In the basement or the designated party wing.

Can someone who has been in Waco more recently than I have tell us if their Panhellenic Building has space for additional sororities or just the current 8 chapters? Pledge classes in the 90s is ridiculous for that school.

For those not familiar with Baylor, they have an on campus Panhellenic building that contains private chapter rooms/suites designated for each group. Baylor owns the building but the groups decorate their own space how they see fit. There are no live-ins. If they add new chapters there would have to be something to accommodate these groups that is of equal comparison. Baylor is not the type of school where "different" would fly with the PNMs.

Comrades,

Looks like they have 9, so one is available as it was previously KD's.

http://www.baylor.edu/stacyriddleforum/

So with only 9 suites available, what happens when they add another group, and then need to expand again?

As ComradesTrue mentions, Baylor is very traditional (I attended 2 years in the 80s). I would assume if more than 1 group came on they would use the SUB or dorms like they used to for recruitment and chapter meetings before expanding. Sounds like their chapter sizes are closing in on Ole Miss and Arkansas territory.

If memory serves me, BU had chapters of KD, Sigma Kappa and DG at one time. I wonder if any are planning to recolonize?

Is there any way they could build onto this building? I was hoping for a picture of it but didn't see one. Is there room near it to allow that?

Also, do they have anything resembling unofficial sorority houses off campus where sisters can live together? Or is this the sort of campus where you live on campus all 4 years? This whole concept of lodges at big Greek schools fascinates me.

Stacy Riddle was built with expansion in mind. I don't know if the plan was to build up or out, but I remember people saying that if we expanded, rooms would be created.

http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunica...ory&story=4495

On the second comment, several sororities and fraternities (usually owned by an older alum or a current student's parents) have informal houses or blocks of houses where members decide to live together. I don't know how many of them house large numbers of members, but I'd wager the answer is not many. I lived in a house of four, and knew plenty of others in similar houses.

All they can do is wait for BU to decide to expand. At that time, they can submit packets for consideration which will be voted on by Panhellenic. Sometimes colleges will agree that a former chapter will have a first right of refusal, although in my personal experience, they will also often not honour their initial agreement. Not that I'm bitter . . .

I would also be VERY surprised if Sigma Kappa wanted on again this soon.

Baylor quota was 78+6 optional juniors.

Ok good to know. I had just seen the initial two results which were both in the 90s and assumed that was approx quota. Still, 78+6 (juniors? not sophomores? interesting..) is huge for a relatively small campus of <14K undergrads.

Oh I totally agree. I wasn't being argumentative, just adding the missing data. :)

SK at Baylor closed in 1994. Is 20 years considered soon for that campus? Just curious.

I think SWTXbelle might have been thinking of Kappa Delta, which closed there in 2010.

Yep. Thanks for the correction.

Okay. Makes more sense. I know memories can be long, but I wasn't sure.