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Black Lives Matter protesters gather in front of Ann Arbor City Hall on Thursday evening to honor the one year anniversary of the death of Ann Arbor resident
Aura Rosser. Demonstrators held signs calling for the firing of Ann Arbor Police Officer David Ried, who fatally shot Rosser last November.
After police fatally
shot A2 woman,
activists continue
calls for justice
By LARA MOEHLMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
Nearly one year after an
Ann Arbor police officer fatally
shot Ann Arbor resident Aura
Rosser
while
responding
to
domestic violence call, members
of Ann Arbor to Ferguson — a
local activist group associated
with the Black Lives Matter
movement — protested outside
City Hall on Thursday night as
part of a continuing effort to
condemn and raise awareness of
police brutality.
The organization was formed
one year ago in direct protest
to the nature of Rosser’s death.
On Nov. 9, 2014, Officer David
Ried shot and killed Rosser. On
Jan. 30, 2015, the Washtenaw
County
prosecutor’s
report
deemed Ried’s actions reflective
of “lawful self-defense.” No
charges were brought against
him.
According
to
the
report,
police officers arrived on the
scene following a call from
Victor Stephens, with whom
Rosser was living at the time.
The officers saw her attacking
Stephens with a knife in her
hand; when she saw the officers,
she began to approach them.
Ried fatally shot Rosser after
ordering her to put down the
knife, while fellow Officer Mark
Raab simultaneously shot Rosser
with a Taser.
Thursday’s
protest,
which
included
about
30
people,
strategically took place during an
event at City Hall for community
members to meet candidates
for the Ann Arbor Police Chief
position.
O’shai
Ahmad-Robinson,
Ann Arbor to Ferguson event
organizer, said the organization’s
ENVIRONMENT
Forum explores
efforts to create a
campus culture of
sustainability
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
The
University’s
annual
Sustainability
Town
Hall
focused this year on three main
goals: reducing waste, cutting
greenhouse gas emissions and
creating a culture of sustainability
on campus.
About 40 people gathered
Thursday
morning
at
the
Hatcher Graduate Library to
hear University President Mark
Schlissel and other University
officials
discuss
campus
sustainability efforts.
“What we’re doing together
isn’t new,” Schlissel said. “What
we’re doing is continuing the
efforts made by many of you
to push hard as a university to
live up to our responsibility to
environmental stewardship and
our responsibility to subsequent
generations.”
During a leadership breakfast
in October, Schlissel outlined
several
efforts
to
improve
sustainability through a new
recycling and compost plan, a
waste management study within
the University’s health system,
a new natural gas fuel turbine
project and piloting a zero-waste
game day during the 2016 football
season.
Last year, Schlissel called
for a review of the University’s
sustainability
goals,
first
launched
under
former
University President Mary Sue
Coleman in 2011. The goals were
not originally scheduled up for
review for another year, but
Schlissel moved up the process
after
receiving
letters
from
faculty and students.
The University’s most recent
annual
sustainability
report
found that carbon gas emissions
decreased in 2012, but increased
in 2013. Waste production has
increased since the adoption of
the 2011 sustainability goals, but
emissions from transportation
have decreased.
Richard
Robben,
executive
director of Plant Operations,
HEALTH
Research has
potential to combat
onset of cardiac
arrhythmias
By MAYA SHANKAR
Daily Staff Reporter
A new nanoparticle developed
at the University may prove key to
treating a condition that affects
nearly 4 million Americans a year.
As part of a five-year ongoing
study, a University research team
announced late last month they
had created a nanoparticle that
could be essential to a targeted
therapy for cardiac arrhythmias.
Cardiac arrhythmias are caused
by malfunctions in certain heart
muscle cells that lead to erratic
heart beats and may eventually
cause heart attacks or strokes.
The new technique developed
uses nanotechnology to more
precisely target and destroy the
cells within the heart that cause
cardiac arrhythmias.
The findings of the study are
detailed in a new paper in the
journal
Science
Translational
Medicine.
Currently, cardiac arrhythmias
are usually treated with drugs
or with radiofrequency cardiac
ablation, a procedure that burns
away malfunctioning cells using a
laser. Both drugs and ablation are
effective treatments, but they can
result in unintended damage to
surrounding cells.
“It’s
almost
like
you
are
bombing the heart with the laser,”
said Jerome Kalifa, an assistant
professor at the Medical School
and one of the lead researchers
in the study. “Right now, we can
only target the general area, so
there is collateral damage.”
The
new
nanoparticle
treatment
was
successful
in
studies conducted on rodents and
sheep. Researchers found they
were able destroy malfunctioning
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Vote ultimately
paves way for kill
to move forward in
winter 2016
By CAITLIN REEDY
For the Daily
Nearly 200 people filled
the Ann Arbor City Council
chambers Thursday evening
as the body heard community
input on the controversial city
deer cull slated for January.
After public comments, most of
which railed against the plans,
the council voted in two 10-1
votes to move forward with
plans for the cull.
The council also approved a
resolution to further investigate
nuisance complaints at an off-
campus fraternity house.
Carrying out the cull was
contingent on council passing
two additional resolutions. The
first will temporarily suspend
the discharge of firearms on
public lands and the second
approves
an
agreement
between the city and the U.S.
Department
of
Agriculture
Animal
and
Plant
Health
Inspection Service. The service
will provide sharpshooters to
kill 100 deer at a cost of about
$35,000. Ann Arbor Mayor
Christopher Taylor was the
GREG GOSS/Daily
Public Policy junior Tom Allen, a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, speaks about the investigation of a
nuisance complaint filed against the fraternity at the Ann Arbor City Council meeting on Thursday at Ann Arbor
ARTS
Noted author will
present his newest
novel ‘Slade House’
at United Methodist
By NATALIE ZAK
Daily Arts Writer
At the end of the darkest,
narrowest alley in England, there
exists a door. Only half the height
of a full-grown adult and black as
tar, this door sits patiently on the
last Saturday of October, silently
awaiting its next victim. This
door should never be opened.
But just as the big red button
continuously mocks and begs
until it’s pushed, so does this
door, and every nine years, its
wish is granted and Slade House
claims its next victim.
Spanning a course of 36 years,
David Mitchell creates a world
of demons and soul vanquishers
in his new novel “Slade House.”
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See MITCHELL, Page 3A
One year later, protesters
remember Rosser’s death
Town hall
talks plans
for greener
‘U’ campus
New particle
could prevent
cardiac issues
City Council draws around
200 to oppose deer cull
David
Mitchell
to read in
Ann Arbor
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