FROM THE ARCHIVES


Serene Sill PHOTO COURTESY


OF EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES


Te early 1970s were a turbulent time in the United States, especially on college campuses, but nowhere is that evident in this 1972 scene outside of Sill Hall. Today’s students are more likely to be looking down at screens than paper, sideburns are less ubiquitous, and Sill is now home to the College of Technology rather than, as it was then, the Department of Industrial Education and Applied Arts. But student fondness for al fresco classes and studying seems to be a constant. John M.B. Sill, the building’s namesake, who was as responsible as any other individual for transforming Michigan Normal School into the four-year college that became Eastern, feared the designation


“college” lest it prompt students to “ape college tricks and manners, and duplicate college noise and disorder.” It would be a stretch to say he needn’t have worried, but it’s clear that some “college manners” would have been more to his liking.


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