They discuss 1998 awards for graduate students in the sociology department. Suitor spent three hours the day before preparing for the meeting. She quickly reviews her notes again at noon while having a quick lunch in her office, and she assigns her undergraduate student worker to various tasks for the week, such as completing fall book forms and doing library research. I have been working on a paper with graduate student Rebecca Carter on regional differences in adolescent gender norms. I organized findings for the results section.
Suitor is also active on campus.
She has been a member of the Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate since 1992 and served as both first and second vice president. Suitor received the 1994 Arts and Sciences Council Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and in 1997, she received the LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award for research, teaching and service. Today, the class discusses how being labeled as mentally ill affects interpersonal relationships and job opportunities. We discussed the difficulties of getting out of the poverty cycle and the social factors that impede advancement. The book, Hard Living on Clay Street, followed a poor family over a year.