Campus Life
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Feminine ideal
“Belle, Scholar, Athlete.” In the 1930s, a portrait in the Michigan League honored student Marian Van Tuyl as the epitome of young womanhood.
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Oh my cube!
Engineering students install a giant Rubik’s Cube on campus — believed to be the world’s largest hand-solvable, stationary version of the famous puzzle.
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Crisler Center at 50
The ‘house that Cazzie built’ is more than just a sports facility. It’s a palace packed with Michigan memories.
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Everybody walk the dinosaur
As experts prepare to move the Museum of Natural History, they reimagine the visitor experience.
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An uncommon education
University historians collaborate with Detroit Public Television to produce shortform documentary series about U-M’s legacy.
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Fractured fairy tale
U-M’s first black homecoming queen remembers her reign, five decades after relinquishing her crown.
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Battle of the bookstore
In the fall of 1969, students went ‘on strike’ to demand the right to run their own bookstore.
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Sotomayor, Baer discuss university of the future
Bicentennial colloquium packs the house; U-M community reacts to policies of new administration.
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The boys of '61
In 1861, the crisis of southern secession turned Michigan’s campus into a cauldron of pro-Union meetings and military drills as students prepared to exchange books for weapons.