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ACADEMICS
Michigan Medicine at the
University
of
Michigan
is
currently launching Victors
Care,
a
concierge
medical
care model aiming to deliver
tailored health care access to
a limited number of patients.
These patients will receive
specialized,
convenient
and
optimized
care
for
with purchase of an annual
membership
fee
to
cover
primary care services without
copays or deductibles.
Though concierge medicine
has been practiced at a number
of health facilities nationwide
—
including
Michigan
Medicine
competitors
like
Stanford
Health
Care,
Virginia Mason and the UNC
Physicians Network Carolina
Continuity of Care Program
— the University will institute
the care approach for the first
time in April.
Mary Masson, institutional
positioning
director
at
Michigan
Medicine,
said
Victors Care is one example of
ways Michigan Medicine aims
to improve medical care.
“Victors Care is a pilot
program,
developed
after
requests from patients for a
service similar to what exists
at
institutions
across
the
country,” Masson wrote in a
statement to The Daily. “This
is just one of a number of
ways we’re seeking to improve
access to and efficiency of care
we provide. Others include use
of e-visits when appropriate,
opening a new facility in
west
Ann
Arbor
and
the
planned opening of another,
in Brighton this fall, which
will significantly expand our
capacity and access.”
However,
this
concierge
medicine program — often
referred to as boutique or
retainer medicine — has drawn
criticism
from
University
physicians.
In a January letter obtained
by The Daily addressed to
Marschall Runge, executive
Faculty blast
new Victors
Care as elite,
too exclusive
‘U’ scholars discuss replacement
of monuments to the Confederacy
CARTER FOX/Daily
Walter Johnson, Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, discusses the evolution of monuments and their role in current society in
North Quad Wednesday evening.
New program takes on membership model
to provide individualized care, for a fee
ALEXA ST. JOHN
Editor in Chief
Some professors resurface University’s own conflicts with C.C. Little on panel
On Wednesday evening, the
University of Michigan History
Department
held
a
teach-in
surrounding “Disrupting White
Supremacy:
Global
Histories
and Local Struggles.” The talk
included 12 speakers in an
effort to reclaim and retell the
history of race in the U.S. and
globally. The speeches were
followed by a student “talk back”
panel, focusing on the historical
injustices and their inaccurate
recordings that have shaped our
current political climate.
Views could follow the talk on
twitter and pose questions to the
speakers using the #UMDisrupt.
Teach-ins have a long and
storied history at the University.
The nation’s first “teach-in” took
place on campus in March of 1965
with 3,000 students gathering
across rooms in Angell Hall to
discuss and protest the war in
Vietnam.
Rackham
student
Tara
Weinberg explained the urgency
to come to events like this,
especially with the controversy
surrounding white supremacist
Richard Spencer’s potential visit
to campus next semester.
“I think it’s really important
to counter him because if there
is no counter, then it’s almost
taken as a given that he’s been
received with silence and with
complicity,” Weinberg said.
Several
professors
and
one
graduate
student
spoke
on how the current political
climate has been shaped from
an
international,
historical
perspective. Katherine French,
a J. Frederick Hoffman professor
of
history,
accompanied
by
Rackham
student
Taylor
Sims
identified
medieval
fantastical
symbols
used
by
white
supremacists
in
the
Charlottesville protests, and how
their modern use incorrectly
represents the Crusades at large.
This misrepresentation has given
white supremacists an empty
sense of security and support,
and
has
misconstrued
their
presence to the public.
ETHAN LEVIN
Daily Staff Reporter
On the corner of two major
streets just outside downtown
Ann
Arbor,
Police
Officer
Christopher
Hoffman
parks
behind a tree that conceals his
squad car to passersby, about 10
feet away from the intersection.
He focuses intently on the cars
passing through, never once
taking his gaze off the road. It’s
a Saturday night and this is his
usual haunt when it’s “slow”
during his 12-hour shift.
He’s looking for cars that go
through one of the four stop
signs that mark each road at
the intersection. Several cars
commit
a
“roll-stop,”
only
braking slightly before passing
through, but he decides not to
stop any of them.
“I’m looking for the ones
that speed through, without
stopping at all,” he said.
Ten minutes pass, and a car
speeds through the stop sign.
Gas to the pedal, Hoffman
turns on his sirens and chases
after the car. The car pulls over
in a vacant lot, and after asking
the driver a few questions,
reviewing the video footage
from the camera on the front
of his police car and checking
the driver’s record — clean for
the past seven years —Hoffman
decides to let her off with a
warning.
“She’s visiting her sister
and isn’t under the influence,
plus she has a squeaky-clean
record,” he said. “And I’m
feeling generous since it’s my
first day back (after two weeks
of unpaid paternity leave).”
The Daily was allowed to
participate in a ride-along,
a program in which police
departments
invite
citizens
to shadow a police officer
for a shift, or part of a shift.
Participants must sign a waiver
and are assigned to ride with
an officer based on a rotational
schedule. The program allows
citizens
to
“see
firsthand
the daily workings of law
enforcement and gain a better
understanding of the challenges
and rewards of being a police
officer.”
“A lot of people look at police
work as kind of a secretive-type
thing and it’s not, we’re just
average people. We’re trying
out there to do a good job,”
Hoffman said. “And I think the
ride-along program lets people
see that, lets people see why we
do what we do, our motivations.
So, I think it’s good to bridge a
community gap that there is.”
One University of Michigan
Law School elective, Policing
and Public Safety, taught by
U.S.
District
Judge
Judith
Levy and former U.S. Attorney
Saul Green, requires students
to engage with the police
during the semester either by
completing a ride-along with
an area police department or
LSA Student Government met
Wednesday night in Mason Hall
to discuss ballot questions for its
upcoming elections. The body also
passed a resolution with a vote of
15-10, with two abstentions, to
add a binding ballot question to
the Winter 2018 election ballot
on whether government should
support the Universitye’s decision
to end Michigan time.
Michigan time is a practice
used across the University of
Michigan campus of starting
classes ten minutes later than
their
scheduled
times.
This
was intended to allow students
enough travel time between back-
to-back classes. However, not
all of the University’s colleges,
such as the School of Nursing,
use Michigan time. On Feb. 19,
the University and the Provost’s
Office announced Michigan time
will end on May 1 in order to make
collaboration among the different
colleges
easier
and
instead,
classes will end 10 minutes early.
Common student critique was a
lack of transparency in making
the decision.
LSA SG
pushes for
Mich. Time
ballot box
ACADEMICS
Assembly approves bill
to seek student input on
class schedule changes
RACHEL CUNNINGHAM
Daily Staff Reporter
– OFFICER HOFFMAN, ANN ARBOR POLICE DEPARTMENT
A lot of people look at
police work as kind of a
secretive type thing and
it’s not, we’re just
average people, we’re trying
out there to do a good job.
CASEY TIN/Daily
Law students reflect on discretion,
duties of AAPD with class ride-alongs
Program aims for transparency amid questions of department accountability
ZAYNA SYED
Daily Staff Reporter
Baxter
International,
a
Fortune 500 American health
care company, recently signed
a
licensing
agreement
with
the University of Michigan to
acquire rights for a new surgical
device that was developed by a
small five-person classroom of
Engineering
490/Design
and
Manufacturing 450 students.
In
a
statement,
Michael
Campbell,
vice
president
of
Baxter’s microsurgery business,
said Baxter International is
looking forward to utilizing the
new device.
“We are excited to work with
the experts at the University
of Michigan and license this
promising
new
technology
that could lead to a meaningful
impact for microsurgeons,” he
said.
This
surgical
device,
mirroring that of a small silicone
pen with an easily adjustable
steel spine, would make the
complicated and tedious process
of connecting arteries more
efficient by reducing a 25-minute
procedure to only six minutes.
‘U’ signs off
surgical
technology
to care firm
BUSINESS
Fortune 500 company
purchases student-made
device for microsurgery
SAM SMALL
Daily Staff Reporter
See AAPD, Page 3A
See LSA SG, Page 3A
See SURGERY, Page 3A
See MEDICINE, Page 3A
See TEACH-IN, Page 3A