4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 31, 1989 Hash Ba BY MICHAEL LUSTIG Events such as the art fair, the film festival, and football Saturdays, have, over the years, helped create the atmosphere that is uniquely Ann Arbor. Add to that the Hash Bash, which begins tomorrow at high noon on the Diag. The first bash, in 1972, drew 500 people on a cold, snowy afternoon to celebrate a change in marijuana laws making offenses a misdemeanor in- stead of a felony. In its first few years, several thousand people came out to fire up. The bash hit hard times in the early '80s, when attendance dropped to a token. Politics, the motivation behind the first bashes, fell by the wayside, as the event became one of high school students and outsiders puffing up and leaving garbage sh to ignite Diag tomorrow strewn across the Diag. It was saved from extinction when a letter arrived in the mailbox of High Times magazine last year. Several students wrote about the tra- dition, and invited the magazine to join in, said John Holmstorm, the executive editor. "This wasn't something we made up," he said, adding that the maga- zine has been publicizing the event for months, in full page ads and es- pecially at Greatful Dead concerts. "It's going to be more than a local event this year," he said. Both High Times and the Na- tional Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) have reasons for supporting the bash be- yond just one big party. Jon Gettman, director of NORML, wants to -see marijuana made legal and regulated like cigarettes and alcohol. For the magazine, it's ire. "Every pot smoker is outraged," Holmstorm said, at the omnibus drug bill which Congress passed last year. Under the bill someone could face a $10,000 fine for possession of one marijuana seed, he said. High Times has predicted that 10,000 people from across the country will converge on Ann Arbor tomorrow, but many people doubt that. Security officials are not ex- pressing concern. "I've heard it's scheduled," said Robert Patrick, assistant director of campus safety. Ann Arbor Police Capt. Robert Conn said, "If there are flagrant vio- lations of the law, and the police are asked to be there, there will be violations and arrests." However, most hash bashes go by without any arrests. Members of the American Civil Liberties Union will be out to monitor police activities and make sure there are no abuses, said ACLU member Matt Bierman, a Residential College sophomore. - "We're not challenging the po- lice," Bierman emphasized. Sides disagree on health effects of marijuana use Democrat Continued from Page 1 Clevenger appears to be trying to shed liberal Democratic stereotypes -. while stressing bureaucratic efficiency and limiting waste in city government. So does this campaign echo Dukakis' refrain of "competence, not ideology?" "To waste money is not liberal or conservative," said Clevenger. "It's nonsense or commonsense." Clevenger has made his opposition to the Headlee amendment override one of the main thrusts of the campaign. While Jernigan is encouraging voters to pass the override Monday - which would raise property taxes - Clevenger is urging them to vote against it because he said he does not want property owners to have their taxes increased. Instead, Clevenger said, the city's budget deficit problems can be solved by raising fees for city services to "their market level," selling unused city-owned real estate, and collecting unpaid property taxes. Clevenger has. directed a bureaucracy twice -as head of the Michigan Corporations and Securities Commission from 1961 to 1963, and as chair of the Great Lakes Basin Commission from 1967 to 1968. Clevenger represented Michigan's 11th district, which covers the Upper Peninsula and part of the upper Lower Peninsula, in the U.S. Congress for one term starting in 1965. He currently practices mu- nicipal law in Ann Arbor. If elected, Clevenger said one of his main priorities will be checking the bureaucracy to make certain it pursues the most efficient options. One way to do this is to consolidate the four bus lines serving the city - the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority, the public schools' bus line, the University's bus system, and the Washtenaw County system - in order to prevent wasteful duplication of service, he said. On the landfill crisis, Clevenger said he supports the direction the city is taking towards recycling, but added that the city should try to cooperate more with the state government and neighboring townships. BY MICHAEL LUSTIG The casual marijuanauser may not be affected by an occasional toke tomorrow afternoon at the Hash Bash, but with extended use, mari- juana can stay in the body for a month or more, said Teresa Herzog, substance abuse education coordina- tor for University Health Services. Jon Gettman, director of the Na- tional Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), said there is no evidence that pot smok- ing harms fertility levels or brain cells, but "we don't.claim that it's harmless." "It's a myth that marijuana can't* affect reproductive health," said Her- zog. Regular pot use in men can lower sperm counts and testosterone levels, she said. There has been much more re- search on men than women, but Herzog said studies of female ani- mals have shown marijuana-using pregnant animals have lower birth rates and a higher incidence of pre- mature births. "It's a myth that marijuana is not addictive," she said. A person can build a up a tolerance after extended use, and can experience withdrawal when they don't have any, two signs of a dependency. A preoccupation with the drug, or the idea that a person can't have a good time if not high, are further indications of dependence. "If you're high a lot, your emo- tional progress is slowed," Herzog said. Both Gettman and Herzog said smoking one joint puts the same amount of carbon monoxide into the lungs as five cigarettes. . Herzog said she is also con- cerned about where pot comes from. Marijuana is being laced with PCP, or angel dust, which is very danger- ous and onpredictable, she said. The quality of the drug has been getting more potent which can lead to "unbelievable highs." IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Ford Co. opts out of Soviet deal Ford Motor Co. opted out of an agreement signed yesterday between the Soviet Union and a consortium of U.S. businesses. The deal will set the framework for joint ventures in the Soviet Union which could be worth $10 billion in 20 years. . Ford said progress made between the Soviet Foreign Economic Consortium and the American Trade Consortium had not gone far enough for it to continue its participation. Philip Benton, president of Ford's automotive group, said, "the framework of understandings reached so far between the ATC and the Soviets was not sufficient to make feasible a project of the scope and. complexity of Ford's." Ford had planned to begin selling West German make Scorpio automobiles in the Soviet Union by the end of this year. Later, the company hoped to begin an automobile manufacturing project in the Soviet city of Gorky where the Gorky Auto Works is making cars in a plant built in the 1920's with Ford's help. Official says quick response might have diminished oil spill damage WASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday the oil spill off Alaska's coast is "a major tragedy," but his administration ruled out a federal takeover of the cleanup. Meanwhile, top administration officials reported that the cleanup was marred by the shipping company's failure to respond swiftly in the hours just after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground last Friday. Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner said faster action by the Exxon Shipping Co., Which owned the supertanker might have diminished the damage somewhat. "Approximately 10 million gallons (of crude oil) went into the water and most of that went into the water in the first five hours," said Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner. EPA cleanup list includes Mich. sites WASHINGTON - Seven southern Michigan sites polluted with toxic wastes were added to the Environmental Protection Agency's list of locations meriting priority cleanup, the EPA said yesterday. The sites, in Detroit, Grand Ledge, Grand Rapids, Ionia, Lansing, Muskegon, and Rochester Hills, were among 101 in 33 states added, to the EPA's National Priorities List, which contains the most serious hazardous waste sites in the nation. A site typically takes about six years to clean up. The EPA has completed work on nearly 50 cites nationally and has engineering studies under way at more than half the sites on the list. The additions brought to 80 the number of Michigan sites on the list. Michigan ranks fourth nationally in the number of priority cleanup sites. Mich. ranks last in gov't spending WASHINGTON - Michigan ranked last among the states in the amount of federal expenditures per person in 1988, despite a $300 million increase in money sent to the state by the U.S. government, the Census Bureau said yesterday. Government spending in Michigan increased at about half the national rate from 1981-88, the Census Bureau reported. Since 1981, federal spending in Michigan increased by 26.2 percent against a 51.5 percent increase nationally. Federal spending totalled $23.7 million in 1988, up 1.3 percent from the previous year, the Census Bureau said. Michigan spending amounted to $2,543 for each person in the state, right below Indiana's per capita spending and far below the $5,954 per person spent in Virginia, the highest level on the list. Altogether, Michigan's share of the federal pie was 2.7 percent. Michigan's largest slice was family support payments at 7.5 percent of all such payments. EXTRAS Mayor suspends himself without pay PARSIPPANY, N. J. - When Mayor Frank Priore learned recently that his driver's license expired in 1987, he did more than rush to have it renewed. He suspended himself for one day without pay. Priore said he didn't realize he had been driving illegally until he was contacted by a reporter. As head of the city's police department, he said he had to set an example. So he went to the police chief and told him to write him a ticket. Priore said he decided not to be lenient on himself. A police officer driving with an expired license would be suspended for a day without pay, so he decided he should face the same penalty. Priore will work through the suspension one day next week, but will dock his pay $231. The ticket cost him $20. Priore said he didn't send himself to jail because he didn't deliberately let the license expire. He said the notice to renew probably was sent to his former address. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday thrqugh Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscription rates: for fall and winter (2 semesters) $25.00 in-town and $35 out-of-town, for fall only $15.00 in-town and $20.00 out-of-town. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and the Student News Service. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. PHONE NUMBERS: News (313) 764-0552, Opinion 747-2814, Arts 763-0379, Sports 747-3336, Cir- culation 764-0558, Classified advertising 764-0557, Display advertising 764-0554, Billing 764-0550 r NCAA Continued from Page 1 first year student in the Business School who plans on making the trip. "If it were held closer, I think there would be more excitement." But One group of people have flocked into the streets for the Final Four: the vendors of Final Four shirts and sweatshirts. And they all agree that students have not shown the enthusiasm which they expected. "No one's too excited. I'd think they would be more fired up," said Kevin Kelly, a vendor who made the trip from Fort Wayne, In- diana. "A lot of the kids don't even know what the Final Four is." Frank Fraulo, a vendor from Connecticut, agreed. "There isn't aty hysteria -at all. Half of the students don't even know the game is Saturday." Fraulo, who sold mer- chandise in Tuscon last year when Arizona was in the Final Four, said the campus there was in "mass hys- teria" for the whole week. Champaign-Urbana, Illi- nois, home of the'Fighting Illini who will face Michigan on Saturday night, is in the midst of a week long party to celebrate their Final Four berth. "They're going nuts out here," said Daily Illini sports staffer Mike Stotz. "Shirt sales are going through the roof and all the stores and houses are putting 'Go Illini' signs up. Ev- erybody's very excited." UCAR Continued from Page 1 This proposal was initially sup- ported by UCAR and other faculty members. However, when 12 faculty members amended the requirements, the coalition withdrew their support. The proposal, with the new amend- ments, will be presented at the LSA faculty meeting Monday. "Our thinking is that they are reasonable changes," said Railton, adding that the faculty's amendments were meant to include concerns raised at last month's LSA faculty meeting. Railton's original proposal called for an oversight committee to be composed of seven faculty and two students, drawn from departments including: the Center for Afro- American and African Studies, the Women Studies Program, Program Computer ent re presentatives - 90 shoo ya in American Culture, Latino Stud- ies, and students from the Baker- Mandela Center and the Michigan Student Assembly. The amended proposal still calls for seven faculty and two students, but the appointment will be made by the dean, in consultation with vari- ous chairs and directors of different departments and programs. UCAR believes these changes hampered the attempt to target insti- tutional racism. They specifically cited the amendments concerning the faculty-student oversight committee. "The entire oversight board could be comprised of white men, and that was one of the things we were trying to guarantee: that the members of the oversight board would have some history in dealing with these is- sues,"said Wilson. "Any course requirement will be to some degree institutional and the question is to find a reasonable way of doing that consistent to the goals of the proposal," Railton said. But some faculty members who have worked with UCAR in creating this proposal say they are disap- pointed that students and faculty cannot agree.. "Iathink it is really important, even central, that people of color be guaranteed a voice and position on the oversight board," University Bi- ology Lecturer Tom Will. Religious Services AMERICAN BAPTIST CAMPUS CENTER FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Huron St. (between State & Division) across from Campus Inn Sunday, 9:55 a.m.: Worship Service 11:15 a.m. Church School classes, all ages Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.: free supper, fellowship, and Bible Study. CAMPUS CHAPEL (south of CCRB just off Washtenaw) Revand Don Postema Sunday at 10 a.m.: Sermon: Easter as God's April Fools Day at 6 p.m.: Holy Breath Everyone welcome! CANTERBURY HOUSE (Episcopal Church Chaplaincy) 218 N. Division (at Catherine) Sunday Schedule Holy Eucharist-5 p.m. Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Virginia Peacock Supper-6 p.m. At 7p.m.- "After this, What? Work and Vocation." 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