Criminals not after crafts OPINION Trail-weary Gary Graca explains why long and ever-lengthing election I season are leaning him ex- hausted - and what presiden- tial candidates can do to help. See Page 5 ARTS Batman returns in stunning sequel Christopher Nolan turns a typi- cal comic book story into one of the most enthralling, unique films of the year. See Page 10 SPORTS Futures Game kind to Wolverines Former Michigan baseball players Clayton Richard and Chris Getz are steadily mov- ing up the Chicago White Sox's farm system. See Page 11 INDEX Vol. cxviii, No. 146 ©2008 The Michigan Daily michigandilycom SUDOKU........................................2 OPINION........................................4 CLASSIFIEDS ................................6 CROSSWORD................................6 A R T S ...............................................9 SPORTS.................................11 By LINDY STEVENS Daily News Editor Drunken college students are usually accused of being rowdy, loud and obnoxious, but when the typical crowd of Ann Arbor bar- goers stumbled into the streets around 2:00 a.m. during last week's Ann Arbor Art Fairs, some of them were pegged as potential criminals. Whenever more than 500,000 people pack the streets of Ann Arbor - especially for the city's annual extravaganza of all things art - laws are bound tobe broken. The reality, though, is that you're more likely to see a 15-foot-tall bronze rabbit posted in the middle of the street than a petty criminal. Police and artists agree that shoplifting and theft are rare occurrences at the Art Fairs, and even after shops are closed up for the night most artists said they felt like the paintings and pottery they left behind would be safe. So when security guard Lucia- no Dukus patrolled the street fair after dark last week, he wasn't looking to bust an elaborate art heist or catch a thief with an armful of woven wicker baskets. Instead, Dukus said he looked for the same kind of drunken antics that would happen on a typical football Saturday. One of eight guards assigned to South University Avenue, Dukus said he managed to keep tabs on artists' booths and watch people roaming the streets just by pay- ing a little extra attention to bars like The Brown Jug and Good Time Charley's. "Pretty much any time after 10 p.m. we watch the bar doors to see who's going in and who's coming out," Dukus said. Whether it's someone peeing on a tent or just peeking in to see the art inside, though, Dukus said it's usuallythe case that it will 11appen after 2 a.m. - and when it does, he works with the Ann Arbor police See ART FAIR, Page 3 SUMMER GROOVIN' groups target milloritics Groups help high- school students prepare to apply By SARA LYNNE THELEN and ELAINE LAFAY Daily StaffReporters Britney Littles, vice president of the University's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said that the group will amp up its tutoring of minority high school students from the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti areas to help them pre- pare for college. More difficult than teaching ACT or SAT preparation, she said, will be convincing them that col- lege is within their reach. Since the statewide ban on gender- and race-based affirmative action, she said, many minority high school students don't consider the Uni- versity a plausible option. "We tell them that these things aren't really the end-all-be-all, but they don't think they can get accepted now," she said. Because of the 2006 race- and gender-based affirmative action ban, student organizations that See RECRUITING, Page 3 Members of Groove practice in Regents' Plaza Sunday. The group was rehearsing for an upcoming festival.