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CAMPUS BUZZ
Choosing the write path
Jennifer Metsker is a lecturer
in the Department of English.
She works in the Sweetland Writ-
ing Center, the Department of
English and the School of Art &
Design. She received her under-
graduate degree from the Uni-
versity of Oregon, attended the
School oftheArt Institute of Chi-
cago and received her master's
degree at the University. She is
from Sacramento, Calif
How did you get into writing?
While I was at art school
just the desire to be a writer
kept returning to me, so I left
art school and moved here and
worked in the Sweetland Writ-
ing Center as a peer tutor coor- I'm reading everything from
dinator. I saw my fellow tutors pop, neuroscience to poetry to
teaching; I saw how engaged novels to nonfiction, the news
they were with their students; - everything. I'll have a phys-
I saw the students coming in, ics book - I like reading about
being tutored, and I knew that's physics - and then neurosci-
what I wanted to do. ence and then poetry, and some
obscure novel that no one would
What do you like a ever read, and then, like, some
bout writing? young adult fiction.
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because it's right there - you
said it.
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Do you have any advice for
students?
My advice would be: While
you're at college, take the time
to talk to someone about your
writing one-on-one.
- WILL GREENBERG
Rackham student Parker Anderson presents on the
UM Bees club at Food Day on the Diag Monday.
CRIME NOTES
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Almost stolen Medical hash Sustain farms Fiscal crisis
WHERE: North Campus
Recreation Building
WHEN: Sunday at about
2:45 p.m.
WHAT: An iPhone was
reported stolen from a coat
in the men's locker room
between 1 and 2:30 p.m.,
University Police reported.
The phone's owner did not
complete the report.
WHERE: University Hospi-
tal Emergency Room
WHEN: Sunday at about
10:10 p.m.
WHAT: A patient was
found with marijuana in his
personal possessions, Uni-
versity Police reported. The
marijuana was confiscated
from the subject
immediately.
WHAT: Sepp Holzer, a
pioneer in ecological farm-
ing, will givea lecture on
sustainable farming. Holzer
will hold workshops in Mat-
thaei Botanical Gardens
before the discussion.
WHO: Sustainable
Food Program
WHEN: Today at 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham Gradu-
ate School, Amphitheatre
WHAT: Stacy Sanders,
federal policy director at
the Medicare Rights Center,
will lead a talk about Medi-
care and the fiscal crisis.
WHO: School of Social
Work Office of Alumni
Relations
WHEN: Today at 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social
Work Building, Educational
Conference Center
Slow down Blind spot
Abortion talk Music movie
WHERE: 1400 Block East
Medical Center Drive
WHEN: Sunday at
about 11:20 p.m.
WHAT: A student was
arrested in connection with
stealing a speed limit sign,
University Police reported.
The student was then pro-
cessed and released, and the
traffic sign has since been
recovered.
WHERE: 2100 Block Fuller
Road
WHEN: Sunday at about
4:30 p.m.
WHAT: One of the Uni-
versity's service vehicles
backed into a lamppost,
University Police reported.
The vehicle received some
slight damage to its bumper,
but no personal injuries
occured.
A new study has found
that Shakespeare almost
went to jail for tax eva-
sion and was fined for illegal-
ly hiding food, The Telegraph
reported. These antics went
on for over 15 years, allowing
Shakespeare to retire after
only 24 years of work.
Washtenaw County
had the highest con-
centration of people
who changed their Facebook
profile picture to the Human
Rights Campaign logo to sup-
port same-sex marraige last
week.
> FOR MOR E, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4
The first gorilla ever
born in New York City,
Pattycake, died on Sun-
day at the Bronx Zoo, the
New York Times reported.
Pattycake was 40 years old
and was undergoing treat-
ment for chronic heart issues
at the time of her death.
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WHAT: Barbara B. Crane
will lead a discussion about
women's battle for global
abortion rights. Crane
serves on the Exectuive
Team of Ipas, an organiza-
tion dedicated to reducing
fatalities from unsafe
abortions.
WHO: Institute for
Research on Women and
Gender
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WHERE: Lane Hall, room
2239
WHAT: Students are invit-
ed to attend a film screening
of "Darius Milhaud and his
Music: From Provence to
the World." The film focus-
es on Milhaud's over 450
contributions to the world
of music told through the
artist himself and stories
from his wife and his
Jewish faith.
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gan Museum of Art
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Hamas re-elects Mashaal
Longtime leader of
the Islamic militant
group retains power
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The
Islamic militant group Hamas on
Monday re-elected longtime lead-
er Khaled Mashaal, officials said,
choosing a relative pragmatist
who has sparred with movement
hardliners in the past over his
attempt to reconcile with West-
ern-backed Palestinian rivals.
The secretive Hamas did not
issue an announcement, but
Mashaal's re-election was con-
firmed by two Hamas officials.
The vote late Monday capped a
year of internal elections spread
over several countries and
shrouded in mystery.
The Qatar-based Mashaal, 56,
has led Hamas since 1996 and
won another four-year term.
Me ran unopposed and won the
support of a majority in Mamas'
Shura Council which has about
60 members, said the two Hamas
officials who spoke on condition
of anonymity because they were
not permitted to discuss the
secret election with reporters.
Mashaal enjoys the backing of
regional powers Turkey, Egypt
and Qatar, countries where
Hamas' parent movement, the
region-wide Muslim Brother-
hood, is influential.
It's not clear if his re-election
will give him enough clout to
pursue reconciliation or if hard-
liners, particularly those based
in the Gaza Strip, will be able to
veto a deal.
Hamas wrested Gaza from
Mahmoud Abbas, the inter-
nationally backed Palestinian
president, in 2007, leaving him
with only parts of the West Bank.
Since then, the rivals have estab-
lished separate governments
that have become increasingly
entrenched in their respective
territories.
Last year, Mashaal and Abbas,
who have cordial relations,
reachedaedeal whereby Abbas
would head an interim govern-
ment of technocrats in the West
Bank and Gaza. This government
would have paved the way for
general elections.
However, the deal never got
off the ground because of oppo-
sition from Hamas leaders in
Gaza and senior figures in Abbas'
Fatah movement. Hamas leaders
in Gaza were particularly vehe-
ment in their objections, appar-
ently fearing that a unity deal
would give Abbas a new foothold
in Gaza and weaken Hamas' grip
on the territory.
Last week, the emir of Qatar
proposed holding a reconcilia-
tion conference in Egypt in com-
ing weeks to set up a timetable
for forming the interim govern-
ment and holding elections.
Mashaal's re-election could
further distance Hamas from
long-time patron Iran, which has
supplied cash and weapons to
the Hamas government in Gaza.
Hamas broke with another long-
time ally, Syrian President Bashar
Assad, more than ayear ago, over
Assad's brutal crackdown on a
popular revolt that turned into an
armed insurgency.
Mashaal's relations with Iran
Tony Gutierrez/AP
Law enforcement officials walk out of the home of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland Monday near
Forney, Texas.
White supremacists suspected of
shooting Texas district attorney
cooled after he refused to back
Assad, an Iranian ally, and
Mashaal last visited Tehran in
November 2011.
Other senior Hamas figures
continue to visit Tehran and
ties have not broken off, but
Mashaal has found a new home
4 6 in Qatar, one of Iran's regional
rivals.
9 7 8 2 Hamas was founded in Gaza
in 1987, as an offshoot of the
Muslim Brotherhood. It has
four components - activists in
Gaza, in the West Bank, in exile
2 9 1 5 8 and those imprisoned by Israel.
In the internal elections, each
4 5 6 2 9 of the four groups chose local
leaders as well as delegates to
3 the Shura Council.
This council selects a deci-
sion-making political bureau
9 8 2 6 and the head of that body -
the stage that was wrapped up
13 5 9 in Cairo on Monday. Details
about the composition of the
political bureau were not
9 5 A 4 available Monday.
Mashaal is seen as a member
of the more pragmatic wing of
Hamas, in connection with the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Evidence in police
points to the Aryan
Brotherhood of Texas
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) -
Two days after a Texas district
attorney and his wife were
found shot to death in their
home, authorities have said little
about their investigation or any
potential suspects.
But suspicion in the slayings
shifted to a white supremacist
gang with a long history of vio-
lence and retribution that was
also the focus of a December law
enforcement bulletin warning
that its members might try to
attack police or prosecutors.
Four top leaders of the Aryan
Brotherhood of Texas were
indicted in October for crimes
ranging from murder to drug
trafficking. Two months later,
authorities issued the bulletin
warning that the gang might try
to retaliate against law enforce-
ment for the investigation that
led to the arrests of 34 of its
members on federal charges.
Kaufman County District
Attorney Mike McLelland and
his wife were found dead Sat-
urday in their East Texas home.
The killings were especially jar-
ring because they happened just
a couple of months after one of
the county's assistant district
attorneys, Mark Hasse, was
killed in a parking lot near his
courthouse office.
McLelland was part of a
multi-agency task force that
took part in the investigation
of the Aryan Brotherhood. The
task force also included the FBI,
the Drug Enforcement Adminis-
tration as well as police depart-
ments in Houston and Fort
Worth.
Investigators have declined
to say if the group is the focus
of their efforts, but the state
Department of Public Safe-
ty bulletin warned that the
Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is
"involved in issuing orders to
inflict 'mass casualties or death'
to law enforcement officials
involved in the recent case."
Terry Pelz, a former Texas
prison warden and expert on the
Aryan Brotherhood said killing
law enforcement representa-
tives would be uncharacteristic
of the group.
"They don't go around killing
officials," he said. "They don't
draw heat upon themselves."
But Pelz, who worked in@
the Texas prison system for 21
years, added that the gang has a
history of threatening officials
and of killing its own member
or rivals. He suggested if the
Aryan Brotherhood was behind
the slayings in Kaufman County,
some sort of disruption in the
gang's operations might have
prompted their retaliation.
That disruption might have
come last year, when feder-
al prosecutors in Houston in
November announced indict-
ments against 34 alleged mem-
bers of the gang, including four
of its top leaders in Texas. At
the time, prosecutors called the
indictment "a devastating blow
to the leadership" of the gang.
Meanwhile, deputies escorted
some Kaufman County employ-
ees into the courthouse Monday
after the slayings stirred fears
that other public employees
could be targeted. Law enforce-
ment officers were seen patrol-
ling outside the courthouse, one
holding a semi-automatic weap-
on, while others walked around
inside.