University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Chip Peterson Hash Bash participant takes advantage of the festivities by openly smoking a joint. The Department of Public Safety reported 48 arrests for drug violations and 10 arrests for the sale and solicitation of a controlled substance. DPS arrested only one University studentfor the illegal sale oft-shirts. er completing the Naked Mile, this participant interrupts students preparing for final exams in the Law Library. Following tradition, the Naked Mile was held on the last day of classes, April 23. Chip Peterson Hash Bash Naked Mile + 27

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tnAent the, story by jenny state Chip Peterson far running the 14th annual Naked Mile, ' these men walk past the Union. The Naked Mile proceeded down South University, through the Diag, and finished at the Cube in Regents ' Plaza. layout 6y anma cartwrignt How does it feel to knowingly break the law, along with thousands of your peers? University students had two such opportunities by participating in annual Hash Bash and Naked Mile festivities. Held in the spring, these events attracted both University and non-University affiliated participants and spectators. Hash Bash, traditionally held the first Saturday in April, was organized by the National Orga- nization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). Alluding to the fact that people came from all over the country, junior English and history concentrator Walt Nekrosius said, It ' s really not the U of M that ' s there. Nekrosius attended only to watch the people and not F j mous senior who participated did not let the illegal aspect of Hash Bash affect her good time. She said, Marijuana is so prevalent on cam- pus it doesn ' t even seem illegal. Others attended just to be a part of the annual tradition. On the last day of classes, students once again had the chance to knowingly flaunt illegal activity in front of thousands, including representa- tives from the Ann Arbor police force. Students lined the sidewalks as a throng of naked people ran from the corner of South University and Walnut through the Diag and on to the Cube. As a grand finale to this event, students took a quick sprint through the Law Library, much to the surprise of the studying students. After the run, students stood around casually in their ...... birthday suits and earned on conversations with their friends. Anne Malley, senior art history and economics major explained that the Naked Mile is more of a school spirit thing than a naked thing no one cares. She didn ' t consider her involvement in the sprint breaking the law: It ' s all in the name of fun, it ' s a college tradition. Junior biology major Jeff Weinberger agreed, You just don ' t care that everyone is naked. It was an adrenaline rush. He, too, didn ' t see his actions as illegal. I was only worried that people had pictures of me, he laughingly commented. I couldn ' t believe - ureg ussier how many people noticed me. Weinberger ' s C, upporters of marajuana legalization crowd the reason for participating in the Naked Mile ech . Lfiag on a chilly Saturday in April. The erouu met oed the sentiments of many students that chose to be a part of the Naked Mile and Hash Bash experience: I just felt like going crazy one night. Greg Kessler upporters of marajuana legalization crowd the Tiag on a chilly Saturday in April. The group met obstacles in securing a permit for use of the Diag. The University also refused to allow participants to use the bathrooms in surrounding buildings. 26 + Hash Bash Naked Mile Ryan Sockalosky i

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than a year niter former re lAent the { nlveri ty cfit f e 4 new tt tend us info the 2i t story 6y qCOTOC By imrrta tartwrtgftt ' photo courtesy of John Kraft arry Faulkner , a provost and Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, as well as a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign was one of four final presidential candidates. Four months after James Duderstadt announced his decision to retire as the University ' s President, the Presidential Search Advisory Committee officially began the process of finding a successor. After eight months, 300 candidates, a controversial plan, a lawsuit and a court order, the Regents voted to make Lee Bellinger, former professor and Dean of the University ' s Law School, and Provost at Dartmouth College, the 12th President of the University of Michigan. The search turned out to be the most open in the University ' s history, although the Regents would have preferred a more closed process. In early October, just before the committee planed to announce its five candidates to the Regents, a Washtenaw County court order froze the search. A law suit filed jointly by The Ann Arbor News, The Detroit News, and The Detroit Free Press contended that the University ' s presidential selection process violated the State of Michigan ' s Open Meetings Act and Freedom of Information Act. The newspapers thought too much information was kept from the public, and the courts agreed. The Regents were forced to conduct the final phase of their search in the open. This controversy marred the process, and sent ripples of debate throughout the University ' s community. The forced decision to conduct open meetings also caused one of the finalists to withdraw. When announcing the list of the finalists to the Regents on Oct. 1 7, Jeffrey Lehman, chair of the Presidential Search Advisory Committee, explained that one of the candidates wished to talk to each regent privately. Edie Goldberg, Dean of LSA, removed her name from the list of finalists on Oct. 1 6. Goldberg went public with her decision a week later. This left the Regents with a final list of four. Along with Bellinger, the list contained: Stanley Chodorow, Provost at the University of Pennsylvania; Carol Christ, Vice Chan- cellor at the University of California at Berkeley; and Larry Faulkner, Provost at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Each of the candidates visited the University individually during the final weeks of October, and on Nov. 5 the Re- gents met to select the next president. At this open meeting the Regents agreed that the finalists were all outstand- ing candidates. Regent Rebecca McGowan said the advisory committee had produced the cream of the cream of emerging university leadership. In electing Bollinger, the Regents noted that he had the support of a diverse group of the University ' s constituents, and that his management style would heal the University. After negotiating a contract, Interim President Homer Neal announced that Bollinger would assume his position as the University of Michigan ' s 12th President on Feb. 1, 1997. Even through this arduous process, the search was deemed a success. Search consultant Malcolm MacKay of Russell Reynolds Asso- ciates Inc. told the Regents that the search was, the most thorough, disciplined, extensive search he had seen. photo courtesy of John Kraft f { orninee Carol Christ, a Vice Chancellor, provost, and professor at the University of Californa, Berkeley was a finalist. Christ ' s nomination was opposed by a former University alumni and current UC faculty member in an editorial to the Michigan Daily. photo courtesy News and Information Services tanley Chodorow enjoys a laugh during a tour of the University. Chodorow was a provost and a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. The Presidental search committee ran into many problems because it held secret search meetings. The Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, and The Ann Arbor News took the University to court over the secret proceedings. 28 Presidential Search