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And at some schools those parlor fees are as high or higher than what the girls pay to actually live in on other campuses. Houses are not the holy grail they can seem to be is all we're saying. I loved loved loved living in the house, but I have advised a chapter that was unhoused and man oh man does it make dealing with the ups and downs of a new chapter easier. The burden of all that cost really can't be appreciated by girls who have never been blessed with home ownership (and water heaters that blow, roofs that leak, cooks that steal, collective PMS...).
I still contend that over time, and I think this has already started, the unhoused chapters at IU will be seen as a perfectly good option and some girls will choose it BECAUSE of this status. Now, I THOUGHT they would be smaller but surprisingly there are lots of girls who will take the sisterhood over the structure. And that makes me happy.
I'm also wondering, since the unhoused chapters don't seem to have taken massive numbers this year they may start to grow some of the cache of exclusivity that seems to be so important at IU.
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