This is almost as silly as a chapter building a modern house at a very tra...oh hell, never mind.

I think a lot of NPCs would love to be the one who "rises above" campus traditions that they consider silly or even deleterious, but when it comes down to it, it is a business, and if you choose to run a McDonald's franchise and not offer fries, you're going to have a lot of people driving out of your parking lot and to the next closest McDonald's. If you think the campus is that effed up, you need to close your chapter.

It's going to take the whole CPH deciding that they want more women to have the Greek experience whether there is room to live in or not before IU will make a change in the way they place PNMs. They are far too mired in what they've always done....and it shows in many ways.

Does anyone know of any instances where national Panhellenic (Panhel the entity, not each member group voting individually and making basically the same decision) has overridden a CPH? Or has that just never been possible ever?

Even if the above scenario were true, would the administration go for it? More than likely, the chapters would want larger houses as they grew...and IMO, the chapter and prospective colony that are not housed at the present time aren't going to want to stay that way forever, unless they market themselves to a very narrow niche and rush separately. As much as IU is saying "we want all 26" I think they're only saying it because they don't think it will ever occur. Unless they go to Q/T, tear down everything that's there and build 26 identical houses.

They really would not have the power to do that. NPC does not sanction chapters or campuses. They have certainly tried to get IU to see the options but have not been successful in changing the system. It seems the people there are afraid to find out what it would be like as they are afraid some groups will end up with the short end of the stick. Which is true if they want to be as short sighted as they have been in the past. Or, which some also fear, is that they will be inundated with woment hey cannot accomodate - which is the more likely scenario. They could however plan for that but thinking outside the box is not something that happens in that particular Greek system.