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Dancing in the street
Students partied like it was 1969
Seven hundred people dancing,
drinking wine, lighting fireworks
and doing wheelies on motorcy-
cles? This would hardly be a normal
occurrence on South University
Avenue today.
Back on a warm evening in June
1969, students and what the Ann
Arbor News called "hippies" held
an impromptu street party on South
University near Good Time Char-
ley's. After a police officer ticketed
a man for performing motorcycle
stunts, students decided to have a
"liberation party" and used cars
to block off South University at
Church and South Forest Streets.
From 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. the group
closed the street. Students and rev-
elers sang, danced, drank wine and
watched more motorcycle stunts.
Ann Arbor police officers looked on
but didn't intervene, fearing arrests
would spark violence.
In a summer filled with anti-
war and anti-government pro-
tests, students were already filled
with angst, University alum Grace
Shackman said. Shackman was a
University student during the riots
and said students in the late 1960s
were frustrated with everything
from the failing Vietnam War to
strict societal regulations.
When police ticketed the stunt-
riding motorcyclist, they triggered
pent-up student anger.
The next day, revelers returned,
and this time there were nearly
1,500 of them. The higher numbers
and complaints from store own-
ers about the previous day's party
prompted police to patrol South
University. For most of the evening,
officers just watched the action.
Just after midnight, police began
moving in to disperse the crowd.
Officers used tear gas and riotsticks
to control the students and arrested
45 people. Twenty-eight of those
arrested were charged with felo-
nies under a 1968 state riot law.
About 40 people were injured,
including a city police officer who
was struck by a Molotov cocktail.
The Michigan Daily reported that
the officer was "momentarily envel-
oped in flame" until other officers
extinguished the blaze.
Only 300 people showed up for the
third night of partying. They were
met by morethan 400 police officers.
At 1 a.m. the police began chasing
students away fromthe street toward
EastQuadResidenceHall.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Attempted
trespassers
removed
WHERE: East Quad
WHEN: Tuesday at about 2:30
a.m.
WHAT: Two males repeat-
edly attempted to gain
access into the residence
hall and refused to leave, the
Department of Public Safety
reported. Police gave the
non-students a trespassing
warning and removed them
from the area.
Expensive chair
nabbed
WHERE: Stockwell Hall
WHEN: Monday at about 9:30
a.m.
WHAT: An oak chair was
removed from the building,
DPS reported. The chair was
valued at $250 by police.
Stockwell Hall
hit again in same
day
WHERE: Stockwell Hall
WHEN: Monday at about 9
a.m. .
WHAT: Wooden panels in
the Blue Room were found to
have holes punched through
them, DPS reported. There
are no suspects.
Refrigerator
is no longer
running
WHERE: Northwood IV
WHEN: Monday at about
10:45 a.m.
WHAT: A caller said that a
refrigerator stopped work-
ing, DPS reported. Police
contacted the development's
risk management staff for
maintenance on the faulty
refrigerator.
Activist speech
on hate groups
WHAT: Morris Dees,
rounder and chief trial
counsel of the Southern
Poverty Law Center, speaks
about civil rights and hate
groups
WHO: Multi-Ethnic Student
Affairs
WHEN: Today from 4 to 5:30
p.m.
WHERE: Rackham Audito-
rium
Symphonyband
performance
WHAT: Students from the
University's conducting
program lead a performance
that stretches from Renais-
sance dances to English tra-
ditional folk music
WHO: Students from the
conducting program
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium
Lecture on
authoritarians
WHAT: A lecture on Islamic
militants effect on totalitar-
ian government and religious
tensions by Alisher Khami-
dov, a Johns Hopkins doc-
toral candidate
WHO: Center for Middle
Eastern and North African
Studies
WHEN: Today from noon
to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Room 1636,
School of Social Work
Building
CORRECTIONS
" A cartoon on yesterday's
opinion page was miscredited.
The cartoon was drawn by
Max Rutz.
" A sidebar on yesterday's
front page (Solving the gen-
der equation) said that the
study's authors posted the
sample tests. The samples
were posted by independent
researchers.
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A Hampton Bays, N.Y.
man wasfound in his
home 13 months after he
died, Newsday.com report-
ed. Police found the mum-
mified body seated in front
of a television that was still
on.
Jennifer Mee, a 15-
year-old who has been
hiccuping for over four
straight weeks, was harassed
by ABC's Good Morning
America on Sunday, The St.
Petersburg Times reported.
The show called Mee's home
57 times for an interview.
01 Shabu Shomuni, a
Tokyo all-you-can-eat
restaurant, doesn't just.
provide simple Japanese
fare, Wired News reported.
Instead, waitresses will feed
customers from their hands,
mix drinks or strip down to
their underwear and change
into a fetish outfit of the cus-
tomer's choosing.
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