As a Michigan Daily reporter/editor who helped unseat Regent Eugene Power in 1966, Roger Rapoport, BA ’68, was persona non grata among the U-M administration till he graduated. How surprising then that in June 1967 he celebrated the modern-day “multiversity” in the pages of the Atlantic Monthly.

In 1964, U-M students invited George Lincoln Rockwell, self-declared ‘commander’ of the American Nazi Party, to speak at Hill Auditorium, setting off a heated campus contest over the limits of free speech.

‘May you live in interesting times,’ the proverb says. Sounds more like a curse.

From COVID-19 to a contentious GEO strike, ‘Michigan Daily’ reporters certainly got a taste of the really-real world this month.

Former media executive John Madigan, BBA ’58/MBA ’59, empowers student journalists with a fund named for former Chicago Tribune editor and Michigan Daily alumna (1977-78) Ann Marie Lipinski, BA ’94.

The Bentley Historical Library recently digitized more than 12 decades of Michigan Daily history. It’s a ‘gold mine.’

‘Let’s Have Some Church Detroit Style,’ from filmmaker and Michigan Daily alum Andy Sacks, AD ’69, celebrates Motown with the city’s Hallelujah Singers.

‘In the Name of Editorial Freedom — 125 Years at The Michigan Daily’ is a compilation of 39 essays from ‘Daily’ alumni who have gone on to impressive careers. Listen in, as the book’s editor and former ‘Daily’ editor-in-chief Stephanie Steinberg recounts the high stakes and high jinks of life as a student reporter at U-M.

Michigan Daily alum Stephen Henderson, BA ’92, transforms his passion for hometown Detroit into a very personal Pulitzer Prize.