4 One hundred ten year~' fedftorklfredm 4, NEWS: 76-DAILY CLASSIFIED: 764-0557 wwwmichigandallycom Monday April 9,2001 b x F : 9 i f t " P-t 1 a ,The heat is on, for a few days at least M After near-record highs, temperatures are expected to drop back into the 30s next week By Maria Sprow Daily Staff Reporter The popular adage "you might be om Michigan if you've ever experi- enced frostbite and sunburn in the same week" has held especially true this month as Ann Arbor has received both snow and near-record highs. Last Sunday students woke to find a layer of snow on their cars, but yester- day students were outside in shorts and tank tops, lounging on the Diag and in the Arb as temperatures reached 77 degrees. The temperature missed the day's record - set in 1991 - by only .3 degrees, said University weather observer Dennis Kahlbaum. Some students are finding the sud- den changes of weather hard to get used to, although almost nobody is complaining. "I think it's finally great. I just hope that it doesn't start snowing again tomorrow," said LSA freshman Crissy Logarta, who said she's from an area in Wisconsin where the weather is nore stable. "Ann Arbor weather is crazy. ... I could never get used to it." While some students have given up trying to guess what tomorrow will bring, others find out what clothes to save for the next day by checking the Weather Channel and the Internet. "I check the weather every single day, to find out whether its going to snow or not, or be 70 degrees," Logar- ~asaid. But they might want to look else- where for good news. "I don't think it's going to last because I checked on the Internet," said Loubna Bouamane, a French pro- fessor who said she hasn't been able to adjust to the rapid temperature changes in the seven months she's been at the University. Temperatures are expected to decrease continuously until at least the middle of the month. On April 17, the last day of classes, temperatures are predicted to be in the low 30s. Kal>aum said this weekend's warm weather was due to a pressure system. "We're on the eastern side of a very strong low pressure system that brought the warm air down. That's why it was so windy," he said, adding that cooler air is due to a change in the pressure system, caus- *ng Ann Arbor to be on the north- west side of the system. The cooler weather might benefit some students who said they were hav- ing a hard time concentrating on their studies. "I'm working the same amount but I think it's hard with the weather. It's hard to get motivated," said LSA senior Mirelle Syrja. "Graduation is in wo weeks and it's hard to stay on top of things." Kahlbaum said despite near-record highs yesterday, the weather isn't unusual for this time of the year, when Michigan experiences a combination See WEATHER, Page 7A petitiners net 81000 signatures By Kristen Beaumont and Jacquelyn Nixon Daily Staff Reporters John Sinclair, whose arrest and subsequent 10-year prison sen- tence in 1970 for possession of two marijuana joints sparked the first Hash Bash in 1971, was pre- sent Saturday along with 6,000 others to celebrate the event's 30th tiative to end up on a ballot, peti- tioners must receive 300,711 sig- natures in 180 days, said attorney Gregory Schmid, author of the amendment and director of PRA Michigan, the group leading the petition drive. The signatures for the petition need to be obtained by Oct. 3. After the event, Schmid said he was pleased with the turnout. anniversary. "Today is one of those days when it is good to be an American," Sinclair said. The main events of the day took place on the Diag from "high noon" until 1 p.m. dur- ing which several speakers, including addressed the audiencea Has' "It was quite a success- ful event for us'" he said. "We think we got about 8,000 signatures for the petition." While Hash Bash mostly draws visitors from outside Ann Arbor, students also came to take part or to Sinclair, assembled in front of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. A major focus at the rally was on signing a petition to get the Personal Responsibility Amend- ment on the state ballot. The ini- tiative is an attempt to legalize personal use of marijuana and to use funds currently being spent fighting drug use on education and treatment instead. Michigan state law mandates that for an ini- just observe the crowd. "I think it is pretty cool that they have this organized here. The speakers were pretty good and they were a lot more organized than last year," LSA sophomore Todd Pat- terson said. Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Diane Brown said the majority of the attendees of Hash Bash were from out of town. "While I am sure University stu- dents were out milling around, they See HASH BASH, Page 7A ABBY ROSENBAUM/Daily About 6,000 people flooded the Diag and central campus Saturday for the 30th annual Hash Bash, an Ann Arbor tradition begun by such notables as Beatle John Lennon after a local man received a 10-year jail term for possession of two joints. GSIs still unsure whether they can be hired by LSA- next fall By Whitney EllIott Daily Staff Reporter The College of Literature, Science and the Arts will negotiate the grievance filed by the Graduate Employees Organization contesting the recently implemented LSA "bottom line budgeting" plan on April 18. Until then, grad- uate student instructors unsure if they will teach for the Fall 2001 semester will continue to wait. The budgeting plan would allow LSA departments set amounts of funds to hire GSIs, and Alyssa Picard, grievance coordina- tor for the GEO, said this includes the notion that some departments will hire GSIs with less expensive tuition. Picard claimed this constitutes discrimination against out-of-state and non-LSA GSIs, who generally have high- er tuition bills. Last week the Office of the Provost agreed to support LSA in the hiring of any GSIs it needs to hire for the Fall 2001 and Winter 2002 semesters. Prof. Phil Hanlon, associate dean of LSA planning and financing, said in a written statement that the finalized LSA plan for hir- ing GSIs for next fall will not leave any instructors out of job contention. "Department budgets for 2001-2002 will include the same amount of support for GSI positions as spent in fiscal year 2001, with additions for contractual increases in stipend and benefit costs. This will allow them to hire the same mix of GSIs from LSA and from other schools as they did in the past year" Hanlon said. Picard said the GEO is concerned that the University is trying to "economize on people. When departments start to look at GSIs they have to take into account the tuition of that GSI." GEO President Cedric deLeon said the offer from the Office of the Provost is a step in the right direction. "It's a victory for GEO. The provost never would have thought to spend the money she will spend if we would not have protested," deLeon said. But deLeon said despite the Office of the Provost's supplementing funds, GSIs need something in writing. "It's very similar to tactics employers use before contract negotiations. The administra- tion has made this sort of chess move. Moves like these are specially designed to take the wind out of the sails of unions, deLeon said. "People need to understand this is not in writ- ing. Bottom line budgeting is still on the table." Hanlon said the LSA administration and Provost Nancy Cantor addressed concerns about increasing tuition of GSIs enrolled out- side of LSA several months ago. "The provost shares our goals of providing the best possible instruction for our under- graduates and best possible means of support- ing our graduate students," Hanlon said. SNRE graduate student June Gin agreed that she is happy the Office of the Provost made the offer, but it won't help her until it is written into policy. "It's nice that this has happened, but there's also no firm resolution," Gin said. Gin said she already received a rejection letter, but that was before the Office of the Provost agreed to give LSA extra funds. She said she suspects the department is waiting to see what will happen next. "I got the original rejection letter," Gin said. "I have asked the professor and sent an e-mail to the graduate coordinator but I haven't gotten a response:" Picard said GEO is also preparing for next fall's contract negotiations with the Universi- ty. "We're wondering what is going to happen the following year," Picard said. "We are anticipating that they are going try to negoti- ate a term in the contract that will allow them to discriminate among graduate students on the basis of cost." "We are very skeptical," she added. See GSI, Page 2A High rents pressure State Street stores JEFF HURVITZ/Daiy University research assistants Patricia Donnellan and Karen Hartmann march in the Take Back the Night rally. Students mar ch fior awarenolatess By Kristen Beaumont Daily Staff Reporter Two years ago, Amber was afraid to say "no" to her boyfriend. "There were so many times when I was just really scared when he would just make me do things I didn't want to do, and I didn't want to say no because the one time I did I got really hurt," the 18-year-old told participants in the 22nd annual Take Back the Night march and rally Friday night on the Diag. Amber, who didn't reveal her last name, said her experiences of abuse at the hands of her ex boyfriend made her feel lonely. She stressed to the audience that no one deserves to go through what she went through. She advocated getting out of abusive relationships as quickly as possible because she warned that they would only get worse with time. "I am really proud to be here with everyone supporting me because it gives me closure," she said. "It took me a long time~ to realize tha~t evervthine~ thait hatmnened to me By John Polley Daily Staff Reporter With the exception of a handful of graduate students and native Ann Arborites, Michigan students don't remember Drake's Sandwich Shop. For over 65 years, Drake's facade peered out over the Diag, offering stu- dents everything from vanilla cokes to big band dances in the upstairs Walnut Room. To the thousands of students who carved their names in Drake's wooden hnnt rd io rw ht ,nt- of the chnncr- When Drake's closed its doors in 1993, the antique interior was gutted and replaced by the plastic booths and chain-store stylings of Bruegger's Bagels. It was a sign of the times, and many other small Ann Arbor-based State Street businesses would soon fol- low suit. Eight years later, the vitality of State Street continues to attract the attention of corporations such as Star- bucks, Einstein Bros. and Harmony House that hope to tap into the Univer- sity market. "There's a lot oftdemand for space ,: K , s