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Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not up on all the Panhel regulations, but I thought it was a Panhel rule that all sororities had to have equal oppurtunities and resources.
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Nope, that's not right. Panhel or the school can hardly help who has wealthy alums who want to give money, or who has more nearby chapters to help out, etc. All Panhel does to equalize things is put a cap on how much each chapter can spend on rush - and believe me the wealthier chapters find ways around it.
About 10, 12 years ago, no sorority on my campus had houses. The university started moving the four sororities then on campus into campus-owned homes, one at a time. After the first one moved in, a fifth chapter came on campus.
"Amazingly," when that first chapter got a house, guess whose numbers went up! Guess who everyone wanted to join! Another chapter got a nice house a couple of years later, and their numbers went up, too. Then another moved into the biggest sorority house on campus, with mostly single bedrooms - and suddenly they were "the" chapter to join. I don't think it was any coincidence that the remaining two, one who was in a dorm and one who shared a dorm-style building with a fraternity (split down the middle) were suddenly the smallest. Of course that was then used as the justification for not finding houses for them then ("their numbers aren't doing so well"), but between the other chapters saying, "They're not real, they don't have a house," and rushees saying, "Gee, would I rather live in a crappy dorm or a pretty house?" I think either chapter would have had to work miracles to get their numbers up to "earn" a house once they had been left out basically randomly in the housing game.
I blame the university here, because they were the ones who decided to move the sororities and do it one at a time. What did they think would happen?
They're supposed to build a Greek row near some of the houses, and move the Greeks who are on the ugly south end of campus as well as the unhoused ones. But I have trouble imagining how about 12 chapters are going to fit into the two-house lot that has been selected for the site. I have a feeling some guys are going to get burned (again) when their old houses are taken away and lo and behold there isn't a new house for them.