LOCAL/S TATE
The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 21, 2000-- 3
CRIME
$10,000 worth of
furniture stolen
*0from sorority
About $10,000 worth of furniture
was stolen from the Gamma Phi Beta
sorority house at 1520 Hill St. in an
apparent break-in, according to the
Ann Arbor Police Department.
The break-in was reported at about
6 a.m. Friday, after members of the
sorority discovered furniture missing
from their living room. The front door
of the house was open, and members
of the sorority speculated that the theft
may be part of a fraternity prank.
Loiterers harass
passers-by
Department of Public Safety
reports state that Sunday morning sev-
eral people not affiliated with the Uni-
versity were verbally harassing
pedestrians outside East Hall. The
lesubjects were standing on a heating
grate on the East University Avenue
pedestrian plaza.
Parking gate arm
damaged in Hill
Street structure
A DPS unit reported Saturday that
a parking gate arm from the gold
section of the Hill Street parking
Ostructure was damaged. There are
no reported suspects in the incident,
but DPS report indicate that the
damage may have occurred between
4:30 a.m. and 5:50 a.m.
Assault at South
Quad reported
A non-aggravated assault was
reported to DPS on Saturday, rports
state. The incident occurred in front
of South Quad Residence Hall about
2:00 a.m. Reports do not indicate
whether there are any suspects.
Harassing e-mail
sent to students
DPS reports state that a harass-
ing e-mail was sent to a subject in
~the Michigan Union. Several other
Wpeople in the Union reportedly
received the message but reports
do not indicated what the content
of the e-mail was. A report was
filed after the incident was phoned
in on Friday.
ID badge stolen
at health center
A staff member at the Taubman
Health Care Center reported that
her identification badge, which
contained money, was stolen, DPS
reports state. A witness on the
scene saw the subject remove the
badge and after both the victim and
suspect were talked to, the money
was returned. The victim did not
wish to file charges in the matter.
A report was filed.
*Vlother finds 7-
year-old daughter
A 7-year-old girl was found Satur-
day soon after her mother reported her
missing, DPS reports state.
The mother left the girl ii a vehi-
cle, which was parked in the West
Medical Center lot because she was
ot feeling well. The girl was
described as wearing a purple flow-
ered jacket, blue sweat pants and
has long brown hair.
DPS investigates
marijuana smell
An investigation is underway into
the suspected smoking of marijuana
n a room at Stockwell Residence
Hall, DPS reports state. The suspect-
d incident occurred Sunday evening.
- Compiled fon staff reports.
A2 urges state to revoke All-Star license
By David Enders
Daily Staff Reporter
The Ann Arbor City Council voted yester-
day to send a letter to the Michigan Liquor
Control Commission recommending the All
Star Cafe not be allowed to renew its liquor
license.
But the decision may not be relevant since
the club's owner, Khalil Mardini, has decided
not to reopen the South University Avenue
nightspot. All Star has been closed since Feb-
ruary.
"You can't win against the city," Mardini
said.
The decision came after the City Council's
Special Liquor Committee, which consists of
Decision may be irrelevant;
club owner may not reopen
three councilmembers, listened to a marathon
of five hours of testimony from police wit-
nesses Thursday in a special hearing.
The witnesses, which included police and local
residents, support a list of police allegations
against All Star, including serving alcohol to
minors, violating city building codes by allowing
dancing without a permit, failing to pay taxes,
not properly controlling fights on the premises
and serving food without a health permit.
Mardini, an Ann Arbor resident, also apparent-
ly violated state law by selling 19 percent of his
business to another person without notifying the
MLCC.
Under state law, selling more than 10 per-
cent of a business with a liquor license
requires prior approval from the state.
Mardini himself testified at the end of
Thursday's hearing, stating that "he doesn't
know gin from vodka," and that his managers
had been responsible for the way things at the
All Star were handled.
Since All Star opened last June, it has been
the site of four major fights, one of which had
to be broken up by police with pepper spray
after an over-capacity crowd of about 400peo-
ple poured out of All Star and into the street in
September.
Mardini said he had fired the management
after each fight.
After the fight, the city closed the club for two
weeks as a result of building code violations.
Mardini sued the city for lost revenue, but
said last night that he has dropped the suit.
Mardini said he has no plans to sell Al
Star's liquor license or continue ip the busi-
ness of operating a club.
Students kick-off Greek
Week for charity money
By Hanna LoPatin
Daily Staff Reporter
MARJORIE MARSHALL/Daily
LSA junior Claire Crevey, dressed in a cow costume, speaks to Psychology
Prof. Richard Mann about the Great American Meatout yesterday on the
Diag.
Students embark
on -mtCssio n to
-Meatout campus
Students passing through the
Diag today may be puzzled as they
see people throwing bean bags at
dunk tanks, eating massive amounts
of pizza and jumping into a large
trash bin of jello to retrieve golf
balls.
But these seemingly disconnect-
ed activities are actually part of the
kick-off for "Greek Week" -- 10
days of fun and games for the Uni-
versity's Greek community in the
name of community service.
As teams of fraternities and
sororities compete against each
other in the "Sing and Variety
Show," a blood drive competition
and attendance at events, they will
be raising money for Camp Heart-
land - a camp for children affect-
ed by the HIV virus - and five
local charities including the Jeff
Reese Scholarship, the Courtney
Cantor Scholarship, the
Alzheimer's Foundation, HIV and
AIDS Resource Center and SAFE-
house.
Greek Week public relations co-
Chairwoman, Rebecca Millrood,
said they were able to donate
S40,000 to Camp Heartland and
S25,000 to various local charities
last year.
In its second year as the primary
Greek Week charity, Millrood said
Camp Heartland has become an
established part of the week.
"It's nice for us (for Camp Heart-
land) to become a tradition," she
said. "That way we can see over the
years how it has helped the camp."
The events provide the Greek
system with a chance to shed some
of the bad publicity it has accumu-
lated through the years, said Greek
Week co-Chairman David Eklund.
"I definitely look at this as an
opportunity to show the rest of
campus the good things about the
Greek system," he said.
"Service is one of the most
important things in the Greek sys-
tem and this is a chance to show-
case it," he added.
Eklund said the teams have been
completing. "man hours" of com-
munity service for a local charity of
their choice before the beginning of
Greek Week.
The combination of fraternities
and sororities gives smaller chap-
ters a chance to interact with some
of the more well-known groups on
campus.
LSA sophomore Andy Goodman,
a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu
fraternity, said working with the
Delta Phi Epsilon sorority and
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has
been productive.
"They put out more representa-
tion," Goodman said. "But they
understand that we're part of it too
and we're all out there for a com-
mon cause."
"Service is one of the most important
things in the Greek system ...
- David Ekiund
Greek Week co-chairman
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By Lindsey Alprt
D~aily Staff Reporter
A cow invaded the Angell Hall
computing site yesterday to promote
the Great American Meatout.
The cow, also known as SNRE
junior Sarah Hill, gave out informa-
tional fliers to students using the
computer site to encourage them to
give up meat.
"This is the 16th annual
meatout," said the Great American
Meatout spokesman David Pryor,
adding that the event takes place the
first day of spring. "It's been grow-
ing every year and we're expecting
more than 2,000 events nation-
wide."
The Michigan Animal Rights
Society offered information book-
iets as well as non-meat product
foods to promote the Meatout.
"The object is to get people to
stop eating meat for good," said
LSA senior and Michigan Animal
Rights Society member Steve
McCauley.
"We want people to try vegan or
vegetarian food to see if they like
it,"he added
Vegetarians can eat some animal
products such as milk and eggs,
while vegans eliminate all animal
products from their diet.
"There's three main reasons why
eating meat is bad," McCauley said.
"First, there are health benefits of
being a vegetarian, second there are
environmental reasons and animal
rights reasons."
According to an informational
pamphlet from the People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals, live-
stock is responsible for using more
than half of the water supply, pro-
duce large amounts of excrement
that add to pollution and use more
than 40 percent of the grain supply
as food.
"Becoming a vegetarian or vegan
is probably the single best thing that
you can do for yourself," Pryor said.
"For example, the average meat eat-
ing male has a 50 percent chance of
having a heart attack, while a vegan
has only a four percent chance.:
Although the Michigan Animal
Rights Society handed out food yes-
terday, they are bringing two speak-
ers to the University.
Howard Lyman, an ex-cattle
rancher who appeared on the Oprah
Winfrey Show, will speak Thursday
in Angell Hall Auditorium B at 7:30
p.m.
John Robbins, the son of Baskin
Robbins who gave up the ice cream
industry to become a vegan, will
speak April 2 in the Michigan
Union about his dietary change.
"We want to make the world a
more compassionate place," said
LSA junior and Michigan Animal
Rights Society member Erica
Kuberskv. "We're not expecting to
change things overnight, but it's a
step in the right direction.:
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EVENTS Diag Day, Diag, 12 p.m., Mr. U Arts Chorale, Sponsored by the
Greek Week Contest, Power University School of Music, a
O Haftsin Table and Celebration of Center, 7 p.m. University student vocal ensem-
the New Year, Sponsored as part * Native American perspective on ble performs Mozart's Corona-
of the Iranian Cultural Festival, Michigamua, Native American tion Mass and choral works by
Conference Room 4661, Social students, faculty, staff and com- Aaron Copland, Hill Auditorium,
Work Building, 1 p.m. munity members will speak 8 p.m, 764-0594
Major General Shlomo Gazit, for- about the history between
mer head of IDF Military Intelli- Michigamua and the Native SERVICES
gence, to speak on his American community, Angell
gences Hall Aud. D 7 p.m. Campus Information Centers, 764-
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