Actually, the school has been actively getting rid of the row. They have a design for a "Greek Village" on campus where all the Universities greek population can be. They started buying out properties on the row and then re-selling them as apartments. They also accepted a whole slew of new fraternities, because they have incentive to go into the village because it'd be hard to get a house. It doesn't even bode well for us (we own our house and have been there since 1955) because the school has said that it will not recognize any fraternity that won't move into the village. This way, they get rent money, the power as landlords, and stricter abilities to restrict events. All in all, the entire situation stinks. We have the choice of losing out tradition and our house, or losing our charter.
If anything like this is brought up at your school try and stop it early.
Scott
PS: I know an AEPI from Towson University in Baltimore named Josh. Just thought that was funny.
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