Today’s dorm room was yesterday’s home for James Earl Jones, Gilda Radner, Sanjay Gupta and other notable alumni. There is no guarantee that fame comes with living in a space once occupied by Madonna (University Towers, Apt. 10A), Derek Jeter (5506 Couzens) or Lucy Liu (South Quad, 4809 Taylor). But it does make for a distinctive inheritance that shows anything is possible after leaving Ann Arbor.
— From “Madonna Slept Here” by Kaitlyn DelBene, at the U-M Heritage Project website, celebrating U-M’s 2017 bicentennial.
