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Originally Posted by 33girl
Also, why do you automatically assume that everyone would live in the house? Many people don't, for various reasons.
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It's a positive statement of fact, not an assumption. As indicated, the opinion I expressed was specific to my house. And, at my house, everyone lived-in as a pledge, that was a concrete requirement, and one I would be anathema to see changed as co-residency is an important component of the bonding experience. (I don't know of any other fraternities on my campus where the house was just a dorm with letters that people could opt-in or out-of at will, though I never took a survey.)
As to the various what-if scenarios you're throwing out - sure, if we had showers with titanium privacy cones that robotically descended over us, and an alarm that went off when someone got undressed that said "WARNING! A PENIS IS EXPOSED!", and our pledges slept in their junior high bunkbeds back at mom and dads, and a random old lady was camped out in the basement of the chapter house, etc., then sure, no problem, bring in the pre-op transsexuals. (Though, honestly, this sounds like a slightly neurotic/very low tier fraternity I probably would not have pledged in the first place - not because of the pre-op transsexuals, but because of everything else.)
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Originally Posted by 33girl
http://family.auburn.edu/profiles/bl...frat-house-mom
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Thanks for this, I didn't know those existed in this day-in-age. That said, I am certainly glad we did not have a housemother; a fraternity is a wonderful experience in self-government that is important in molding adults. A babysitter for 20 and 21 year-old men seems incredibly juvenilizing.
I also would not want a house mother who is schlepping up and down the halls in her bathrobe calling our fraternity a "frat house" like "Ms. Mary." I also find this -
Ms. Mary tries to direct these young men in the traditions and foundation of Kappa Alpha in order for the betterment of the fraternity and the betterment of these young men. - interesting. It sounds like KA2's traditions and principles are like laundry, anyone can teach you how to do it. And that's fine, it's not a criticism of KA2. However, others should respect the idea that some ante-bellum fraternities have more enduring and complex foundations for which a non-frater may not be the best guide.