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.