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Originally Posted by DGTess
This may be a significant part of it. We had no RAs, few rules, no curfew. The chapter has a house now, but we had one floor of the dormitory and none of my sisters lived off campus the whole time I was there. We had one housekeeper who did bathrooms and hallways.
Of course, it was the '70s -- the height of "I won't live by someone else's rules". But also, none of my sisters left early due to pregnancy, drugs, or grades.
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I will add that the Greek housing here does not have RAs, just house managers or property managers designated by the chapter to be liasons with the university housing. Apparently they used to, though-my old room on the ADPi floor had a sign that said RA that I had to cover up so girls didn't think that was my job!
It is probably also easier to convince girls to live on when you have an actual house and not a floor of a dorm as we do, because aside from the obvious perk of living with your pledge class there really is no incentive to stay in a run-of-the-mill dorm versus a nicer apartment. That is more of a campus-specific issue that will hopefully be solved down the road with the eventual building of a Greek Row.