Who made the cemeteries arranged into a pentagram? Seems to me that maybe the cause of a lot of the problems. I also couldn't find any pics of the houses at Ohio

The Greek houses aren't anywhere on the web that I'm aware of. You can see the university buildings mentioned at www.ohio.edu on the virtual tour.

I've tried to post a pic of the OU Delt house a few times, but my computer just doesn't want to cooperate. Maybe someone can PM me on how to post an existing JPEG.

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it's actually quite simple. You have to trench out to build a wall anyway, for the foundation. You just trench down as high as you want the wall to be, probably a little higher, and you start building the wall, giving room for the persons to work on the wall. Then you fill in the work area and cover over the wall and you have an underground wall.

For the comment about the brothels. In the county my school is in there is a law actually on the law books about too many women (or men for that matter) unrelated in a house. However, it isn't enforced and I doubt that is why we don't have houses. It is more likely a land issue and the fact we live in a highly urbanized area. The fact that it is considered a brothel is ALL over my school as a myth. Well, it has SOME fact behind it, just not all.

I believe there is something similar to this in Guelph. You can't have more than 3 unrelated people living in a house. Obviously that law is not enforced otherwise there would be far too many students without housing. However, when it is reported someone has to go an check on it.
A Pi Phi sister was subletting a room in a house with 3 other people. She hadn't moved in yet, but a neighbour called the inspector and the inspector had to come and check things out. My sister wasn't able to move in for a couple of weeks because of this ridiculous law, and a nosy neighbour.

On the face of it, this kind of law does sound ridiculous.

It occurs to me, though, that this kind of law or zoning regulation could be aimed at allowing the city to enforce some good rules and regulations.

Like mandatory fire escapes, smoke detectors, sprinkler systems and other stuff.

On the other hand, they could also allow a city to play other games like cutting back on student off campus housing or greek housing.

Brothel and Cult Laws
 

I went to a SUNY school (Stony Brook). We have no fraternity and sorority houses on campus because of the so-called brothel and cult laws. Four or more unrelated females living together is considered a brothel house. In that same token, four or more unrelated males living together, it considered a cult. Ironically, at least half the dorms are suites that house 4 or six (two per room) unrelated males or females in one suite. Go figure!

Has anyone else heard of the cult law (the male equivalent of the brothel law) since we know about the brothel law?

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more craziness
 

I guess i bumped this up cause the thread kind of just focused on two things ghost stories and brothel laws. I was more intending to be urban myths or dispelled urban myths too about your chapter. To try to give another example, we always thought it was an urban myth that the frats and our sorority used to have keg rollling races down our busy street until we were talking ot an alum and she confirmed it. cRazy!

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Alright, so then what would the purpose of an underground wall be?

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If she left money and the condition of the university being able to use that money is that they have to build a wall around a dorm or on the side of the dorm they build it undergroud if they think it would be undightly. That and it also helps to make the ground around that area sturdier. It would help, to a point depending on how tall the building is and what not, to sure up the foundation and stop erotion on one side of the wall.

Ball State had a few good urban legends going. The first is that the sororities don't have houses because in the 1920s a daughter of one of the Ball brothers (of canning jar fame and the funders of Ball State) was blackballed from her sorority. The second is that Ball State has this beautiful sculpture of a winged, female figure called Beneficence (aka Bennie) by Daniel Chester French (the sculptor who did the figure of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in DC). Legend has it that if you kiss a virgin in front of Bennie her wings will flap...and they haven't flapped yet. They used to tell that one during orientation during the non-PC 80s.

Our chapter house is actually haunted, but I think I'll start a new thread for that one!

Thanks PSK480.

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the story that i always heard when i was there was that she was worried about the safety of female students and this was a way to protect them from being assaulted, raped, etc....


thanks psk480 for explaining how the wall would be built underground!

What a great place for a School! Let's build here!....uh no thanks! On second thought, my grades would have been awesome, because I wouldn't be able to sleep!

aj

Before I became Coord. of Greek Life at SIUE, I interviewed for the Greek Adviser's position at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. When I came on campus for my interview, I was surprised to find that there was a cemetary directly across the street from the residence halls. For some reason I kept thinking about "Night of the Living Dead".