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AMERICAN CULTURED
Many approaches, one man
When did you move to about 20 students where t can
Michigan? interact with them.
Istarted teaching in the Uni-
versity of Michigan in 1998. I How are American Culture
have a Ph.D. from Duke, and I've classes different from history
taught my whole career here. classes?
American Culture is an inter-
What classes do you teach disciplinary program, so our far-
here? ulty comes from a whole range of
Right now I'm teaching "a departments like English, Histo-
class on the modern civil rights ry, Romance Languages (& Liter-
movement.., and a graduate atures) and Sociology. Different
class on research methods in research methods come from
history. Every fall I teach (a these different disciplines. We
class on) politics and culture spend a lot of attention on things
in 1960s, which is a big lecture that don't get a lot of attention
class on American culture and in history classes such as popu-
history. The civil rights move- lar music, television (and) mov-
ment is my specialty; that's what ies. Not that historians don't do
Ido my research on. Iti's exciting that, but we try to emphasize on
to have a relatively small class of how the popular cultures shape
our social change. The idea
behind the classes is to be able
to look at something either his-
torically or currently present in
American culture from multiple
perspectives.
What do you do outside of
academia?
I have two kids, 16 and 11,
born and raised in Ann Arbor, so
I spend a lot of time with them.
They play a lot of sports, music....
and I also love watching U of M
sports, all sorts of sports. Bas-
ketball season is pretty exciting
right now. It hasn't been since
last Christmas that I was at a
game, but I like to watch them
on television.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Water break Drawing time
WHERE: Dow Building
WHEN: Sunday at about
5 p.m.
WHAT: A hot water
pipeline ruptured and
caused damage to about
24 offices..The Plant
Operations staff is
working to repair the pipe,
University Police reported.
WHERE: Hatcher
Graduate Library
WHEN: Sunday at about
9:40 p.m.
WHAT: Graffiti done with
a black marker was found
in the men's bathroom in
the basement. There are no
uspects, but it is believed
that the drawing occured
between 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.,
University Police reported.
Public skate
WHAT: Yost Ice Arena will
be holding an open event for
students. The cost is $3 with
an additional $2 for skate
rentals.
WHO: Yost Ice Arena
WHEN: Today from 12
p.m. to 12:50 p.m.
WHERE: Yost Ice Arena
MLK and the
University
Winterfest
WHAT: Student
organizations line the walls
of the Michigan Union in
winter's version of Festifall
for students to get involved
during second semester.
WHO: Student
Organizations
WHEN: Today from 4 n.m.
1A new space structure, a
large quasar group, that
is four billion light-years
long has been discovered,
MSNBC reported. Because
nothing as big has ever been
seen before, this discovery
is challenging modern day
theories about space.
2 University students
could benefit froma
bus system to grocery
stores as fewer food
options are avaliable to them.
SEE OPINION PAGE 4
3CNN reported the last
school closed from
Hurricane Sandy
reopened Friday. However,
many students and teachers
are still homeless or living
in hotels while their homes
are rebuilt or while they find
other places to live.
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