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Ok so as far as on campus housing goes for Greeks, i really don't know the logistics of it all but at my school the sororities are in this situation. Most of the fraternity house are located on two streets right next to campus, and some of them are actually campus owned but several of them are not. The ones not owned by campus are the big houses with several members living in them, they throw parties, and do everything else associated with being a fraternity house. The houses the campus owns I believe the house is actually owned by the org, but the land it is on is owned by campus. I'm not completely sure how this works. I know the house is not allowed to have alcohol (we are a dry campus), but the rooms in the house aren't considered dorms so the fraternity uses them as they want to.
The sorority house are on campus owned land and are considered campus housing. They are duplex townhouses. Each house has 9 bed rooms, 3 bathrooms, a den/ dinning room, study, kitchen, and another half bath. These houses are settled in a "dormitory" complex. There are 20 or so other townhouses and apartments in the complex, they are the nicest dorms on campus. The sorority houses were build as part of the complex and the only difference in them is that there are letters on the outside of the house and the furniture in the common areas was selected by the chapter in 2006, and can be changed with campus approval. As far as not havign the rooms full, our contract states that ALL 9 rooms must be rented by members of the sorority to prevent non members from moving in (something that is not allowed by nationals). Therefore all rooms must be paid for all year. So the way we ensure this is that if there is an empty room or two or nine (the problem occurs because these dorms are the year round ones on campus so we have to pay for the house, in the summer, when most girls aren't attending school) is paid for by a housing assessment. The assessment is only paid my members who have never lived in the house before, and the assessment can get pretty high depending on how many empty room you have. Also like I mentioned earlier our houses are actually considered dorms, so the price is set by the university. This means they are actually more expensive than renting a house or an apartment would be, so a lot of sisters choose to only live there one semester to avoid the assessment.
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