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Originally Posted by TSteven
It sounds like both the Alpha Phi and AEPhi houses were closed during the summer. If so, did certain chapters elect to to be open during the summer while others did not? Was it based on numbers? Say for example, X number of members were enrolled in summer school and needed a place to stay so the chapter house would remain open? Or was there some sort of rotation where ABC would be open one year while XYZ the next?
ETA: One more thing. Did the "tenants" have to be enrolled students? Would it be possible for a chapter member to rent a room for the summer yet not be enrolled? Or any other "non" student as the case may be?
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There was no formal rotation. House Associations decided on their own whether they would be open and most often it was to bring in extra money. We didn't have air conditioning so utilities were very low for the HA.
Our housing association required that someone in charge (like a house mother). Typically for us, it was an Alpha Gam senior or grad student.
Tenants did not have to be students, but most were. Your lease was only 3 months. Since Columbus was the state capital, many students from other schools rented rooms for summer internships.
The summer I lived there and the summer my sister-in-law lived there we were the only sorority house open. I remember 3 fraternity houses being open and one was co-ed that summer. I knew a girl that lived in the co-ed house and she said it was awful and dirty. She tried to break her lease so that she could move in our house but was unable.