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During State of
the City address,
Duggan talks public
safety, recovery
By ALLANA AKHTAR
Daily Staff Reporter
In his second State of the City
address, Detroit Mayor Mike
Duggan praised his adminis-
tration both for improving the
Detroit’s economic prospects
and the city’s image regionally
and nationwide.
Additionally, Duggan high-
lighted the importance of ensur-
ing Detroit’s longtime residents
benefit from the city’s recovery.
“Can we build our recovery
on the principle of economic
inclusion?” he said. “What will
the recovery of the city mean
if the folks that have been here
aren’t a part of it?”
Duggan delivered the address
from
the
Redford
Theatre,
located in Detroit’s Brightmoor
neighborhood.
Residential
blight hit the district particular-
ly hard and large swaths of land
remain vacant.
Duggan noted the addition
of 500 new jobs in Brightmoor
with the opening of a new
Meijer, and continued to dis-
cuss economic and community
recovery throughout the rest of
the address.
“This community is fighting
back like so many others,” Dug-
gan said.
Duggan said his administra-
tion has worked to save houses
from demolition through the
Building Detroit website, which
auctions city-owned homes to
buyers who agree to fix and
inhabit them within six months.
The administration is also help-
ing sell vacant side lots to com-
munity members interested in
maintaining properties adjacent
to their own.
The mayor said property val-
ues are increasing in 25 Detroit
‘U’ researchers
argue quality of
care not impacted
by evaluations
By ISOBEL FUTTER
For the Daily
Students aren’t the only ones
receiving report cards.
Many hospitals earn grades,
too. But according to a study
by
University
researchers,
surgical safety remains con-
stant across similar hospitals,
whether or not the hospital
received report cards.
The study’s authors consid-
ered the 263 hospitals evalu-
ated by the American College
of Surgeons’ National Surgical
Quality Improvement Program
report card. The group found
that the hospitals participating
in the evaluation program not
experience improvement over
time compared to hospitals not
receiving report cards.
Documents
include autopsy
report, statement
from officer
By EMMA KERR
Daily News Editor
The Washtenaw Prosecu-
tor’s Office released several
documents Monday related
to the fatal shooting of Aura
Rosser by an Ann Arbor police
officer.
Following an investigation
by the Michigan State Police,
Prosecutor
David
Mackie
determined last month that
Ann
Arbor
Police
Officer
David Ried’s shooting of Ross-
er, a 40-year-old Black woman
from Ann Arbor, constituted
lawful self defense.
The initial incident report
said officers were dispatched
to Rosser’s home following a
911 call made by her ex-boy-
friend. When officers arrived,
Rosser was holding a kitchen
knife and was threatening
officers with the knife and
moving toward them. The
knife appeared to be six to
eight inches long, according to
the report.
In the documents, which
included the autopsy report,
lab reports and crime scene
BRIAN BECKWITH/Daily
Engineering junior Matthew Maranzano and LSA senior Jessica Golden make Valentine’s Day cards during Fireside
Tuesdays at Pierpoint Commons.
BE MINE , VALE NTINE
Over 27,000
submit early,
marking 17.4
percent uptick
By GENEVIEVE HUMMER
Daily Staff Reporter
The upward trend continues.
The Office of Undergraduate
Admissions received more than
27,000 early action applications
this year, according to Univer-
sity spokesman Rick Fitzgerald.
The figure is up from nearly
23,000 early action applications
in 2014 — a 17.4 percent increase.
“Overall we expect admission
applicants to increase again this
year and this increase is the early
sign of that overall increase,”
Fitzgerald wrote in an e-mail to
The Michigan Daily on Tuesday.
Between 2012 and 2013, early
applications rose 15.8 percent
from 19,000 to 22,000; between
2013 and 2014, the number
increased an additional 4.5 per-
cent from 22,000 to 23,000.
For
the
2014-2015
school
year, undergraduate enrollment
increased slightly from the year
prior, though the University had
intended to curb the number of
students enrolling for the Class
of 2018.
During
September’s
Board
of Regents meeting, University
Provost Martha Pollack said the
Office of Admissions plans to
reduce the size of future classes,
which could include shifting
more early applicants to a wait-
list.
“We have been over-enrolling
every year for the past five years
and we have to stop this,” she
said. “I’m not happy about it.”
Students deferred to regular
admission were notified that
their application remains under
consideration in an e-mail from
Erica Sanders, interim director
of admissions.
“Our high application volume,
coupled with the very strong
credentials of our applicants in
recent years, has contributed
to an increasingly competitive
admissions process,” the let-
ter reads. “As a result, we are
writing to inform you that your
application is currently being
deferred for further review.”
Speaker touches
on importance of
“troublemaking” in
achieving change
By KATIE PENROD
Daily Staff Reporter
Activist Dr. Cheryl Clarke
read poetry and facilitated
discussion about the nation’s
changing racial climate Tues-
day during the inaugural Wil-
liam Monroe Trotter Lecture.
Sponsored by the Trotter
Multicultural
Center
along
with a dozen other university
units and departments, the lec-
ture took place in the Michigan
League Ballroom and focused
on the issues of racism, femi-
nism and lesbianism.
Anjali Anturkar, associate
vice president for student life,
delivered opening remarks at
the event, noting the impor-
tance of a regularly scheduled
diversity-oriented
presenta-
tion.
“This
inaugural
William
Trotter Lecture invites us to
embrace the reality that each
of us have multiple identities,”
Anturkar said. “We are called
on to create and sustain inclu-
sive space for everyone.”
Clarke, who was introduced
as a Black lesbian femi-
nist, is the former dean of
students at Rutgers University,
where she received her mas-
ter’s and doctorate in English.
Prior to her position as dean,
she was the founding director
of the Office of Diverse Com-
munity Affairs and Lesbian/
Gay Concerns at Rutgers.
Known for her poetry and
activism, Clarke’s published
books of poetry include “Nar-
ratives: Poems in the Tradition
of Black Women,” “Living as a
See EARLY ACTION, Page 3A
See TROTTER, Page 3A
See DETROIT, Page 3A
See FILES, Page 3A
See EVALUATION, Page 3A
SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily
The Calidore Quartet holds a recital including pieces by Mozart, Shaw and Mendelssohn in Britton Recital Hall on Tuesday.
SPARE A QUARTET ?
Detroit mayor
says the city is
fighting back
Prosecutor releases files
in Rosser shooting case
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Number of
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increases
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ADMISSIONS
CAMPUS LIFE
RESEARCH
STATE OF THE CITY
Surgery
grades are
unhelpful,
study says
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