Survey Finds Sleep and Technology Correlation

Iowa State Daily, December 2019 Iowa State Daily, 2019 12-16-2019 Iowa State Daily (December 16, 2019) Iowa State Daily Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2019-12 Recommended Citation Iowa State Daily, "Iowa State Daily (December 16, 2019)" (2019). Iowa State Daily, December 2019. 1. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2019-12/1 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State Daily, 2019 at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Iowa State Daily, December 2019 by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890 12.16.2019 Vol. 220 No. 074 FINALS TAB Iowa State greek community reﬂects on its semester BY SIERRA.HOEGER @iowastatedaily.com Formals, philanthropies, recruitment events, Homecoming week, parent weekends and so much more. When looking to summarize the semester as a whole through the lenses of members of the sorority and fraternity community, these events are just a portion of what the community accomplishes and hopes to accomplish within the semesters to come. e community currently doesn’t have any plans to implement new programs but hopes to strengthen Survey ﬁnds sleep and programs that already exist. “We’ve had a lot of change within the last couple of years, and we’re trying to find that balance of, ‘How do we make these things e ective in the way we want them to work?’” said Billy Boulden, assis- technology correlation tant dean of students and director of sorority and fraternity engagement. One factor that has remained consistent semester CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY after semester is the academic success of students Associate professor in psychology Zlatan Krizan studied the results of a survey on diculties with sleep with his research team. The data involved with the greek system at Iowa State. showed an increase in instances of people having diculty falling asleep. According to their website, those belonging to the sorority and fraternity community held an average Researchers 165,000 individuals from 2013 to 2017. in the last decade. GPA of 3.1, compared to the overall undergraduate Zlatan Krizan, professor of psychology, “One issue that we have been interested in average GPA of 3.11 last semester. A plan called the studies sleep personality and social behavior. has to do with whether there have been changes Greek Academic Achievement Plan was created in study sleep e data collected from the survey was ana- in sleep at the population level,” Krizan said. “So order to help students juggle academics with other lyzed by Krizan and his research team that sleep changes a lot from day to day, some people events in their chapter. quality included Diana Muranovic, a senior in biol- sleep better than others, but do we see basically A factor that the sorority and fraternity com- ogy who is minoring in psychology. e data broad societal changes in sleep?” BY SAGE.SMITH AND munity is aiming to improve upon is the mental was from questions included in the National Large scale government surveys suggest SIERRA.HOEGER health resources available to those in their commu- Health Interview Survey. people sleep less, which has been connected nity. Boulden emphasized the fact those living in @iowastatedaily.com Krizan said these days, people’s social lives with the rise of mobile devices, Krizan their chapter houses oftentimes miss out on having are intertwined with their technological lives. said. Technology can be found everywhere, leaders available to them who have extensive mental Iowa State researchers found an increase In this study, the research team looked at whether it is cell phones, tablets, televisions, health training, whereas individuals who live in the in diculty falling and staying asleep in the how well people sleep, which Krizan said isn’t SLEEP PG4 dorms have community advisers or hall leaders who results of a survey conducted on more than something that has been tracked or analyzed undergo such training. “I think just talking about it is really hard,” said Abbey Bierma, graduate student and Collegiate Panhellenic Council president. “When [members] are International students return home struggling with stu or they’re having a harder week, we have a really hard time at admitting it because no one wants to be the one like, ‘is is a lot for me right BY SUSANNAH.CRICHTON “I will be staying in Ames, my now, I need a night of just taking a break.’” @iowastatedaily.com [Graduate Record Examinations] When it comes to chapter events, most of the time are coming up so that’s one thing everything is done with a purpose. Whether it’s a Winter break is coming up, and that I can focus on is just study- philanthropy event with the goal of raising money, for many international students at ing during break,” Namboori said. a recruitment event with the intention of gaining Iowa State, that means an oppor- “I’m in my senior year, so I’ll prob- more members or events that encourage members tunity to go back to their home ably be applying for internships to raise their GPA, the ideal that an event can exist country and be with their families. and jobs and grad school, stuff for the purpose of having fun and not for any other “I do know that most interna- like that. at’s the only time of AMBER MOHMAND/ IOWA STATE DAILY reason gets lost among everything else. tional students [...] probably don’t the year where there’s absolutely Over breaks during the school year, many international students “I think sometimes, too, we get so caught up in go home just because of the fact choose to stay on campus. Winter break allows more time to go home. no responsibilities, so I can work the rules, the regulations, the issues that are going that ight tickets are really expen- on that.” on around campus that we forget that a sorority sive, so they can’t go home for like home to spend Christmas with neighborhood to eat a nice dinner Madesh Samanu, sophomore and fraternity is supposed to be fun,” Boulden said. a week between the anksgiving his family. that my mom usually makes, or in computer science, is from Discussing stigmas surrounding their community breaks and the spring breaks that “I really enjoyed going back like a group of moms get together Tripoli in southern India. He said is something the Interfraternity Council (IFC) at we get, so they take the time o home just because it gives me and make.” he plans on staying on campus Iowa State is trying to debunk. A large topic for during actual winter break to go a chance to see my family,” ough the break allows many over winter break, but during his members and IFC President Zach Woodbeck, grad- home, because obviously three Namboori said. “Our family goes undergraduates to travel home, freshman year he had an oppor- uate student in business administration, is trying to weeks is quite a bit of time,” said to church every Christmas, that’s most graduate students end up tunity to spend the holidays with reverse the typically negative stereotypes portrayed Rahul Namboori, senior in man- just one thing we’ve done for a staying on campus, according to a friend who invited him to their of fraternities in the media. agement information systems. long time, even though we’re not Namboori. They continue their home in Lamars, Iowa. “We’re just scratching the surface, because the con- Namboori said he doesn’t usu- Christians. We don’t necessarily graduate work and academic stud- “I got to experience a lot of versation hadn’t been started,” Woodbeck said. “But ally go home to India during pray or anything like that, but we ies over break, which is similar cultural things, like the traditions Thanksgiving, and in past years just watch [the ceremony]. We to what Namboori plans to do GREEK PG4 INTERNATIONAL PG4 he has looked forward to going usually invite all the families in the this year. 02 CAMPUS BRIEF Iowa State Daily Monday, December 16, 2019 CALENDAR FEATURE PHOTO 12.19.19 12.16.19 Final exams, Iowa State University all day, Final exams, Iowa State University all day, Final exams week is Dec. 16-19. Final exams week is Dec. 16-19. Caterpillar Club, Reiman Gardens 10 a.m. 12.17.19 Join us this winter for our popular Early Childhood Final exams, Iowa State University all day, Development program featuring stories and cre- Final exams week is Dec. 16-19. ative activities around a nature-based theme. 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