Shanty attacks raise questions - By EUGENE PAK A wooden shanty at Johns Hopkins University was splashed with gasoline and set ablaze last Saturday, the latest of at least 35 violent attacks on the anti-apartheid symbols on cam- puses this year. The attacks raise questions. Why in the traditionally liberal atmosphere of the nation's, colleges, have the shanties - representing an apparen- tly moral cause - produced such violent reactions? Even on this campus, during a resurgence of anti-apartheid activity in the past two years, a shanty con- structed on the Diag has been at- tacked several times. Twice, it needed complete reconstruction. ONE THEORY attributes the at- tacks to drunkeness and rowdiness. "At one, two, and three o'clock in the morning, coming back from a bar or a party, the shanty may become a challenge (to vandalists)," said Leo Heatly, director of campus safety at the University. "I personally don't think the shanty attacks were racially-motivated. People go back and forth through the Diag a lot. We have many problems there." BUT OTHERS disagree. "I think it's a racist attack whether it's by a drunken act or a deliberate act by a sober person. Even someone who does it as joke, knowing what the shanty symbolizes is obviously not very sym- pathetic to anti-racist ideas," said Barbara Ransby, a leader of the cam- pus Free South Africa Coordinating Committee. University sociology Prof. Andre Modigliani, who teaches a course in psychological deviance and abnormal behavior found it difficult to deter- mine whether shanty vandalists were spurred by prejudice or by other fac- tors. "The vandalist's anger might be directed at the shanty itself, or the vandalist is angry about something else and the shanty is a convenient target," Modigliani said. ANOTHER "possible reason," he speculated, "is that a person feels ambivalent about the situation (anar- theid). He's not doing more to help and is busy with other things, leaving him with an unresolved ambivalence. Then someone throws up a shanty which in turn irritates this feeling." See STUDENTS, Page 14 DailyPhoto by0ANI SCHREIBER Despite two fires and several vandalism incidents, the shanty on the diag has stood since March 21 of this year, Shanties at other colleges have been demolished. "Cou React ds on a of beer, of wine the nex the cou STUI can not license, and ret cocky s For th buy am Michiga reaction False ID puts alcohol sellers, police'on guard By ROB EARLE resemblence to the bearer, it is often "There is every bit as many fake for instance, turns over cases of false manager Gil Holbrook. Campus Cor- Id I see some ID please?" the ID of an older relative. IDs as there has been in the past," driver licenses to the Secretary of ner keeps a large bound volume with tion to this question all depen- FINALLY, THERE'S the ID ob- said Ron Gill, district supervisor for State's office, but does not demand samples of all U.S. and Canadian student's age. As the six pack tained through legal channels through the state Liquor Control Commission they be confiscated. The City of Ann legal IDs for comparison purposes. fifth of cheap liquor, or bottle illegal means - like using an altered (LCC). Arbor however, does collect fake IDs. HOLBROOK AND Tice said their sits on the counter, action in birth certificate to geta drivers licen- GILL said the only way to reduce While city police use fake IDs for respective stores are very careful :t few seconds will determine se. While this appears to be the most fake ID usage is through prosecution. prosecution purposes, campus about checking ID. Buten confirms rse of the night. effective fake ID, it is also the most "The means for prosecuting fake ID security simply destroys confiscated this, noting that recent undercover DENTS 21 years old and above dangerous, since the bearer is guilty users is in the law," he said. But he IDs given to them by ushers at the sweeps by police show package liquor nchalantly pull out a drivers of perjury. explained that local police depar- Union's University Club. dealers have improved in checking toss it face-up on the counter IN ANN ARBOR, fake IDs are tments often enforce the law only Many local retailers don't even ID. turn to their conversation, a fairly common. While enforcement against sellers, not underage bother to confiscate fake Bars, on the other hand, are not as mirk plastered on their face. agencies don't keep statistics, police buyers. "What they need is a law ID. careful, he said. Buten said bars ose still toonew to the world to seize two or three fake IDs every that does something to the kid that's "It doesn't do any good," said check ID only about half the time nd consume alcohol under month, according to Detective Lt. trying to buy," said Dennis Tice, Tice. "We generally don't con- before serving alcohol. Such laxness an's 21 and above statute, the Paul Buten of the Ann Arbor police manager of Tices Liquor on State fiscate it," agreed Campus Corner SeeSTUDENTS,Page s vary department's special investigation Street. I VOVVl ~y. "I forgot it." "I ALWAYS buy here." "ID? I haven't been carded in two years." Young, would-be drinkers soon discover there is little chance of coming up with an original excuse - store clerks, bartenders, ushers, and waitresses have heard them all. Fake IDs seem to be the best way around the law. FAKE IDs come in many varieties. Some are merely altered drivers licenses. Michigan licenses are easily changed with a little beige make-un and a sharp pencil. A driver can thus add years to her age, Other fake IDs are known as "ringers." Available through the mail or from local novelty merchants, these IDs look like official iden- tification, but are missing state seals, official signatures, or other legitimizing marks. A third variety is the "big brother" type. This is a legitimate ID used by someone beside the owner. Since the picture on the ID must have some unit. OVERLAPPING jurisdiction for Despite police confiscations and fake IDs may be one reason for enfor- underage "plants" to secretly test cement problems. State liquor laws sellers, Buten said the number of fake and local ordinances governing ID users has not dropped in recent falsified identification are not enfor- years. ced by the same agencies. The LCC MAKEA PASSE The summer Daily is in great demand, so share the good news every Friday. Pass your copy of the Daily along! 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