Emily Richmond

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The Hechinger Report • 11th May 2020

Little-noticed victims of the higher education shutdowns: college towns

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Unencumbered by groups of jubilant students snapping selfies in their caps and gowns, absent the usual bumper-to-bumper caravans of out-of-town vehicles and free of swarming crowds in maize and blue, a pedestrian could do what would otherwise have been unthinkable on a University of Michigan graduation day: walk the length of Main Street downtown without breaking stride. Fifty thousand visitors usually flock to Ann Arbor for the spring commencement ceremonies. Instead, this M
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