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. The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 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. STEP UP NHL From Page 1A STRESS From Page 1A ANDREW COHEN/Daily 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