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Kickin' it with Allen Ginsberg
SEASONAL SHINE
What class are you teach-
ing this semester?
Writing Poetry, which is an
introductory writing poetry
class. I also teach tutorials of
various levels where I work
one on one with students.
This is really the way I love to
teach.
Did you always want to be
a poet?
I had no idea until college
when I took poetry classes. I
started in engineering, where
I took chemistry and calculus
and engineering drawing. You
should have seen the look on
my father's face when I said,
"Dad, I think I'm going to
become a poet."
What do you like most
about Ann Arbor?
I'm from Detroit. Ann Arbor
is completely different. There is
nothing like Detroit, and Ann
Arbor is so easy. It's comfort-
able. Everything is here and
everything comes to you here
-music, great films and great
dance. In Detroit, you (have) got
to make it your own. In Detroit,
when I was part of the Cass
Corridor group, a bunch of art-
ists and writers and musicians,
we had to make our own and do
it ourselves. That was great.
Is ittrue that you were
friends withJackKerouac?
No, but I did publish and
know Allen Ginsberg, Gary
Snyder and Diane di Prima.
What do you do in your
free time?
Write poetry, but I am also
working with musicians. I
have been collaborating with
Mike Gould, another RC
professor, on a project that
involves poetry, music, print-
ing and visual arts. Right
now, there is a band in New
York going into the studio in
December to record an entire
album of my poems - a six-
piece jazz band and a vocalist.
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Pee Cadling, of Holiday Lighting Service from Manchester,
Mich., puts up holday lighs near State Street and East Liberty
Avenue on Wednesday.
CRIME NOTES
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Ella, ella, el, el Call me, pee Betty Ford
WHERE: The 600 block of pee me tribute
Oxtord St.
WHEN: Tuesday at about
9:05 a.m.
WHAT: An umbrella
from a courtyard table at
Oxford Housing was stolen,
University Police reported.
There are no suspects.
The sweet
smell of fall
WHERE: Bursley
Residence Hall
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 1:40 a.m.
WHAT: A male student was
arrested then released after
suspected marijuana and
drug paraphernalia were
taken from him, University
Police reported.
WHERE: North Ingalls
Building
WHEN: Tuesday at about
2:15 p.m. -
WHAT: A cell phone was
taken from a bathroom on
the first floor, University
Police reported. There are
no suspects.
Acid reflux
WHERE: Chemistry
Building
WHEN: Tuesday at about
9:10 a.m.
WHAT: A female student
working in a lab spilled a
portion of hydrochloric
acid on her shirt, University
Police reported. The student
was uninjured and did not
receive medical assistance.
WHAT: The University
will honor the late first lady.
Nancy G. Brinker, founder
of Susan G. Komen for the
Cure, will give a keynote
address in the tribute and
President Mary Sue Cole-
man will speak as well.
WHO: Gerald R. Ford
School of Public Policy.
WHEN: Today at 3 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham Audi-
tiorium
Burning bush
WHAT: Volunteers at
the Matthaei Botanical
Gardens will demonstrate
the proper use of fire as
a tool to maintain and
restore wildlife. A hands-on
demonstration will occur
as well.
WHEN: Today at 1 p.m.
WHERE: Matthaei
Botanical Gardens
DIA mural
analysis
WHAT: Diego Rivera's
murals in the Detroit Insti-
tute of Arts, depicting the
Detroit industry, will ana-
lyzed in this lecture. The
changing meaning of the
mural will be addressed.
WHO: University of Michi-
T hR EE T HINGS Y'U0
SNOULDt KNOW T0AY
New cards distributed by
surgeons allow patients
of bariatric procedures,
which shrink the size of
the stomach, to receive a
discount when ordering
smaller amounts of food at
restuarants, NPR reported.
This includes kid's meals.
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gan Museum of Art LSA senior Ray Malo,
WHEN: Tonight from 7 describes his time away
p.m. to 8:30 p.m. from the University on
WHERE: Helmut Stern tour with Brooklyn folk-rock
Auditorium, UMMA group April Smith and the
.mi Great Picture Show.
Almost, M aine FOR MORE, SEE
WHAT: University students
will perform in this
romantic comedy which
takes place in the fictional
town of Almost, Maine.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Tonight at 7:30
p.m.
WHERE: Arthur Miller
Theatre
Legal tender coins
in New Zealand will
feature the face of Lord
of the Rings characters to
commemorate the release
of the latest Hobbit film, the
Huffington Post reported.
The coins will feature
Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins and
Gollum.
Feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Yekaterina Samutsevich, Maria Alekhina, and Nadezhda Tolokon-
nikova sit in a glass cage in a court room in Moscow, Wednesday.
One member of Pussy Riot
unexpectedly walked free
Two other the cathedral by guards before
she could remove her guitar
bandmates head from its case and thus did not
take part in the performance.
toward harsher If the Kremlin's plan was to
create a rift in the trio by letting
punishments just one band member go, it
didn't seem to work.
MOSCOW (AP) - One jailed The two other defendants
member of the punk band Pussy squealed with joy and hugged
Riot unexpectedly walked free Samutsevich before she was
from a Moscow courtroom, led from the courtroom to
but the other two now head be mobbed by friends and
toward a harsh punishment for journalists waiting outside on
their irreverent protest against the street.
President Vladimir Putin: a Dressed in neon-colored
penal colony. dresses and tights, with
The split rulingby the appeals homemade balaclavas on their
court Wednesday added further heads, the band members
controversy to a case that has performed a "punk prayer"
been seized upon in the Westas asking the Virgin Mary to save
a symbol of Putin's intensifying Russia from Putin as he headed
crackdown on dissent. into a March election that would
All three women were hand him a third term.
convicted in August of "If we unintentionally
hooliganism motivated by offended any believers with
religious hatred and sentenced our actions, we express our
to two years in prison. They apologies," said Samutsevich,
argued in court on Wednesday who along with Maria
that their impromptu Alekhina and Nadezhda
performance inside Moscow's Tolokonnikova spoke in court
main cathedral in February was Wednesday from inside a glass
political in nature and not an cage known colloquially as the
attack on religion. "aquarium."
The Moscow City Court ruled Both the Kremlin and the
that Yekaterina Samutsevich's Russian Orthodox Church
sentence should be suspended would like to see an end to a case
because she was thrown out of that has caused international
0 A
outrage, but they would hate to
be seen as caving to pressure. As
much as anything, the release
of Samutsevich is viewed as a
reward for her decision this
month to drop defense lawyers
who had antagonized the
Kremlin with their politicized
statements.
"The idea of the protest
was political, not religious,"
Samutsevich said. "In this and
in previous protests we acted
against the current government
of the president, and against
the Russian Orthodox Church
as an institution of the Russian
government, against the
political comments of the
Russian patriarch. Exactly
because of this I don't consider
that I committed a crime."
Rights groups were frustrated
by the appeals court decision.
"To see these two women
sent to a Russian penal colony
for the crime of singing a song
undercuts any claim that Putin
and the Russian government
have to democracy and freedom
of expression," Suzanne
Nossel, executive director of
Amnesty International USA,
said Wednesday in a telephone
interview from Washington.
"It's a very cold climate for
human rights in Russia right
now," Nossel said.