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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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