Tag Archives: campus traditions

Michigan Alum

History Lessons: The Rock at Washtenaw and Hill

February 2023

Learn the how and why of the iconic boulder’s journey to its spot on one of Ann Arbor’s main roads — and the surprising possible origin of the painting tradition.

campus history

Michigan Alumnus

Baring It All

Gregory Lucas-Myers | April 2022

From the late 1980s to the early 2000s, one April tradition gave U-M administrators a headache and student participants an unorthodox freedom: the Naked Mile.

campus traditions