#Wayne State University

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DeRoy Auditorium, by Minoru Yamasaki (1962-1964).

Detroit, Michigan - USA.

© Roberto Conte (2018)

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DeRoy Auditorium at Wayne State University in Detroit, designed by Minoru Yamasaki.

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Sun Ra + MC5 at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan on June 18th, 1967

Artwork by Gary Grimshaw (presumably)

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by Mike LaChance

Police cleared the anti-Israel encampment at Wayne State University in Detroit on Thursday morning after giving campus protesters a one-hour warning to vacate the area. Several arrests were made, and a group of students continued to protest, but the police swiftly cleared the camp.

The continued standoff between the school and the protesters recently forced all classes to go online rather than in person.

FOX 2 in Detroit reported:

Police dismantle pro-Palestinian encampment at Wayne State University; protesters arrested Police donning riot gear descended on a pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus of Wayne State University on Thursday morning. Officers could be seen removing protesters from the encampment and breaking down tents. The encampment was set up last week amid the violence in Gaza. Among the activists’ demands are divestment from weapons manufacturing companies supplying Israel, a full disclosure of investments, and ceasing delegation trips to Israel. After protesters were moved off the encampment, they began marching on the campus, where some people clashed with police officers. According to the university, at least 12 people were arrested. The removal of the protesters comes days after the Detroit university shifted to remote operations, citing an “ongoing public safety issue.” In a new statement from school president Kimberly Andrews Espy, she said the encampment “presented legal, health and safety, and operational challenges for our community.”

See the videos below:

Listen to the shrieking as one of the protesters was arrested.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who had visited the encampment the night before, must have been on speed dial for the protesters because she showed up at the scene quickly and berated the police over the alleged removal of a hijab from one of the arrested students.

This is what Tlaib was doing the night before at the encampment: helping the protesters block the movement of a police car.

Naturally, the students arrested after the camp was cleared were released later.

The Detroit Free Press reported:

Protesters released from jail after being detained by police at WSU encampment Protesters detained by police Thursday morning when officers cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment on Wayne State University’s campus were released hours later to applause, hugs and the sounds of honking horns and drums. At least 100 protesters gathered outside of the Detroit Detention Center, to await their release around 5 p.m. Thursday after the early morning police action. With arms linked, five detained protesters walked out of the Detroit Detention Center with their lawyers and family members. They were met with cheers and tears of joy from those who came to show support. The crowd’s chants of “Free Palestine” hummed as they drew closer to those released.

Read that last line again and ask yourself which side most of the press is on in this issue.

Featured image via YouTube.

Videos are at the link.

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Nighttime view of 1962 AMC Rambler sedans parked in front of McGregor Memorial Conference Center at Wayne State University. Label on sleeve: "AMC Rambler full line models, 1962."

Mickey McGuire and Jim Northmore Boulevard Photographic Collection

Courtesy of the National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library

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By Cheryl LaBash

Hundreds gathered in Grand Circus Park on May 27 to march through downtown Detroit, protesting the recent U.S.-armed Zionist attack that set refugee tents ablaze in Rafah, adding more bodies to the tens of thousands martyred in less than eight months. CNN confirmed that the munitions used in the deadly strike on Rafah were U.S.-made, provided by Genocide Joe Biden.

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Police have broken up a pro-Palestinian encampment at Wayne State University in Detroit and arrested at least 12 people after organizers turned down offers to meet with school officials and refused to leave. Video shows Wayne State and Detroit police in riot gear tearing down fencing and breaking down tents erected on May 23 on green space near the undergraduate library. The protesters chanted: “There’s no riot here. Why are you in riot gear?” University President Kimberly Andrews Espy cited health and safety concerns and disruptions to campus operations for the police deployment. The camp, she said, “created an environment of exclusion – one in which some members of our campus community felt unwelcome and unable to fully participate in campus life”. Protest camps sprang up across the US and in Europe as students demanded their universities stop doing business with Israel or companies they say support its war on Gaza. Organisers seek to amplify calls to end the war, which they describe as a genocide against the Palestinians.

-- "Riot police dismantle pro-Palestinian camp at university in Detroit" by Stephen Quillen and Nils Adler for Al Jazeera, 30 May 2024 16:50 GMT

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Animals: Elephants, In front of Majestic Building, Detroit, wearing baseball cap

Virtual Motor City

Wayne State University Library Systems Digital Collections

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Free Palestine; Stop the genocide; Divest

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Palestine solidarity graffiti seen at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan

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Map: Detroit's Urban Environment in Color: Revitalizing Detroit's Development Ecosystem

by: Lisa Kyle, Garrett Gillis, Noah Frey (Wayne State University) We chose to focus on the present development of Detroit because, in our view, the city is at a crucial precipice. The latter half of the 20th century was not kind to our city — but recent blight removal projects give us a unique opportunity. That opportunity is, of course, to rebuild the city with modern values and sustainability…

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Ghostbusters Afterlife

I grew up with the original Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II, and Ghostbusters Afterlife takes place 37 years after Ghostbusters.

Finn Wolfhard is in it from Stranger Things-which referenced the first movie in one of the episodes. J.K. Simmons from Red One is in it. I didn't know this until I Googled the Cast. Oliver Cooper plays Egon Spengler, as does Harold Ramis. Harold Ramis passed from a mysterious illness, which means that there was no name, the symptoms often mimicked other diseases, and medical science can't come up with a name for it. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, began this way, so did multiple sclerosis. Many diseases and disorders that we know about today began as mysterious illness and kept being researched until a name was found.

Carrie Coon is in this, too, and so is McKenna Grace.

J.K. Simmons is from Grosse Pointe, MI (check out the Original Pancake House if you're ever out that way-I'm originally from Warren, MI, just north of there), and Ernie Hudson went to Wayne State University, like I did (GO WARRIORS!). My dad is also an alumni of Wayne State-GO WARRIORS.

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by Maya Siegmann

As a student starting my first year at Wayne State University, please allow me to share with you what is happening on campus.

First, a bit about myself. For the past two years, I have been active with Hillel of Metro Detroit while attending Oakland Community College. I was an Applebaum Family Intern and the president of the Jewish Student Organization at OCC, and I participated in Hillel’s J-Talk and Israel Fellowship programs. I am currently the president of the WSU Jewish Student Organization.

I was looking forward to being in Detroit and starting my WSU student experience. Then, the WSU Student Senate posted a statement that made me feel that, as an active supporter of Israel, I am not a welcome member of the Wayne State student community.

The Student Senate wrote a “letter of support standing with our Palestinian Student Population.”

In this letter they state: “This month, Palestinians sifted through the wreckage of their destroyed homes and their damaged psyches. More than 1,000 Israeli soldiers stormed the overcrowded camp last week as rockets and drone missiles struck private homes and public infrastructure. Nobody could guess where the next barrage would come from. Jenin raid is over, but Palestinians are left to cope with the trauma. The camp in Jenin was established in 1953 for refugees from more than 50 villages and cities in the northern parts of Palestine. Since then, it has been the target of continuous Israeli military raids. As a student body, we strongly condemn the genocide of the Palestinian people by the Israeli apartheid government.”

There is no mention that Israel’s operation targeted terrorist cells because the Palestinian Authority had abdicated its policing of Jenin. No mention of the numerous Israeli victims of Palestinian terror. Characterizing this mission as genocide and the Israeli government as apartheid makes clear where my student government stands.

Ironically, earlier in the statement they claim that “Student Senate is focused on the student experience first, ensuring inclusivity and equity for our peers.”

I certainly do not feel included, nor do other Jewish students.

A couple of years ago, my brother was among a group of Jewish students who met with then President Wilson and Provost Kornbluh after a similar incident with Student Senate. While President Wilson was understanding, the students felt that Provost Kornbluh was not.

Now that there is a new Wayne State University president, I hope the administration will press the Student Senate to focus their efforts on campus issues rather than complex international matters that warrant much more nuance.

It is sad that this is what Jewish students have to deal with at Wayne State. Fortunately, we have Hillel of Metro Detroit to help us, along with the greater Detroit Jewish community.

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Academic solidarity

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Little Caesars Arena was going to change Detroit per the Ilitch Family, then it did nothing

This morning, I saw an article from Axios that discussed the 10th anniversary of Little Caesars Arena’s opening and how it has never hosted an NBA or NHL All-Star game. I found this interesting because I spent time in Detroit and remember how much the Ilitch family pushed for this new arena and surrounding developments. Back in 2014, the city of Detroit was debating what to do with the old arena…