2 - Tuesday, January 15, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Tuesday, January15, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom ~ IW 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ANDREW WEINER RACHEL GREINETZ Editor in Chief. Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 anweiner@michigandaiy.com rmgrein@michigandaiycom 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. - ANGELA SON Nessrom 734-418-4115 ,,p.3 Corrections corrections@emichigoodaiy.come Arts Section arts@icigandaily.omn Sports Section sports@michigandaily.com * Display Sales display@michigandaily.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.ome Ness Tips news@michigandaily.com Letters tn the Editnr tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editnrial Pate opinion@michigandailyceom Phtography Sectin photo@mich~igandaily.com Cassified Sales classified@michigandaily.com Finance finance@mihigandaily.com Prof. Matthew Countryman specialized on the modern cioil rights movement. CRIME NOTES 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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