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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 
early action
applicants
increases

Inaugural Trotter Lecture 
features Black activist poet

ADMISSIONS

CAMPUS LIFE

RESEARCH
STATE OF THE CITY

Surgery 
grades are 
unhelpful, 
 

study says

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