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the stentorian | ncssm february 2002 Dr. Teague War on Terrorism Coptintied from the Front Page In which sport did you want to be a professional? Name one. You wanted to play all of them? Sure, who didn’t? My under graduate degree was in physi cal education... football, wrestling, softball. So how did you start teaching mathematics? I was teaching at Broughton HS in Raleigh where I coached wrestling with Rufus Owens. I also coached foot ball and baseball and was the athletic trainer for the school. There, all the classes I taught were mathematics classes. During the 1982-83 school year I left Broughton. I planned to change careers and pursue a degree in physical therapy and biomechanics in order to try my hand as a pro fessional athletic trainer. I left teaching and was a student at Chapel Hill. I ran into Rufus during Christmas shopping (Rufus was the first chemistry teacher at NCSSM). He told me NCSSM was mathematics Rife, it seems, throws mostly curve balls. looking teacher for a who wasn’t presently working (they didn’t want to hire someone away from another school) to finish out the school year. So, I applied for the position. If I hadn’t decid ed to stop teaching mathemat ics, I would have never been hired to teach mathematics at NCSSM. Life, it seems, throws mostly curve balls. Do you have a favorite class here? I don’t have a favorite class. Students are different in each class, and as long as the stu dents teach me some math each year. I’m satisfied. Why have you continued to teach math when you know people like John Conway and you could be doing other interesting things in the math world? I enjoy it. I think my parents’ biggest influence was that we never fociised on money. The idea is to find something that you really enjoyed doing and I liked a lot of the things about math and teaching math. What kind of new things do you learn from students? Students teach me new ways to think about things. They always give you a different perspective on things. You know how the old adage goes that ‘you only real ly learn a thing when you teach it’. You can’t answer a question you don’t have. I don’t know to ask it. Sometimes a student will ask a question and I think, ‘that’s not a satisfactory answer I gave.’ Each year you know the subject a little better, and this is particularly true of stu dents here. Could you explain what the significance of “the chalk” is? The person with the chalk is the person who decides what to do next. All teachers have to work with the understand ing that their students are bet ter than they are; there can be no progress if the students aren’t better. So it’s a given that the best way to learn is to let the students have the chalk, but not for too long. What kind of interests do you* have outside of teaching? ■ I like to play tennis and I used to tike to play softball and football until about 20 years ago when I got a knee injury. My wife and I go snorkel- F^U teachers have to work with the uiuterstanding that their students are better than they are." J mg. Do you have a favorite book or author? Grossman is good. He’s writ ten a number of nicely put together texts pointing to a Calculus book>. Ernie Haycox is good, have you read anything by him? I’m not sure; does he also write math texts? No, he writes westerns. You should read him. Do you enjoy listening to any kind gf music? Probably the blues... folk music. 60’s style folk music. Can you tell us something interesting that most people don’t know? I can tell you many things about me that people don’t know, but they wouldn’t nec essarily be interesting...possi bly that I have developed a pretty close relationship with Japanese teachers, and I’ve gone over to Japan a couple of times. One last question, could you tell us what “k” equal to for you from the “How to Find a Spouse” Theorem? Oh.. .umm, let’s see... 4. Continued from the Front Page Yassir Arafat had hoped this cease-fire would help him continue negotiations but Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has dismissed the lull as another “ploy.” Sharon stated that he considers Arafat directly responsible for the recent escalation in violence. He demands increased strin gency in the capture and punishment of Palestinian terrorists. Conversely, there are reports that the political opinions of Palestinians have polarized. There now seems to be a larger and more cohesive collection of Islamic radicals. Recently there have been warnings of unprecedented violence. These premoni tions are validated by daily accounts of bomb ings and shootings associated with Muslim extremists. Many times these violent actions are in response to Israeli execution of Hamas leaders, the expan sion of Israeli occupation into additional Palestinian territories, and air strikes of various Palestinian head quarters. Hamas, what many consider the largest Palestinian terrorist organ ization, has spoken of “all out war.” Meanwhile, the Economist reports that Israel is unofficially deter mined to remove Arafat from power. These devel opments have made the world community nervous but there has been little action. The US has expressed its support for our traditional ally, Israel. The European Union has given Palestinians tepid sympathies. Most view this as just another saga in the continuing Middle East struggle. There is a comparable situation between India and Pakistan. In this case the two nations are at odds about the territory of Kashmir, which lies between their borders. Animosity was first sparked by a Pakistani attack on the Indian Parliament that killed 9 people. This led to a weapons buildup and a nuclear crisis that alerted the global community. As a result, both Secretary of State Colin Powell and UN Chief Kofi Annan have paid visits to the two heads of s t a t e . Since then Pakistani President P e r V e z Musharraf has dropped support of extremists and arrested almost 2,000 activists. Peace, however, remains elusive. There was a recent attack by gun men that killed 4 Indian police officers outside a US cultural center. Pakistan has denied responsibility and India has been urged not to retaliate. The peace is ten uous at best, and the US role in the region is uncer tain. teuna^ the laigest l^iestinian tenorist mganizatioii, has spoken of •aioutiMi" j . To 4th Bryan; Hey4B, I love all of you girls! Stay woncjerful, and don't get into too much trouble...with out me of course! Love, Ashley Antony ^ To Whitn^ Norris: You re awesome! Thank you for taking the time out of jour busy ’ schedule to talk to me. 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