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By DIANE LEVICK
In the midst of Ann Arbor's
summer doldrums, the 14th an-
nual Street Art Fair brought the
city fbur days of fascinating ex-
hibits, entertainment, and over
60,000 onlookers from all over the
country.
Held July 18-21 on S. Univer-
sity Ave., the fair featured the
work of 250 artists and crafts-
persons from 30 states and Can-
ada.

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All work, from glass blowing,
woodcarving, and weaving to
enameling, painting, and weld-
ing was juried. In other words,
artists were accepted into the fair
by a committee of at least eight
persons competent to evaluate
one or more artistic medium.
Because the jury method ex-
cluded so many artists from par-
ticipating in the Street Art Fair,
the newly formed University of
Michigan Artists and Craftsmen

Guild sponsored the third annual
Free Art Fair.
The Free Fair, set up on E.
University adjacent to the "of-
ficial" fair; gave 320 student and
community amateur artists the
chance to display and sell their
wares.
The Free Fair in cooperation
with the Street Art Fair present-
ed a wide range of entertainment
from drama to belly dancing.
The University Players and the

Ann Arbor Civic Theater per-
formed selections from their re-
cent productions, while bagpipe
players and groups like the well-
known RFD Boys provided rous-
ing music.
Rock bands played on People's
Plaza next to the Administra-
tion Bldg.; free films were
shown on the Diag; and the Un-
ion Gallery in the Michigan
Union offered poetry readings.
Other talented groups indulged

in the old art of "busking" -
singing on the streets for money.
With so many people in town, the
buskers must have made a tidy
bundle by playing fiddle, guitar,
and various other instruments
which are suited for a loud, out-
door sound.
Adding to the bazaar-type at-
mosphere, a special food area on
the plaza of the Physics and As-
tronomy Bldg. served a variety
of exotic foods.
And for the kiddies, a chil-
dren's participation area run by
The Child Care Action Center
and Corntree Cooperative allow-
ed youngsters to creatively ex-
press themselves with painting
and play-dough.
On the technical side of con-
structing the Street Art Pair, S.
University merchant donated
their time to set up the booths
and keep vigil over the fair, en-
suring that all raa well.
In addition to the S. Univer-
sity Businessmen's Association,
the fair was also sponsored by
the Ann Arbor Art Association,
the Chamber of Commerce, and
the University.
The association between the
merchants and the artists has
stuck through the years, offering
a rare example of symbiosis be-
tween the two, with both profit-
ing and neither pushing the oth-
er around.
Businesses provide between a
third and a half of the fair's op-
erating budget. (The fees that
the artists pay provide most of
the rest with the Ann Arbor Art
Fair Association also giving an
annual contribution) and organiz-
ing set-up of the fair and pub-
licitv.
The fair attracts business for
the sales that move summer
stock and provides a distraction
from the normal, rather slow
summer routine.

Doily Photo by TERRY McCARTHY
THE ARTISTS OF TOMORROW flaunt their talents-with a little g}uidance from supervisors-at the
Ann Arbor Street Art Fair. Children at the booth wvre offered a variety of art media for self-expres-
sion.
LOW TURNOUT:
Voters'elect o
local School oard

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Daily Photo by KEN FINK
WHO IS STARING at whom? The sculpture and the art fair-goer ex change knowing glances on the festival's jam-packed first day. Other
booths displayed more unconventional sculptures of brass and spare mechanical parts.

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City Council repeals
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By GORDON ATCHESON
and DEBBIE THAL
Possibly alarmed by the recent
rash of violent incidents in Ann
Arbor's schools, city voters elect-
ed two conservatives and only
one liberal last June to three-year
terms on the School Board.
Low voter turnout, especially
in the student precincts, resulted
in the election of Patricia Pooley,
Terry Martin, and Paul Wein-
hold.
Major campaign issues includ-
ed violence in the public schools,
community control and the basic
curriculum.
Pooley aimed her campaign at
the moderate and slightly left
contingent. She has been called

a candidate who will "vote the
liberal line but won't initiate
measures."
Weinhold and Martin are both,
conservatives who have come
oit in favor of a controversial
plan to segregate "disruptive"
students in an "alternative"
school. Martin has particularly
pushed the concept, though Wein-
hold expressed a wait-and-see
attitude. Pooley, on the other
hand, opposes the idea.
Weinhold suggests potential
problem children should be di-
agnosed and helped at the ele-
mentary school level. Both he
and Martin favor a more strict
grading system.
On the subject of student in-

put, the two conservatives oppose
extension of the vote to a student
on the School Board. "Students
often don't have the experience
to make the necessary judg-
ments," Weinhold commented.
Defeated in the June 11 elec-
tion were the Human Rights
Party entry, Diana Autin; Henry
Alting, another liberal; Wendy
Barhydt, a conservative; and
Charles Votaw and Judith Wood,
basically moderates. All candi-
didates except for Autin ran 6n a
non-partisan basis, however.
Also on the ballot were two
millage proposals: one for a re-
newed school millage, the other
for library funding. Both were
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To counter such legal shenani-
gans, last September council
amended the law allowing the
fine to be paid like a parking
ticket and prohibiting the judges
from givigg probation.
But later that month District
Court Judge Sandorf Elden ruled
that council had overstepped its
legislative powers by enacting a
marijuana law establishing less
severe penalties than those set by
" . the state.
Although the city has appealed
the ruling, the question of the pot
law's constitutionality is now a
moot pointksince it is no longer
on the books.
"If I were to be remembered
for one thing as mayor, I
wouldn't be embarrassed if it was
the marijuana law," Harris said,
looking back on the whole affair.
"In fact, I'd be quite proud."
According to Harris, although
at National Bank & Trust basically symbolic in nature, the
CAmlaw has been important because
COMPANY OF ANN ARBOR Member FPIG it centered attention on the case
in favor of marijuana legaliza-
tion. "The case is surprisingly
Come bank with us- ! convincing," he maintains.
Campus Office: William at Thompson. "People should be able to con-
trol their own lives and the issue
of drugs," De Grieck said. "The
move to repeal is a step back
from that goal."
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easy style. Everything for men and women from
shirts, pants, hats and shoes to hand - engraved
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Book buying: Point-ers
on the miserable chore

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By ERIC SCHOCH
After those first few days of
classes you may find that your
professors have given you a re-
quired reading list of books that
is longer than your arm.
Unfortunately, if you think the
list is rather large, wait until
you see the cost of those books.
Depending on the number, and
the type of courses you are tak-
ing, the total bill may run any-
where from $40 to $75 or even
more.
Unfortunately, there may not
be much you can do to cut these
costs, but there are some steps
worth trying.
The first thing to do, of course,
is to shop around, if you can
stand the hassle,vespecially for
the more expensive hard cover
texts. Prices at the various
bookstores are generally the
same, but individual prices on
books may vary.
One of the most sensible things,
of course, is to buy only used

Daily Photo by TERRY McCARTHY
MAYOR JAMES STEPHENSON, slightly splattered with pie (the
plate sits on the table before him), deals with demonstrators
protesting the repeal of the city's $5 pot law.
JOIN THE DAILY STAFF

books whenever possible. In gen-
eral, the used books offered are
in reasonable shape, and you
can find one that suits your
taste. You can also take advan-
tage of the previous owner's
underlining as well, although
that might prove disastrous if the
previous owner underlined all
the wrong things.
Another alternative is to find
people who have taken your
course previously and who might
be willing to part with their
treasured text for the semester or
at least sell it to you for an
unusually reasonable price.
In 'some courses, especially
those with longer reading lists,
it may not be necessary to buy
some or all of the required
books. Many professors put some
or all of the course books on re-
serve in the library, and you can
do your reading for the price of
a walk to the UGLI. This method
has its hazards, however, if you
tend to procrastinate until the
last few days before -the test to
do your reading. You may find
that everyone else in the course
has done the same thing, and the
books you need have already
been checked out.
But let's say you bought all
those books at the beginning of

the term, and now you have
eight American it, books, five
political science books, a thick
chemistry text and an 18-pound
biochemistry text and have now
decided to junk it all to major
in philosophy. So you want to
sell all those books back.
Well, the first thing you will
find is that you aren't going to
get back near what you paid for
them. No matter where you go.
But again the thing to do is
shop around. In a process simi-
lar to finding a place to fix that
dent in your car, go to the var-
ious bookstores and get esti-
mates, if you can. Then sell
where you can get the best deal.
If one bookstore will not buy
some of your books at any price,'
don't grieve, go to another place
and they may. A quarter is bet-
ter than nothing, if you really
want to get rid of that paper-
back.
Someday, however, you may
find that expensive text you
bought is worth absolutely noth-
ing at all to the local book-
stores because a new edition is
coming out next year. Well, in
that case you're stuck, unless
you can find a friend taking the
course next year who figures that,
a few sentence and paragraph
changes in the new edition won't
make that much difference.
If you have no such luck, then
you'll have to console yourself
with the rationalization that it
might look impressive on the
bookshelf, right next to that pile
of Zap comics,

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