Archives + Special Collections

Welcome to all new and returning students! Hope you had an enjoyable summer and are ready to get into the swing of a new school year. There are all kinds of new things happening in the library including some new group study rooms. Its your tuition dollars at work! For all the returning students, you might not notice right away, but we have a new library page to search out what books, journals and media are available through the Detroit...

Freshmen today don’t know how lucky they are that they don’t have to put up with some of the restrictions that past UD freshmen had to follow. The most noticeable was the rule that they had to wear these caps (tams for girls) or “pots” as they were sometimes called, whenever they were on campus. This tradition was around from the early 1900′s until about 1960. The rules may have changed over the years, for example the 1930 freshman could...