The Michigan Dail - Tuesday, August 2, 1983-- Page 3 State court overturns ru ing on Princeton eating club TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A civil rights panel erred when it dismissed without a hearing a Princeton Univer- sity woman's challenge to all-male membership at three private social clubs, a state appeals court ruled yesterday. The Appellate Division of Superior Court said the state Division on Civil Rights should give a full hearing to Sally Frank of Bayonne, now a 24-year- old law school student, who first challenged the membership policies of three dining clubs as a junior in 1978. After Princeton became coeducational in 1969, nine of the 12 eating clubs decided to admit women. But Frank challenged the all-male standards maintained by the Ivy Club, the Tiger Inn and the University Cot- tage Club. A three-judge panel of the state's second-highest court said then-Acting Civil Rights Director Pamela, Poff should have provided a full hearing for Frank. Instead, she concluded without submitting findings of facts that the eating clubs were private and there was no cause for action against the univer- sity. "We are satisfied that the matter is of substantial public importance and should be resolved in the public in- terest," the court said. The court was careful to mention that it was not deciding the case on its merits, but was simply returning the matter for increased documentation to the civil rights division. Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT A medieval musician plays the crumhorn, an instrument popular in the middle ages, at the 14th Ann Arbor Medieval Festival last weekend in the Nichols Arboretum. Festival brings Camelot to life By GEORGEA KOVANIS Silver swords clashed, as men clad in tights and robes turned Nichols Arboretum into a small Sherwood Forest. It was a chance for 65 medievalists to leave the modern world behind and for a moment, glimpse the glory that was Camelot. "IT'S RANK escapism," admitted Cindy Miller, who coordinated the dancers at the 14th Medieval Festival last weekend. "(The) Middle Ages were really a romantic time," Miller said, above the sound of voices singing baroque German songs. To people like Miller, the medieval age represents an escape from the present into a time when the air was clean and the code was courtly. "I DON'T like this age, it's for idiots," said Gail Christopherson, a Residential College sophomore. "In the Middle Ages they were more concerned with surviving and being happy." But capturing that medieval lifestyle takes more than shedding button-down shirts for woolen cloaks. "It's a lot of research, that's what it is," said Cynthia Dopp, one of the festival's directors. DOPP SAID the festival takes time in the library as well as some improvisation. "We try to keep as close to the form as we can, but we don't have the kind of props they had," she ex- plained. So humans often end up playing the animal parts in the festival's theatrical productions - a role that would have gone to the authentic creature in the Middle Ages. "We're not trying to be absolutely 1000 percent pure," said Stephen Boles, administrator of the two- week festival. THE WEEKEND events included medieval skits, short plays, singing, dancing, and juggling. In addition to the Arboretum, the festival events were held at Burns Park and the Ark. But last weekend's event was only a tune-up for the big weekend coming up at the music school, where 20th century time travellers can get a taste of medieval fare as well as en- tertainihent from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Organizers of the festival say the event costs the group abut $1,500 which they acquire through donations. City considers ban on martial arts weapons By HALLE CZECHOWSKI the complaints of an Ann Arbor woman Minors may have more trouble who said her 12-year-old son had pur- buying. certain martial arts devices in chased a throwing star at Harry's Ar- Ann Arbor, if an Ann Arbor City Council my Surplus on East Washington. member has his way. GARSON ZELTZER, co-owner of Councilmember Raphael Ezekiel (D- Harry's Army Surplus, said that as Third Ward) was scheduled to present a soon as the store heard about the com- resolution at last night's council plaint they changed their policy. Now, meeting, barring the possession or sale minors can only buy throwing stars or of numchucks and throwing stars to numchucks if they are accompanied by people under eighteen years of age an adult. unless they are accompanied by an Although Harry's no longer sells to adult. minors, Zeltzer said he thinks the THROWING stars are flat, six-sided devices don't deserve official City discs with sharp points that can be Council regulation, since few people ac- hurled at a target. Numchucks are tually use them as weapons. composed of two cylindrical handles "You will find irresponsible people, joined by a rope or chain, which can be but they are few and far between. If you twirled to a high velocity to ward off at- base the law on these few, than you do tackers. the majority a great injustice," Zeltzer Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCC But Ezekiel pulled the resolution said. Mike Tracy, manager of Harry's Army Surplus on E. Washington, displays from the agenda at the last minute so he "Nothing has been shown to us or to two types of throwing stars which martial arts enthusiasts use for target could further investigate the issue. anyone else that these things cause in- practice. Some Ann Arbor residents say the potentially dangerous weapons Ezekiel's proposal was prompted by jury," he added. are too easily accessible to minors.