Hash Bash

When the clock "bongs" one o'clock each April 1st, University of Michigan potheads gather on the campus green to celebrate what has become a hallowed Wolverine holiday: the annual "Hash Bash."

The cannibas festival convenes each April Fool's Day to commemorate the anniversary of an Ann Arbor Law, instituted in 1972, which assesses a $5 fine for the possession of marijuana.

"It's hardly even a penalty," said Michigan Daily News Editor Robert A. Earle.

This year the sunny weather attracted approximately 120 students for the celebration, which operates on a BYOP (Bring Your Own Pot) basis. The turnout was significantly higher than last year, when no students showed up.

But even a sudden rainshower could not dampen the potheads' fun this year, as they took shelter in shanties built by anti-apartheid activists.

Earle said that police and university administration did not acknowledge the celebration this year. The event, which in past years has attracted over 500 people from all over the country, has declined in popularity recently due to harassment by police. PRINCETON, CLEMSON

Food Fights

Beef stroganov, carrots, lettuce and other culinary delights covered the floor of Princeton's Wilcox Dining Hall last week, after the first sizeable food fight at the college in over four years left the prestigious Ivy League cafeteria in shambles, The Daily Princetonian reported.

In a separate development, 18 students at Clemson University were arrested for their battle of comestibles that recently cost the university $1,141.51 in cleanup costs.

Reparations for the Clemson war included an extra 85 hours of cleaning managers' hours, and replacement of broken dinnerware. Reports indicate that neither the Clemson nor the Princeton food barrage was premeditated.

But all students at Butler College--the part of Princeton from which the alleged precipitators of the conflict belong, were banned from the dining hall until the students reponsible for the fight confess.

According to eyewitnesses, a group of students from Butler and Wilson Colleges began hurling handfuls of food at each other, causing many diners to flee the hall. RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

Over Easy

Students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faced an engineering challenge Tuesday.