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on some campuses, the land and the house is owned either by a local housing corporation of alumni, or the land and house are owned by the orgs. national housing corporation. in those cases, the university has no say in the matter, and rules and regulations are set forth by the national office.

i have seen other campuses where the university owned the land and the greek org. had a long term lease for the land and the national org. built a house on it. other times i have seen campus housing dedicated for greek orgs. sometimes the national housing corporation may own the chapter room and parlor, i.e. public areas and the college owns the actual bedrooms/bathrooms. if all the rooms are not filled by the org. members, then other students can live in the bedrooms. they would not have use of the public areas if they are owned by the orgs. bedrooms fall under the jurisdiction of the college and public areas under the sorority/fraternity.

would your university be willing to parcel off and sell the golf course? where does each of the sororities/fraternities headquarters stand on housing for these chapters? would it help your cause if the school administration knew that the national officers of each org. were supportive of greek housing and had the funds to purchase or lease the land and build houses?

get that influential alumnus on board-i am sure that he would be willing to help all of greek life out. try to enlist members of each greek org, perhaps forming a committee and get verification from each orgs. national officers
that they are willing and ready to go ahead with housing.