[HQWest]

This is a little bit of a lane swerve, but one of the reasons that I think Tennessee went to the trouble of building SO many houses at once in their new village was to put all the groups on even footing. Having a comparable house that is not as well located can work out just fine unless all the best houses are close to classes and yours is out in the boonies.

I can think of a couple of instances where chapters got split on their housing. One was a long time ago when everyone was in comparable suites in dorms and the university built new dorms. The oldest sororities were moved to the new dorms first. Some of the sororities were not moved. This led to a mismatch and a downward spiral that ended up closing 3 or 4 chapters (the ones not moved).

In another instance, a campus with a lodge system starting seeing huge quotas so they brought on new sororities, the old sororities had lodges, and the new ones met in a meeting room. So three in the meeting rooms, 8 in the lodges. I don't have the whole timeline down, but one of the chapters in the meeting rooms didn't make it very long, then two of the chapters in the lodges folded. Then one of the chapters in the meeting rooms moved to a lodge, and the other in the meeting room folded. Then the university had an empty lodge so they brought in another new chapter to rent the empty lodge. The two chapters renting lodges would fold 2 or 3 years later. So 5 chapters went down in 6 or 7 years, quota was still 50 or 60 (based on how many girls went to pref night). The newer chapters just couldn't make it.

ETA: PM me if you can figure out what school number two was - you deserve a lollypop.