Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, September 9, 1971 Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, September 9, 1971 JOIN THE SPORT OF THE SPACE AGE PARACHUTING SERVICE TECUMSEH, MICHIGAN Michigan's Most Active Sports Parachuting Center HOME DROP ZONE OF U-M SKYDIVING CLUB (Club Officer-MARK ALLEN, 663-8374) SATURDAY, SUNDAY, HOLIDAYS - FOR INFORMATION CALL 423-7879 ENJOY SKYDIVING AT ITS BEST Classes start at 10:00 Saturday and Sunday____ Students and police. [he unea USED TEXTBOOKS UP TO V OFF U L B I C H'S ANN ARBOR'S FRIENDLY BOOKSTORE By JONATHAN MILLER When a constable's duty to be done, the policeman's lot is not a happy one, goes the British song. In Ann Arbor, 1971, the lot of the po- liceman is still, many times, unhappy. Drugs, armed robberies, student demon- strators; all combine to give the man on the beat a thoroughly rough time. To the students and young people of the city, the p o li c e are often the cause of much unhappiness themselves. Relations between the city's young peo- ple and the police range from bad to terrible. Occasionally, when the police depart- ment goes through one of its periodic ticket-writing and drug-busting phases, relations between the two groups be- come unbearable, and rather than face a confrontation, a quiet halt to law en- forcement is declared by command of- ficers. Now, however, despite this cooling of arrest procedures, the situation between the city police and local young people remains tense. Many observers feel that young people on the streets are more bitter now than at any previous time in the city's recent history a situation mainly due to high unemployment among high school aged students. According to Police Chief Walter Krasny, one of the department's main Walking the university beat second visited by the raiding party .in a two-hour time span that day. The year has four more months to run, and though there have been no more arrests or raids on such a large scale, the residual bad feelings between the police and youth remain. "Just when we thought we had it so the police would leave pot alone and we could begin to cooperate with them on solving the heroin problem, they went and blew it," observed one disgruntled youth after the Ann Arbor Argus raid. But the Argus commune is not the residence of a typical University stu- dent. Examples of such heavy police surveillance ultimately leading to pp- lice intervention and arrests have been confined to the Argus commune, possi- bly one group of heroin dealers and sev- eral members of the radical White Pan- ther Party. Ann Arbor's police department, while ranked among the top three in the na- tion in a recent Federal Bureau of In- vestigation study is apparently either unready, or unwilling to embark upon full-scale mass arrests of students for sale of marijuana. Arrests for possession of marijuana are more frequent amongst the mem- bers of the student community, but as one detective admits, "ninety per cent Isy line. of the possession busts are made by the uniformed division." Checks of cars. and shakedown searches of individuals for weapons often reveal a small bag of marijuana in a coat pocket or lying on the passen- ger seat of an automobile. To the student who can avoid such a random search-which is not too diffi- cult if one remembers his common sense and locks doors-the only remain- ing difficulty could arise when the stu- dent is in campus demonstrations. It is at such affairs that circum- stances change dramatically, shifting the odds to make direct confrontation between students and police probable. The University administration has not shown itself overly reticent to use police to quell campus disturbances, and literally dozens and dozens of students have gone through the courts on charges stemming from sit-ins, strikes, job recruiter "lock-ins" and assorted assaults. Generally, however, as long as stu- dents keep to themselves, avoid dealing dope, ride their bikes on right side of the street, park their cars in the right spots at the right times, and avoid at- tending campus demonstrations, con- tact with Ann Arbor's police should be minimal. Phone 764-0558 to Subscribe to THE MICHIGAN DAILY troubles is that "nobody gives us the cooperation we need. For instance, if people would tell us when their kids are smoking pot, we could get to the big pushers. Instead, nobody seems to know anything." Indeed, if there is a single cause for the animousity between the police and young people-it is dope. The police are unable to bust the big pushers, of grass, LSD, heroin or any- thing else, and yet all around them thousands of kids are getting high. One of the cities' largest pushers estimates that "at least 1,000 lbs of marijuana is smoked a week in Ann Arbor." Even Krasny agrees with the esti- mate, but the biggest haul made by his department so far this year was just over, 175 lbs. The police can and do "rent" Michi- gan State Police undercover officers to seek out illicit suppliers of narcotics. One such officer, Terry Beiday, was -the "narc" who last February led raids against a number of politically radical communes, resulting in a dozen ar- rests and the near death of the Ann Arbor Argus, a radical "youth culture" Try Our TREASURE CHEST of Chicken It's a complete dinner including 3 pieces of chicken and french fries. 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If he has stopped you for a driving violation, be prepared to wait several minutes- while he checks out your record via radio for any unpaid tickets or outstanding offenses. If you are stopped and detained by a policeman on the street you should ask him if you are free to go. If he says yes, then go. If he says no or does not answer then you are under arrest. The officer is supposed to read to you the so-called "Miranda Warning." which is the blurb that tells you what your rights are. A recent supreme court decision held that anything you say before the Miranda warning is read to you can be ad- missible into evidence if used to contradict later testimony. You have the right to make a telephone call, so when you make it be certain the person you are calling is going to act on the call. There is nothing more frustrating than sitting in jail wondering when the lawyer is going to show up. Never resist arrest. Even if the arrest itself is illegal, your resisting makes the officer immune from prosecution for false arrest. Convictions simply for resisting arrest are possible. Learn your legal rights. Courses in legal self defense are offered through the Course Mart program of the Literary College and the Free University. / I YOU CAN SAVE r Buy your used texts at Follettis and leave your mind clear for other thoughts -like studying maybe? T UP33% by buying used textbooks at FoHett's store We have the most complete line of new and used texts on campus. If you can't find the specific book you need just ask one of our friendly experienced clerks - they'll be glad to help you. By JONATHAN MILLER By far the most abused drug in the city is tobacco and alcohol is a close second, but to those in- terested in other types of thrills, a wide variety of illegal drugs are usually easily obtainable on the Ann Arbor black market. The most dangerous of such drcgs, experts say, is heroin. Known to the Ann Arbor junkie community as "smack," heroin can be readily obtained outside P.J.'s restaurant on State Street and through a small network of dealers. Estimates of the number of heroin users in the city are sim- ply conjecture, experts say. For a time, a figure of 700 was ban- died about, but some physicians close to the problem feel this figure much too high. Few of the addicts or users are students; heroin abuse in the city seems to fall close to a na- tional pattern of high use among young, unemployed, black males. This conclusion was recently borne out in a study of addicts at the county's methadone treat- ment clinic, Octagon House. Marijuana however is another story. Observers state that the only factor governing the rate of consumption of marijuana is the availability of the weed. "If there's dope, there's people to smoke it at almost any price," says one smiling dealer. Hallucinogens - LSD, mesca- line, peyote - are seemingly "leveling off" however. "It's down from the high point of two years ago," notes one local -phy- sician. Alcohol is prevalent on cam- pus. Health service reports see- ing many students suffering from alcoholism, but doctors there see no rise in the rate of Pushers on the streets I ". Fast Friendly Service-, . " Art & Drafting Supplies * All Your School Supply Needs * Big Savings By Buying Used Textbooks ^N 4 So why not stop by and browse around... Who knows, you may buy something... Live in an exotic setting... Decorate your room with Bedspreads, Pillows, Wall :...Hangings, Pottery and Incense from India and Persia. SIndia Art Shop 330 Maynard affliction: "It's been pretty steady for a few years now," says one. One inducement for the student drug user or abuser is' the unlike- lihood of being caught. Pot smok- ing in the dorms is common, ex- cept where there are tough- minded corridor advisors. Some students even report smoking pot with their corridor advisors. University housing rules per- mit alcohol in dormitories for students -over 21 - which makes enforcement of a no-imbibing policy nearly impossible. To make sure the kids are supplied, every dormitory has self-ap- pointed liquor dealers to give aid and comfort to those under the legal age. Amphetamines, seemingly a constant problem, are widely used by students as study aids,' though doctors are becoming in- creasingly disturbed about ad- verse effects caused by the drugs. Drug education programs com- . prise the main thrust of the Uni- versity's attack on the student drcg problem. Dormitory semi- nars, featuring medical student counselling,' are on every dormi- tory calendar. Increased independence in ,the University environment often proves too much for some stu- dents however, and problems of adverse LSD reactions, ampheta- mine overdoses and adverse re- actions to marijuana and alcohol are common on campus. Not all freshman attend the drug education seminars, how- ever, and after the freshman year most students do not live in the dormitories. Although University counselling services endeavor to help a stu- dent once a crisis with drug abuse has been reached, critics of the University's programs say that effective prevention of abuse difficulties is still unrealized. Drug Help, a crisis clinic for local youths, reports many cases of University students with drug problems coming to them for help. K 4 i I OLLETTrS MICHIG ENRBOOK STORE STATE STREET AT NORTH UNIVERSITY 9 ANN ARBOR 4 Go barefoot in the park DISCO VEF Nw f Y " r i' 4i SSI A-, 17o- 70 8 j- a \ (Continued from Page 5) along the polluted Huron Riv- er, but when the sun is shining and the trees green it is nice. Watch out for thoughtless auto- mobilists. THE BOTANICAL GARDENS offer both large green house and three marked hiking trails. The green house has crawly vines, flowers, and fifteen mil- lion varieties of cacti. A spec- ial' feature is the display of "stone plants." Signs on the hiking trails warn you to not wander be- cause of poisonous snakes and plants. The trails do follow the creeks and lakes, but o f f the trails is welcome isolation and an illusion of unkept na- ture. The Gardens are perhaps the best place in the area to picnic, and if you can make it o u t there often enough, you can find a few off trail places to hide from most people except a few lost botanists. The Gardens are south of Dixboro on Dixboro road, east of Ann Arbor. There are other places, b u t most require time and motorized transport to-reach. If you are rich or lucky enough to have a motorcycle or car, Washtenaw County offers a number of hilly country roads f with beautiful scenic farm lands. And if you don't have a car or cycle, there are always the athletic fields near the Intra- mural Building or Palmer field on the Hill. 4 1 'I , .. :;. Y , . .' :- ., : . M ' ., . l ::..... 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