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“A Boy of 1812″ March 2016

Things were never really what you might call cordial between the New World and Britain during the early 1800s. There was the whole mess between the United Kingdom, Ireland, and France in 1803. And European countries were focused on keeping control of the native people as well as the America settlers as the expansion in the United States was underway. Treaties and Acts and Decrees were issued one after another between Britain and the U.S., while Britain was during these years distracted by the whirlwind of hostility France was dishing out. In fact, between 1803 and 1812, political relations never really felt settled or peaceful between the U.S., Britain, and France to the people living in these countries....

Tamarack Archive essay, history, student, Tamarack, war Linda Papa Updated: March 4, 2016

Print Theses Bibliography Now Available December 2015

This month, we introduce a new section of our Special Collections page where users can easily locate the call numbers and location of any of these print theses by searching through an easy to use digital bibliography of these print theses. Searches can be made by author, degree, program, year, or title. It’s really worth a look, even if you aren’t doing research....

Thesis Collections archival, archive, collections, digital, student, university Linda Papa Updated: December 3, 2015

The Varsity News December 2015

January 1, 1918, the first publication of the Varsity News appeared on the campus of Detroit College. From the first issue to today (for almost 100 years), the Varsity News has been a very important part of campus life. It keeps students informed and connected; it offers a bridge between students and faculty activities; and it continues a tradition of providing news to the university community that may not be found any other way....

Varsity News Collection archive, newspaper, student, varsity news Linda Papa Updated: October 20, 2015

The Football Riots November 2015

No one saw it coming. It’s only a game after all, right? Lots of students, who were more interested in academics and had never bothered with attending the games, hardly noticed the decisive blow that officially ended Varsity football at the University of Detroit. But when it was officially ended on November 30, 1964, the serene setting of this peaceful campus exploded into screaming chaos resulting in two nights of student rioting that some will not soon forget....

University History Collection, University of Detroit Football Collection, University of Detroit Tower Yearbook Collection campus, school, student, UDM Linda Papa Updated: October 16, 2015

Introducing the University of Detroit Chorus Collection October 2015

The UDM Libraries/Instructional Design Studio is pleased to announce the addition of the University of Detroit Chorus Collection to our digital archives. Materials from the collection of former Chorus member, Gerald Gruska (1959-1963) are now available in digital format dedicated to the legacy of the University of Detroit Chorus and Choral Society/Club. The archive spans the early years of the Chorus from 1949 to 1970, and focuses on Chorus Directors George McLeod and Don Large. Additional material will be added as it becomes available....

University of Detroit Chorus Collection archive, choral, collections, digital, don large, sing, student, university Linda Papa Updated: October 29, 2015

James T. Callow Folklore Collection October 2015

The James T. Callow Folklore Collection helps us celebrate the month of October and the colors of autumn with a song called “October Gave a Party” (shown below) from one submission he received. The person who submitted this noted that the song originated with her aunt who learned this from her mother when she (the aunt) was six years old. Songs like this may have been lost forever if Professor Callow hadn’t devoted time and effort into collecting them. This archive is filled with the magic of folklore, riddles, poems, and songs that visitors may recognize or, like this little song, be introduced to for the first time....

James T. Callow Folklore Archive autumn, collections, fall, Folklore, season, student Linda Papa Updated: October 20, 2015

Summer School July 2015

So here it is summer. The winter term has just ended and the fall term seems far away. Even though the break between these terms is only a couple of months, it can feel like endless freedom to a lot of students. The choices seem endless regarding how to fill these potentially lazy days. For students, however, they seem to come down to only a few. They could be frivolous or practical. To so many students summer means being outside...

Course Catalogs & Bulletins archive, school, session, student Linda Papa Updated: June 17, 2015

Education, 1851 June 2014

History has a way of collapsing time. It moves along a social timeline from major event to major event and the small steps that occurred to the human beings involved in the day to day struggle between those events is often overlooked. We see for example the settling of Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 (and the African slaves who were included in this), the Civil War in 1861, and the emancipation of slaves in 1863. We’re told that slavery had a long history of cruelty and abuse, and we are hesitant to spend too much time exploring the detailed lives of those who survived this....

Black Abolitionist Archive abolition, African Americans, archival, black abolitionist, black history, editorial, education, emancipation, freedom, history, slavery, student Linda Papa Updated: May 27, 2014

“A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words” April 2014

I’m sure you’ve heard the old adage, “A picture is worth 1,000 words.” The truth in this saying is evidenced by the variety of photos without text in the later issues of the Tower Yearbook. The 1973 edition (titled, “The Urban 1973 Almanac and Yearbook, A Guide to the University of Detroit”) is a great example of this. The title page of this yearbook alone, offered as it is in the curly-ques and leafy design of an actual almanac, is a reflection of the times. In those days, a return to a simpler time was encouraged: back to the present moment, back to nature, back to the farm, back to the almanac. And in this urging to slow down the frantic rush to the future, we have the potential bridge between university life and the changing cultural....

University of Detroit Tower Yearbook Collection 1973, annual, art, campus, photography, publication, student, university, yearbook Linda Papa Updated: April 4, 2014

Changing Seasons April 2014

The very first Tamarack (volume 1, number 1) was published in April 1897. That spring must surely have begun in a similar fashion to the way it begins today: hopeful, bursting with flowers, sunshine, and the unspoken promise of a fresh start. The students who haunted the hallowed halls of Detroit College back then must have welcomed the end of winter with as much enthusiasm as today’s students. Spring meant a release from negotiating the icy streets, the snowy treks to campus, the unyielding freezing temperatures, and the general mess of winter. Back then without the advantages of current cold temperature attire, it must have taken a lot of determination just to get to class. And how wonderful it must have been to at last know the sun would grace those final days of classes before the end of the semester....

Tamarack Archive campus, Detroit College, education, essay, history, publication, school, student, Tamarack Linda Papa Updated: March 13, 2014

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