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Originally Posted by L.O.C.K.
Oooo, I have a question about housing!
How many people have minority Greeks orgs on your campus that have university provided housing? I know some orgs don't allow it, but even for those that do, I have noticed a HUGE disparity in who gets the housing from the University.
While I understand some orgs are smaller and thus it is hard to fill a 80 person house, why can't they just have some smaller houses be available to these orgs?
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You might ask if the HWGLOs are actually in "University" housing. At my school, I don't believe any GLOs are housed by the university itself: most own or lease facilities right around the edges of campus, (and some seemingly right in the middle of campus because of the University's expansion), which some might incorrectly think is "University" housing.
I believe the situation is similar at University of Nebraska, where the City Campus is bordered by greek houses, and has a greek row running straight through campus east of the Union/Kauffman and surrounding the Cather-Pound-Neihardt complex. Many people who see this get the impression that the university owns these houses because they're "on campus" when in reality, the land is almost all owned by one GLO's housing corporation or another, even if that GLO isn't the one currently occupying the house.
As I think about it, I believe Triangle Fraternity was at one point renting a house briefly from UNL, but lost it due to a minor alcohol incident (UNL's campus is completely dry, but the greek houses are owned by the GLOs and therefor have different alcohol policies as the organization sees fit) and I think the University re-appropriated the building for offices.
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My reasoning is from research I have done, about 98% of respondents (out of 1160) I polled said that their chapter did not have university provided housing - this was just Asian Greeks mind you which statistically have larger numbers at PWIs than Black and Latino Greeks.
Moreover, many respondents also felt that their administrations didn't care about minority Greek orgs. While this doesn't surprise me, it seems like that this "old boy" network that runs Greek Life offices is not prepared for the modern world.
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I'd have to call your poll meaningless, as there's no control group that you've mentioned. What response would you get if you asked these questions of members or NIC or NPC organizations? Independent organizations that aren't specifically Multi-cultural or minority-oriented?
As to the administrations: most campus administrations don't care about greeks in general. As someone once put it: while we're here, we don't win national championships, we collect food for the hungry, raise money for charity, go to class, and have a good time. After we graduate, we donate buildings, stadiums, scholarships, and department chairs, and because we don't directly bring glory to the schools as undergraduates, the schools sometimes lose sight of the benefits our organizations provide in the long-term.