of the new Little Caesars world 
headquarters.

The Detroit location may 

also host autograph signing 
events 
with 
professional 

athletes, 
some 
of 
whom 

played for the University and 
currently live in the city.

Travis 
Arbogast, 
vice 

president 
of 
development 

at Olympia Development of 
Michigan, said The M Den 
opening will be a fresh addition 
to diversify the stores at the 

Columbia Street shopping 
center.

“As an athletics retailer, 

The M Den will be a fitting 
and welcome addition to 
The District Detroit, the 
only destination in the 
nation where four major 
sports teams play in the 
city’s urban core,” Arbogast 
said. “The apparel and 
merchandise 
shop 
is 

among many storefronts 
planned 
for 
Columbia 

Street that will continue to 
bring retail diversity to our 
steadily-growing district.”

Scott Hirth, co-owner 

and 
president 
of 
The 

M Den, had hopes of 
establishing a Detroit store 
since 2013, especially as 
the 
University 
became 

more involved in the city.

“It was very important 

to us that the next round 
of investment was in the 
city of Detroit,” Hirth said. 
“With the resurgence, we 
wanted The M Den and by 
extension, the University 
of Michigan, to put our 
stamp on Detroit.”

However, the opening of 

The M Den’s new location, 
along with several other retail 
flagship stores in Detroit, raises 
questions 
about 
businesses’ 

and entrepreneurs’ attempts 
to 
“revitalize” 
Detroit. 

Many Detroiters identify the 
economic development seems 
to be pushed in certain areas 
of Detroit while the rest of the 
city is left largely ignored.

LSA junior Alyson Grigsby 

comes from an area of Detroit 
near where the new M Den 
will be built. She said though 
opening a store like The M Den 
may help Detroit financially, it 
is important to question why 
only some parts of Detroit are 
included in city growth.

“On the one hand, sure, 

you can probably bring a little 
bit more revenue to Detroit,” 
Grigsby said. “But Detroit is 
only really being developed in 
certain areas like the Midtown 
and Downtown area, that’s the 
only thing that really irks me. 
Just them selling M Den stuff 
isn’t necessarily a bad thing. 
I’m just wondering how come 
groups that do so much in the 
Midtown and Downtown areas 
like Little Caesars Arena don’t 
do anything with other parts of 
Detroit.”

The new M Den location 

LITE R ATI BOOK RE ADING 

The University of Michigan’s 

School 
of 
Art 
& 
Design 

is 
now 
offering 
a 
three-

credit course designed to make 
voting 
“irresistible.” 
Associate 

Profs. Stephanie Rowden and 
Hannah Smotrich teach the new 
course titled Voting is Sexy.

“Do you believe in the power 

of voting? Do you want to be part 
of a super passionate creative 
team working to make voting 
irresistible? We need designers, 
photographers, 
illustrators, 

Instagram 
magicians, 
pop-up 

event 
geniuses, 
videographers, 

animators, social media stars, 
snappy 
writers, 
performers, 

and unabashed political nerds,” 

the course description on the 
Stamps website reads. “Students in 
this team-based class will create a 
high-energy campaign of pop-up 
events, posters, video, social media 
and you name it. You’re going 
to educate, entertain, motivate, 
inspire and enliven your peers 
all the way to the ballot box on 
November 6, 2018.”

Rowden told WWJ News Radio 

the class partners Art & Design 
and Music, Theatre & Dance 
students to create a campaign of 
events and media projects and 
raise awareness for the Nov. 6 
election.

“I was looking at the last mid-

term election — 2014 — and I 

noticed that 43 percent of all 
Michiganders voted but only 14 
percent of U of M students turned 
out to vote in that election,” 
Rowden said. “I looked at that as 
a really important civic challenge 
but also as an artist it’s a really 
interesting creative challenge.”

Today, the course tweeted a 

photo 
of 
the 
students’ 
art 

installation on the walls of an 
Art & Design School building to 
remind University members of the 
day’s special occasion: National 
Voter Registration Day.

Other student organizations on 

campus highlighted opportunities 
for University members to register 
to vote. The U-M Museum of Art, 

in partnership with the Ginsberg 
Center, offers voter registration in 
the UMMA Forum every Tuesday 
until Oct. 9 under UMMA’s VOTE! 
2018 
initiative. 
Registration 

opportunities were also offered 
Tuesday in Haven Hall until 2 p.m.

Central Student Government 

President 
Daniel 
Greene, 
a 

Public Policy senior, reminded 
students 
via 
Twitter 
to 

vote in an effort to win the 
#Big10VotingChallenge, which is 
an initiative created by University 
of Michigan students and faculty 
in which all 14 Big 10 schools will 
compete for the highest student 
voter turnout rates in the 2018 
election.

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Tuesday, September 24, 1985

23 students, 1 prof among 

those jailed

Forty-eight demonstrators, 

including at least 23 University 
students and one professor, 
were arrested yesterday 
during a sit-in protesting U.S. 
aid to Central America in 
Congressman Carl Pursell’s 
Ann Arbor office. 

The arrests came about six 

hours after the protest, which 
attracted about 100 chanting 
demonstrators, began.

THE AFTERNOON’S events 

followed in this order:

*4:55 p.m. - Two Pittsfield 

Township Police officers arrive 
at the scene, read protesters 
the tresspass act which states 
that they’ll be trespassing 
if they don’t leave by 5 p.m. 
Police say they’ll return to the 
scene at 5:05 p.m.;

*5:15 p.m. - Police return to 

the scene of the demonstration 
and tell protesters that they 
will be arrested if they don’t 
leave the office;

*5:20 p.m. - Protesters, some 

carried out of the office by 
police and others walking out, 
are arrested and loaded into 

a Washtenaw County Sheriff 
bus and taken-to the Pittsfield 
Township Police station;

*7:30 p.m. - All of the 

protesters are released on their 
own recognizance. They will 
face a $50 fine and/or up to 
30 days in jail if charges are 
pressed.

Pursell never arrived at the 

protest. Ron Dankert,. owner 
of the building which houses 
Pursell’s office, called the 
police.

“PROTESTING IS the only 

way we’ll stop our government 
from contributing to the 

atrocities in Central America,” 
said Mark Weisbrot, an 
economics teaching assistant 
one of the protesters arrested. 

Yesterday’s protest, was 

organized by members of the 
Latin American Solidarity 
Committee, the Humanity 
Assistance Project for 
Independent Agricultural 
Development in Nicaragua, 
World Hunger Education 
Action Committee, Society 
for a Sane Nuclear Policy, and 
several church groups.

THE PROTESTERS oppose 

the Reagan administration’s 
request for $483 million to 

be appropriated to a Foreign 
Assistance bill. The bill is 
expected to be voted on in 
congress next

week. Pursell’s District 

Coordinator Cynthia Hudgins 
said that she doesn’t know for 
sure how the congressman will 
vote on the bill. But she added 
that judging by the way he has 
voted in the past, it’s safe to 
assume that he will support 
the measure. 

“Pursell has voted to 

support this terror in spite of 
an overwhelming majority of 
letters and phone calls from 
his constituents opposing 
his position on these issues. 

He has heard from his 
constituents, but he, is not 
listening. We therefore have no 
other recourse than to protest,” 
Weisbrot said.

AND THAT is just what the 

students and city residents did. 
They sang peace songs:

“I’m going to lay down my 

war books,

Down by the riverside,
Down by the riverside,
Down by the riverside,
I’m going to lay down my war
books,

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: 48 PROTESTERS ARRESTES AT SIT IN 

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