iu greek
 

is it worth joining an unhoused chapter

Only if you want to participate in the Greek system, and by that I mean DUH, of course it is worth it!

I admit that I am baffled by the BS at IU over being unhoused. Get creative for God's sake.

Get a dozen girls together & all rent apartments in a complex next to each other. Find a house with several bedrooms (assuming you can get landlord approval) and make it an unofficial chapter house where you can get together. Even getting the University to set aside a floor in a dorm for the chapter members to live in is an option to consider.

Trust me, a house is not the "be all and end all." It is EXPENSIVE. You have NO idea how expensive a house is to run & maintain. And it is not always fun & games living with that many women under one roof either. It ramps up the female conflict and drama by about 10x.

Think outside of the box and come up with another way to have a central place to gather. Being in a sorority, even one without a house, is an experince that I would not have given up for anything.

Say it with me...Parlor fees

I call troll

It is worth it if you will truly give the girls and the experience a chance.

It isn't worth it if you are going to continually be wishing you were somewhere else, are going to blame everything on your chapter's living arrangements (OMG that bitch is going to steal my boyfriend because her sorority's housed AND MINE ISN'T) and are generally going to make everyone in your orbit miserable.

Are the housing fees for unhoused chapters less, more, equal to the housed chapters? Most of the housed chapters have been there for a long time so I'm guessing that the unhoused (and more recently housed) chapters would have a steeper housing fee every year to get the fund caught up. Of course their total fees would likely still be less than maintaining those mansions.

I have no idea, I was merely agreeing with thetalady that houses are expensive. I didn't go to IU but my campus does have houses, and even if you lived out, you still had to pay parlor fees and other fees relating to the house.

I think across the board parlor fees (i.e. every chapter has to have them no matter the present or imminent housing situation) don't necessarily exist in every org.

That being said, I'm betting all the NPC chapters at IU have them in some form even if not explicitly stated as such.

And at some schools those parlor fees are as high or higher than what the girls pay to actually live in on other campuses. Houses are not the holy grail they can seem to be is all we're saying. I loved loved loved living in the house, but I have advised a chapter that was unhoused and man oh man does it make dealing with the ups and downs of a new chapter easier. The burden of all that cost really can't be appreciated by girls who have never been blessed with home ownership (and water heaters that blow, roofs that leak, cooks that steal, collective PMS...).

I still contend that over time, and I think this has already started, the unhoused chapters at IU will be seen as a perfectly good option and some girls will choose it BECAUSE of this status. Now, I THOUGHT they would be smaller but surprisingly there are lots of girls who will take the sisterhood over the structure. And that makes me happy.

I'm also wondering, since the unhoused chapters don't seem to have taken massive numbers this year they may start to grow some of the cache of exclusivity that seems to be so important at IU.

stbemptynest: I would guess it's bundled in. I'm an ASA and we do have a housing fee as part of our national dues.

Am I the only one who went :eek: at the range for the live in dues and fees??? How can it be that far apart?

DubaiSis: none of the currently unhoused chapters have stated that they have no plans to build/intend to stay unhoused for the duration of their tenure at IU.

Please consider changing your username. "Srat" isn't a very respectful name.

Do you mean for unhoused chapters??? Or you mean women choosing not to live in, in a chapter where there are houses?

I mean choosing not to live in (or not having the opportunity) in a chapter that has houses. I think it was the live out cost at Alabama (I wouldn't argue which school or the actual numbers but that's what jumps out at me) was a crazy high number that was more than I paid to live in a beautiful sorority house with a cook and house boys and the whole thing. Apples to rollercoasters, I know.

But it sounds like this isn't really an issue at IU. It's hard to tell from those crazy numbers given, but if the low end is actually the membership and any parlor fees it is pretty cheap to be a live-out member in a housed chapter at IU.

Right, those fees are party to encourage women to live in, in a lot of places.

The original poster is a troll, don't feed the trolls.