The Student Center

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The two men sitting side by side couldn’t be more different.

One is a dignified former college professor who quit his university job so he could teach people how to read. The other is an animated ex-con, fresh out of jail, who visits the teacher every day just to be in his presence, as if some of his eloquence will rub off.

“I needed something like him in my life for quite some time.” says Scott Hudgins, the 44-year-old unofficial student of Mike Walker, the man he’s made his mentor. His eyes fill with admiration when he looks at Walker, his body language is deferential.

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The two sit in a cramped little store owned by the former teacher, who’s known as “Doctor” around here by those who know of his academic past. The place is regally named The Snack and Gift Shop of the Michigan Academy of Reading Improvement. It’s in a little cove of a brick basement in the Detroit Boulevard Hotel at Second and Temple, which rents cheap rooms in the Cass Corridor’s south end...


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