Tag Archives: school spirit

Michigan Today

Step Right Up!

by Jim Tobin | December 3, 2019

On May 23, 1871 Van Amburgh and Company’s Menagerie & Circus raised its tents in Ann Arbor. Approximately 60 U-M students from the sophomore class of 1873 were tossed out for disorderly conduct.

students

In Living Color

Robert Havey | January 2019

In 1867, a committee of students from U-M's Literary Department recommended “azure blue and maize” as U-M's colors. But what do these colors look like? The answer has historically depended on whom you ask — and when.

campus life