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process. In Dr. Michaela Meyer’s article “Women Speak(ing)”, she examines how women are viewed today through feminist analyses and that “understanding the contributions of all women is an important step toward cultivating media literacy” (11). Meaning that one must view women by understanding the feminine style and can be interpreted as weak. Increased depression and lower self-esteem begins before, during recruitment and continues throughout sorority life on campus. Research also proves that once a member of a sorority, self-esteem does not increase, and can potentially decrease as the years go on. Young women who joined a sorority were proven to not have a higher mean self-esteem rate than those who did not join a sorority (Saville, Johnson). Since student body populations on college campuses are increasing across the nation, this means that female population is increasing as well. With more females on college campuses, this allows for young women to be surrounded by more body types and lower self-image when comparing themselves to others. Increased depression and lower self-esteem are precedents which lead to eating disorders and body image disruptions, and vice versa. College is a new environment most young adults have not experienced. With this being said, students are forced to cope and adapt to this new environment that could potentially have an effect on their personality, social skills, and self-image. Before conducting experiments, research believed that sorority women would have reported a higher level of eating disorders than non-sorority women. For example, “A cross-sectional study found that sorority women reported higher levels of body dissatisfaction and fears of becoming fat” (Allison, Park 355). But the real question was, do women who pursue the process of recruitment and joining a sorority have more disordered eating attitudes than women who do not? But after experimenting this theory it was proven that