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Bringing the Constitution to life
What is your favorite class to never expected. ied set of areas and take anything but
teach at Michigan? What is the biggest accomplish- courses about law before you get to
I think first-year Constitutional ment of your career? law school. Study broadly in English,
Law. Constitutional Law is averyinter- It has been the work I did the last history, economics and philosophy.
estingtopic.Yougetto teach aboutalot couple of years in the government And generally, try to be a curious
of fascinating concepts as well as about when we took the Civil Rights Divi- reader of what's going on.,
the history of the United States. sion of the Justice Department from What is the message you want
What is your favorite snack, a very sad and difficult place to a students to take away from law
and what does it tell us about your place where it's once again the lead- school?
teaching style? ing civil rights enforcer of America. I think it's not really about the sub-r
My favorite snack is Coca-Cola, and What was your inspiration stance of the course. The message I
what it tells you is that I speak way too behind the civil rights work that want my students to take away is that x
fast in class. you did? they are really the authors of their
What were your dreams as a kid, I just felt I had a great responsi- own career and their professional
and have you accomplished them? bility and great privilege to get up life. A big momentum in law school is
My dream was to play for the St. every morning and try to make "we to send people on a particular path,
Louis Cardinals, and that didn't work the people" in the Constitution mean and the students have to fight that
out. But when I was a teenager, I was what it says. and find out what path they want to
very interested in law, and I've had To students applying to law be on and pursue it.
the opportunity to do all kinds of school, what is your advice? COURTESY OF SAMUEL BAGENSTOS
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arts exhibit aimed at
spreading creativity
throughout the U.S., got its
name from once being an
actual train, which took its
shows from town to town.
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Ch ild trafficking bsin
China frees 178 children
18,518 children
saved since start
of anti-trafficking
campaign in 2009
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese
police arrested 608 suspects and
rescued 178 children in busts of
two separate child trafficking
networks, authorities said yes-
terday.
The Ministry of Public Securi-
ty said prosecutors were prepar-
ing cases against the suspects,
suggesting charges have yet1
be filed.
Its statement posted onlir
said 5,000 police across 10 pro
inces cooperated for six montl
on the investigation and mov
in to arrest the suspects la
week.
Child trafficking is big pro
lem in China, where tradition
preference for male heirs an
a strict one-child policy h
driven a thriving market in bal
boys, who fetch a considerab
higher price than girls. Girls at
women also are abducted at
used as laborers or as brides f
to unwed sons.
Tens of thousands of children
ne go missing every year, though
v- the exact numbers of victims are
hs difficult to obtain.
ed The rescued children will
st be put into orphanages while
authorities try to reunite them
b- with their families, the ministry
al said. It didn't give the age range
nd of the abducted children or other
as specifics.
by State broadcaster CCTV aired
ly footage showing female police
nd officers cradling babies in their
nd arms. The footage also showed
or more than a dozen suspects
handcuffed and escorted by offi-
cers, or lined up outside a build-
ing in Fujian province.
Families who bought traf-
ficked children would be for-
bidden from keeping them, a
ministry official told CCTV.
"Those who have paid for
these children must be punished
by losing both the child and
the money, so that the market
shrinks gradually and eventual-
ly, the number of child traffick-
ing cases will be substantially
reduced," Chen Shiqu, director
of the ministry's human traffick-
ing department, was quoted as
saying.
An investigation into a traf-
fic accident in south China's
Sichuan province in May led
police to the first ring, which
was allegedly selling children
abducted or bought in Sichuan
to buyers in central China's
Hebei province and elsewhere.
The ring had links to at least 26
gangs nationwide, the ministry
said.
The second ring was uncov-
ered in August and was based in
southeast China's Fujian prov-
ince and led by a female suspect
identified as Chen Xiumei.
The statement said police
have cracked more than 7,000
gangs or rings that sold women
or children since a special cam-
paign against human traffick-
ing started in April 2009. It
said 18,518 children and 34,813
women have been rescued.
CHALLENGE
From Page 1A
video equipment, including a
camera, tripod and microphone,
valued at $15,000.
According to the competi-
tion's website, it was created as
a part of the YouTube NextUp
program, a development and
funding program for potential
YouTube partners. Austin Lau,
who works for the YouTube
Next Creator Programs, wrote
on his blog that the finalists
of the competition will now
receive continuing education
in culinary arts via the Google
Plus Hangouts,
Edwards, who grew up in
Atlanta, has been cooking for
her whole life with her family,
but only became more interest-
ed in cooking when she went to
college at Clemson University
and had to cook for herself.
"You can only afford Burger
King so many times," Edwards
said.
In her senior year of college,
Edwards decided to become
a vegan because of the health
benefits. She taught herself how
to make vegan food since vegan
dining at restaurants was lim-
ited.
"I was gaining weight, which
is the reason why I decided to
try a vegan diet," Edwards said.
"After I went vegan, I lost about
10 pounds, which for me, I wasn't
that large, so 10 pounds was a
pretty good chunk of weight."
Last August, Edwards recog-
nized that there was a disparity
in cooking shows for vegans and
started producingher own show
to teach viewers how to prepare
different recipes.. However,
learning to make vegan food
and recipes was a challenge at
the beginning.
"I used to have about a
50-percent recipe fail rate,"
Edwards said. "Cakes would
fall, stuff just wouldn't ever
rise, things would just fizzle and
pop." 0
But as time went on, Edwards
learned more about how to rem-
edy problems with recipes for
vegan diets, and now she rarely
has recipe mishaps.
As a School of Public Health
student, Edwards wants to use
her show to promote healthier
eating, rather than pursue a
culinary career.
"I really want to use the
Sweetest Vegan as a platformfor
health promotion programs that
I have," Edwards said. "I want
to teach people how to cook at
home ... I really want people to
leave the junk food, leave the
bad food, leave processed pack-
aged stuff at home, bypass the
fast food restaurant and come
home and cook, and I would love
to be the person to teach them
how to do it, whythey should do
it and hopefully see America get
healthier."
Obama, Clinton push for global gay rights
President: Equal
treatment of LGBT
community is
foreign policy goal
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The
Obama administration's declara-
tion that it plans to use foreign
assistance, international diplo-
macy and political asylum to
promote gay rights abroad is a
momentous step that could dan-
gerously backfire if not pursued
with delicacy and an appreciation
of how the challenges faced by
gays and lesbians vary by nation,
human rights activists said.
President Barack Obama, in
a memorandum to executive
departments, and Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton,
during a speech before the U.N.
Human Rights Council, issued a
coordinated denunciation yester-
day of anti-gay discrimination,
stating that equal treatment of
gay, lesbian and transgender peo-
ple was an explicit U.S. foreign
policy goal.
The White House said the
twin moves represented the U.S.
government's first comprehen-
sive strategy to combat sexual
orientation-based human rights
abuses around the world. Gay
rights groups cheered the actions,
noting that gays and lesbians can
be arrested, tortured and even
executed in some countries.
Wayne Besen, founder of
Truth Wins Out, a group that
monitors religious organiza-
tions with anti-gay views, list-
ed Russia, Nigeria, Cameroon,
Uganda, Iran and Zimbabwe
among the nations that had
recently "declared war on sex-
ual minorities" and said that he
hoped they would be chastened
by the administration's blunt
talk.
"This was one of those times
where our nation demonstrated
true international leadership and
made me incredibly proud to be
an American," Besen said. "There
were no carefully crafted and
focus grouped code words that
sugarcoated the abuses - just
the honest truth spoken from the
heart."
Other activists focused on gay
rights internationally were more
restrained in their praise. Neil
Grungras, founder of the San
Francisco-based organization for
Refuge, Asylum and Migration,
which represents gay asylum-
seekers, said it was critical for the
administration to secure allies on
every continent to avoid looking
like it was imposing American
values on parts of the world that
view the West with mistrust or
hostility.
Recalling how large demon-
strations broke out in Pakistan
in June after staff at the U.S.
Embassyheld agay pride celebra-
tion there, he said that Obama's
sincere commitment to improv-
ing the gay rights picture glob-
ally could inadvertently make
life worse for gays and lesbians
abroad.
"This cannot be seen as a U.S.-
only issue because at the end of
the day that would be counter-
productive," said Grungras, who
was in the audience for Clinton's
speech.
"In countries where U.S. moral
leadership is not high and where
increasingly Western values are
negative ... there is a real danger
people can use this issue and say,
'No, we are cleaning up here, we
are going to reject this American
imposition of decay."'
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