2A - Thursday, January 4, 2007 MONDAY: TUESDAY: The Extremist Arbor Anecdotes WEDNESDAY: TrDA:FRIDAY: Before You Were Here Campus Characters Explained Tales from the convenience store In-N-Out clerks recount late-night shifts While working the night shift at In-N-Out Pizza, the convenience store and popular liquor depot among students, at 615 E. University Ave., store employee Kash Akhtar once sold eight cans of beer to a 21-year-old customer who planned to sneak the beer into a bar or restaurant. The customer also bought a roll of duct tape. Akhtar said the customer then asked him to help tape the beers one by one to the front of the customer's chest. He helped the customer wrap the duct tape around his body. When they were finished Akhtar said that it appeared that the customer had a bomb strapped to the front of his chest. "I told him he looked like a suicide bomber," Akhtar said. Akhtar said he was not sure if the man was successful in his attempt to cut his bar tab. Akhtar works Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., as well as one night shift each week. Akhtar, 31, said beer is the store's biggest seller, but because he works the day shift he sells mostly diet soda, energy drinks and power bars. He said that he enjoys working at In-N-Out because it is always entertaining. Duane Najarian, the store's manager, said that he has also seen many crazy things happen while people are waiting in line for pizza late at j CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES night. Najarian said the store is best known for its $1 slices of cheese pizza. Every weekend, he said there is a line for pizza out the door for at least two hours, usu- ally between 1 and 3 a.m., and that beer is also a popular choice. Najarian works an average of 60 hours a week, with double shifts during the day and night. Once a week, only on weekends, Najarian's 16-year-old son comes in to help his father in the store. Najarian said his son only helps with cleaning or when there are long lines. He said that the wildest thing he ever wit- nessed was when a drunken male customer, waiting in line inside the store, spotted an advertisement for beer featuring a female cutout on display. According to Najarian, the customer grabbed the cutout and lay down on the floor on top of it. Najarian said that the customer made out with the cutout for some time before standing up and saying, "She's happy now." AMANDA MARKOWITZ - Know a campus character worthy of a profile? E-mail suggestions to news@michigandaily.com. The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com C 4e ffic0iln wadI 9 413 E. 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The Mrchigan Daily is amember ofThe ssocated Pessand The ssociated Colleiate Press. 01 Kash Akhtar, an In-N-Out Pizza employee, stands behind the counter of the East University Avenue convenience store yesterday afternoon. Akhtar, who usually works the day shift, said working in the store is entertaining. 0 0 CRIME NOTES Toilet seat cover dispenser engulfed in fire WHERE: Student Activities Building WHEN: Tuesday at about 5 p.m. WHAT: A toilet seat cover dispenser was set on fire in the men's restroom, setting off smoke detectors, the Department of Public Safe- ty reported. Police have no suspects. Vandals splatter wall, sidewalk with paint WHERE: Cliff Keen Arena, 616 Hoover St. WHEN: Sometime between 3 p.m. on Dec. 26 and 3 p.m. on Dec. 30. WHAT: The building's fa- cilities manager called'police after yellow and purple paint was found splashed on the building's granite wall and the brick pavement near the north doors, DPS reported. Police have no suspects. Man arrested for possession of marijuana WHERE: Pierpont Com- mons WHEN: Tuesday at about 3 p.m. WHAT: A male with no known affiliation to the University was arrested for possession of marijuana. He has not been charged. Panel to kick off Taubman anniversary WHAT: A conference on architecture's role in using "global space" WHO: College of Architec- ture and Urban Planning WHEN: Today from 5 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Rackham Audi- torium Pronoun lecture in sonnet form WHAT: A lecture on pro- nouns delivered in sonnets with accompanying dance performance and a video installation. WHO: The Institute for the Humanities and Rackham Graduate School WHEN: Today at noon WHERE: Video Perfor- mance Studio, Duderstadt Center on North Campus Exhibit on sex change process WHAT: "Jake in Transi- tion from Female to Male," a black-and-white photo exhibit by Clarissa Sligh WHO: Institute for Research on Women and Gender WHEN: Today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Room 1136, Lane Hall CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandailycom. While he was an under- graduate at the University, former President Gerald Ford earned money for tuition and room and board by regular- ly donating blood and washing dishes at his fraternity house, Delta Kappa Epsilon. The National Guard is using helicopters to drop hay bales to cattle strand- ed by snow storms in Colorado, The Associated Press reported. A similar blizzard in 1997 killed 30,000 cattle in the state. 3After receiving incorrect change, an angry woman set a Florida Walgreens on fire with her lit cigarette, WFTV in Orange County reported. The women went up and down the store's aisles settingmerchandise on fire before fleeing, employees said. 0 0 Dr. Cattell is Board Certified by the American Academy of Dermatology