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Added Fee for Housed Greeks at Northwestern (IL)
Northwestern U. Greeks living in on-campus Greek housing will be charged a fee to help pay costs of such things as the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, security, and other services that they had not previously been billed for.
Article is at: http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/vne.../444f116120484 Brief excerpts: . . . The Office of Student Affairs will bill each of the approximately 900 students living in on-campus Greek houses a $255 service fee. Because residents of Greek houses do not pay university room and board, their yearly cost of attendance does not include certain services still available to them. “Student Affairs has determined that the cost should be shared by everyone who lives on campus, including students who live in fraternities and sororities,” said . . . the associate vice president and dean of student affairs. Previously, residential hall room and board covered all salaries and benefits of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, shuttle service, on-campus police services and sexual assault services . . . . “Because students living in fraternities and sororities will be contributing, the money we save will stay in the residential hall and residential college system to compensate for rising costs” . . . . |
Knowing nothing about Northwestern, do Greek sown thier own Houses or owned by The School?
If owned by a House Corporatin, then, what right do they have to dun the Greeks? Please explain better than they did in the article. |
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Northwestern students, alumni/ae, advisors or house corporation members -- please correct me if I'm wrong; I know things change from time to time. |
I'm totally confused.
Except for the new fee, the Greeks get to live there for free??? Or does the GLOs divide the cost of the lease among house residents/the chapter? Wow, WGa is building a new Greek village in 2008 and the members definitely are paying their own way! |
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Am I missing something? |
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-Rudey |
Just to clarify things...
Houses are leased to the chapters in a variety of ways, but the general idea is that the house corp. is responsible for all utilities-gas, electric, etc. as well as maintenance and keeping the house up to code (fire sprinklers, etc.). The University doesn't charge rent to the house corp. nor does it explicitally provide any services to the house corp. for maintaining the building in any way. This all being said, the lease structures are currently in flux, but they will remain 10-year committments between the University and the GLO. |
This makes sense, but I wonder about all the students who do not live on campus (and there are a LOT of them) who use these services as well. For example, you need a student ID to ride the NU shuttle, which you could have even as a grad student.
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What this should cause GLOs to do is really evaluate the services they are receiving. Is a 100 person chapter receiving ~$20,000 in services from the school?
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