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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
Michigan quarterback
Jake Rudock set a
school record with
six passing touchdowns on
Saturday in the Wolverines’
48-41 win at Indiana. With
the win, Michigan improved
to 8-2.
>>SEE SPORTS, PAGE 1B
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
North Korean
film screening
WHAT: The first North
Korean film made purely
for entertainment will be
screened with a Q&A from
the director.
WHO: Nam Center for
Korean Studies
WHEN: Today from 6:30
p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Palmer
Commons, Forum Hall
Lecture
series, CSAS
WHAT: Dilip Menon,
director of the Centre
for Indian Studies in
Africa will speak.
WHO: African
Studies Center
WHEN: Today from
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
WHERE: School of
Social Work, Room 1636
Grilled cheese
fundraiser
WHAT: A grilled cheese
and tomato soup fundraiser
lunch for Relay for Life.
WHO: Relay for Life at
the College of Pharmacy
WHEN: Today from
12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: CC Little
French
police
have
identified
a
suspect
associated with Friday’s
terrorist attacks in Paris,
ABC
News
reported.
Adbeslam Salah, a 26-year-
old
born
in
Brussels,
Belgium, is believed to have
been involved in the attacks.
1
Positive links
speaker
WHAT: Jody Hoffer Gittell
will talk about the power of
relational coordination to
create high performance.
WHO: Michigan Ross
Center for Positive
Organizations
WHEN: Today from 4:30
p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Ross School of
Business, Colloquium
Congressional
negotiators
have
made
a
tentative
deal to replace No
Child Left Behind, the
K-12 education law, The
Washington Post reported.
The new deal would shift
more authority regarding
schools
to
the
states.
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KRISTINA PERKINS/Daily
LSA junior JC Silverman dances at Celebrasia on Saturday.
The event was hosted by the Chinese Students Association to
celebrate the diversity of Asian culture on campus.
Botanical
book talk
WHAT: A presentation
from author Josh Cohen
and native plants specialist
Mike Kost about plant
communities of Michigan.
WHO: Matthaei
Botanical Gardens and
Nichols Arboretum
WHEN: Today from
7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Matthaei
Botanical Gardens
TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (NOV. 16, 2000)
Affirmative action suits filed
CE LE BR A SIA
In 1997, two students
filed a lawsuit against the
University challenging the
use of race as a factor in
admissions decisions.
The case, brought for-
ward by the Center for Indi-
vidual Rights on the behalf
of Patrick Hamacher and
Jennifer Gratz, was heard
15 years ago this week by
Judge Patrick Duggan.
Hamacher
and
Gratz
were two white applicants
to LSA who argued the use
of race as a factor in Univer-
sity admissions resulted in
their rejections.
Both the University and
the Center of Individual
Rights hoped Judge Dug-
gan submitted motions for a
summary judgment, mean-
ing the case would not go
to trial. A summary judg-
ment would have ended the
case at the district level.
The Center for Individual
Rights argued that the 14th
Amendment of the Consti-
tution, which calls for equal
protection under the law,
prohibits race from being
a factor in admission poli-
cies. The University, on the
other hand, employed the
1978 Supreme Court case of
Regents of the University of
California v. Bakke to justi-
fy the use of race in applica-
tions as long as the policies
did not employ quotas.
The
case
eventually
made its way to the U.S.
Supreme Court, along with
another case challenging
the University Law School’s
use of affirmative action.
The
court
ruled
LSA’s
policy that employed a
point-based system uncon-
stitutional, but upheld the
law school’s consideration
of race as one of many fac-
tors while using a holistic
approach to evaluate can-
didates.
In 2006, Michigan voters
enacted a ban on the use of
affirmative action in admis-
sions.
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Sustainable
celebration
WHAT: Celebrate the
birthday of the University’s
mascot of sustainability
with food, a photo booth
and information sessions.
WHO: Planet Blue
WHEN: Today from 11
a.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Hatcher
Graduate Library, Gallery
Social change
workshop
WHAT: Learn about
structures of oppression
and how to challenge
inequality and injustice
through activities and
discussions. Professionals
from the community will
speak.
WHO: Ginsberg Center
WHEN: Today from 7 p.m.
to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Ginsberg Center
Composer
concert
WHAT: A concert by
student composers.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V.
Moore Building,
Britton Recital Hall
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Christine Asidao, associate director of community engagement for Counseling and Psychological Services, discusses
with students how to coordinate student groups focused on mental health at the first Mental Health Summit, sponsored
by CSG and CAPS at the Michigan Union on Saturday.
CSG and CAPS partner to
host mental health summit
University research
shows adolescent
stress carries into
young adulthood
By IRENE PARK
Daily Staff Reporter
The harmful effects of anxiety
experienced during adolescence
may carry into young adulthood.
That’s according to a recent
study from University research-
ers that followed 176 Black youth
from Flint, Mich. over seven
years — from 1994 to 2001 — and
showed anxiety from the their
adolescent years affected their
stress hormone levels in young
adulthood. Previous studies have
shown similar trends, but not spe-
cifically in Black populations.
The researchers looked at levels
of cortisol, a hormone produced
by the body during times of stress,
that raises the level of sugar in the
bloodstream. The brain can then
use the extra sugar as energy for
helping think through the stress-
ful situation.
Cortisol helps in dealing with
acute, short-term stress. How-
ever, anxiety causes prolonged
production of cortisol, which is
detrimental for the body. Chronic
cortisol production is associated
with numerous diseases and con-
ditions, including cardiovascular
diseases, obesity, diabetes, anxiety,
depression and sleep disorders.
The study, published earlier
this month in International Jour-
nal of Endocrinology and Metabo-
lism, is not the first to look at how
anxiety in adolescence affects
cortisol levels in adulthood, but it
is the first to do so in Black youths.
Most previous studies looked at
middle-class white populations.
Shervin Assari, a Psychiatry
research faculty member and
head of the research team, said he
looked specifically at young Black
individuals from Flint because of
the problems many face due to
low-income backgrounds and rac-
ism.
“For Black youths, some life
challenges include living in an
unsafe environment, discrimina-
tion at interpersonal level and rac-
ism in a structural level,” Assari
wrote in an e-mail to The Michi-
gan Daily.
Assari defined “structural rac-
ism” as societal barriers for a pop-
ulation’s access to resources, such
as education and employment
opportunities.
The study analyzed male and
female participants separately, as
gender is known to shape what
kind of stress people experience.
“Men and women have very
different life experiences and
exposures that make them differ-
ently vulnerable or resilient to the
effect of risk and protective fac-
tors,” Assari wrote.
The team saw an overproduc-
tion of cortisol in females if they
had anxiety symptoms in their
adolescent years, but not nec-
essarily in males. In males, the
overproduction was instead asso-
ciated with alcohol use in adoles-
cent years.
Psychology Prof. Marc Zim-
merman said one of the caveats
for this study was that the team
looked at young adulthood — or
early 20s — which may not be able
to be considered complete adult-
hood because the brain is still
developing.
“It can be argued that is not
yet complete adulthood,” he said.
“Some researchers suggest that
the brain doesn’t fully develop
until the age of 25.” Still, Zim-
merman said the study still has
important implications.
“(The stresses) create prob-
lems in terms of our physical and
mental health,” he said. “They
are persistent. They are not just
ephemeral. Our job as adults is to
create safe and healthy environ-
ments as much as we can … to help
our society as a whole.”
Event aims to foster
collaboration among
student orgs focused
on mental health
By CAITLIN REEDY
Daily Staff Reporter
On Saturday, student organiza-
tions dedicated to mental health
came together to create a uniform
approach to addressing these
issues at the University.
Central Student Government
paired with Counseling and Psy-
chological Services to host the
University’s first mental health
summit. The outlined goal for the
summit was to inspire coopera-
tion between the leaders of differ-
ent student organizations focusing
on mental health across campus.
About 10 of these organizations
were represented at the meeting.
CAPS director Todd Sevig
said important progress has been
made toward improving the men-
tal health climate on campus in
the last couple of years, and this
change has been, in part, spear-
headed by student organizations
pushing for the expansion of Uni-
versity resources for wellness. CSG
President Cooper Charlton, an LSA
senior, said these efforts could ben-
efit from being more collaborative.
“I think we all are doing a lot of
phenomenal things on campus, but
often times we’re very busy and
aren’t on the same page,” Charlton
said. “This is kind of a flag in the
ground to bring a lot of strong lead-
ers together around mental health
and understand what everyone
else’s vision and goals are, and find
ways that we can empower each
other.”
Participants sat at round tables
with a CSG and CAPS member
present to interact with students
and faculty members at each of the
roughly 10 tables. The CSG mem-
ber facilitated the talks, during
which student organization rep-
resentatives shared the vision and
goals of their respective clubs.
LSA freshman Shelby Stever-
son, a member of CAPS in Action,
a new club created to promote
CAPS over social media, said she
enjoyed the discussions she had at
the event.
“I really love hearing every-
one else’s ideas for how we can
improve mental health on campus
and how we can reduce that stigma
and show people that you can get
help no matter what is going on,”
Steverson said.
The CSG facilitator posed ques-
tions on topics such as funding
needs, their organization’s current
initiatives the organizations and
each participant’s individual goals
for the summit.
Information
senior
Sonia
Doshi, president of the Healthy
Minds Coalition, said she feels
the increasing number of mental
health organizations on campus
has caused a “diffusion of advo-
cacy” among groups.
“I’m interested in figuring out
ways that we can share ideas and
get together more often so that we
know what’s going on on campus
and then create a bigger impact,”
Doshi said.
After sharing the various goals
and plans of the organizations
present, each table brainstormed
ways their clubs could work
together to make a tangible impact.
Sevig said he came up with
the idea to host the summit two
years ago after various groups
organizing around mental health
expressed interest in creating a
collaborative effort to change the
stigma surrounding mental health
on campus.
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Cortisol overproduction
linked to youth anxiety