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Christina Fields
“As I move toward retirement, I see life opening up. It might be the perfect time to start performing and singing regularly again.”

— Christina Fields, an administrative assistant at Michigan Medicine who envisions becoming a lounge singer in retirement and also dabbles in beading and jewelry making

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Louis Elbel

The story behind U-M’s fight song

The rousing tune of “The Victors” is familiar to most U-M faculty and staff. What may be less widely known is the fight song’s origin. In November 1898, student Louis Elbel was in the stands when U-M’s football team beat the University of Chicago for an undefeated season. The song came to him during postgame revelry.

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    • Martha McComas

    “You can have the greatest $200 toothbrush that you want, and if you’re not using it properly, it’s not going to do any better job than someone who’s using a manual toothbrush effectively,” said Martha McComas, clinical associate professor of dentistry, weighing in on the rotating-vs.-sonic-electric-toothbrush debate.

    The Washington Post
    • Greta Uehling

    “Only a strong defense guarantee, such as admission to NATO, can lead to a durable end to the war. From the Ukrainian perspective, there have been multiple agreements that have been signed, all of them broken, and NATO is the only durable way to ensure Ukrainian sovereignty and security,” said Greta Uehling, lecturer in international and comparative studies.

    The Dispatch
    • Jerry Davis

    For a boycott — like the consumer spending blackout planned Feb. 28 to protest the elimination of corporate DEI efforts — to be successful, it needs a clear goal, target group and representative who can negotiate with the target, says Jerry Davis, professor of business: “Simply asking customers to stop buying a product to express disapproval is not likely to produce any recognizable change in what business does.”

    USA Today