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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

