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Originally Posted by KillarneyRose
Hey all! KillarneyRose de-lurking here with my most recent question about sorority rush...
Whenever sorority life is portrayed in books, movies, tv shows, etc., the girls always move out of their dorms into the sorority house once they become pledges. Does it really work that way? Are the dorm housing contracts written so that they can be broken if the girl accepts a bid?
The sororities at my alma mater have suites that can accommodate 20 girls or so, so there's no question of pledges moving in.
Second part of the question: if pledges really DO move into the house, what are the accommodations generally like? Sleeping porches?
Thanks ladies!
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As with anything, a lot depends on the campus and whether or not the chapter facility as room.
There were girls (especially sophomores) who wanted to move in right away after recruitment. Some were living in temp housing, some in residence halls, some with friends. In the case of the girls living in the residence halls, they did have to break their housing contract. Some chapters may help pay a percentage of that fee (they stand to receive more money by the girl living in the chapter facility so they consider helping with the breaking of the contract is better for them in the long run). I think 10-15 years ago, the fee for breaking a residence hall contract was also based on how long you actually lived in the residence hall - the shorter time you were there, the less you had to pay. Of course, they wised up and now it's either the full amount or a flat fee.
As far as our chapter, we didn't have cold airs, so everybody slept in their rooms - new members included. New members moving in usually got whatever rooms/beds were left over, so they didn't get a choice of which room they had or if/who their roommates where. I think it was the same for other chapters on campus - whether they had cold airs or not - new members moved into whatever rooms were available.