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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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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

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WHERE: Social Work Building, 
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International Horror 
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“Finders Keepers,” and “White 
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Haunted Belltower

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to the Lurie Ann and Robert H. 
Tower for a spooky haunted bell 
tower. 
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WHERE: North Campus Bell 
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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

