It's known as "The Oil Capital of Michigan" even though the supply of oil didn't last long. Here's info and vintage photos of Mount Pleasant from 1900-1911...
Fat snowflakes were falling in Mount Pleasant when fierce MAC rivals Western Michigan and Central Michigan kicked off in a nationally televised game on ESPNU.
Central Michigan sent keyboard stickers to students to place over the letters C,M, and U on their computers and laptops.
Seems like a simple but effective marketing idea, right?
There's just one problem — the letters C, M, and U don't appear in that same order on keyboards.