2 - Tuesday, February 11, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Tuesday, February 11, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Prof. talks disabilities in literature Tobin Siebers is the V. L. Par- rington Collegiate Professor of Literary and Cultural Criticism and a professor of English, as well as a professor in the School ofArt a Design. He is a literary theo- rist who has, for the last 15 years, focused on disability studies in lit- erature. Among many essays and pieces of nonfiction, he is also the author of "Among Men." Siebers' work includes over 10 published books examining aesthetics and the body. What's your favorite class? My favorite class to teach is actually the one I'm doing right now. It's called "Reading Dis- ability in the Literature and the Arts". One of the reasons I really enjoy it is that the questions I find myself posing in the class don't have any official answers because no one has been asking the kinds of questions about how disability appears in these different fields; These are very young questions in the field. Whatpiece of your scholar- ship are you most proud of? I'd have to say the thing I'm most proud of is a work of creative nonfiction that I did a number of years ago called "Among Men." And it is my attempt to write as beautifully as I know how. I feel that I have had some success at accomplishing that goal, and that is anarea that I have great pride in. Why is criticism (literary or otherwise) important? I think that any kind of criticism in the University is important because it asks us to challenge things as they are. If you're asking specifically about lit criticism: if literature is impor- tant to study ... then criticism is important because criticism is the only way we can challenge how we read books. - MAXRADWIN Music, Theatre & Dance senior Rachel Mazer and junior Gabriel Wilk open for a Word of Mouth story slam at Literati bookstore Monday. 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The Wolverines hope to avenge last season's upset loss at Value City Arena. >> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS, PG.7 Mexican native Man- uel Osorio-Arellanes was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to the Dec. 2010 shooting of board- er patrol agent Brian Terry, CNN reported. Explosion at ball bearings plant leaves fifteen injured Investigation underway after fire, HAZMAT respond PETERBOROUGH, N.H. (AP) - An explosion rocked a small- town ball bearings plant on Monday, shaking walls, shatter- ing windows and sending at least 15 people to the hospital, but a company spokeswoman said none of their injuries appeared to be life-threatening. Hazardous-materials teams responded after Monday after- noon's explosion at the New Hampshire Ball Bearings Inc. plant in Peterborough, but fire- fighters said there didn't appear to be any environmental damage. A plant machine operator, Paul Clark, said he was outside in the parking lot on Monday af- ternoon when he heard the blast. "I was in my car backing out when I felt a rumble and heard a bang," he said. "I looked up, and snow on the building's roof was flying into the wind." The blast blew out windows on the three-story building's ground floor, Peterborough Fire Department spokesman Eric Bowman said. There was heavy explosion damage, and the first arriving firefighters saw a col- umn of smoke, he said. The cause of the explosion was under investigation, but all indications were that it was an industrial-related incident, Bowman said. First responders will try to determine the extent of the damage to the facility, company spokeswoman Kathy Gerrity said. It was unknown when the facility will be back in operation because it would need to be in- spected and deened safe first, she said. The plant, in the southwest New Hampshire town that was the inspiration for Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town," manu- factures high-tech parts for the aerospace industry and employs 700 people. Gerrity said she wasn't sure how many people H,--0 were inside when the explosion happened Monday afternoon but there are usually about 450 working around that time. Clark, who operates a machine used in a rolling procedure, said his girlfriend, Andrea Painchaud, was at work in the shipping de- partnent when the explosion knocked shelves off the walls and part of the roof came down around her. He said she was un- injured. "Smoke came pouring out," said Clark, who lives in nearby Pepperell, Mass. "I could hear somebody screaming." Bill Brock, owner of the Man- hattan East Hair Design shop about a quarter-mile from the plant, said he heard and felt something but didn't know what it was. Then about 30 ambulanc- es and fire trucks went by. Gov. Maggie Hassan said the state emergency operations cen- ter was open to monitor the situ- ation and she was "very encour- aged" to hear that all employees had been accounted for. "My thoughts and prayers go out to those injured in today's explosion, to their families and loved ones, and to the entire Pe- terborough area where NH Ball Bearings is such an important member of the community," she said in a statement. Police advised drivers to avoid Route 202 through Peterbor- ough, which has about 6,400 residents. Local hospitals were asked to prepare for patients who may have been exposed to hazardous materials. Two of the 15 people who were treated at Monadnock Community Hospital later were flown to other hospitals, spokes- woman Laura Gingras said, and the rest were released by Mon- day night. Peterborough, besides inspir- ing "Our Town," a Pulitzer Prize- winning play first performed in 1938, is home to the MacDowell Colony, a prestigious retreat for artists, writers and composers. Wilder' based the fictional town of Grover's Corners on Peterbor- ough, where he often spent his summers. New Hampshire Ball Bearings' corporate headquarters are in Chatsworth, Calif. It's a division of Japanese company Minebea, ANDY WONG/AP Australia's Sam Hall jumps during the men's moguls qualifying at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park at the 2014 Winter Olympics Monday. Kremlin responds to slights oxver WXVII Victory, -media Russia counters Olympic organizers while political tensions escalate MOSCOW (AP) - The Sochi Winter Olympics are making Rus- sians beam with pride. But while the opening ceremony left out World War I at the behest of in- ternational Olympic organizers, Russia's role in defeating Nazi Germany is still one of the nation's proudest moments, as some have found out the hard way. Perceived slights to Russian pride caused an independent tele- vision station to be forced off the air and the Moscow correspon- dent of a U.S. network to be sum- moned to the Foreign Ministry for an official reprimand. In the latest display of Russian displeasure, a prominent anchor on state televi- sion insinuated that U.S. Marines depicted in the war memorial near Washington looked as if they were engaged in gay sex. Here is a look at what caused Russians to react so strongly and how the Kremlin responded: LENINGRAD LEGACY The independent television sta tion Dozlsd, or TV Rain, came un- der attack after asking viewers in January whether the Soviet Union should have surrendered Lenin- grad, now St. Petersburg, to save the lives of the 1 million people who died during the nearly 900- day Nazi siege of the city during the war. The station quickly pulled the poll and apologized, but Presi- dent Vladimir Putin's spokesman said the station had crossed a "red line." Russian cable providers lined up to drop Dozhd from their pack- ages and prosecutors opened an investigation. The poll struck a nerve with Russians for whom the resistance in Leningrad exemplified the suf- fering and heroism of the war. But the station's owner and editor have accused the Kremlin of using the poll to shut down Dozhd because of its critical reporting. The sta- tion has provided a platform for opposition leaders and reported on allegations of official corruption, including during Olympic prepara- tions. After major cable and satellite providers dropped Dozhd, its view- ership has fallen from 17 million households to 2 million, according to station owner Nataliya Sindeye- va. While never able to compete with the state channels, Dozhd has been popular with urban middle- class Russians disturbed by the corruption and growing authori- tarianismunder Putin. AN "UGLY' MONUMENT U.S. television network CNN caused a firestorm when it includ- ed a war monument in Brest, a city in the former Soviet republic of Be- larus, in an article on the "world's ugliest monuments" published last month. The piece said the Soviet soldier "emerging from a moun- tainous block of concrete looks as if he's about to thump the West into submission before hurling North America at the sun." It also noted that others think the soldier "sim- ply looks constipated." On Feb. 6, CNN edited the story on its website and added a note apologizing for the offense it caused in Belarus and Russia. The following day, the Russian Foreign Ministry took the unusual step ofsummoningCNN'sMoscow correspondent for an official repri- mand. The journalist was told that "mocking the memory of Soviet soldiers who gave their lives for the victory over fascism cannot be justified or forgiven," the ministry said in a statement on its website. The U.S. network then with- drew the article entirely. "CNN apologizes for the un- intended offense caused by an article from a contributor that was intended to be a humorous look at monumental architecture worldwide" it said in a statement. f ' 4 t.