Heritage/Tradition
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Women, take the field!
The rule barring women from the Michigan Marching Band was dropped in 1972 — not with a bang, but a whisper.
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Two against football
In 1925 two lonely rebels said no to the formidable Fielding Yost in a contest of ideas that still echoes today.
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Coming home
The end of World War II sent U-M’s enrollment soaring, which put housing at a premium — creating a unique college experience for many GIs.
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Dean Bacon’s demise
Michigan’s “Queen of Women” held the line on in loco parentis through the ’50s, until changing mores and student protests forced an abdication.
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Black Fridays of yore
Weirdly gruesome posters created for U-M’s inter-class “rush” mingled themes of mayhem and mirth at the turn of the 20th century.
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Trophy life: The Little Brown Jug
New book celebrates the myths, mysteries, and mania surrounding college football’s oldest trophy rivalry, born of a discarded water jug in 1903.
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If North Hall could talk
A campus landmark closes after more than a century of service in health care, the military, and more.
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The Negro-Caucasian club
In the 1920s African-American and white students joined hands to fight racial bias — but the University was unsympathetic.
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The vanishing of Schoolgirls' Glen
Reclaiming one of the most precious and vulnerable gems in Nichols Arboretum.