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Originally Posted by 33girl
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. One of our alums who works for his GLO's HQ was advocating an alcohol free Greek village a while back. I said if the students asked for it fine, but if not, it would just be another expense to deal with that would drive people away from Greek life. As far as all the new buildings are concerned, my friend's daughter transferred to Slippery Rock and is in one of the new suite style buildings. She HATES it. From what she says, the students actually want to be in the traditional style dorms (you know, the kind where you can actually meet people) but the school is closing them before they hit capacity and pushing them into the new (and much more costly) buildings.
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The same thing happened at Edinboro when they built the new suite style Highlands residence halls. They noted that students were wanting to live in the older, cheaper residence halls (Dearborn, Earp, even the Towers) so consequently the closed the traditional halls and forced all of those students into the Highlands. I remember there was a suggestion to turn the older residence halls into greek housing where organizations had a floor for their organization at a different rate. I do not know if it was ever seriously considered. It just does not seem as if it is a priority these days. Alumni see it too and I believe that donations are going down fast because of that among other things.