Campus Life
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Elvis at the end
Just before he died at 42, the King rocked Crisler Arena in a slightly strange and thoroughly unforgettable concert.
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The president’s back yard
The grounds of the University president’s house over many decades reflect changes in the nature of campus life at Michigan.
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Step by step
A new scholarship supports students in U-M’s Collegiate Recovery Program — a campus support service for those recovering from substance-use disorders.
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Commencement 2018
Football legend Charles Woodson urges new Michigan grads to reject hate and view one another as human beings, “nothing more, nothing less.”
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Winging it
U-M partners with Destination Ann Arbor, Downtown Development Authority to commission interactive mural at Maynard and William streets to ask, “What lifts you?”
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Just humor me
Campus unrest often erupts at times of social unrest. But what about campus humor? Some say it’s at its best when times are not.
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Me too, circa 1970
In 1970, a female secretary inspired one of the great sea changes in the University’s history: that Michigan should treat women the same as men.
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Working his way through
An African-American student of the 1920s left a vivid memoir of his years in a semi-segregated Ann Arbor.
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The late, great 'Cat Hole'
A woebegone corner of campus once attracted trysts, trash and, a magnificent plan for an amphitheater. And then we paved paradise and put up a parking lot.