A stag night request has landed a Dunedin duty bar manager in trouble with police. Craft Bar duty manager Michael Campbell (pictured) was photographed pouring Baileys Irish Cream liqueur straight from the bottle into the mouth of a patron, who was draped backwards across the bar, at the premises in February. The act is commonly known as a layback. The photo was published on the internet under the heading "STAG NIGHT 3rd of Feb, Dunedin" and was discovered by Dunedin authorities, who have subsequently opposed Mr Campbell's application to renew his manager's certificate. I realise the patron in question was getting married in the near future but this is still inappropriate considering Campbell's position as a duty manager. He of all people should not be allowing people to become intoxicated on their premises. But enough about that because today is the 50th anniversary of the day a Cassius Marcellus Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali. He is generally considered among the greatest heavyweights in the sport's history, except for a few years in which he did not fight as he was denied a boxing license in every state and stripped of his passport after he refused to be inducted into the armed forces, stating publicly that "no Vietcong ever called [him] [the N-word]." As a result, he did not fight from March 1967 to October 1970 — from ages 25 to almost 29 — as his case worked its way through the appeal process. In 1971, the US Supreme Court overturned his conviction in a unanimous 8-0 ruling (could've been 9-0 had Thurgood Marshall not abstained from the case). During this time of inactivity, as opposition to the Vietnam War began to grow and Ali's stance gained sympathy, he spoke at colleges across the nation, criticised the Vietnam War, and advocated African American pride and racial justice.
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