2A - Wednesday, September 4, 2013 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com .90 2A - Wednesday, September 4, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom U MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: FRIDAY: This Week in History In Other Ivory Towers Professor Profiles Alumni Profiles Photos of the Week PACK THE BOWL- Taking a break for African politics 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ANDREW WEINER KIRBY VOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-41e-4115 eat..1241 anweiner@michigandaily.com kvoigtman@michigandaily.com Mike McGovern is an associ- ate professor of anthropology, and has been.working at the Uni- versity since 2012. He is on sab- batical for the fall semester. What are you working on during your sabbatical? I'm finishing up a book on Guinea, which is one of the main countries where I work in West Africa. My first book is on Cote d'Ivoire , and my sec- ond book is on Guinea, and my Ph.D. research was on Guinea. But I've also done research in Senegal, Mali, Niger, Chad and also a fair amount in Liberia. CRIME NOTES What does your graduate seminars, one that's research focus on? called Politics' Aesthetics, and I mainly work on politics. I've taught courses on cosmol- But, as you may know, anthro- ogy and environs. pologists approach politics from quite a different angle What do you do outside of the than a political scientist would. classroom? In social times we talk about I'm a rower. I row for the Ann large-end and small-end stud- Arbor Rowing Club. I like to eat; ies, which basically mean a my wife is a chef. large-end study would be more quantitative. So, what's your favorite restaurant in Ann Arbor? What courses do you teach? Oh, let me see, I just had a real- I teach a course called ly nicemeal at Cafe Zola. Grange Anthropologies of Insurgency, is also a favorite, and Pacific Rim. and next semester I'll be teach- I guess I'll say Grange. ing a lecture course called The State in Africa. 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WHO: The Career Center WHEN: 8 a.m. WHERE: 3200 Student Activities Building CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. 4 MORE ONLINE Love Crime Notes? Get more online at michigandaily.com/blogs/The Wire HEY, SEE THAT BIG LIST OF NAMES OVER THERE? YOU COULD BE ON THE DAILY'S MASTHEAD. To join our staff, attend one of our mass meetings, which start at 7:30 p.m. at 420 Maynard St.: THURSDAY, SEPT.12 SUNDAY, SEPT.15 TUESDAY, SEPT.17 THURSDAY, SEPT.19 4 4 Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad talks to the media about her record-setting swim from Cubato Florida on Tuesday, Sept.3. Nyad: Maturity helped me finish record-breaking swim 64-year-old swims from Cuba to Fla. without shark cage KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - The clocks Diana Nyad uses to time her training swims show that she's a slower swimmer than she used to be. That's only natural: At age 64, she acknowledges she is no longer the "thoroughbred stal- lion" she was "back in the day." And yet, the endurance ath- lete says she felt stronger than ever when she completed her successful effort to become the first person to swim 110 miles from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. "Now I'm more like a Clydes- dale: I'm a little thicker and stronger - literally stronger, I can lift more weights," Nyad told The Associated Press in a'one- on-one interview Tuesday, a day after she finished her 53-hour, record-setting swim: "I feel like I could walk through a brick wall. ... I think I'm truly dead center in the prime of my life at 64." Nyad isn't alone among aging athletes who are dominating their sports. Earlier this year, 48-year-old Beriard Hopkins became the oldest boxer to win a major title, scoring a 12-round unanimous decision over Tavoris Cloud to claim the IBF light heavyweight championship. Tennis player Martina Navra- tilova played in the mixed dou- bles competition at Wimbledon in her late 40s, and hockey leg- end Gordie Howe played in the NHL in-his SOs. Thousands of U.S. athletes, including 60-year-old Kay Glynn, also compete during the Senior Olympics. Glynn, of Hastings, Iowa, has won six gold medals in pole vaulting at the Senior Olympics and set a new pole vaulting world record for her age in the 2011 National Senior Games. Older athletes tend to find more success in endurance events than power events such as sprinting and other sports that rely on "fast- twitch" muscle fibers, which are more difficult to preserve later in life, noted Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, a physi- ologist at the University of Illi- nois Urbana-Champaign. But just because Nyad was swimming rather than pounding her joints against the concrete doesn't mean she didn't achieve a remarkable feat, Chodzko-Zajko said. ' "This ultra, super-length swimming is brutal regardless," he said, adding that another rea- son athletes are able to endure is because they often train smarter and have a mental concentration that is well honed over decades. "She's one of any number of 4 people who are redefining what happens with aging," said Dr. Michael J. Joyner, an anesthesi- ologist and exercise researcher at Mayo Clinic. "If you start with a highcapac- ity, you have some reserves," Joyner said. "You can lose some absolute power, but what you lose in power you can make up for with experience and strategy and better preparation." Nyad first attempted swim- ming from Cuba to Florida at age 29with ashark cage. She didn't try againuntil 2011 when she was 61. She tried twice more in the past two years before beginning her fifth attempt Saturday morn- ing with a leap off the seawall of the Hemingway Marina into the warm waters off Havana. She paused occasionally for nourish- ment, but never left the water until she reached the white sand beaches of the Keys and waded ashore. Nyad says her age and matu- rity should not be discounted when measuring her most recent success. I , '"