U-M campus life: Michigan Union street scene

This week in history (32 years ago)

On March 29, 1978, students, faculty and staff jammed the doorways and lined the hallways outside a packed Rackham Auditorium, to hear author Joyce Carol Oates read from her work. Dressed in a subdued pink turtleneck, black wide-belted skirt and matching round-toe flats, she told the assemblage, “I try to create characters that people can identify with. … Fiction is a divine form.”
— from The Michigan Daily

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