2 - Tuesday, December 9, 2014 The Michigan Daily --- michigandaily.cam 2 . usa, Deebr9,04TeM.ianDiy-mciadiyo (he r,04,at DAM 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETER SHAHIN DOUGLAS SOLOMON Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-41u3 eat. 1251 734-418-4118 eat. 1241 pjshahin@michigandailycom dangaolo@michiandailycom GOINeG GLOeBoAs Prof. finds passion in Peace Corps Mike McGovern is aprofessor of political anthropology at the Uni- versity, with afocus on West Afri- ca. Before coming to the University in 2011, McGovern taught anthro- pology at Yale University for six years. For the past 25 years he has been living back and forth between the United States and Guinea. He has also served as the West Africa project director of the Internation- al Crisis Group, a Brussels-based organization that specializes in analyzing the causes of armed conflict. He received a Ph.D. from Emory University in 2004. How did youbecome interested in your fieldof study? I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Guinea between 1989 and 1991. I was a math teacher there, and I really didn't know anything about the place when I went. It's a francophone country in West Africa, and I spoke some French and had done calculus in col- lege. I grew to love the country and ended up going back sev- eral years later to do my Ph.D. research. What project are you currentlyworkingon? I'm currently working on a book called "A Socialist Peace." It's about why wars don't break out in some places. Because the Ebola epidemic began about 20 miles from where I have lived on and off for the past 25 years, I've been doing a lot of stuff on Ebola for the past four months. I'm putting what I already know from years of research on the history and the culture of that area. What project are you most proud of? I really very much enjoyed doing my last book, which is called "Unmasking the State." 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Edwards Bros. property .By JACK TURMAN Last February, the Universi- ty bought property on South State Street from Edwards Brothers Malloy. The com- pany is movingout in a few weeks, paving the way for Universitypconstruction. De-stress on the Diag WHAT: Hot chocolate, tea and coffee will be served to help students relax before exams. WHO: Center for Campus Involvement, Maize Pages Student Organizations WHEN: Today from noon to 2 p.m. WHERE: The Diag Nick Lowe "William Tell holiday concert performance WHAT: Singer-songwriter Nick Lowe will perform Christmas songs from his album Quality Street as part of his "Quality Holiday Revue." WHEN: Today at 8 p.m. WHO: Michigan Union Ticket Office WHERE: The Ark Baroque Saxophone performance studio recital WHAT: More than 200 members of the Teatro Regio Torino Orchestra and Chorus will perform music from Rossini's opera "William Tell." WHO: University Musical Society WHEN: Today at 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Hill Auditorium Gulf Women Today WHAT: Wayne State Prof. May Seikaly will discuss the achievements of women in the Arabian Gulf. WHO: Osher Lifelong LearningInstitute WHEN: Today from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Rave Cinema CORRECTIONS * " Pleasereport anyerror in the Daily to correc- tions@michigansdaily.com. Prince William met with President Barack Obama at the White House dur- ing a brief visit to the United States, The Washington Post reported Monday. They were overheard discussing Prince William's excitement about the birth of his son, George. The Wolverines aren't the only football team in Ann Arbor. The team at Concordia College plays, too, but they do so without scholarships, expensive facilities or sleep. SEE SPORTS, PG.7 Egyptian police arrested 25 men on suspicion of homosexual activity during a raid on a Cairo bath house, the AP reported Monday. 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WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Today at 8p.m. WHERE: Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium U.S. has reduced carbon emissions, University planetarium aims * but pollution still rising globally to bring stars in full focus Gasoline and diesel exports contribute to overall global warming trend GARDI SUGDUP, Panama (AP) - Heat-trapping pollution released into the atmosphere from rising exports of U.S. gaso- line and diesel dwarfs the cuts made from fuel efficiency stan- dards and other efforts to reduce global warming in the United States, according to a new Asso- ciated Press investigation. Under President Barack Obama, the U.S. has reduced more carbon pollution from energy than any other nation, about 475 million tons between 2008 and 2013, according to U.S. Energy Department data. Less than one-fifth of that amount came from burning less gasoline and diesel fuel. fuel than ever to other parts of the world, where efforts to address resulting "pollution are just gettingunderway, if advanc- ing at all. U.S. exports of gaso- line and diesel released roughly 1 billion tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere elsewhere during the same period, accord- ing to AP's analysis. This fossil fuel trade has helped President Barack Obama meet political goals to curb car- bon dioxide at home, by taking it off America's pollution balance sheet. But that does not neces- sarily help the planet. Despite efforts by the U.S. and others, pollution linked to global warming is still rising worldwide. In Panama, imports of diesel and gasoline from the U.S. have nearly quadrupled since 2008. Panama is the largest recipi- ent of diesel fuel dirtier and more carbon-laden than would be allowed in the U.S., in part Yet the U.S. is sending more because the fuel is used in cars H,-,, and trucks that do not have the same efficiency standards and, are not regularly inspected and maintained, the AP's investiga- tion found. Panama's requirement that drivers test emissions, including for carbon dioxide, are almost completely ignored. "It's a false image," said Onel Masardule of the Indigenous People's Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative, a Peru-based environmental group. "In reality, the U.S is still contaminating." Obama has overseen a domes- tic boom in oil and natural gas production and ordered the big- gest increases in fuel economy in history. That's helped the U.S. reduce oil imports, create jobs, boost exports and shrink the trade deficit. But for global warming, fuel exports mean that, at the very least, the administration is making a smaller dent than it claims. "This is their hidden success story that they would like to keep hidden," said Kevin Book, a Washington-based energy analyst and a member of the National Petroleum Council, a federal advisory group in the U.S. "It has done a lot to improve our balance of trade standing, but it is not the most climate- friendly way to do it. There is no way to avoid that there is a big- ger emissions impact when you have more to combust," Book said. There is no clear accounting of what America's growthdas a fossil-fuel powerhouse is doing to the global-warming picture. U.S. projects that increase ener- gy exports could be considered, such as huge terminals planned for the West Coast to send more coal abroad for power plants. Trade agreements could factor in the implications of energy trade on global warming. But no trade pactsnegotiated by the White House mention it. Natural History museum offers talks every Saturday, Sunday all year ByKRISTENANDERSON For theDaily Every weekend, dozens of people head inside to observe the night sky. Q The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History offers the program "Star Talk: The Sky Tonight" year-round on Saturdays and Sundays. Small groups attend each pro- gram, which runs about 45 minutes long and takes place in the museum's 36-seat plan- etarium. Though each presenter's content is different, audience members can expect to see constellations visible from Earth, view other planets in our solar system and leave the Milky Way to observe celes- tial bodies far outside our gal- axy, even those on the edge of the universe. The planetarium enables simulated observation of the night sky based on actual astronomical data, without the impacts of light pollution or adverse weather conditions. Audience members usu- ally include the general public, K-12 students on field trips, as well as University students who may find themselves in the planetarium as part of an astronomy course. Planetarium manager Matt Linke said many people come to a star talk during the sum- mer to become familiarized with constellations and to be able to identify them on camp- ing trips. "We focus on those objects, those patterns, that are most dominant over the season," Linke said. "What we decide to do with content really is based on what do we think people want to see when they go out- side." Each star talk is delivered unscripted, and each presenter interacts with the audience in a different way. All presenters are University students, most of whom study astronomy, physics or a closely related sci- ence. . "There is no one star talk," Linke said. "I give them the opportunity to design the star talk the way it makes sense for them to present it. If you go to three different shows, you'll get three different star talks." For example, LSA senior Alyssa Keimach, one of the planetarium's operators, included close-up observation of the International Space Sta- tion and the Mars rover in her presentation, as well as further observation of several galaxy clusters. She outlined the cri- teria for classifying planets and discussed the discovery of cosmic background radiation, mentioning that the Milky Way will collide with the Androme- da Galaxy in four billion years. "I believe in probability," Keimach said. There is prob- ably some other form of life out there. It doesn't have to be intelligent." Keimach also explained to audience members that light from distant stars can take billions of light years to reach Earth. Certain stars in distant galaxies could have implod- ed millions of years ago and ceased to exist, but scientists may never know. "When we view deep space stuff, we're also actually look- ing back in time," she said. During her star talks, Kei- mach sometimes encourages audience members to sign up for a NASA program that alerts participants whenever the International Space Station is observable from their city. Star talks are offered Satur- days at 11:30 a.m.,1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., and Sundays at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Additional seasonal programs include "Season of Light" and "Extra- solar Planets - Discovering New Worlds." Admission to the museum is free, and planetarium pro- grams charge $5 per person. 0 YOU'RE GOING TO MISS OUR NEWS COVERAGE OVER WINTER BREAK, AREN'T YOU? Well, don't fret! We will still be publishing online. CHECK MICHIGAN DAILY.COM AND FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @michigandaily AND 'LIKE' US ON FACEBOOK WHILE YOU'RE AT IT