2A - Thursday, December 6, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.cam 2A...... hur. day.,. December. 6,..2012..The..Michigan..Daily ..-...ch..ga......y... 0 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JOSEPH LICHTERMAN RACHEL GREINETZ c ditor in Chief easiness Manager 734-41e-4115 exn. 1202 734-4ae-411a ext. 1240 tichterman@michigandaily.com rmgrein~inichigandaiycom 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. 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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 CORRECTIONS " Please report any error in the Daily to correc- tions@michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY The Steven Spielberg film, "Lincoln" will be screened on the Senate floor, Deadline Hol- lywood reported. Senate 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? >> FOR MORE, SEE OPINION 4A The exclusive rights to Disney movies were 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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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 THE NEW LINE CHINESE CUISINE 7(ji garden C SPECIALIZING IN HONG KONG, TAIWANESE,A SZECHUAN & HUMAN STYLES 734-995-1786 116 S. MAIN STREETO (BETWEEN W. HURON AND WASHTENAW) O DOWNTOWN ANN ARBORF WWW.KAIGARDEN.COMS amm~DU Oll 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. 4 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 4 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.