2A - Thursday, October 11, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com iEhie fidopgn aily 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JOSEPH LICHTERMAN RACHEL GREINETZ Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 lichterman@michigandaily.com rmgrein@michigandaily.com 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. -KASEYCOX Newsoan 730-418-4115 opt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales display@michigandaily.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com Letters tothe Editar tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classifed@michigandaily.com Finan ye filnance@michigandaily.com Pee Cadling, of Holiday Lighting Service from Manchester, Mich., puts up holday lighs near State Street and East Liberty Avenue on Wednesday. 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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. 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One copy is available free of charge to allreaders. Additional copies may be pickedup at theDaily's office for $2.Subscriptions for fall term, start in September, viaU .ma l are$ 110.wineter(J tanuary through Aprli) is $115, yearlong (September through April) is $195. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscriptionrate.On-campus subscriptions for talitermare$35.Subscriptionsmustbe prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press. 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.