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NEWS ...................................
OPINION ..............................
ARTS .....................................
CLASSIFIEDS.........................
SUDOKU................................
SPORTS................................
SPORTS
Glasgow ready to
return to gridiron
He will be crucial to
Michigan’s defensive line
>> SEE PAGE 10
NEWS
Gender and minority
gap in Engineering
Students and faculty call
for more diversity
>> SEE PAGE 2
OPINION
Marijuana
legalization
Executive action has
immediate potential to
save billions of dollars
>> SEE PAGE 4
ARTS
‘Black’ is back
Streaming drama’s latest
season tackles complex
themes and ideas in show’s
best run yet
>> SEE PAGE 6
SPORTS
Harbaugh hosts A4
quarterback camp
The camp emphasized
athletic versatility for QB’s
>> SEE PAGE 12
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Vol. CXXVI, No. 121| © 2016 The Michigan Daily
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Opiate overdoses spike
in Washtenaw County
Increasing
tuition: a
look at why
costs rise
DPSS, county
sheriff’s office
respond to increased
hard drug use
By JACKIE CHARNIGA
Daily News Editor
At the end of June, every
University of Michigan police
officer will carry Naloxone, a
generic version of the name-brand
drug Narcan that reverses the
effects of an overdose by blocking
opiate receptors in the brain. This
new training and policy comes two
years after the Washtenaw County
Sheriff’s Office began combating
peaking opioid overdose numbers
in the area. The University of
Michigan Police Department is
currently working on adding this
additional officer training in the
face of an increasing number of
young people overdosing.
Marlene
Radzik,
the
Washtenaw County Sheriff Office’s
police services commander, said
among the products acquired by
the department between 1998 and
2000, powder and crack cocaine
were the most common. Now,
heroin is the drug of choice for
young people between the ages of
15 to 30.
A growing epidemic
It has been 12 years since
31-year-old
Ashton
Marr,
an
Ann Arbor resident, was first
prescribed
Vicodin
for
an
emergency appendectomy.
“I was able to maintain the
image that I was doing okay, but
my addiction hit a new low,” Marr
said. “It was like it just took over
my life and my mind.”
She has long since healed from
her 2004 surgery, but the effects
of Marr’s introduction to opioids
left her with a frustrating, painful
addiction. After starting the drug,
continued use was all too easy.
Marr said that even though she
began to experiment with drugs as
a student at Pioneer High School,
she began to spiral out of control
when she began studying at
Washtenaw Community College.
“It was actually easier for me to
get illegal drugs than it was for me
to get alcohol,” Marr said. “People
get started taking old prescriptions
that they find in the medicine
cabinet.”
Radzik is also well-versed in
the heroin epidemic in Washtenaw
County — she has been on staff
with Washtenaw County Sheriff’s
Office for 27 years and worked as
an undercover cop from 1998 to
2000. When starting road patrol in
1991, she said, it was extremely rare
to respond to a heroin overdose.
“If we did, it was normally — I’m
not saying this is a positive thing
— it was usually a long-term, older
user that had other health issues,”
Radzik said.
According
to
Washtenaw
County
Public
Health,
more
than 400 residents overdosed on
opioids between 2011 and 2015.
Younger white males were more
Hike in revenue
outpaces other
public universities
By LYDIA MURRAY
Summer Managing News Editor
Last Thursday, the University of
Michigan Board of Regents voted
to increase tuition by 3.9 percent for
in-state students and 4.4 percent for
out-of-state students. This change
will result in an increase in tuition
revenue of $86.35 million.
Since 2002, tuition revenue has
increased by over $800 million — a
135 percent increase — far outpacing
similar institutions such as Ohio
State University and the University
of California system, both of which
have seen approximately 52 percent
increases. Both universities also face
similar state funding decreases to
those within the state of Michigan.
This comparison raises the question:
Where is this money coming from
and where it is going?
State Funding
The
increase
in
projected
tuition revenue coincides with a
proposed increase in state funding
of 4.2 percent for the University.
This state-funding proposal is the
latest in a series of small increases
following a 21.6 percent funding
cut the University experienced in
2011 under Gov. Rick Snyder’s first
budget, which featured an across-
the-board 15 percent cut in funding
for higher education.
The latest increase in state
funding brings aggregate funding for
Michigan’s higher education budget
back to pre-2011 levels; however, the
University’s individual state funding
still remains 7.8 percent lower than
2011 levels.
Various regents at Thursday’s
meeting cited state disinvestment as
ADMINISTRATION
See OPIATE, Page 3
See TUITION, Page 9