The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, January 17, 2020 — 3 CAPS From Page 2 country to do this — (is) we have a care manager,” Sevig said. “So we developed one person, and now we have two full- time people, to help with referrals that take a little work.” Emphasis on referring to East Lansing professionals also impacts the goal of students visiting MSU CAPS. According to The State News, MSU CAPS only offers students three free appointments, after which appointments must be covered by insurance or out of the student’s pocket. U-M CAPS, in contrast, never charges students and offers free counseling indefinitely for those with extenuating circumstances that prevent them from finding appropriate, outside long-term care. Sevig said U-M CAPS’ efforts to provide medium and longer-term service without charging students means it cannot base its appointment model on walk-ins like MSU CAPS. The report showed about 26 percent of patients saw CAPS for six or more sessions last school year. CAPS can offer longer treatment for students who are experiencing a complex reaction to a traumatic event, are uninsured or do not have transportation to off-campus referrals. Sevig said the average number of sessions is four to five, but it is important to continuously make appointments available. “We’ll see the person,” Sevig said. “We’ll do it whenever we can. Our staff will do extra to fit students in, but I would like to, on a systemic level, increase our ongoing work to do more than average.” While students have complained about the inadequacy of CAPS at the University, many schools look to U-M services as a model to improve their own programs. Patishnock said Sevig has been helping MSU develop their CAPS service, which has been around for less than two years. “We have 29 full-time counselors,” Patishnock said. “I understand the University of Michigan has even more counselors per student. We’re trying to get ourselves about even with where you guys are.” Big Ten Conference and Okanagan Charter The University is not alone in its efforts to improve mental health. Representatives from CAPS attend the yearly Big Ten Counseling Centers Convention to exchange ideas with similar-sized schools. According to Sevig, the idea for embedded counselors — a branch of professionals from CAPS who specialize in the culture and students of different colleges throughout the University — came from Northwestern University and the University of Iowa. “It was really radical because in our profession, we have this idea that you have to come to us,” Sevig said. “So I waited for them to implement it for a year, and it was still working really well there. Then I wrote up this model for seven of our staff to be with the four schools on North Campus and three of the professional schools on Central Campus and it all got funded.” The University is also a member of the Okanagan Charter, an international charter for health-promoting universities and colleges aimed at promoting overall well-being on campus. Wolverine Wellness Director Mary Jo Desprez said the charter guides many of the University’s efforts on mental health. To illustrate how the Charter’s framework could improve day-to-day practices, Desprez gave the example of a professor who can choose between setting a paper deadline at midnight or at six o’clock in the morning. While the six o’clock deadline gives students more time, she said many students would stay up all night writing. “There’s no reason the paper can’t be due at three o’clock in the afternoon,” Desprez said. “That is a way a faculty member can contribute to the health and well-being of the community just based on one small change.” Orientation During freshman orientation, the Educational Theater Company performances mention CAPS and include a presentation for parents as well. However, many students told The Daily they are unaware of how they can make an appointment with CAPS and how to get to their office. LSA sophomore Eva Schwarz told The Daily that finding out how to make an appointment was more difficult than making the actual appointment. “I went to make an appointment and it took a lot of navigating, figure out how to watch a video and then the video, people acting out like a scene and then it finally tells you how to make your appointment, which you can’t even do online,” Schwarz said. “To me, it seems like such an ordeal to go through the process of trying to use the University’s resources.” Schwarz did not remember the information from orientation, raising concerns if it actually sticks with students. In contrast, Ben Crino, Western Michigan University sophomore, told The Daily that WMU tells students about their mental health resources and how they work during orientation. Unlike the University students interviewed, he remembered this information. “I did my orientation a month before school started and they take you right to the building, then they take you inside and they take you to one of the rooms,” Crino said. “They take your whole group like a tour, but they make sure to really cover that place. You know where it is on campus, you know what it looks like and you know how to (make an appointment).” When asked if the University was aware that students felt they did not retain information presented about CAPS during orientation, Sevig said he would be open to working on ways to make the information more prevalent. He said he would be interested in making a CAPS office stop as part of the campus tour like Western Michigan does. “I think that’s a great idea,” Sevig said. “We’d be happy to do it.” Wellness Clubs at Other Universities Student efforts to improve the well- being on campus are also not unique to Ann Arbor, as examples of like-minded organizations can be found across the country. For example, Northwestern University’s Happiness Club “encourages and facilitates random acts of kindness … creating moments that lead those involved to think, ‘That just made my day!’” according to the organization’s website. The University of California, Berkeley, often ranked as a top public university along with the University of Michigan, is home to mental health promotion clubs like You Mean More, De-Stress with Dogs and Art & Mind. Akash Rathod, a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley, said he is grateful for the student support at the highly competitive school. He recently attended a session for the Berkeley University Health Services nutrition team focusing on the intersection of healthy food and well-being. Rathod said he believes having wellness clubs is important to students prioritizing their mental health. “I think the organizations have had a positive impact,” Rathod said. “A lot of students that need the help and were previously not getting the help are getting more resources and are in a better position now.” together to feed off the energy of the people next to you and really feed off the music,” Krull said. “You’re supposed to disconnect from your phone, from metrics … really enjoy that 45 minutes of your day for yourself.” LSA freshman Celene Philip has participated in SoulCycle classes before. Philip said she enjoys the non-competitive aspect of the workout. “The instructors stress a lot that the only person you’re here for is yourself, and they stress a lot about the idea that you don’t have to follow their guidelines,” Philip said. “You just need to push yourself enough that you are out of your comfort zone.” Krull said each class is capped at 47 people and led by an instructor. The selection process for instructors is competitive, she said. After regional auditions, Krull said prospective instructors spend eight weeks in New York City or Los Angeles to train. Then, they teach practice classes in their respective markets, which Krull described as having “cut-throat” competition with high expectations for technique perfection. SoulCycle faced controversy in August when its owner, prominent University donor Stephen M. Ross, held a fundraiser for President Donald Trumps’s re-election campaign. SoulCycle released a statement on Twitter, signed by CEO Melanie Whelan, saying the company did not endorse the fundraiser. LSA sophomore Nicole Lin participates in Michigan Muscle Club and has heard about SoulCycle from her teammates. She said she is hoping to try it. “I’ve heard a lot about cycling classes, so I would be willing to try it,” Lin said. “It’s really good cardio, especially since I’m not a fan of running.” However, Lin is slightly concerned about the prices of the classes. New riders receive an offer of $20 per class, and $26 per class afterwards. In an email to The Daily, Kimberly Gibbs, SoulCycle’s director of public relations and communications, noted that for the first time ever at the Ann Arbor studio, SoulCycle is offering a discounted $22 class for students with a valid ID. Philip shared a similar sentiment to Lin’s regarding cost, but said she thinks it will be a fun workout she can do every once in a while. “It can be pretty hard for people to afford it,” Philip said. “On one hand, it can be good for people who come from big cities that often do SoulCycle when they’re home so they can have a piece of home to bring with them to Ann Arbor. But I also think that hopefully SoulCycle will market it in a way that’s more accessible to people here.” SOULCYCLE From Page 1 “The thing that’s different about this particular picture is that it’s cognitively balanced and the virtues have opposites,” Quinn said. “This picture is very simple, yet very complex. The average manager does not have this picture in their head.” His final point, social excellence, was based on the story of Gerry Anderson, chief executive officer of DTE Energy. When the recession of 2008 hit, Quinn said Anderson consulted with a financial advisor and was told he would have to cut his labor force. According to Quinn, Anderson decided to be honest with his employees. “Gerry goes to his ‘herd of horses’ and he says, ‘Let me share with you what’s really going on,’” Quinn said. “‘I don’t want to downsize. I’ll do anything to avoid downsizing. Problem is, I don’t know what to do. I believe you (the employees) do.’” Quinn made the point CEOs do not typically admit when they do not know something. However, Quinn claimed Anderson’s authenticity helped the company have its best year in 2010. Chinelo Onuigbo, CJ Greer and Ty Moreno are master’s students in the School of Social Work. Onuigbo said the three came to the talk for a class. Moreno also said they wanted to learn new leadership styles. “We came here because we’re learning about new leadership styles and new philosophies,” Moreno said. “Not just, ‘You do what I say,’ but, ‘What does the group want?’ The idea of group wisdom versus manager wisdom.” Onuigbo said she enjoyed the talk and liked the multiple options provided. “There were a lot of different models to consider and maybe adapt to different scenarios and work styles,” Onuigbo said. Greer said he particularly liked the example with Anderson. “I thought that the talk was very innovative, and it was very practical in the examples that it used, especially hitting close to home using DTE as an example,” Greer said. However, though Moreno enjoyed the talk, she admitted she had heard much of it before. She speculated the talk might be differently received by different age groups in the audience. “Individuals from the community who are out of school and are much older and maybe learning this as something brand new,” Moreno said. “And there’s students who, I think from our generation, are already hip to this. It’s very intuitive because we are not a generation who wants to be told what to do. We aren’t a generation that doesn’t have confidence in our own answers. To see this laid out in an educational framework is nice, but I didn’t think it was revolutionary.” POSITIVITY From Page 1 DESIGN BY MICHELLE FAN DINGELL From Page 1 EPA Deputy Director Joan Tanaka expressed the importance of the EPA working with state officials to contain the toxic chemicals spreading throughout the groundwater in Ann Arbor. “We understand that lots of stuff is going on right now, there’s going to be a lot of talking,” Tanaka said. “I don’t think anybody wants the problems to get worse and so we would be working together to figure out how it could not (get worse).” Tanaka also said the site is not currently considered a Superfund site, a site requiring long- term care which receives government support, because the groundwater contamination is not at a point of causing harm to people. Without this classification, it does not require emergency funds for cleanup from the EPA or from the responsible party, Gelman Sciences, Tanaka said. Currently, EGLE is in charge of making sure the level of the toxic dioxane chemical stays below a certain level and does not harm Ann Arbor residents. The meeting then moved to city and county officials asking the panel specific questions. Most of the questions were geared towards the EGLE, Attorney General official and the EPA to better understand the timeline of diminishing the plume. Tanaka explained that at most it would take approximately 25 years for the plume to be entirely cleaned up by the EPA, but in the meantime, EGLE will continue to monitor the plume. The discussion then opened up to questions from all community members in attendance. Community members asked questions about the timeline of cleanup efforts and who would be in charge of the cleanups. Rita Loch-Caruso, an environmental health sciences professor who attended the panel, spoke to The Daily after the meeting about her concerns. “I’m very concerned about the plume,” Loch- Caruso said. “I live on the west side of Ann Arbor and I’ve been going to these meetings for over ten years, and I have watched the plume advance toward my property. I’ve lived in our home for over 35 years year. The plume is now under my house.” Loch-Caruso also discussed her thoughts on the community meeting after hearing the different representatives from the different agencies speak. She left the meeting feeling like there is more work to be done on this issue. “What I take away is that we still have an uphill battle to climb,” Loch-Caruso said. “It’s not clear to me though that the regulatory groups from the different government agencies and the different government entities and jurisdictions are really going to be able to come together in agreement, but I really hope so because I think we need a solution.”