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Coming home: A Vietnam Veteran in the Law School
With a West Point diploma and two Purple Hearts, Tom Carhart, JD ’72, arrived on the Law Quad at the height of the anti-Vietnam War movement. At first, Carhart was appalled by the student protests. Soon, he joined in.
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Book burning
In 1973, student feminists burned a textbook containing ‘criminally sexist material’ written by U-M’s chair of obstetrics and gynecology.
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Port Huron Statement turns 50
In 1962 a handful of U-M students calling themselves the Students for a Democratic Society published a manifesto that came to define a national student movement.
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Food riot, 1956
The night the quaddies said no to corned beef and swiss cheese on lettuce.