My chapter had cold airs. I loved them. The only thing I didn't like was that I would occassionally get snowed on in the wintertime, because my bed was by a window. (But then I'd just close it.) Our cold air dorm slept around 50some women. We had a small section that was supposed to be for the heavy snorers/talkers. We didn't do wake-ups, so we had alarm clocks. Then we had rooms that housed 2-5 women to keep all their stuff. Each of those also had a daybed in it.

As far as decorations - all I can remember is that the walls were dark blue. Sometime during my undergrad we also installed 3 air conditioners so that for the first month or so when it's still hot in Iowa, you can sleep comfortably.

No men allowed obviously. For the fraternities on campus that had cold airs, I remember my college boyfriend's fraternity just hung the "shacker sheets."

I was in a fraternity at Oregon State, and I can confirm what one of the previous posts said about a chapter there having a sleeping porch - because ALL the fraternities and sororities at Oregon State had sleeping porches.

I personally did not like our sleeping porch - I don't like open air while I sleep and our mattresses were crap. In terms of shacking we discouraged people from doing it on the porch; every study room had a futon or couch, and so people would do it in their rooms. Of course it happened once in awhile on the porch, sometimes on other peoples bunks, and that just made it more entertaining.

I was a Zeta at Indiana 88-91. We had a cold dorm on the 3rd floor.

The summer before my senior year (I think) they added on to the house, doubling its size. The "new wing"--had doubles, and everyone with enough seniority jumped at the chance to have a room in the new wing. Many of us were surprised at how much we missed the cold dorm, though.

For the person who thought Sigma Nu at IU must have cold or warm dorms...I don't know about now, but back then, the guys had "suites"--often two larger rooms (desk couches etc) with a very small "rack room" built into the suite (with just build-in bunks and a narrow space with enough room to get to their bed). No large dorms, though.

I've been upstairs at KU's Beta... A friend's cousin gave us a tour the first night we were allowed to go out after recruitment. Hmm, whoops. No one was home anyway.

None of the Chapters at my school have these. Do you get a room too or are girls assigned only to the sleeping porches. These sound pretty cool!

You get a room to keep your stuff in, and for studying, too. Most of the ones I've seen have desks and chairs, and I've been in some where the girls had futons.