Heritage/Tradition
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Earth Day Eve
Forty years ago, U-M students prepared the way for the first Earth Day teach-in. Here’s how a casual talk at a bar on Washington Street spurred the modern environmental movement.
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Ode to Joy
The great photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt came to Ann Arbor in 1950 for Life magazine. His goal: to capture the flawless precision and wild exuberance of the Michigan Marching Band. He succeeded.
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Chorus girls
The presence of chorus girls at a 1921 fraternity party revealed scandalous behavior by students and administrators alike.
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'Paul is Dead!' (said Fred)
Forty years ago, a prankish article in the Michigan Daily helped create a modern myth: Beatle Paul McCartney was dead.
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Game day!
It’s football Saturday! Come join the crowds at the Mudbowl, on State and Packard, the Pioneer High lot, and outside Michigan Stadium.
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A different Diag?
If a single Regent had switched his vote 150 years ago, U-M would stand in a very different place.
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An American Girl
A tough heroine in 1870s Ann Arbor was the star of a novel about U-M’s early days.
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A question of culture
Michigan’s minority-student lounges grew out of an intense debate about integration.
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The great raid
One night during the Great Depression, police stormed U-M’s fraternities.