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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