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MONDAY: TUESDAY: THURSDAY:
The Extremist Arbor Anecdotes M -- --- Campus Characters

FRIDAY:
Explained

The first'High Noon' march

Thirty-five years ago, students
couldn't RSVP to Hash Bash on
Facebook.com - word-of-mouth
and fliers were the only advertise-
ments for the event. But the lack of
easy, online publicity didn't stop
scores of students from gathering
for the first-ever Hash Bash during
the first weekend of April in 1972.
The first Hash Bash was held as a
celebration after the success of the
"Free John Now" campaign that
arouse in response to the incarcera-
tion of political activist and Ann
Arbor local, John Sinclair.
Sinclair was arrested and sen-
tenced to 10 years in prison for the
possession of two marijuana joints
in July 1969.
He quickly became an icon of
the counter-cluture movement
and inspired a number of protests
around the country.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
sponsored a Free John Now rally at

Crisler Arena on Dec. 10,1971. They
argued that Sinclair's incarceration
had been cruel and unusual punish-
ment and that Sinclair was convict-
ed as a result of police entrapment.
Three days after the rally at
Crisler Arena, Sinclair's case was
re-examined by the Michigan
Supreme Court. He was released
from prison on Dec. 13, 1971.
The first Hash Bash occurred
three and a half months after Sin-
clair's release from jail. The leaders
of the 1960s counterculture, many
of them students and young adults
living in Ann Arbor, were promi-
nent participants in the first Hash
Bash.
The event included speeches,
demonstrations in favor of mari-
juana legalization, music and street
vending.
Police officers have often turned a
blind eyeto some of the drug use that
typically accompanies the festival.

Over the years, student atten-
dance at the Hash Bash "High Noon"
march on the Diag has waned. But
enthusiasts and pro-marijuana
advocates have continued hold-
ing the event in Ann Arbor partly
because of its history and the city's
relatively lax marijuana laws.
In Ann Arbor (excepton campus,
which is under state law), posses-
sion of marijuana is a civil infrac-
tion rather than a criminal offense.
Organizers at the first event
hoped it would become a tradi-
tion.
"The hash festival shouldfbecome
an annual affair, and we hope to
see everybody out here again next
year," one organizer told The Mich-
igan Daily at the time.
Thirty-five years later, the tradi-
tion is still alive.
ALLISON PINCUS
- This article draws on sources
from theBentley Historical Library

FIL E PH(C
Pickney Community High School senior Jon Lozer stands
stuck at the bottom of a Law School window well after he
climbed down to retrieve a frisbee during Hash Bash on April
1, 2006.

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CRIME NOTES
Geriatric center
patient exposes
self to staff
WHERE: East Ann Arbor
Medical Center, 4260 Plym-
outh Road
WHEN: March 29, between 5
and 5:30 p.m.

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

p.m.
WHAT: A University of Michi-
gan Hospital ID badge that
provides access to the hospital
pharmacy was reported stolen
from a staff member's purse
that was on the basement
2 level of the hospital, DPS
reported. DPS does not know
if the ID card has been used to
enter the pharmacy and has no
suspects.

Talk on gender
equity and TB
WHAT: A lecture on the
connection between gender
and tuberculosis. The lecture
will focus on the challenges
female TB-suffers face and
propose public policy changes
to address the problem.
WHO: Department of Epide-
miology

Project
WHEN: Today a 7 p.m.
WHERE: Kalamazoo Room, A state of emergency was
Michigan League declared in Latvia today
after a 40-kilometer traf-
Group sexual fic jam formed at the Russian
orientation talk border, The New Zealand Her-
ald reported. The line - which
WHAT: An open group at some points was over 1,000
discussion on sexual orienta- vehicles long - cameas a result
tion. The meeting is part of of border delays relating to the
a six-week discussion series upcoming Easter holiday.

WHAT: A male patient at the M an reports WHEN: Today fron
University's East Ann Arbor p m
Health and Geriatrics Center being assaulted WHERE: Lane Fam
exposed himself to Medical torium, Henry F. Vau
Center staff on March 29, the underPuflic Health Buildi
Department of Public Safety bridge South Ohservatory.
reported. Staff at the center WHERE: University Hospital
did not report the incident to WHEN: Yesterday at about Lecture on
DPS until Monday. DPS has a 11:30 p.m
suspect. WHAT: A man unaffiliated prison torts
with the University reported
ID badge with fbeing assaulted and arrived WHAT: Bobby Dell
at the University Hospital American Friends St
harmac access emergency room seeking treat- Committee, a prison
ment, DPS reported. The man advocacy group, will
told DPS the assault took place about solitary confin
beneath the Fuller Street and and other forms of to
WHERE: University Hospital Maiden Lane Bridge. DPS does an American Prison.
WHEN: Monday at about 2:30 not have any suspects. WHO: Prison Crea

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focusing on the fluid nature
of sexual orientation and its
connection to identity.
WHO: Office of Lesbian, Gay
& Transgender Affairs
WHEN: Today from 6 p.m.
to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: LGBTA Office,
Michigan Union
CORRECTIONS
. Seven civilian casualties
were inadvertently included
in the listing of dead Ameri-
can service members page 3
of yesterday's daily. The cor-
rect number was 3,250.
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After three days, search-
ers found a missing
python in Google's New
York offices Monday night,
ABC News reported. The dis-
covery ended speculation that
the missing snake was an elab-
orate April Fool's dayprank.
Rolling Stones guitarist
Keith Richards told Brit-
ish music magazine NME
that he once snorted his cre-
mated father's ashes mixed
with cocaine, The Associated
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