2A - Thursday, March 8, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.cam 2A - Thursday, March 8, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom PROTEST AGAINST VACANCY TW it ipan DatIMy 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JOSEPH LICHTERMAN ZACHARY YANCER Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 lichterman@michigandaily.com zyancer@michigandaily.com From textiles to teaching Did you always know doing research, but then I that you wanted to go into started teaching these really teaching? big classes, (which) I hadn't No. I got involved in done before, and it got really teaching because I was interesting. The class I have interested in researching right now is really just great. textiles. I just decided it would be really interesting What do you like to do to understand why people outside of your work? are still using and weaving Garden vegetables. I have textiles in Africa, especially to say, my vegetable garden in Nigeria. We don't do that is pretty nice. I have it in here, it's not part of our rit- my backyard in Ann Arbor. ual. So I decided to go back (I grow) tomatoes, beans, to graduate school. I wasn't asparagus - it's serious. And thinking really about teach- it's organic, which is really ing per se, I was thinking nice. about research. I ended up coming to the University of What's an interesting Michigan, (and) I was still fact about yourself that not CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Depression "Black and conference Blue" screening TODD NEEDLE/Daily Members of the local Occupy movement advocate for the opening of a warming shelter for the homeless yesterday on E. Liberty St. CRIME NOTES And $80,000 bites the dust WHERE: Chemistry Building WHEN: Tuesday at about 2 p.m. WHAT: Lab equipment was recently found tobe dam- aged due to construction dust in July 2011, University Police reported. The equip- ment is worth $80,000. Flame on WHERE: West Quad Resi- dence Hall WHEN: Tuesday at about 3:30 p.m. WHAT: A fire extinguisher was stolen, University Police reported. It's believed it was stolen between 5p.m. Monday and 3:30 p.m. Tues- day. The extinugisher has not yet been recovered. Feeling squirrely WHERE: The Diag WHEN: Wednesday at about 5:50 a.m. WHAT: A student admitted to the University Hospital- Emergency Room reported she was bit by a squirrel Tuesday, University Police reported. She said the squir- rel attacked her after she tried to feed it at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Book crook WHERE: Hutchins Hall WHEN: Tuesday at about 4:45 p.m. WHAT: Six textbooks were reported stolen from a locked locker, but no signs of forced entry were found, University Police reported. many people know? I'm an aficionado of com- mercials ... I don't watch (television), I watch com- mercials. The other thing is, I like Pixar movies like "Wall-E." What advice do you have for your students? You should just follow what you want to do. In this economy, I know that sounds kind of scary, but you should really follow what you want to do first and see if that works out. This is what you are going to be doing for your life. - BROOKE BIDWELL A Polish kite surfer attempting to cross the Red Sea became stranded for two days after the wind died down, Reuters report- ed. The man survived in the shark-infested waters by con- suming bottled water, enger- gy drinks and energy bars. Ten Thousand Villag- es, an 8-year-old shop on Main Street, pur- veys products with origins in more than 38 countries, stressing fair trade and the worthiness of hand-crafting. >> FOR MORE, SEETHE B-SIDE, INSIDE An Indiana mother lost her legs as she shielded her two children from last week's deadly tornado, ABC News reported. The woman's legs were crushed when the twister decimated her home. 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