Page 2 - Sigma Star - Fall 2015

Chapter News From the Chapter President Chapter Spotlight: Anna Kaszuba Alex Rabadan Editor’s Note: Representing Awareness and Prevention the chapter as Spotlight Committee member, and is Legacy Anna Kaszuba. serves on the It’s on Us Hello Sisters! From the hometown of Long Task Force. With a student Grove, IL, Anna is on track teaching position starting to graduate this spring as an next semester at Buffalo his fall has English major with a minor Grove High School Anna been quite an in Secondary Education. is preparing for a future Teventful one She has served the chapter in education. For fun she for Sigma. In just as Social Enrichment, and enjoys the outdoors, hiking, a few short months we were able to is active on campus as a snowboarding, and reading. bring new, but very exciting aspects to FYCARE Facilitor, Rape our chapter. From inviting a variety of guest speakers such as the Urbana Fire Department to talk about fre safety, to What led you to join the chapter? the men and women of the different chapters AΔΠ hearing the Leadership Center present My sister, Ewa Kaszuba ’10, was a member of around campus to come together and have an on what it means to be a team player the chapter as I was going through recruitment honest conversation about what rape culture is Sigma has truly been utilizing our and I was at a crossroads after preference, and what that looks like in our Greek system. campus resources. choosing between a chapter I liked and the We train them to become liaisons for their This semester we were able to present chapter my sister was a part of. I read a letter chapter and help keep each other safe. the frst annual chili dinner beneftting that she wrote me during that fnal round and What inspired you to pursue a career in the Ronald McDonald House Charities that I still have to this day. She expressed education? along with the Alpha Delta Pi that although life can be tough sometimes, Teachers are so important. High school can Foundation. We were very pleased to she found sisters in Alpha Delta Pi who were be a really trying time for students, as it was raise over $3,000! This semester has always there to help her. Ultimately, these are for me. It’s a time where students are trying to been a great example of what happens the bonds I was searching for and I knew I fgure out who they are and what their goals when a group of strong women come wanted to be with my best friend. are in life. The amazing teachers I had in high together to make a difference. How did you school taught me more than U.S. History or As I bring my term to a close I Shakespeare, they taught me who I was, what cannot help but refect on how much I get involved my strengths were, and how to overcome have grown because of Alpha Delta Pi. with the Rape obstacles. My dream is to do that for someone Awareness If it were not for this sorority I would and Prevention else, to inspire students to learn and to show not be where I am today, and if it were them how much they are capable of. not for this chapter house I would not Committee? have gained the memories that I hold I have a very What are your hopes for the future? near and dear to my heart. p e r s o n a l I hope to continue to build sexual assault To think that this chapter holds over connection to awareness and prevention far past Urbana- 100 years of memories flls me with this issue and Champaign. My wish is to educate others on such joy and it brings comfort that I Vice President Biden and Anna after it’s especially how to support survivors and how to create will be able to come back at any time her speech given at the It’s On Us rally. important to an inclusive and safe space for all. I want to to reminisce on my time here. I look talk about on a incorporate this into my future classrooms and forward to enjoying the rest of my time college campus cultivate young adults who compassionate, in the Chapter House and I encourage where alcohol is involved. I took a class that informed and prepared to handle differences they you all to come back and remember I am now the Teaching Assistant for that might encounter outside of school. My dream what it means to be a Sigma. prepares you to become a FYCARE facilitator is for the students in my classroom to move L&V, (First Year Campus Acquaintance Rape on confdent in their abilities, ready for new Education Program). It got me thinking about Alex Rabadan how the organization of a college campus can situations and earnest to do more and learn more. contribute to and effect rape culture. No one should ever have to go through something like Anna with her two sisters, Ewa and Marta, on a snowboarding trip. that so I was determined to be as involved as possible in the fght against rape. Which program do you feel that you have had the biggest impact on campus with? During my time working with sexual assault on this campus we have created two programs, ICARE, which addresses bystander intervention and GUARD, which focuses on Greek life. The latter is one I am particularly proud of because I believe it to be engaging and impactful. It is a daylong seminar that asks