[CarolinaCutie]

At my school, there are three on-campus dorms designated for Greek students. These dorms are older dorms (Pro: HUGE rooms, Con: No A/C). Each dorm has three floors. One dorm houses three sororities, one houses two sororities and overflow from any chapters.

The boys' dorm, Dorm C, is facing some changes. They have had difficulties filling their rooms, so there will be 3 fraternities on the first floor, random boys on the 2nd floor, and 2 fraternities and random boys on the 3rd floor. Although this is stressful because Greeks were promised "random-free" housing when we moved to these dorms, our school is in a huge housing crunch and so we cannot blame them for doing this.

Although I cannot speak for any other sorority, my sorority will also have randoms on the hall (upperclassmen women). Recruitment is the first week of September, so new members will switch dorm rooms with these randoms officially with the school so that we are able to fill the hall with members.

Each hall has a housing manager from the respective Greek organization. There is a Greek housing council. There are no non-Greek RAs (although it remains to be seen who will be responsible for the 2nd floor of the guys' dorm). Each hall has two rooms with the wall knocked out from in between, which have been converted into lovely chapter rooms. While we do not use these rooms as a meeting room, it is a nice lounge area, furnished by the chapter.

This housing situation is most beneficial to us at this point. It would be extremely costly for our Greek orgs to add houses at this point. It is enjoyable to live on campus and adds to our visibility, since the location of the Greek dorms is smack in the middle of other freshman-only dorms.

I also appreciate the more relaxed rules that we have living on campus compared to the strict rules we'd have if we had our own house, regarding alcohol and male visitors.

We have a live-in requirement. Each sister is required to live on the hall for a minimum of 2 semesters. If she cannot fulfill this obligation by the time she graduates, she must either appeal to our standards system with a viable excuse or pay a $500 fine. If, after Recruitment, we are still in a situation where rooms are not completely filled by new members, we will hold a drawing for who will fill those rooms, with anyone who has not completed their housing requirement going into the pot. We fluctuate from year to year on whether or not we require Exec members to live on the hall. Last year, Exec members were required to live on; this year, we are not required. It is a double-edged sword: we are now facing housing problems because almost no one from Exec is living there- but many of the current Exec members would not have run for office if they would have still had to live on the hall.