Old school: U-M in History

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The Detroit-Ann Arbor rock band MC5 performs in February 1969 at the Michigan Union.  Photo courtesy Bentley Historical Library

This month in history (43 years ago)

When a student-faculty group organized a weekend Teach In to End the War event and invited activists including Rennie Davis and David Dellinger, U-M President Robben Fleming accepted the opportunity to share the platform with Davis at Hill Auditorium. Fleming said the Vietnam War was a “colossal mistake,” though an honest one, and urged that reaction should not produce further “erosion in values within our universities … dangerous to the climate of free inquiry.” — From “The University of Michigan, An Encyclopedic Survey,” courtesy Bentley Historical Library

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