Does your school have a sorority/fraternity row?
 

My school, Cal State East Bay in Hayward, doesn't have a "greek row" and I feel that having one can bring the sororities and fraternities closer together as to having more activities, recruiting more new members, and maybe induct some more sororities and fraternities into the greek system. What about your school and what are your thoughts on this?

Wagner College doesn't have a Greek Row, but we have a building in which each floor is designated for a sorority or fraternity and only those members can live on it. It's pretty cool because we get to paint murals on the walls and decorate it however we want.

University of Tulsa has a Fraternity Row where all the frats are located, then behind them there is a big field (used for football practice and other things) Cross that field and you are on Sorority row where all the girls are.

No, but we're supposed to be getting one. I don't support that idea.

Central Oklahoma has been looking into it. I spoke with the Director of Student Housing about it not too long ago.

It's still in the very conceptual phases as far as I know.

The row is pretty much dying here. A few years back, before we moved to it, SAE, Pi Kapp, Phi Sig, Lambda Chi, Sig Ep, Teke and Sigma Pi all lived on it with D Chi around the corner, Phi Tau and us were the only two houses completely off the row. We moved to the row when SAE lost their charter (we moved into their old house cuz ours died) and now its us, Pi Kapp, Phi Sig and Sig Ep are the only houses on the actual "row". It does help get closer to the other houses and stuff, inter-house relations has been good the last few years, nobody really calls us Sigma Who anymore. Teke used to instigate row-wide water fights but now its pretty much dead. There were days when for Back to School and TGIO the cops would completely block off the street for the parties but now with the city cracking down on Greeks and the row fading into obscurity, nothing real big happens anymore. It's pretty sad I mean, if the Greeks here dont pull together and fight for survival, in a few years not only could the row be gone, but the Greek system as a whole...

We have two Fraternity rows and one sorority row.

And one fraternity out in the middle of nothing.

we have a fraternity row at ASU. alot of us refer to it as "north row" and "Alpha Drive" theres only a select few chapters that have houses there. mostly its the chapters that have been around for awhile. all the sororities and the rest of the fraternities are housed in a apartment style complex called Adelphi I and II. each chapter gets a little "cluster" in the complex with a courtyard, rooms, chapter room and kitchen. and they hang your letters on the outerwall of your cluster. since greek life isnt too big at ASU, campus has been planning on buying out the houses on north row and tearing it down to build some "greek housing project" thing.

At UF the streets are called "Panhellenic Drive" (and there is East and West) and "Fraternity Row".

At USF, it is simply the Greek Village. The residences are built by the University and they all look alike.

At FSU there is not one really. Everything has a regular street address.

Just curious - why not?

At Western Illinois, there is no Greek Row. When I was there, the administration was "strongly encouraging" Greeks to buy/build houses in one specific area, about 5 blocks or so off campus. The majority did move, but there are still a couple of houses that are closer to campus.

At Eastern Illinois, all of the sororities, and most of the fraternities, live in Greek Court. The houses are owned by the school (members pay room and board directly to the school), and they're pretty nice. A handful - maybe 4 or so - of the fraternities have off campus dwellings.

The the University of Illinois the Greek houses are scattered all over Champaign and Urbana near campus.

At Oklahoma State University all of the Greek houses are on the same side of campus (except for one fraternity) but there is no row.

At the University of Oklahoma there is North Greek and South Greek. Neither is a "row" but rather an area where most houses are located, one north of campus and one south of campus.

We have what is called the Greek Complex.
4 building built in the late 50's early 60's where AXiD, PiPhi, Pike, and SAE live.
4 building built in the early 90's where ATO, DG, Lambda Chi, and Kappa Sig live.


Then DZ,ChiO, and ZTA are on University Ave (they are right on the main street of the university).

AGR,PiKap, TKE, Sigma Chi, Delta Sig, and Delta Chi have houses off campus.

FH is unhoused.

At Ole Miss there is a fraternity row with SAE, Chi Psi, Delta Psi, Sig Ep, Phi Psi, Deke, (old Phi Beta Sigma house which is empty), and then Phi Delta Theta. Then further down the road is Kappa Alpha and Phi Kappa Tau. On the back side of fraternity row is Kappa Sigma, Sigma Nu, Pike, Sigma Chi, Beta and ATO. Really there is no real old/new row at Ole Miss anymore since some older fraternities, like Sigma Chi, are in newer houses than their original house. (Phi Beta Sigma is raising money to renovate their house currently from what I've heard.)

The Sorority Row has Tri Delta and KD in a little cul-de-sac (ADPi use to be next door to KD but it is now the honors college.) Then Phi Mu, DG, (Old ZTA house which is now a university academic building) and Kappa.

Then on Rebel Drive is AOII, Theta, Pi Phi, and Chi Omega.

Being that you're not greek, I wonder why this matters to you.

I believe that also applies here:

(Yes, I realize APO is Greek, but beings as that they don't have a house anywhere....)

And...PS You can have a Fraternity/Sorority row with "regular" addresses. Just because it's not 123 Fratty Circle, doesn't mean it's not a "Greek Row".

Ohio University has College Street which has FIJI, Alpha Xi Delta, Chi Omega, Pi Phi, Sig Ep, the old Phi Mu house (which I think is currently empty, but I could be wrong), the AOII house is located on a side street right behind the old Phi Mu house, then Pike next to old Phi Mu, Sigma Kappa, AEII, around the corner from AEII is the DZ house, going straight on College you then see DG, and Acacia- then College ends and if you turn right onto State Street you end up at Phi Tau, SAE and Theta Chi.
ADPi, Alpha Gam, Delt, and Sigma Chi are are located on different sides of college green, and the Beta house is a couple of blocks from there- not really near any other frat houses.
I know a few frats have come and gone since I was in school, so I'm not listing those since I'm not sure where they are located- but College doesn't have any more room for houses, so I'm sure they aren't there.

Northeastern State University has been talking about possibly getting a greek neighborhood established within the next 7 years...not sure exactly how they would go about having it, but the Dean talked to IFC last semester and said that it is a very real possibility. Since NSU doesn't have greek housing, the fraternities/sororities just have parties at members' houses off campus, which has caused many people (neighbors) to complain. I think it would be pretty cool if done right...

[QUOTE=At USF, it is simply the Greek Village. The residences are built by the University and they all look alike.
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Yep all our houses look the same, but they vary color (either cream colored, orange-tan colored or brown), and size (either 2 stories or 3).

Seven out of our 8 sororities live here in Greek Village (however, the last sorority, SDT is rumored to be getting the old LCA house since their charter was pulled).

The only fraternities that have houses in GV are Delta Chi, Sigma Chi, SAE, Sigma Nu, Beta and Sig Ep.

Excuse Me, what do you mean by not being a Greek?:mad:

I am a member of APO and damn proud of being a member and what I did as a member.


I am also a member of LXA is that wrong also?:rolleyes:

If one GLO has a house and can afford it, that can be a plus, but, if teh playing field is even for all, then that makes a difference!;)

At IU, most of the fraternity and sorority houses are on North Jordan Ave. and the North Jordan Extension. There are also several houses on East Third Street: LXA, DU, Kappa, Pi Phi, Alpha Phi, Tri-Delt, Acacia, and Fiji. Pike used to be there too. There are a few houses scattered in other places on campus: Delta Gamma is waaaaay up on North Jordan across from the Office of Admissions (the old, old Sigma Kappa house) Sigma Chi is on 7th, across from Dunn Meadow. Theta is on Woodlawn, about half a block from the Union and the J-school.

Well, you aren't Greek, so I am not sure how you think that your greek system can get "better" results in recruitment, event participation, etc. Are you doing a study on the history and current greek housing situation?

Asking people what they think about something that is HUGELY out of a few people's hands, that depends on millions of dollars that someone is going to have to shell out, permits, zoning boards, campus regulations, individual housing corps... is ridiculous.

Are you trying to generate a movement among greeks? Again, what is the point in asking if you are not a member of any org with which there might be interest (locally on your campus, or generally, across the country)?

My GLO does not have housing, as we are not a social sorority, but I do know that at some schools. there are areas on campus scpecifically for GLO members. I think that unless I saw both sides of the situation, and was able to anticipate/know the pros and cons of each, I could not make an educated decision or opinion.

I think that many people are becoming suspicious of your intentions, and that you remove all info regarding where you go to school, change your myspace to private, etc. If anyone at school catches wind of what has already happened here, it may not bode well during recruitment.

:eek:

Dang. I don't think there's a sinister plot afoot here and I don't find the question offensive...it's pretty open, general, and hypothetical. And I do think that's something someone who wasn't Greek but knew about being Greek could competently discuss. Housing is a very general issue...

Eesh. Easy on the girl.

Because our school is not very supportive of greek life. We only have it because they basically have to, being a public university, and they are very very strict and harsh with us. I feel like all it's going to do is cause it to be a hot spot for police. Plus, much of our on campus housing is very bad. THe place where they want to put us? Currently, in a 4 person townhouse they provide you with two sets of furniture. The entire house has one ethernet wall port, but buying your own wireless is strictly prohibited. They're falling apart.

Plus, they're refusing it make it a "Greek Row." They're letting the football team have a house, and other sports teams and groups as well.

I just don't see any benefits, especially because our Greeks are already very close.

Plus, all oncampus housing has to have an RA, and I can't see that going down well. And, it is going to be a 20, 25 minute walk to classes as opposed to a five minute drive and a two minute walk. Lame.

We have the land for Greek Row...meaning the school (or the higher ups in charge) have designated a section for the fraternities and sororities, but no houses have been built yet.

Actually there are things in the works to bring it to the campus asap.

Northwestern has the Sorority Quads and the Fraternity Quads.

Sorority Quads are on the South end of Campus, and the buildings are almost all greek. Of the non-greek, half are all girls dorms (the only ones on campus).

The Fraternity Quads are on the North side of campus. The Northern quads and only 4 buildings in the quads are non-greek, one of which is the only all-male dorm.

A long time ago, someone donated a large sum of money with the stipulation that the sororities and the fraternities be on the opposite sides of campus. I assume it was to prevent "indecent behavior". That was a really long time ago (before 1900, I assume) because many houses have been up since around the turn of the century.

Univ. of Maryland has a Fraternity Row, it's on campus and 13 houses total. - 11 fraternities and 2 sororities. Additional chapters have houses in the surrounding area- there is a block that has 7 sorority houses and that block is referred to as the Graham Cracker.
Our Fraternity Row is featured in the movie, St. Elmo's Fire.

I can relate to that...familiar story, unfortunately.

The Univ of West Ga will be announcing in the fall if there will be a new Greek Village to open Fall 2009. Each of the 6 NPC sororities will probably have a house each plus at least 1 new sorority. (Currently the 6 NPC sororities are living in a dorm that was built in 1972.)

I'm not sure how many IFC fraternities there are; each can have a house or...
Some of the fraternities have houses they don't want to give up (at least for now)..

also, the school is considering opening a town-house type building that can house smaller Greek orgs who can't fill a whole house.

Would be near the new football stadium that they are trying to raise money for.

There are 14 chapter houses on Fraternity Row, 11 fraternities and 3 sororities.

My school is in the early stages of getting Greek Housing, but there are so many factors in the air, it might be years before its completed! I know the school tried designating dorms for greek lifein the past, but it didn't work out, hence the plans for different housing.

University of Minnesota
 

At Minnesota, we have a "frat row" that is along University Avenue, facing the oldest part of our campus (~150 years old). Obviously, many houses have changed hands/ left/ taken over the house next door/ university moved into a former fraternity house/ etc in the past hundred-plus years, but thankfully many remain. This is where most of the fraternities are located.
http://collections.mnhs.org/visualre...archType=Basic
Above is a picture from 1928. The campus would be on your left, with fraternity row on your right. You would be looking up University Avenue, with all the row fraternities on your right, including...
1800 block:
unoccupied (originally Zeta Psi and formerly Tau Kappa Epsilon)
Kappa Sigma (technically on a cross-street, = behind ZPsi/TKE)
Alpha Tau Omega
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Omega Nu Alpha (local, originally Phi Kappa Sigma)
1700 block:
Alpha Delta Phi
Phi Sigma Kappa (technically on a cross-street, = behind ADPhi)
co-op (originally Psi Upsilon)
Delta Tau Delta
Delta Kappa Epsilon
1600 block:
Beta Theta Pi
Sigma Chi (original house)
Sigma Chi 2 (originally Chi Phi)
Phi Kappa Psi
Delta Chi
1500 block:
Sigma Nu
original Theta Chi house (technically on a cross-street, = behind Sigma Nu)
Chi Psi/Lodge

The sororities are in small clusters, about 8 blocks up University avenue from where the picture is taken. Some other fraternities are also located up there, farther from campus, but closer to the ladies ;) Additional organizations that are located in this other, ~ 6 block area are:

fraternities
Delta Upsilon (originally Phi Delta Theta house)
Phi Gamma Delta (on Univeristy Ave)
Triangle (on University Ave)
Sigma Alpha Mu
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Kappa Alpha Psi (on University Ave)

sororities
on one block:
Alpha Chi Omega
Gamma Phi Beta
former Chi Omega house
Alpha Phi
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kappa Kappa Gamma 2
across the street:
former Delta Delta Delta house
former Alpha Delta Pi house
former Kappa Alpha Theta house
on another block:
Alpha Gamma Delta
Delta Gamma
Kappa Alpha Theta
across the street:
Pi Beta Phi
Pi Beta Phi 2
Alpha Omicron Pi

(We also have Alpha Gamma Rho and Farmhouse, and two local, more agricultural-focused sororities, but they are all located in Saint Paul, near the ag campus)

I think that's pretty much everyone (besides locals, or others who have moved houses again!)

Kappa has 2?? nice

squirrely girl will correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Alpha Gams at WKU have two houses at one point?

I know AOII had two at Texas State at one point .. .

I'll jump in since I've been to the houses. Alpha Gam at WKU did have 2 houses but sold one.

My bad about the # of sororities w/ houses on the row (when I went thru - there were actually 4 sororities on the row)

How would this work when the houses grow too large for the townhomes?