University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Nose in her book, first-year ISA student Cori Cunningham studies on the Diag. A return to schoolwork greeted students in the fall, photo by Cae an Jordan BEGINNING Kathleen Belanger, a junior English major in the School of Education, stands in front of the bookshelf in her apart- ment. Among the titles are a $60.40 copy of The Riverside Shakespeare and numerous writing guides. I spent so much on books this year, says Belanger, as she fingers the jackets. More than ever before. All part of the fall ritual of starting classes again. The year proved the same, with lines outside campus bookstores streaming down the sidewalks. I don ' t really mind it, saidjuniorengineer- ing major James Boomis. You have to expect it. With the new semester, students had to face new classes, new professors, and sometimes new schedules. Particularly with the compli- cations surrounding the new Wolverine Access, questions arose and students often did not know where to turn, add- ing insult to injury. I am so confused with the new registration system that I am hoping I won ' t have to drop any classes or anything, said junior elementary educa- tion major Marissa Neidlinger. Despite whatever obstacles that came with summer fad- ing into fall, the school year opened and students returned back to class. BY CAELAN JORDAN Michigan Life 19

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A STADI BY CORTNEY DUEWEKE Hoards of people - stu- dents, alumni and visitors - lined the streets in their journey to the stadium, dressed from head to toe in maize and blue Michi- gan garb. Scalpers paced in front of the Union and clustered on State Street, while children and adults packed into Michigan Sta- dium to be part of one of the largest crowds in the country on that day. The contagious crackle of ex- citement throughout Ann Arbor on a football Satur- day was obvious even to newcomers. Football was a deep- rooted tradition in Ann Arbor, and became a word that was inextricably linked with the University ' s name. Many believed that no other college in the coun- try had the fortunate bal- ance of exceptional aca- demics and athletics that the University had. We have the best foot- ball team in the country, said Andrew Sigman, a re- cent economics graduate. Around the community, you can see that everyone ' s excited. I still go to every football game; I don ' tthink I ' ve missed a game the whole time I ' ve been here. Sigman said he no longer had a set football Saturday schedule, as many people did, but noted that the long trek to the stadium from North Cam- pus was formerly part of his usual routine. We had to ride the bus and walk, he explained. I was usu- ally ready to go to sleep by r g y Catching a football, two students partici- pate in tradition before a football game. For many fans, football Saturdays were filled with their own aspirations of athletic stardom; students played impromptu games across campus before the game at Michigan Stadium. photo by Mike Cutri the time I got there, but then I gotall excited again. University alumnus Kurt Muendelein, Jr. .graduated in 1964 and had attended nearly 70 University foot- ball games since his fresh- man year. There ' s a cer- tain mystique about being in the Big House with over 100,000 people, he said. CONTINUE: Although he claimed that ON PAGE 2: he never really did much before the games when he was a student, 34 years later he began coming to Ann Arbor hours in ad- STORY Michigan Life 21