[Deltazeta4ever]

My chapter was the first sorority at the University of Rochester. We were chartered in 1978, over 75 years after women were admitted to the school. (For those of you who don't know the story... the U of R was an all male institution until Susan B. Anthony cashed in her life insurance policy to pay $10,000 to the school, forcing them to admit women). Even after women were admitted, sororities were still not allowed (fraternities have been there since 1850) because there was some silly codicil in an endowment that said that sororities could not be housed "on campus." After countless years and many complaints, the university finally came up with a plan: sororities were allowed, but they could not be housed on the ground floor of any building. They had to live on the upper floors, so they are not technically "on campus." Sounds silly, but it worked! They kept the endowment, and now there are 6 NPC and 2 NPHC sororities and a few MCGLO's.