DETROIT -- Girls screamed and shouted his name, their foreheads pressed against the glass. Tears streamed down their faces, and some were too overwhelmed to speak. A few teens maneuvered past the rapper's handlers, wrapped their arms around him and smiled for photos. "You helped me through my breakup!" one told him.
It wasn't surprising that Kanye West protégé and rising star Big Sean inspired this much excitement in Detroit, his hometown. But the location was a bit out of the ordinary -- as he made press rounds for his new album, "Hall of Fame," he spent a good chunk of Thursday afternoon handing out backpacks to kids in a building normally used as a farmers market.
A couple thousand students crowded Detroit Public Schools' back-to-school fair in Eastern Market, where they could learn about careers, play educational games, do science experiments and receive supplies. Organized by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, new MBA students had just three days after arriving for their first semester to plan the event.
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