UDM Students Keep Detroit Children Safe This Halloween

"Safety Street" Returns on Oct. 30, 4-7 p.m.

DETROIT, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pounds of Snickers, Milky Way,
Hershey, and Twix bars will be handed out to brave little goblins and ghouls
visiting University of Detroit Mercy for their 20th annual "Safety Street."
The fun and safe "trick or treating" environment will be held on Friday,
October 30, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. in the Fountain Lounge on the McNichols campus.
While school buses from area schools will be delivering children, the event is
free and open to the public as well.

Over 500 neighborhood children from grades K-5th will be attending "Safety
Street" this year, dressed in their favorite costumes. They will be collecting
candy from UDM students who are also wearing their Halloween attire. UDM
students will also offer free face painting to children during the event.

On October 29th is the Safety Street Facade Blowout Party. This event will be
at 7 p.m. in the fountain lounge. The night before is always and evening of
fun and comradery. Fraternities, sororities, and student groups are involved.
The School of Dentistry participates by giving out free toothbrushes,
toothpaste and dental floss. The School of Architecture was the first to
establish Safety Street for children. The entire UDM community gets involved
in this campus event.

For more information regarding the event, contact Student Life at
313-578-0341.

University of Detroit Mercy is Michigan's largest private Catholic University,
with approximately 100 academic majors and programs. Sponsored by the Society
of Jesus (the Jesuits) and the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, the
University has campuses located in downtown and northwest Detroit.

UDM is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and the largest of 18 Mercy
institutions of higher education in the United States. For the ninth
consecutive year, University of Detroit Mercy is listed in the top tier of
Midwestern Master's Universities in the 2010 edition of the U.S.News and World
Report's "America's Best Colleges."

Gary D. Lichtman
Media Relations Director
313-993-1254

SOURCE University of Detroit Mercy

Gary D. Lichtman, Media Relations Director, University of Detroit Mercy,
+1-313-993-1254