Let it Snow!
November 3, 2021Winter in Michigan is a singular experience. These archived images from across the state may have you lacing up your boots – or grabbing your sled – to enjoy the great outdoors this time of year.
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Michigan AlumnusHistory Lessons: The Honored Dead
Gregory Lucas-Myers | May 2021The University paid tribute to those who gave their lives in World War II at a special reunion in 1946. In Rackham Auditorium, an audience gathered to participate in a service of “solemn beauty and dignity,” as reported in the July 13 issue of Michigan Alumnus.
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Michigan AlumnusHistory Lessons: Fun and Fundraising
Gregory Lucas-Myers | April 2021For more than a century, Michigras, an annual April festival welcoming spring, also served as a “fun raiser” for campus causes. Among the festivities of Michigras, an annual two-day carnival-and-fundraiser organized by U-M students to celebrate spring’s arrival, was a parade through town.
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Michigan AlumnusHistory Lessons: Registration Flashback
Gregory Lucas-Myers | October 26, 2021An alumna shares her memory of registering for classes in the 1960s. While registration is now an entirely digital process, it was once a personal experience often yielding new conversations and relationships.
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Michigan AlumnusHistory Lessons: Celebration and Solemnity
Gregory Lucas-Myers | October 26, 2021In September 1945, World War II officially came to an end. But news of Japan’s surrender in August prompted celebration at U-M.
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Michigan AlumnusHistory Lessons: White House Welcome
Gregory Lucas-Myers | October 22, 2021In July 1975, President Gerald R. Ford welcomed 64 participants of the U-M Public Service Intern Program to a White House reception. More than 50 years later, PSIP has given students the chance to gain working experience in public service and politics.
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HeritageThe Fraternity War
James Tobin | October 13, 2021In the fall term of 1845, just four years after classes had begun at the University of Michigan, a junior named George Becker and several friends joined together to create the University’s first fraternity, a chapter of Beta Theta Pi. Despite breaking university rules at the time, the brothers met in a cabin in the woods to pursue “the cultivation of intimate social relations.” This kind of "cultivation" drew harsh opposition from U-M faculty.
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Michigan AlumnusHistory Lessons: The Block M, In Brief
Gregory Lucas-Myers | June 2021The Block M’s importance to the University is relatively recent, despite its seemingly long history. To reflect the changes within the University and its priorities, both its significance and appearance have evolved over the years.
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Bentley Historical LibraryIt Was a Man’s World
Lara Zielin | Summer 2021The early 1970s were pivotal years for women’s equality at Michigan. Government pressure was mounting for U-M to give women a level playing field on campus, but the University’s all-male administration was slow to act. Papers at the Bentley reveal how a group of determined women demanded accountability and action.
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Michigan TodayLet’s Make a Deal
George Siedel | June 25, 2020U-M alum George W. Mason, the first CEO of American Motors, was a master negotiator. Now his legacy inspires a class in negotiating techniques.
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