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Last year, Engineering junior
Chris Baldwin found himself as
the poster child of a dark period
in Michigan football history. After
the last second 27-23 loss in the
Michigan State game last year,
his reaction was immortalized
as a meme. But as of Saturday,
Baldwin can finally follow up
with a victorious pose after the
University’s win against Michigan
State University, 32-23.
In the waning seconds of last
year’s game against Michigan
State University, MSU overtook
the Wolverines on a fumbled punt.
The student section of the stadium
was silent, jaws agape, at the quick
turn of the scoreboard. Their shock
was summed up perfectly with
Baldwin’s stunned expression,
hands clasped on his head in a
pose social media users dubbed the
“surrender cobra.” Baldwin quickly
became an internet emblem, his
face spread out among sports new
outlets and Twitter accounts alike.
An East Lansing T-shirt company,
Michigan Shirt Works, even made
T-shirts in his honor.
Baldwin is also a member of
The Michigan Daily’s staff.
Baldwin said in an interview
that he felt this weekend’s win
was a personal redemption.
“It was a lot of fun being at
the game, regardless of what
happened last year,” he said. “If
there was any curse around me,
that’s done with.”
The past may be behind
Baldwin, but the cameras still
aren’t. He attended the game with
a group of friends and took, by
his count, more than 100 pictures
with fans of both teams.
“People swarmed out of their
seats to come talk to me,” he said.
Baldwin’s Twitter bio still
reads “nationally famous for
being a University of Michigan
student and a sports fan,” a title
he claimed after his face graced
Facebook pages and Twitter
timelines.
“I guess I was doing the
surrender cobra pose,” Baldwin
said in an interview with the Daily
last year. “And now everybody
knows who I am … I felt a bunch
of text messages right after the
game ended, but I figured it was
just people talking about the game
because, of course, it was crazy.”
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Social Media in
Political Branding
WHAT: A lecture on the
importance of social media to
political communication, with
a special focus on Indian Prime
Minister Nadrenda Modi.
WHO: Science, Technology &
Society
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Tisch Hall, 1014
Dark Matters Seminar
WHAT: Mariangela Lisanti, a
Princeton physics professor,
will discuss the theoretical
motivations and experimental
paradigms for dark matter in
new physics.
WHO: Department of Physics
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: West Hall, 335
Safavid poetry lecture
WHAT: Indiana University Prof.
Paul Losensky will examine the
social practice of poetry in Iran
during the Safavid Empire and its
tradition in the Persianate world
at large.
WHO: Department of Near
Eastern Studies
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Thayer Building, 2022
Isolating Gaza
WHAT: Visiting professor
Ilana Feldman will examine the
policies of control and blockade
Gazans live under.
WHO: Center for Middle
Eastern and North African
Studies
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Social Work Building,
1636
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Haunted Belltower
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City of Detroit’s move to remove
graffiti from plant sparks criticism
University professors, students raise economic, articist concerns
The
Packard
Automotive
Plant,
the
infamous
image
of Detroit’s poverty turned
‘graffiti haven’ — the abandoned
building is covered in neon
designs and tags — is being
wiped clean.
Located off of Interstate
94 in Detroit, the plant closed
in 1956, making it the largest
abandoned plant in the world.
It gained so much attention
locally and internationally for
graffiting by organizers and
artists that in 2010, Banksy,
an internationally renowned
street artist, tagged one of his
murals on a wall of the plant.
The city of Detroit, however,
announced last week that it
plans to clean up the Packard
Plant,
which
will
mean
removing the graffiti from the
portion of the plant the city
owns and encouraging the
owner of the rest of the Packard
Plant, Fernando Palazuelo, to
do the same. This has sparked
debate regarding the duties
of private property owners in
Detroit as well as what the role
of graffiti and street art will be
in Detroit’s future.
These renovations will not
been cheap. So far, the city
has spent about $19,000 in
its graffiti clean-up project
and Palazuelo is projected to
spend $100,000 if he agrees to
clean his portion of the plant,
according to the Detroit Free
Press.
Members of the University of
Michigan community with ties
to Detroit had mixed reactions
about
the
effect
removing
the graffiti and the overall
renovation project would have
on the city.
Critics
of
the
initiative,
such as Nick Tobier, professor
in the School of Art & Design,
said they feel as though this is
an inappropriate allocation of
government funds.
“I would say that there
are
tons
of
neighborhoods
throughout Detroit that have
been marked by, if you describe
it as, vandalism or graffiti or
broken windows,” Tobier said .
“And the lack of investment and
municipal infrastructure from
street lighting to sidewalks is
much more urgent, in terms
of the number of people it
effects, than protecting private
investment.”
While
both
the
city
of
Detroit’s
General
Services
Department
and
Palazuelo
were unavailable for immediate
comment.
However,
Tobier
emphasized the plant’s private
owners.
“The Packard Plant is now
privately owned,” Tobier said.
“If a private owner wants to
remove graffiti from their
building, that’s completely
up to them. I can’t see why
municipal or local funds
should be used to remove
graffiti
from
something
that’s owned by a Peruvian
hotel investor.”
Andrew
Thompson,
an Art & Design School
lecturer
who
lives
in
Detroit, added that he feels
removing graffiti from the
Packard Plant is more of a
public relations maneuver
than a legitimate attempt
at improving the welfare of
Detroit’s residents.
“Sure, the city wanting
to remove all the graffiti
and clean up the Packard
Plant is fine, but what about
the neighborhood directly
adjacent to the Packard
Plant where there’s blighted
buildings
in
between
individual
homeowners’
houses that I think would
actually
make
a
bigger
difference
in
residents’
WILL FEUER
Daily Staff Reporter
See DETROIT, Page 3A