Students took to State Street 

to celebrate after Joe Biden was 
declared the winner of the 2020 
presidential election on Saturday.

LSA sophomore Grace Timmer 

said that after such a close race, it 
was relieving to see the results 
this morning and the community 
support this afternoon.

“I am elated to be here and see 

all the support for Biden,” Timer 

said. “It’s amazing after the tight 
election to see everyone come out 
and take a deep breath.”

Timmer isn’t the only one who 

is optimistic. 

President-elect 
Biden 

preached hope as he accepted 
his new job alongside Vice 
President-elect Kamala Harris 
before a crowd at Chase Center 
in Wilmington, Del., Saturday 
night.

It was the pair’s first public 

appearance since the Associated 

Press projected that former Vice 
President Biden and Sen. Harris, 
D-Calif., would become the 46th 
president and 49th vice president 
of the United States, respectively. 

“With full hearts and steady 

hands, with faith in America 
and in each other, with a love of 
country and a thirst for justice, 
let us be the nation that we know 
we can be,” Biden said. “A nation 
united. A nation strengthened. A 
nation healed. The United States 
of America.”

Biden 
emphasized 
his 

commitment to unity during 
these politically polarizing times 
and pledged to be a president for 
all Americans.

“Now for all those of you who 

voted for President Trump, I 
understand your disappointment 
tonight,” Biden said. “I’ve lost a 
couple of times myself, but now 
let’s give each other a chance.” 

Six years after police shot 

and killed Aura Rosser, a 
Black woman, in her Ann 
Arbor home, hundreds of 
students 
and 
community 

members gathered in front 
of city hall for a vigil in her 
memory.

Deborah Carter, Rosser’s 

mother, spoke publicly for the 
first time since her daughter’s 
death. 
Surrounded 
by 

family members including 

Aura Rosser’s cousins and 
daughter, Carter described 
Rosser as an artist and a very 
lovable person. 

“Unfortunately, the police 

chose to shoot her in the 
heart rather than in the foot 
because she was in a rage, 
they say, but there was no 
need to murder my baby,” 
Carter said.

Ann Arbor police officers 

Mark Raab and David Ried 
responded 
to 
a 
911 
call 

at Rosser’s home in Ann 
Arbor 
about 
a 
domestic 

disturbance on Nov. 10, 2014. 
Police arrived at the scene 
and 
were 
confronted 
by 

Rosser, a 40-year-old mother 
of three. After Rosser was 
seen holding a knife and was 
within 6 to 10 feet of the 
officers, Raab unholstered 
his taser and Ried drew his 
firearm. 

Both 
officers 
deployed 

their weapons. Rosser died 
shortly after being shot in 
the chest. According to Raab, 
no more than a few seconds 
passed between the time 
officers entered the house, 
and Ried fatally shot Rosser, 
according 
to 
documents 

released by the Washtenaw 
Prosecutor’s Office in 2015.

“This officer yelled ‘stop’ 

and fired the taser at Rosser, 
fearing for officer safety,” 
Raab 
said. 
“Officer 
Ried 

fired his sidearm at nearly 
the same time. The time from 
when officers first entered 
the house and yelled ‘police’ 
to when she was shot and 
Tasered was approximately 
5-to-10 seconds.”

Sunday night’s vigil drew 

hundreds to city hall. Lisa 
Jackson, 
a 
University 
of 

Michigan alum who serves 
as the head of ICPOC, or 
the Ann Arbor Independent 
Community Police Oversight 
Commission, spoke to the 
lack 
of 
awareness 
about 

Rosser’s killing in the Ann 
Arbor community she’s seen 
on the oversight board.

“You see, every time a 

Black person is killed by 
police and it makes national 
news, we get bombarded 
with emails asking, ‘Could 
this happen in Ann Arbor?’” 
Jackson said. “And you all 
know the problem with this 
right? It’s already happened 
in Ann Arbor.”

Jackson 
chairs 
the 

oversight commission, which 
was formed in the wake of 
Rosser’s death in an effort led 
by community members and 
local activists. After applying 

and being appointed to the 
post, Jackson found that a 
major part of her role on the 
body was acknowledging the 
distrust and tension between 
police and members of the 
community.

“I know police officers, 

and I understand there are 
some 
really 
good 
police 

officers,” Jackson said. “I 
also understand that African 
Americans in this community 
don’t feel like we’re treated 
exactly the same. We don’t 
have that expectation. And 
so I know that there’s a 

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ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM

Administration 
informed 

students of campus plans for 
the winter semester on Nov. 
6 — days after the 14-day stay-
in-place order ended and amid 
the ongoing stress of the 2020 
election.

In 
the 
announcement, 

University 
of 
Michigan 

President Mark S. Schlissel 
outlined 
a 
plan 
that 

includes an increase in both 
asymptomatic 
testing 
and 

remote classes.

The 
announcement 

indicates that students living 
in dorms will not have their 
housing contracts renewed 
for winter semester except 
for pressing circumstances, 
with dorm rooms moving to 
single occupancy. All students 
were encouraged to remain at 
their permanent residence if 
possible.

LSA 
freshman 
Macy 

Hannan said she and some 
of her friends were looking 
for an off-campus apartment, 
but that supply was limited. 
Hannan said she felt the 
University has gone “too far.” 

Hannan also worried that 
some of the friendships she 
made this semester would be 
negatively impacted by the 
plan for next semester.

“Community-wise, I feel 

like people will be more 
isolated in their bubbles next 
semester,” Hannan said. “I feel 
like a lot of huge community 
aspects, like the few in-person 
things you’re supposed to go 
to or just talking to neighbors 
in the hall are going to 
disappear without the dorms. 
So many of your friendships 
are just random ones that you 
make walking to the elevator 
or brushing your teeth.” 

Ayden 
Makar, 
an 
LSA 

freshman 
living 
in 
South 

Quad Residence Hall, said he 
hoped next semester would be 
better, but he wasn’t surprised 
by the University’s decision. 
Makar, an in-state student, 
said he will be living at 
home next semester and was 
worried about “FOMO” (fear 
of missing out) and adjusting 
to living at home after having 
a taste of college. He also said 
he 
thought 
asymptomatic 

testing should have started 
fall semester. 

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