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THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

Under-recruited and 
often 
overlooked, 

senior guard Spike 

Albrecht enters his final 
year with the Michigan 
men’s basketball team with 
his sights set high. 

>>SEE TIP-OFF, PAGE 1B

2

Webster 
reading series

WHAT: Hannah Louise 
Poston and Helena Smith 
will present their work.
WHO: Helen Zell Writers’ 
Program
WHEN: Today from 7 
p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Museum of Art, 
Helmut Stern Auditorium

Why Aristotle 
is not an egoist

WHAT: Professor 
Mi-Kyoung Lee of the 
University of Colorado 
will discuss her book 
“Aristotle on Justice.”
WHO: Department 
of Philosophy
WHEN: Today 3 
p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: 1171 Angell

Careers in 
nonprofits

WHAT: A networking 
event for students to 
speak with alumni in 
the nonprofit sector.
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: Today 1 
p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
WHERE: Wolverine 
Room, Michigan Union

The 
University 
of 

Missouri chose Michael 
Middleton 
to 
serve 

as interim university 

president 
after 
former 

president Timothy Wolfe 
resigned amid protests on 
campus, The New York 
Times reported Thursday.

1

Sustainable 
systems forum

WHAT: A discussion 
led by Marco Bruzzano 
on different forms of 
sustainable energy and the 
probability of shifting away 
from greenhouse gases.
WHO: Center for 
Sustainable Systems
WHEN: Today 2:30 p.m. 
to 4 p.m.
WHERE: 1040 Dana 
Building

A clinic in Cleveland 
will become the first to 
offer uterus transplants 
for 
infertile 
women, 

The 
New 
York 
Times 

reported 
Thursday. 
Ten 

women will participate in the 
initial study. The transplants 
are temporary and will be 
removed after having a child.

3

Technology 
and music

WHAT: A class led 
by sound artist and 
composer Andrea Parkins 
on using technology to 
create music. Parkins 
uses the Fluxus style to 
create her own tunes. 
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre and Dance
WHEN: Today 2:30 
p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V. 
Moore Building

Polish film 
festival

WHAT: For $6, students 
can attend showings of 
Polish films all weekend.
WHO: Copernicus 
Program in Polish Studies, 
the Polish Cultural Fund
WHEN: Friday through 
Sunday
WHERE: Michigan 
Theater

Chocolate 
crawl

WHAT: The Graduate 
Society of Women 
Engineers is leading a 
chocolate crawl. They will 
go to Kilwins, Cupcake 
Station, Frida Batidos, and 
The Melting Pot
WHO: Society of Women 
Engineers
WHEN: Today 7 p.m. to 
10 p.m.
WHERE: Meet at the Diag

Azaya dance 
performance

WHAT: An annual 
cultural show featuring 
Indian dance from 240 
performers. 
WHO: Indian American 
Student Association
WHEN: Today 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium
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TUESDAY:

Campus Voices

THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

MONDAY:

This Week in History

LEFT: Protestors hold signs as a part 

of a march organized by Ann Arbor 

to Ferguson on Monday in protest 

of police violence on the one year 

anniversary of the shooting of Aura 

Rosser by Ann Arbor Police Officer 

David Ried. (ROBERT DUNNE/Daily)
RIGHT: LSA junior Sahithi Akasapu 

dances at Tulana, a production 

showcasing Indian classical music and 

dance presented by Michigan Sahana 

at Stamps Auditorium. (SAN PHAM/

Daily)

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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Model to help patients at risk 
for stroke select the best drug

Coursera co-founder talks 
impact of open online courses

University research 
aims to determine 
most cost-effective 

treatments

By JALAL TALEB

For the Daily

University researchers have 

developed a new model to help 
individuals at risk of stroke select 
the best preventative drug — based 
in part on cost effectiveness.

The model, co-authored by Dr. 

Geoff Barnes, a clinical lecturer 
of cardiovascular medicine and 
vascular medicine, and Deborah 
Levine, an associate professor 
of internal medicine, focused on 
drugs for one type of irregular 
heartbeat — nonvalvular atrial 
fibrillation — which can lead to 
strokes.

This irregular heartbeat hap-

pens when disruptive electrical 
activity triggers unusual contrac-

tions of the heart’s main pumping 
chambers, called the ventricles. 
When the ventricles are triggered, 
the heart doesn’t pump blood 
through the body as efficiently, 
which can cause clotting. These 
clots, in turn, make their way to 
vessels in the brain, potentially 
forming blockages that lead to 
strokes.

Currently, two classes of drugs 

are available to treat the condi-
tion — a cheaper anticoagulant 
known as a warfarin, which has 
been around for decades, and a 
new, more expensive line known 
as dabigatran.

Barnes said the two treatment 

options have left many Americans 
with irregular heartbeats facing a 
difficult economic choice.

Beyond the drugs themselves, 

he noted the issue has also been 
challenging because prescription 
prices vary depending on health 
care coverage. Barnes said this 
makes a cost-conscious model 
especially important. Their model 
is unique, he said, because it also 

considers the patient’s perspective 
on cost, as opposed to prior studies 
that only considered cost from a 
societal or insurance perspective.

“The importance of this deci-

sion comes from a patient’s per-
spective, as we discuss with them 
the affordability of these decisions 
based on their personal situa-
tions,” he said.

Along with patient perspective, 

the model draws on several other 
factors — how well the drugs pre-
vent stroke, the possibilities of side 
effects and the cost of the pills — to 
determine the advantage and dis-
advantages of each.

Overall, Barnes and Levine said 

the team found that the prescrip-
tion drug coverage a patient has 
matters most in terms of cost and 
benefits. Those without cover-
age, according to the study, could 
pay thousands of dollars for more 
effective drugs such as dabigatran, 
which may not always be worth-
while.

Barnes said many patients 

in that category are those who 
receive coverage through Medi-
care Part D. Under Medicare Part 
D, throughout much of the year, 
patients’ prescription costs are 
covered; however, at a set point, 
patients’ prescription coverage is 
exhausted and they must pay out 
of pocket.

“For the first part of the year, 

our patients have good coverage,” 
Barnes said. “By the late fall, when 
faced with the ‘donut hole,’ many 
patients will pay thousands of 
dollars per pill … unfortunately, 
patients will try to stretch out 
their prescriptions, not taking 
them every day, skipping doses.”

However, the study found that 

patients with prescription drug 
coverage, including Medicare Part 
D, had overall costs savings when 
choosing the more expensive dabi-
gatran over warfarin.

This was primarily because of 

the effectiveness both drugs have 
on stroke, and also because they 
eliminated the need for more fre-
quent blood draws and visits to the 
clinic that users of warfarin some-
times require.

However, 
Levine 
said 
she 

MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily

Daphne Koller, president and co-founder of Coursera, speaks about the website as a part of the Academic Innovation at 
Michigan series at the Michigan League on Thursday.

University faculty 

have taught 22 
classes on the 

platform

By BECCA SOLBERG

For the Daily

Technology 
continues 
to 

transform learning, both outside 
and inside the classroom, Cours-
era co-founder Daphne Koller 
told a group of 50 at the Michigan 
League on Thursday.

Koller’s presentation, hosted 

by the Office of Digital Educa-
tion and Innovation, discussed 
the impacts of Coursera, a plat-
form for hosting the massive 
open online courses, or MOOCs, 
offered by a variety of universi-
ties.

The University was one of the 

first four colleges to run cours-
es through Coursera, and has 
offered about 22 courses on the 
platform for more than 3.6 mil-
lion users.

Koller, who is also a professor 

of computer science at Stanford 
University, began by describing 
the impacts of Coursera both on 
the universities that offer cours-
es and the professors who teach 
them.

In particular, she emphasized 

how online courses encourage 
professors to alter and improve 
their teaching techniques to best 
serve their students, who have 
the option of walking away from 
an online site at any moment 
compared to the more captive 
audience of a classroom.

“It caused me to completely 

reshape the way I thought about 
teaching,” she said. “And to 
think, ‘Why should the learner 
care?’ which is not a question I 
would ask myself before.”

As part of Coursera, instruc-

tors are given quantitative and 
qualitative feedback and are 
constantly able to improve their 
course. After negative feedback 
on a lesson, a professor is able 
to alter the lesson immediately 
rather than having to wait a 
semester, like with traditional 
college courses.

In an interview after the 

event, Information Prof. Charles 
Severance, who instructs a class 
on Coursera, said he often alters 
his teaching style for the online 
platform.

“When you’re on campus, 

we’re sort of in a hurry,” he said. 
“So online I always add a lot of 
extra stuff for the students. They 
really like it. For example, when 
they are learning programming, 
(we) show some video interviews 
of people like Daphne (Koller), 
and say, here, this is what a pro-
grammer has done with her 
career.”

Koller added that for colleges 

overall, especially those that 
were first on the platform like 
the University, hosting MOOCs 
broadens the institution’s reach.

“They’re reaching new audi-

ences who are now aware of the 
quality of scholarship the Uni-
versity has to offer,” she said.

Koller also spoke to the ben-

efits of teaching a more diverse 
population of students in MOOCs 
than in a traditional classroom. 
According to Coursera, more 
than 1 million students in 196 

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