David Coleman

On September 22, 2010. The Sonoma State CSLIS Office was proud to introduce David Coleman. The event was held in the Seawolf Gym and focused around the Greek Community and Athletics. David Coleman is known nation wide as the Dating Doctor! He was named the National Collegiate Speaker of the Year, twelve times and it showed through his speech on Wednesday.

He let the students interact with him by allowing the students to ask any questions they wanted from student life, dating, and any questions in general. "He really made the student's feel comfortable and that this wasn't just a lame speaker presentation that we had to sit through, it was really fun, I really liked how he talked about dating!" stated Alicia Frumenti a member of Alpha Delta Pi.

Is David Coleman "America's real-life Hitch?" Ask Sterling, an athletics member who may be getting personally coached by David Coleman free of charge. During the presentation Sterling asked Coleman "Why don't sorority girls mess with athletic boys?" Coleman's response, with an honest answer, athletic boys could be coming off as jerks.

Would most women agree? Who knows, but from all of the feedback CSLIS and the organizations that attended have received Coleman was a hit, and Sonoma State Students would like to have him come speak again, maybe next time we can learn more about college dating.

Also, if you attended the presentation please fill out the survey online at Orgsync! Three lucky students will be chosen for some great raffle prizes. https://orgsync.com/forms/show/21755

Welcome Back Seawolves!!!!

Here in the CSLIS office we have been extremely busy, hence why it has been a while since our last blog. Summer Orientation went very well, we met a lot of new and exciting seawolves that we are sure will be a huge asset to Sonoma State! We can't wait to see them all walking around campus. In addition to Orientation, Big Nite 2010 and Son Fest 2010, were also huge successes and we had a lot of fun!!

And speaking of students... School has officially began! The first day of school was Wednesday, August 25th and we hope that every Seawolf had a great first day! CSLIS is so excited to have all the students back walking around campus! We want to warmly welcome back students, and we are ready to have the best year yet!

To start this year out, we want to welcome everyone to the Fall Club Fair, which will be held on September 1st at 11:00 a.m. in Salazar Quad! Come check out what all the exciting clubs on campus have to offer and remember this is a huge chance to get involved at Sonoma State and meet other seawolves with the same interests as you! Don't miss out!!

On the other hand, attention clubs, don't forget that the chartering meetings are also in September at noon in the Multi-Purpose Room on September 15th and 17th and then again on on September 21st at 6:00 p.m. also in the Multi-Purpose Room. You will need your new president and treasure present at the meetings and have at least five members. The chartering deadline is September 24th at 4:00 p.m.

With the new school year, Greek Life on campus is super busy with Panhellenic and Interfraternity recruitment's coming up fast. Don't miss out on the Panhellenic information meetings that will be held on September 1, 2, 6 and 7th and get ready for fall recruitment to begin on September 9th! Also, Interfraternity recruitment will begin its two week process on September 7th. We look forward to meeting all of the new members and good luck!

Wow...what a month! With all of these exciting events happening in September, we can't wait to see what is in store for us in the future! Have a great first week of classes Seawolves, and we are so happy to have you all back!!

New & Exciting is an Understatement...

It's been a while since we've visited the CSLIS Blog because we have been extremely busy with new and exciting things in our office!

We have hired a new Campus Life Advisor who will be joining us starting in just a couple of weeks. Justin Sipes will be new to California and new to Sonoma State University; he will have many opportunities to share his knowledge of Campus Life and Leadership with our students! He is traveling from Ohio where he recentely graduated from Bowling Green State University... please join us in welcoming Justin Sipes as our newest Sonoma State Seawolf!

With Justin joining our team, we have also implemented a new online system for all of our clubs and organizations. OrgSync is a new system that our clubs can use to access one another, connect with other clubs on campus and create an online world similar to Facebook. Feel free to check out OrgSync by following this link! http://www.orgsync.com/

In the world of Greek Life, we have two new organizations joining the family: Phi Sigma Sigma and Alpha Sigma Phi. Phi Sigma Sigma was previously known as Omega Sigma Alpha, a local Jewish sorority at SSU. As a National Panhellenic Organization, Phi Sigma Sigma will be joining our four other Panhellenic organizations this fall. The other new organization is a national fraternity that has had a colony at Sonoma State University for the past year. Alpha Sigma Phi will be officially recognized by the university beginning this summer and will be installing their chapter in August. Congratulations to each of their members on a successful colonization process, we look forward to the great things you will bring to our campus.

By now, you are probably overwhelmed with the many great things that are happening in terms of Student Leadership and Involvement... as are we! But it is a "good overwhelmed"; with all of these amazing changes happening, we are also welcoming two new Student Assistants, JP Bettencourt and Kaitlin Marriott who will be amazing assets to our CSLIS Team.

As we get prepared for Summer Orientation to begin, we would like to congratulate the Seawolves who graduated on May 29, 2010... you will be dearly missed, but you have left a legacy that we will all remember.

GO SSU. GO SEAWOLVES.

Hot Dog Giveaway Club Fair

When we said "let's enjoy the good weather" I don't think we thought it would be THAT good. It was pretty hot and humid outside for the club fair but I think we all managed to look past that and see how great of a turnout we had.

By 11am clubs had already started filling up the tables waiting for things to get rolling. When things actually started up by 11:30 the hot dog line was filled with hungry students and Lobo even tried to sneak his way into the mix. With such a large turn out we ended having more clubs than we had on the list and definitely more than we had tables for! But that's the kind of student involvement we like to see--students eager to get more involved.

Due to budget cuts we cannot host as many club fairs as we have in the past and so we are strongly encouraging students to get out with their clubs to really promote themselves! There will be a PAWS workshop on Marketing Your Organization on Sep 29th at 12pm in the MPR--if you are interested in getting more members, please come!

Thanks for a great turnout at the club fair and we look forward to seeing you around!

Your Campus. Your Newspaper.

The first issue of the Sonoma State STAR was distributed today and students are reading anything but positive articles these days.

The attitude of the newspaper was depressing, saddening and it gave everyone an overall sense that our university is struggling in every aspect.

Yet, the words of The STAR were not falsities. They were true words and emphasized that students have a say in what our campus is going through. We are all students, struggling to survive a budgetary crisis. We can speak up and we can make a difference on our campus.

Get involved. Do Good. Make a difference. If you are wanting to get involved on campus and have your voice heard, visit the CSLIS Office TODAY!

Classes are now upon us...

Welcome to the first official day of classes! You are now diving into a crazy, history-making adventure at Sonoma State University. In the words of Helen Keller, "When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us”. Take advantage of all that SSU has to offer and continue to walk through the open doors...

The First Day

As Freshmen and Transfers walked up the stairs of Stevenson, down to the basement of Darwin and through the halls of Salazar on Tuesday morning, the air was filled with nerves and anticipation of finally beginning classes at SSU.

First Day is the beginning of class for new students on campus. They are split up into groups, play icebreakers, talk about how to get involved on campus and they have the opportunity to meet staff and student leaders.

After this event, they head to the Main Gym for Student Convocation. Not only was the Gym filled with student from wall to wall, but everyone seemed to be intently listening as professors and students spoke about the current state of our university with all the budget issues going on around us.

As the 2009-2010 year continues, students will not only be concerned with the state of our University, but we will all be working together to make our campus better than it has ever been before, despite the struggles we will all be facing together.