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Tuesday September 22, 2009
Since 1960 Volume 85, Issue 10
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Sororities gain sisters
By Lauren Felechner
By Beatriz Fernandez
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After a weekend full of events, the Panhellenic Recruitment had come down to this – Preference Night. Sorority rushees slowly spilled into the lobby of the Titan Student Union’s Pavillions, waiting to be taken in. The lobby was filled with smiling faces and cocktail dresses. The rushees asked each other which sororities had picked them and which ones they wanted to join. On Monday night, it was time for them to choose their final two sororities. Britney Blitz, a religious studies major, thought the overall recruitment process was “overwhelming and stressful.” Though she was glad that she made it through the process, Blitz said, “I enjoyed it, but I wouldn’t do it again.” Blitz decided to join a sorority because all of her older cousins had been in sororities. Her uncle, who is helping pay her college tuition, encouraged her to join. Michelle Mendez, a psychology major, said the recruitment process was better than she had expected. “Overall, this experience has been amazing, because I’m really passionate about this,” said Mendez. “I want to be in a sorority ... it’s one of my main goals in college.” On Friday, rushees had to attend a New Membership Orientation, where they were given a briefing on what was to take place during the weekend. The recruits were given an opportunity to meet with members of each sorority to make a first impression, which is vital to the recruitment process. Rushees have to impress and be impressed during the process. If sororities like a recruit and the recruit reciprocates, it’s a match and the recruit is given an invitation to join the sorority. The recruits spent the second day getting to know their top four sororities better. They toured
By Ron Fu/Daily Titan Staff Photographer Above: Torrie Greene (right) talks to Stephanie Haulenbeck during the Panhellenic Council sorority recruitment at the Titan Student Union on Monday, Sept. 21. Below: Girls line up at the TSU to find out which sorority house they will be joining.
the houses of their top four, and bonded over activities which also helped them decide which sororities would be a good fit. Stacy Larson, a criminal justice major, felt good about the recruitment process. At times, she felt stressed, but was comforted by the fact that she was not alone and that the other recruits were feeling the same. Though Larson was “more nervous than excited on Monday night,” she felt the calm slowly kick in. “When you narrow it down, it gets easier,” she said. Many of the recruits seemed to have the same reasons for wanting to join a sorority – networking and making friends. But some had other reasons. “It’s a great way to keep your grades up,” Stephanie Rodriguez, a public relations major said.
Some sororities make it mandatory for sisters to go to the tutoring center and keep a minimum 2.5 GPA. Sororities also do charity events and all six sororities get together to donate money to Camp Titan, according to Panhellenic President Sarah Voogt. The sororities also make time to give back to their community. Rodriguez was quick to say that “being in a sorority is nothing like what people say ... it’s something really good.” Voogt was very happy with the amount of girls that attended the Panhellenic Recruitment. “We had over 400 girls that came to recruitment, which is the most we’ve ever had.” The rushees will get to choose which sorority they want to join on Bid Day, Sept. 22, which will conclude the weekend’s events and leave many rushees happy to be a part of a tradition.
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Tenure is an act revered on university campuses, not excluding Cal State Fullerton. A total of 418 current CSUF faculty members have successfully fulfilled the rigorous requirements of the tenure process. Students often do not understand what tenure is, or the review process that tenure-track faculty must submit to. “Tenure is strictly for faculty positions covered under the CSU/CFA
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(California Faculty Association) stricted for full-time tenure-track Collective Bargaining Agreement faculty only, consists of three catego(Unit 3 Faculty Union). ries: teaching, research and service, Librarians are covered by the Col- with teaching and research weighted lective Bargaining Agreement and more heavily. Each CSU tenure-track are considered faculty,” stated Robin faculty member must adhere to the Graboyes, director of Faculty Affairs standard UPS 210.000 document, and Records. which is the “overarching universityGraboyes went on to add, “Tenure level document that guides the RTP is only granted to professors who are (Retention, Tenure, Promotion) hired into an ongoing/tenure-track process,” states a document found position (as opposed to a temporary on the Faculty Affairs and Records appointment with Web site. a start and end However, some date) and only if disciplines have they obtain a teradditional guideminal degree in lines not listed in their field of study, the UPS 210 docwhich is usually a ument that faculty Ph.D.” must fulfill in orThe break down der to satisfy the of tenured faculty six-year probationon campus, acary tenure-track cording to Faculty requirements. Affairs and ReAs Graboyes – Dr. Lana Dalley, pointed cords, is as follows: out, “Bi114 in the College ology would have English professor of Humanities and different needs Social Sciences, 56 than someone in in the College of the arts, for exNatural Sciences and Mathematics, ample.” 52 in both the College of the Arts If a tenure-track faculty member and the College of Business and Eco- does not receive tenure, then they nomics, 41 in the College of Health must leave. They are given a “terand Human Development, 37 in the minal year,” which is one additional College of Communications, 34 in year to teach before having to leave. the College of Education, 24 in the “It would affect anyone’s pride (to College of Engineering and Com- not get tenure),” said Graboyes. “The puter Science, and eight in Pollak faculty work so hard. I respect them Library. so much; they put so much into it. The tenure review process, re- It’s their life. It is very important.”
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At CSUF, it’s a very transparent process, nobody should be surprised if they don’t get it. It is more stressful if it’s not transparent.
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By Rachel david
Daily Titan Copy Editor
Women more susceptible to ‘Drunkorexia’ disorder
Tenure-track faculty are required to keep track of their teaching, research and service in a Portfolio three separate binders provided by Faculty Affairs and Records. According to a document titled “Preparing Your RTP Portfolio” found on the Faculty Affairs and Records Web site, “Non Teaching Faculty (Library and Counseling) are evaluated based on their performance in the position/ profession in place of teaching.” Dr. Lana Dalley, an assistant and tenure-track professor of English at CSUF, described typical documents found within the Portfolio. Published articles and/or books fall under the research umbrella, while lesson plans, syllabi, student opinion questionnaires, and a minimum of two teaching observations can be found in the teaching section. Documentation of service, both on campus and in the surrounding community, can include agendas from meetings. Dalley, who is on Academic Senate and the adviser for Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society at CSUF, includes paperwork from both meetings into her Portfolio. Dalley, who is in her third year of the probationary tenure process, said, “At CSUF, it’s a very transparent process, nobody should be surprised if they don’t get it. It is more stressful if it’s not transparent.” Dr. Mostafa Shiva, chair and professor of the Electrical Engineering Department, has had tenure “for a long time. I would say 15 years, maybe more.”
This past summer, the Eating Disorder Center of Denver found an increase in the number of college-aged women who suffer from a new form of anorexia. The term “drunkorexia” was coined as a way to describe the coexisting diagnosis of women with bulimia who also binge drink. Although the term may not be a medical one, Susan Leavy, acting director of the Women’s Center at Cal State Fullerton, has heard of this common behavior, just never used with that name. “Eating disorders have a really addictive component to them, and alcohol is addictive too. So really, they are marrying two addictive behaviors,” Leavy said. The director of EDC-D, Tamara Pryor, explained that 75 percent of the center’s female bulimia patients also did a lot of binge drinking at a high frequency. “The way we are looking at it is people at our center have an eating disorder and a co-existing behavior of binge drinking,” Pryor said. “They seem to substitute binge eating for binge drinking.” Since these patients are dealing with two addictions and most of them are fit to be considered alcoholics, based on the amount and frequency of alcohol they are able to consume, a special program had to be formed in order to treat their issues simultaneously. The patients, however, don’t consider themselves alcoholics and were not responding to a 12-step program and AA meetings, so the clinicians came up with a program that identifies with the binge drinking as is. Groups were made for these women, where they were able to identify where their drinking originated from, and the consequences of the binge drinking, Pryor said. These groups allow for peer support without fear of blame and without the patients feeling shameful. Most of the patients are self-referred and check themselves into the center. It’s considered a partial-hospitalization program, which entails 10 hours a day with attendance in all types of groups such as body image groups, cooking and nutrition groups. The patients also have structured meals and most of them live in apartments near the center since they tend to come from all over the U.S. This type of treatment allows for analysis on the patients’ part. Depending on their situation and the level of their bulimia or anorexia, the girls could attend the program for six to eight weeks, or even up to as long as six months, Pryor explained. Jana Countryman, 27, a nursing student at both Fullerton College and Cypress College, is a former bulimic who didn’t partake in the binge drinking, but is able to see the connection between the two. Having been to treatment four times for relapsing, Countryman still struggles with the obsessive-compulsive behavior that comes with bulimia, but she has not relapsed since 2007. “I still have to fight it every damn day,” Countryman said. “But when I think, ‘Oh shit, I’m going down a path I shouldn’t be,’ is when I will call my dietician.” The onset of her nine-year battle with bulimia started when she turned 18 and graduated high school. Her dad having been a functioning alcoholic, having a verbally abusive mother, and being molested by one of her high school teachers became too much for Countryman to handle. The pressure of going away to college and wanting a clean slate for herself meant being perfect, entailing having the perfect look, said Countryman. A diet she set for herself had spun out of control and is what was the catalyst for her obsessive behavior of counting calories and limiting her food intake drastically. “When everything in life is f***ed up, one thing you have control over is what goes in and out of your mouth,” Countryman said. Both Countryman and Pryor describe bulimics as shamed and open to treatment. Their life becomes centered around purging because it is something they don’t want other people to know about, so they have to plan when, where and what time they could do it. Resistance usually comes from the anorexic patients, said Pryor. The foundation for Countryman’s road to recovery came after a 60-day in-patient stay at a treatment center in Arizona. “Every relapse I had was a little easier as far as coming out of it,” said Countryman. “But I realize now that when I become really really stressed is when I get triggered to restrict my food. But now I get rid of those stressors rather than getting rid of my food.” Countryman’s struggle with bulimia didn’t end in a negative light. The disease and the support from her doctors motivated and inspired her to want to help others and work in the medical field, which she is now pursuing by attending nursing school.
By Ron fu/Daily Titan Staff Photographer Professor Shiva teaching his class in the Engineering and Computer Science Building.