defenseman
Zach
Werenski:
“Someone who can hit like that
definitely brings energy to the
bench. You can see guys on the
other team don’t want to go his
way.”
Downing’s
junior
season
was no different. On top of
his
continued
massive
hits,
he became a focal point of the
offense. He led the second power
play unit, and he had an uncanny
ability to get his shots through
traffic and toward the net, which
often led to goals.
The junior finished the season
with three goals and 17 assists
and was one of two defensemen
to reach 20 points.
Now, Downing is eager to get
his professional career started.
“I am going to go in and
prove myself to my coaches
and teammate,” Downing said.
“There’s a lot to prove and do go
in there and do what I do and gain
the respect of my teammates.”
affect the availability of mental
health information for men.
“I find that the majority of
research on stress and health
has
focused
primarily
on
women,” Watkins said. “I think
it does negate the importance
of understanding the ways
in which stress differentially
affects men’s health, especially
vulnerable groups of men and
boys.”
Assari’s study found over
time women adapt to stress
in ways men do not. He said
women are better able to
manage their stress, while he
also noted that men experience
depression
at
higher
rates
due to a number of factors
inclduing
inability
to
deal
with stress, while women are
exposed to higher levels of
stress at a younger age than
men, levels of depression in
men are delayed. Yet women
are more prepared than men
to manage their stress and
depressive symptoms, and are
more likely to seek help.
“The literature says yes,
women get more stress,” Assari
said. “But, from the other side,
we know that women get used
to stress in the way that they
can mobilize the psycho-social
resources. They can better
communicate or talk about
their emotions. They don’t
stigmatize using health care
… As men, we think that’s not
appropriate, that reduces our
power or control over life. We
don’t talk about our emotions
and our difficulties.”
Watkins
said
long-term
stress can lead to a range
of health outcomes, such as
more severe problems with
mental health, susceptibility
to diseases and risk of chronic
conditions.
“Stress can be detrimental
to
everyone’s
health
and
well-being,”
Watkins
said.
“Its effects on health are
evident, directly through more
physiological
pathways,
but
also indirectly through health
behaviors and practices.”
In particular, Assari said
hegemonic masculinity — a
traditional belief among men
that identifies being a man as
needing to show power and
dominance can lead to showing
higher vulnerability to higher
effects of stress because they
do not seek professional help.
Expressing
a
similar
sentiment, Watkins said men
usually abide by the general
social
codes
set
for
their
gender so as to avoid the
stress associated with doing
otherwise.
“Because men tend to adhere
to
those
more
traditional
definitions of manhood they
won’t go and seek physical
health care or mental health
care because, despite all these
risks, they’re saying, ‘I’m the
man, and because I’m a man,
I can handle that,’ ” Watkins
said.
Jill Becker, professor of
Psychology
and
Psychiatry,
who studies sex differences
in motivation and drug abuse
primarily using rat models,
said the study was a needed
contribution
to
the
field.
Becker said when subjecting
the rats to restraint stressors
repeatedly for a long period of
time, female rats show better
capabilities for learning, while
male rats do worse following
repeated
restraint
stress.
Becker said this concept could
be applicable to human males
as well.
“The ability to use these
large data sets to begin to
answer questions about where
are there sex and gender
differences in how stress is
affecting us makes this a very
important article,” Becker said.
For Assari, this research
ultimately suggests men are
less likely to take care of their
emotional problems, an issue
that could have adverse effects
on mental and physical health
in their future.
“We need to work with
this
gender
identity,
help
them to seek care, reduce
stigma associated with mental
health care organizations and
(increase)
communication
about emotion among men,”
Assari said.
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News
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 — 3A
NEWS BRIEFS
UHS tests
artificial heart
technology
The University of Michigan
Health System is testing the
Transmedics Organ Care System
(OCS), a high-tech heart box that
circulates blood from the donor
to the heart, according to the
University Health System. The
OCS Heart system will nourish
the heart with oxygen and
nutrients and keep it at normal
body temperature. The current
method of storing the heart on
ice keeps it viable for only four
hours . This new technology aims
to keep the heart beating while in
transit.
“With this method of
transplantation, hearts are kept
beating, allowing for organs to
be transplanted longer distances
so that more opportunities
may arise for our patients
to receive the organs they
desperately need,” said Francis
Pagani, cardiac surgeon at the
University of Michigan Frankel
Cardiovascular Center, the
study’s lead investigator
According to UHS, there
are about 4,000 people in the
United States in need o f a heart
transplant. This new technology
will allow many more donor
hearts to be transplanted because
hearts can travel longer distances,
allowing for more potential
recipients. Also, surgeons will be
able to examine the heart because
it is kept functional during
transportation.
Flint lags in
water plan to fix
infrastructure
The Fast Start program, a
30-day initiative to replace
infrastructure at 30 homes by the
March 31, is far from completion,
according to MLive. So far,
less than 10 homes have been
completed.
In early March, engineer teams
identified the 30 priority homes.
Part of the project includes the
removal of pipes made of lead and
galvanized steel. Flint officials
have attributed the delayed
progress to rain, snowstorms and
paperwork issues.
Weaver’s spokeswoman Kristin
Moore said they will continue
infrastructure replacement even
after the date passes. There are
potentially 5,000 homes in Flint
in need of new infrastructure.
Currently the program is funded
by the $2 million the state gave to
reimburse Flint’s expenditures in
2015 when the city had to switch
back to the Detroit water system.
Weaver said she is looking for
more funding to continue the
project.
Detroit Public
School official
charged for bribery
The principal of a Detroit
Public School that was set to
receive more than $500,000
worth of donations from TV
talk show host Ellen DeGeneres
has been charged with bribery
in an unrelated criminal case,
according to the Detroit Free
Press.
Federal court records show
that Ronald Alexander, the
principal at Charles L. Spain
Elementary Middle School,
allegedly appropriated $23,000
in kickbacks from Norman Shy, in
exchange for using Shy’s company
Allstate Sales as a school supply
vendor. Allstate Sales sells
school supplies and items such as
auditorium chairs.
This is part of a larger saga
involving $1 million worth
of kickbacks and at least 12
Detroit Public Schools that
contracted Allstate Sales in
exchange for money. Charles L.
Elementary Middle School gained
prominence when DeGeneres
announced, in a show segment
that aired in February, that the
school would receive more than
$500,000 worth of donations,
construction materials and
technology.
—DESIREE CHEW
ELIZABETH XIONG/Daily
A Phi Beta Sigma member performs at the National Pan-Hellenic Council
Step Show Tuesday.
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LSA sophomore Julia Pompilius examines a Nigerian mask up close in UMMA’s object study room for Art History Prof.
David Doris’s Yoruba Visual Culture class. The University’s art museum is in the process of assessing its African Art
collection following the recent addition of their first African Art curator.
AFRICAN ART