July 6, 2012

Percy Bates has seen just about everything in his nearly 50 years on the University of Michigan campus.

He was hired to the full-time faculty in the middle of the black student movement in 1968; he was on campus during the upheaval of the following few years and had a ringside seat for Ann Arbor's evolution from a hippie town into one of the best cities in America to find a job.

But for Bates, whose run as the U-M athletic department's faculty athletics representative ended in June after 22 years, the tidal wave that rocked Ann Arbor still stands alone.

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