Egypt, but they largely stopped after a suicide bombing on New Year's Day outside a Coptic church in the port city of Alex- andria killed 21 people. 300,000 Israeli settlers currently live in West Bank JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel is considering annexing major West Bank settlement blocs if the Pal- estinians unilaterally seek world recognition of a state, an Israeli official said yesterday - moves that would deal a grave blow to prospects for negotiating a peace deal between the two sides. Israel has refrained from tak- ing such a diplomatically explo- sive step for four decades. The fact that it is considering doing so reflects how seriously it is concerned by the Palestinian campaign to win internation- al recognition of a state in the absence of peacemaking. The Palestinians launched that campaign after peace talks foun- dered over Israeli construction in West Bank settlements. Yester- day, the Israeli Interior Ministry said it would decide next month whether to give final approval to build 1,500 apartments in two Jewish enclaves in east Jerusa- lem. Israel captured both east Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan in 1967. Israel annexed east Jerusa- lem, home to shrines sacred to Judaism, Islam and Christianity, immediately after seizing it. But it carefully avoided annexing the West Bank, where 300,000 set- tlers now live among 2.5 million Palestinians. Although it is widely assumed that under any peace deal, Israel would hold -nto major settle- ments it has built in the past 44 years, any decision to formally annex West Bank territory would be a precedent-setting move that could increase Israel's already considerable international isola- tion. The Palestinians claim all of the West Bank and east Jerusa- lem, in addition to the Gaza Strip, for a future state. The government official who disclosed the possible annexation said he did not know how seri- ously authorities were considering the option. He said that "adopting unilateral measures is not a one- way street" and added that other options were also being consid- ered. These could include limiting water supplies beyond agreed- . upon amounts and restricting Palestinian use of Israeli ports for business purposes, he said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- yahu was aware of the moves being discussed, he added, speak- ing on condition of anonymity because no final decisions have been made. Netanyahu's office had no com- ment. Nimr Hamad, an aide to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, said "these threats are not new.... But we are continuing (our campaign) and are convinced our position is right." In a related development, the Israeli Transportation Min- istry is working on a plan to build an island off the coast of Gaza, where an Palestinian-run airport and seaport would be located. Ministry spokesman Ilan Leizerovich said this would allow Israel to cut all ties with Hamas-ruled Gaza. At present most goods and peo- ple enter and exit Gaza through Israeli land crossings. Leizerovich said the island would be built about three miles (4.5 kilometers) off the Gaza coast and would be connected by a bridge. 0