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The
University of Michigan
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The
School of Social Work Building is located at 1080 South University
Avenue.
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Ulrich's
Books is a popular bookstore on the University of Michigan campus.
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Shapiro
Undergraduate Library (referred to by the student population, affectionately,
as the UGLi) is located in the basement, first and second floors
of the Shapiro Library Building. It is a popular study and meeting
place for U-M undergraduates, and has a solid, generalist collection
of about 200,000 books and journals.
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The
largest and most prominent of the University of Michigan Libraries
is the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, the primary research collection
for the humanities and social sciences. It contains over 3.5 million
volumes and over 10,000 periodicals written in more than 300 languages.
Commonly cited collecting strengths of the Graduate Library include
English and French history; papyrology; Germanic history and culture;
classical archeology; military history; English Literature; social
and political movements.
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A
brass block "M", a symbol of the university, is embedded
at the center of the Diag. Local legend has it that if a UM student
steps on the M during his or her first semester at the university,
the student will fail his or her first blue book exam. The only
way to reverse this "curse" was to run naked from the
campus belltower during the strokes of midnight to two statues of
pumas at the Natural Science Museum, then back to the tower before
it stopped ringing. This has been made considerably more difficult
in recent years as the belltower no longer rings at midnight.
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The
Diag, or Diagonal Green, is a large open space in the middle of
the university's Central Campus. The Diag derives its name from
the many sidewalks running near or through it in diagonal directions.
It is arguably the busiest site on the university campus, hosting
a variety of events including outdoor concerts, fundraisers, demonstrations,
and sun bathing. The Diag is also a popular spot for local people
to hang out.
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University
of Michigan
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of
M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research
university in the state of Michigan. The university was founded
in 1817 in Detroit, about 20 years before the territory of
Michigan officially became a state, and moved to Ann Arbor
in 1837. Today, it is the state's oldest university and the
flagship campus; there are two satellite campuses —
the University of Michigan-Flint and the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
The university is internationally renowned for its academics.
In its last published survey in 1995, the National Research
Council ranked UM third in the United States in a study that
aggregated evaluations of 41 graduate disciplines and is considered
as one of the original eight Public Ivys.
Source:
Wikipedia
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