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TWINKLE TOES
Capturing creativity
What classes are you
teaching this semester?
I took over Professor Chris
Peterson's positive psychology
class after he passed. Just this
Monday, we showed students a
DVD of his last lecture, where
he said, "You should teach your
lecture as if it's your last one,"
but obviously he didn't know
his last one would be the last
one. I teach small seminars
now on creativity and also
work with prospective indus-
trial designers in the College of
Engineering.
Where are you from?
I'm from Minnesota. I've
been in Michigan for 20 years.
I came here as a professor and
during the first few years, I
taught intro psychology classes
a lot.
How did you become
interested in researching
creativity?
My main interest is in how
people's responses and ideas-
can be different from each
other and how one's ideas can
be surprising to others, in a
sense that your idea that's not
so surprising to you could be
surprising to somebody else.
How does creativity play a
role in everyday life?
One really interesting exam-
ple is just at the coffee bar.
How often do you hear just a
standard latte, and how often
do you hear soy, caramel, dou-
ble shot - to the pofnt where
you want to say, 'Why don't
you just make it for yourself?'
... Making choices is a demand,
so people take shortcuts and
have a go-to drink just so that
they don't have to think about
what they really want to drink
every time they're faced with
this option. But it also puts
you in a rod. You stop experi-
encing. You don't try the gin-
gerbread latte that you might
really like.
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Members of Pure Dance perform during Michigan's Best Dance
Crew in the Union on Wednesday.
CRIME NOTES
Pilfered
platinum
WHERE: 1150 West
Medical Center
WHEN: Tuesday at about
11:40 a.m.
WHAT: Two pieces of lab
equipment, both containing
platinum and estimated to
be worth $420, were stolen,
University Police reported.
There are no suspects.
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Office space Christmas
invasion concert
WHERE: 400 block of
Thompson Street
WHEN: Tuesday at about
1 p.m.
WHAT: A desk on the
fifth floor was broken into
and approximately $80
was stolen from a drawer,
University Police reported.
There are no suspects..
M e c Closing time
Missed call
WHERE: Michigan Union
WHEN: Tuesday at about
6:45 p.m.
WHAT: A cell phone, left
unattended in a computing
station, was stolen,
University Police reported.
There are currently no
suspects.
WHERE: Nichols
Arboretum
WHEN: Tuesday at about
11:25 p.m.
WHAT: Two subjects were
warned for remaining in
the area after closing hours,
University Police reported.
They left after being
approached.
WHAT: The Dodworth
Holiday Brass Ensemble,
which has performed at
major venues such as the
White House, will be giving
a free performance for the
University.
WHO: Gifts of Art
WHEN: Today at 12:10 p.m.
WHERE: University Hospi-
tals, Main Lobby
Jazz discussion
WHAT: A panel made up
of administrators and pro-
fessors will talk about the
future of jazz and music
education at the University.
No tickets are required to
attend.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at14 p.m.
WHERE:Rackham Gradu-
ate School, Amphitheatre
Europe lecture
WHAT: Prof. Rebecca
Spang, will be discussing
the effects of the French
Revolution on the European
economy and the lessons we
can apply today.
WHO: Center for European
Studies
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social
Work Building, Room 1636
Economy talk
WHAT: Informational
session on how the recent
election and economic
recovery can influence
personal investments.
WHO: Center for the
Education of Women
WHEN: Tonight at 5 p.m.
WHERE: 330 East Liberty
Street
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The Steven Spielberg
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screened on the Senate
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Majority Leader Harry Reid
invited the acclaimed film-
maker to show the film on
Dec.19.
As a result of Harvard's
125-student cheating
scandal, Yale Univer-
sity weighed the effec-
tiveness of take-home exams.
Should the University, too?
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The exclusive rights
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bought by Netflix,
The Los Angeles Times
reported. The three-year
acquisition puts the company
in the competitive realm of
networks such as HBO and
Starz.
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Pentagon begins planning for
massive budget reduction K
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Fiscal cliff would .
trigger $500 billion
in budget cutbacks
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Defense Department has begun
planning for the roughly $500
billion in personnel and pro-
gram cuts over a decade that
will be needed if Congress and
the White House fail to reach a
deal that would avoid the double
hit of tax hikes and automatic
spending reductions dubbed the
"fiscal cliff."
Department spokesman
George Little said the cuts
would be "devastating to our
national defense."
As the White House and
members of Congress continue
to wrangle over how best to
find as much as $1.2 trillion in
savings over the next 10 years
to avert the fiscal cliff, Little
said the Pentagon started more
detailed discussions this week
on how to slash 9.4 percent of its
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budget across the board.
He said cuts that deep could
force the department to throw
out its new military strategy,
and cut weapons and technol-
ogy programs, and it could ham-
per the department's ability to
provide for its troops and their
families.
He added that the depart-
ment also is beginning to fig-
ure out how it will prepare and
inform about 3 million military,
civilian and contract workers
about the cuts, if they occur.
For months, Pentagon offi-
cials have insisted they were not
planning for the massive budget
cuts thot would automatically
kick in after the first of the year
if the White House and Con-
gress doesn't strike a deal. But
with less than a month to go and
no deal in sight, those evalua-
tions have begun in earnest.
According to guidance sent
out by the White House Office
of Management and Budget, the
Pentagon will have to slice near-
ly 10 percent off more than 80
accounts, including more than
$4 billion off Air Force aircraft
and maintenance, $2.1 billion
off Navy shipbuilding; $6.7 bil-
lion off Army operations, $3.2
billion off health programs and
$1.3 billion out of the Afghan
security forces funding.
About $55 billion of the $500
billion in cuts would come in
the first year.
The Pentagon would have
some flexibility in deciding
how to find the money in each
of those broad categories; for
instance officials could leave
the aircraft carrier fleet intact
and take the money out of other
types of ships in the pipeline.
If the White House and law-
makers are able to avoid the fis-
cal cliff, the military still likely
will be looking at as much as an
additional $10 billion to $15 bil-
lion in cuts in projected defense
spending each year for the next
decade. It's a prospect that
Republicans recognize is the
new reality, with wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan ending and
deficits demanding deep cuts.
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In this Aug. 8, 2010 file photo, composer Dave Brubeck plays at his last appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival in
Newport, R.I.
Dave Brubeck, legendary
jazz musician, dies at 91
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Instrumental
in shaping 20th
century music
You don't have to be a jazz
aficionado to recognize "Take
Five," the smoky instrumental
by the Dave Brubeck Quartet
that instantly evokes swinging
bachelor pads, hi-fi systems and
cool nightclubs of the 1950s and
'60s.
"Take Five" was a musi-
cal milestone - a deceptively
complex jazz composition that
managed to crack the Billboard
singles chart and introduce a
new, adventurous sound to mil-
lions of listeners.
In a career that spanned
almost all of American jazz
since World War II, Brubeck's
celebrated quartet combined
exotic, challenging tempos with
classical influences to create
lasting standards.
The pianist and composer
behind the group, Brubeck died
Wednesday of heart failure at a
hospital in Norwalk, Conn. He
was a day shy of his 92nd birth-
day.
Brubeck believed that jazz
presented the best face of Amer-
ica to the world.
"Jazz is about freedom within
discipline," he said in a 2005
interview with The Associated
Press. "Usually a dictatorship
like in Russia and Germany will
prevent jazz from being played
because it just seemed to rep-
resent freedom, democracy and
the United States.
"Many people don't under-
stand how disciplined you have
to be to play jazz.... And that is
really the idea of democracy -
freedom within the Constitu-
tion or discipline. You don't just
get out there and do anything
you want."
The common thread that
ran through Brubeck's work
was breaking down the barri-
ers between musical genres -
particularly jazz and classical
music. He was inspired by his
mother, a classical pianist, and
later by his composition teacher,
the French composer Darius
Milhaud, who encouraged his
interest in jazz and advised him
to "keep your ears open" as he
traveled the world.
"When you hear Bach or
Mozart, you hear perfection,"
Brubeck said in 2005. "Remem-
ber that Bach, Mozart and
Beethoven were great impro-
visers. I can hear that in their
music."
Brubeck was always fascinat-
ed by the rhythms of everyday
life. In a discussion with biogra-
pher Doug Ramsey, he recalled
the rhythms he heard while
working as aboy on cattle drives
at the northern California ranch
managed by his father.
The first time he heard
polyrhythms - the use of two
rhythms at the same time - was
on horseback.
"The gait was usually a fast
walk, maybe a trot," he said.
"And I would sing against that
constant gait of the horse. ...
There was nothing to do but
think, and I'd improvise melo-
dies and rhythms."
Brubeck combined classical
influences and his own innova-
tions on the seminal 1959 album
"Time Out" by his classic quar-
tet that included alto saxophon-
ist Paul Desmond, drummer
Joe Morello and bassist Eugene
Wright.
It was the first jazz album lo
deliberately explore time signa-
tures outside of the standard 4/4
beat or 3/4 waltz time.