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.

Could they drop eggs from the fifth floor of a building without breaking them?

Several technical-minded students participating in the annual "Egg Drop" contest proved they were all they were cracked up to be, the Associated Press reported.

Encasing eggs in such materials as styrofoam, Jell-O, cotton, balloons, and even a dead chicken, a few students succeeded in hitting a bull's-eye five stories down--with their eggs intact.

The contest could be messy, as bystanders found out while watching a plastic egg filled with chocolate pudding descend. The container shattered on impact, splattering spectators with pudding and egg.

Jerry Witt of Andover, Mass., tried stuffing his egg inside a missile of Italian bread. "If it breaks, I'll make French toast," he joked. The egg broke.

Dan Shugar, vice president of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering society, said the contest was a way to "ease the pressure, to let off steam" before final examinations.

One of the day's few successes went to Ed Bosco of Ryebrook, N.Y. and Ron Diaz, of Elizabeth, N.J., who placed an egg inside a life-size, headless stuffed dummy dubbed "Buddy Homeslice." YALE UNIVERSITY

Stern & Son

Violinist Isaac Stern is giving his son David an early graduation present Saturday. The father and son will perform on stage together for the first time.

"I'm not sure who will be more nervous, David or I," the 65-year-old Stern told the Associated Press recently. "But I know the most nervous ones will be Mrs. Stern and the rest of the family."

With his son conducting, Stern will play Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. The younger Stern, a music major at Yale University, also will conduct Brahms' German Requiem, and his father will play in the violin section of the orchestra.

Saturday's concert will be David's final one as director of the school's Bach Society, a position he has held for three years.

The concert is meant as a fundraiser for the Bach Society, but Isaac Stern said, "It's really a celebration of David's graduation." UNIVERSITY OF LOWELL

Fake Resume?

A University of Lowell professor accused of using a resume filled with inaccuracies and "half-truths" has stepped down from his post as the school's minority affairs advisor, The Associated Press reported this week.

Professor Charles G. Hurst Jr. will, however, stay on the Lowell faculty, according to university officials.

In a brief statement Tuesday, William Hogan, the university's president, said Hurst submitted his resignation as special assistant to the president for minority affairs "in the best interest of all concerned," The Lowell Sun reported.

Hogan declined to say whether a series of stories in the Sun about Hurst's background, including reports that Hurst's resume contained "inaccuracies and half-truths," played a role in the resignation.

The Sun said Hurst used the inaccurate resume to help obtain the university post.

The newspaper said the inaccuracies included a claim that Hurst taught at the University of Nigeria from 1981 until 1983. The Nigerian University Commission said they could find no record of Hurst ever teaching at any Nigerian school, the newspaper reported.

The resignation means Hurst will continue to receive his $42,000-a-year faculty salary, but will not earn an additional salary for recruiting minority students for the school. Last summer, Hurst made approximately $20,000 in that capacity, the Sun said.