During the winter months
many students can face the pos-
sibility of seasonal affective dis-
order, a mood disorder causing
depression to occur at the same
time every year. While most
people experiencing SAD feel
the effects from late fall to the
end of winter, in a rarer form,
people can experience SAD
from late spring to early fall.
Vicki Hays, senior associate
director of the University of
Michigan’s Counseling and Psy-
chological Services, says CAPS
treats SAD as a facet of depres-
sion.
“Seasonal
affective
disor-
der is considered a part of the
overall umbrella of depression,”
Hays said. “Primarily, I think
you would notice that unlike
your normal state of being, you’d
feel more lethargic, less inter-
ested in things, maybe not able
to concentrate as well, lots of
our basic symptoms of depres-
sion. And it’s not a great com-
bination to have that and have
all the school stuff going on this
time of year.”
Jim Dolan, the clinical direc-
tor of CAPS, said although there
may be an increase in students
with SAD during the winter
months, CAPS does not keep
track of SAD-specific changes.
“I can tell you that about 22
percent of our students report
depression as their primary pre-
senting concern,” Dolan said.
“But we really don’t differenti-
ate between types of depres-
sion.”
Hays echoed his statement,
saying depression is the second
largest most common reason
students go to CAPS for help,
with anxiety being the first.
Hays could not confirm if there
is an increase in students going
to CAPS during the winter.
“I don’t think so,” Hays said.
“I have to say we’re fortunate
that the students find us to be
helpful and we have tons of stu-
dents who come in. So we don’t
necessarily track that data.”
Dolan
also
stressed
the
importance of understanding
the difference between when
someone may have depression
and when the weather is just
affecting their mood.
“It’s important for people
to understand there’s a differ-
ence between the weather just
kind of affecting your mood
and the normal things we feel
as human beings when the
season changes, versus when
something becomes depres-
sion, which is a more serious
matter,” Dolan said. “It’s pretty
normal for people to want to
stay in bed a little more, or to
raise carbohydrate foods and
things like that. But it’s when it
starts to interfere with your life
— like you can’t get out of bed
or you stop attending events or
you don’t go to classes — that’s
when depression can be a real
problem.”
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ATTICUS RAASCH
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Campus resources help students
combat seasonal affective disorder
Employees at CAPS work to mitigate negative consequences of SAD
‘U’ student
caters to
cosmetic
demands
CAMPUS LIFE
Undergraduate provides
threading services to
others out of her house
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Roundtable
discusses
the state of
journalism
Panelists talk experience
with suppression and
violence in SE Asia
Around 30 people showed up
to the Perspectives on the State
of Journalism panel Wednesday
evening to hear three panel-
ists, each representing different
Southeast Asian countries, speak
on their experiences as journal-
ists.
The event started with each
speaker
talking
about
their
career and works focusing on
Southeast Asia before moving
into a Q&A session with the audi-
ence. Documentary filmmaker
Orlando de Guzman explained
his work in the Philippines,
describing his experience film-
ing police violence and civilian
murders following the election
of President Rodrigo Duterte in
2016.
“Soon after he was elected,
I went immediately back to
the Philippines because I felt it
would be a rather big change in
society,” de Guzman said. “The
usual night beat reporters who
cover crime would go out and
there would be at least two dozen
killings a night we wouldn’t even
spend time in one place before
we’d have to run off to another.”
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At
the
“Empowering
Survivors: A Forum on Sexual
Misconduct
Policy”
panel
Wednesday night about 100
students gathered at the Ford
School to discuss the new
sexual misconduct policy at the
University of Michigan.
The panel was held by
Central Student Government
and guests from the Office
for Institutional Equity, the
Sexual Assault Prevention and
Awareness Center, the Office
of Student Conflict Resolution,
the department of sociology
and
Kroll
Experts,
a
risk
management team.
During
the
event,
the
panelists outlined the new
policy and answered audience
questions regarding the Sixth
Circuit Court ruling, recent
Department
of
Education
Title IX regulation changes
and campus issues relating to
sexual misconduct and survivor
empowerment.
CSG Vice President Isabel
Baer, an LSA junior, highlighted
the findings from the campus
climate
survey
on
sexual
misconduct, which found 11.4
percent of students, 22.5 percent
of undergraduate females and
6.8 percent of undergraduate
males were survivors of sexual
assault at the University.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Thursday, February 7, 2019
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CSG presents
discussion on
misconduct
guidelines
Beyond Black and White event
looks at identities on campus
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Survivor Empowerment forum offers
perspective on Sixth Circuit Court ruling
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Student organizations collaborate on discussing interplay of power, privilege
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thursday, february 7, 2019
the
supernatural
b-side
On Wednesday night, around
80 students gathered in the Tau-
ber Colloquium to discuss the
history of power, privilege and
stereotypes as a person of color.
Spearheaded by the United Asian
American Organization, the panel
was a coalition of four POC orga-
nizations on campus: UAAO, Black
Student Union, La Casa and Arab
Student Association. The panel
featured faculty advisors and staff
in multicultural leadership roles
throughout campus.
Titled “Beyond Black and White:
Marginalized Identities in Aca-
demia”, Business senior Chandra
Sahu told The Daily after the event
that she thinks it’s unique to cam-
pus.
“I haven’t seen a collaboration
with organizations of these identities
in all of my four years,” Sahu said. “I
think it’s easy to feel that there is a
divisiveness between different kinds
of students of color so it’s nice to have
a reminder. Because coalition build-
ing is how change happens.”
Robert Sellers, Chief Diversity
Officer and vice provost for Equity
and Inclusion, served as the moder-
ator and began the event by discuss-
ing the need for solidarity among
people of color.
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LSA program associate Elizabeth James speaks to the audience about discrimination and stereotypes at the Beyond Black and White panel in
the Tauber Colloquium Wednesday evening.
On
top
of
attending
classes and fulfilling other
typical
college
related
responsibilities, Engineering
junior Sara Bashir runs and
operates
her
own
mini-
business. Using her Ann Arbor
apartment
as
a
makeshift
salon, Bashir provides lip and
eyebrow threading services
to students. Her prices range
from approximately $2-$10,
depending on the treatment.
Eyebrow
threading
is
the
most expensive service she
provides.
Bashir’s
interest
in
threading began long before
she launched her business,
back when she was in middle
school.
“My mom knew of the
concept (of threading) because
it’s kind of cultural for Desi
people and people from South
Asia to thread … so I just tried
it,” she said. “In middle school,
I started by threading my leg or
my arm or my mom’s arm and
then I did their faces and then
when I got more confident I
started doing other people.”
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