2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, July 24, 2000 Elvis takes over Ypsilanti By Seva Gunitskiy throughont the afternoon. Daily Staff Reporter "As with all festivals, we'd like to He is a ,egend see a hunch of people on a nice sutnW and no one YPSIL ANTI-- Quentin Faggr is a day, enjoying the concerts," said Tracy else relative newcomer to the world of Briggs, an event coordinator. Elvis impersonators. He is only 17 Several hundred people gathered on 'a''d his sears old, and he belts out rockabilly ilte grass to enjoy the festivities. A level. tunes with just a cassette tane instead Grand Blanc coulle exchanged wed- 101 of a band. But when he came off the stage at the Michigan Elvisfest on Saturday, about forty people lined Lip to receive his autograph, a testament to the lin- gering devotion of Elvis fans. Almost 25 years after his death, Elvis Presley continues to inspire fans and musicians alike, and the Michigan Elvisfest was a case in point. The first ever Elvis festival, billed as a tribute to the King of Rock-n- Roll, took place at Frog Island Park in Ypsilanti. The day-long event featured hot air balloon rides, an antique car show and an array of Elvis impersonators per- forming some of the King's classics ding vows at the festival, and ReMax Realty offered free hot-air balloon rides in the evening, but music remained the festival's main attraction. With seven singers performing two shows each, the music kept playing until late at night. Sherman Arnold, a co-founder of the festival as well as one. of the per- formers, said he started listening to Elvis because the music "had a beat and you could dance to it." Arnold has been an Elvis imperson- ator for 45 years, and has met many other people in his profession. Once, he said, he met an Elvis tribute artist who had told him that he "felt the spir- it of Elvis sinking into him when he - Tracy Briggs Elvisfest Event Coordinator died." Arnold said he believes in a differ- ent approach to his job. "Always do the best you can with what you got," he said. Other events at the festival included a karaoke contest, bingo and plenty of Elvis memorabilia for sale. "Elvis really broke a lot of barriers when he came on the scene," Briggs said. "He is a legend, and no one else has reached his level." Elvis, portrayed by Fred Wolfe, sings to a large crowd of Elvis fans in Di at the first ever Elvisfest in Ypsilanti on Saturday. GM Continued from Page 1 end, I believe the courts will under- stand that policies which discriminate against people based on their race and ethnicity are not only illegal but also anathema to American civil liberties." Miranda Massie, lead attorney for the interveners in the Law School case, said she disagrees. The University ben- efits from the stated support, particu- larly from GM, she said. "For GM, a historically very con- servative corporation, to have taken this position shows two things," Massie said. "First, it shows the extent to which the student move- ment has changed the political con- text. And second, it shows how iso- lated the right wing racists at CIR are." Bollinger said he believes the exten- sive effort to recruit support is worth- while. "We're putting in this effort because it really makes a point," Bollinger said. "It shows that mainstream America, people from very different perspec- tives, believe in what we've been sav- ing from the beginning - a modern education requires students to encounter people different from them- selves." He added that diversity itwludes a wide variety of aspects - "geographi- cal, socioeconomic, and, yes, racial and ethnic." To continue its efforts to recruit sup- port throughout the trials, Bollinger said the University currently has its eye on the United States military. "We're working on the military, Bollinger said. 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