New social network seeks to manage Campus Life

Throughout campus the slogan, "Join our Wolfpack" accompanies a flyer depicting a picture of a burly man wearing a man purse from the hit comedy The Hangover. It is witty and eye-catching, but will it entice a new entourage of prospective Sigma Phi Epsilon into the fraternity?

Student leaders from various organizations have begun to recruit, persuade and interest other students to join and hopefully contribute to their unique subculture. And although activities night will remain as a central event for this social interaction to take place, it seems a more organized venue will facilitate Campus Life activities more efficiently and in a Facebook like form.

SU4U is a new link provided on the university's website located under Campus Life. Here students are able to create their own profiles in which they may upload a picture of themselves and select their own individual interests, which will then match them with groups that would entertain those interests.

Mike Lemieux, director of Campus Life in the Williams Center contributed to the development of the FSU4U network and said, "[FSU4U will provide] a portal to help student organizations organize themselves and communicate with one another, so that each is centralized into one site in order to promote their organization more efficiently to the students."

In addition to organizing communication between student organizations, FSU4U possesses a multitude of functions for students to personalize their profile accounts by listing their interests under a wide range of categories from academics to Greek life to athletics.

When students are interested in joining an organization, they are only a click away from notifying they're interest, obtaining event information and a full roster of current members.

"I think that FSU4U is an amazing tool that a lot of students are going to benefit from" said Donald Schier, public relations major and vice president of S.T.E.P.S (Students Teaching Equals Positive Sexuality), it gives great admission of privileges to members of the [executive board] so they can access parts of the Web site that the general body members can't."

FSU4U also offers an application that will record students' campus involvement so that at the end of their academic career, students will be able to print out a transcript of their participation for their resumes.

Organizations may also use FSU4U to receive feedback from group members without actually conducting meetings. Using one of the site's functions, organization leaders can poll other members of the group.

Since this website is in its infancy, Lemieux insists, "the site is incomplete, right now we're in the process of registering groups, setting up times of when they meet and establishing whether organizations are chartered, acknowledged, participate in volunteer services or have special requirements for involvement." However, there are twenty groups currently registered.

This new media tool is designed to replace the previous instituted pen and paper registration and eventually substitute communication via the listservs. Each organization must be approved by Campus Life before registering on FSU4U and any organization that fails to do so will not be declared and recognized as a part of Campus Life.