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Sister Havanna I always love reading your posts!
Regarding the Pi Kapps/Sigma Kappa situation....I think Pi Kapps bought it from Sigma Kappa.
When ADPi was having numbers problems, a lot of off campus fraternities were spreading rumors that they would be losing their house in hopes that the same situation would happen again. Fortunately it didnt!
IU's housing problem has and has not affected fraternities.
Quite a few fraternities HAVE sprung up and gotten members without the use of a house...but for the most part...the ones that have no chance of getting housing (some of these "new" fraternities are just recolonizations waiting to get their numbers up before they return to "old" houses) arent really taken too seriously. Sororities dont usually plan a lot of socials with them and people dont really go out of their way to learn about them.
I respect a fraternity or sorority whether it has a house or not...but you have to remember that at IU, living in a house is a very central part of the Greek Life culture and it's hard for people to move past a chapter not being housed.
The good thing though is that if you want to have fraternity without the liability of a house...at least you have that option.
I think IU WILL open up land for housing expansion in the future as they'll have to put those houses on 3rd street somewhere when they eventually kick them out of the middle of campus.
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