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Valpo's sororities *used* to have housing, but were moved to Scheele Hall in the 1960's. It's a 5-story dorm that's got two legs with a connecting bit in the middle, like two L's joined at 180 degrees.
The main floor is the main lounge area, the computer room, and the "quiet cafe" and "loud cafe" which used to be dining areas but are now just large rooms. Those are used as study areas and are often closed off for alumnae gatherings at Homecoming, or used for Songfest rehearsals, NPC presentations, etc.
There used to be eight sororities on campus, so four had Chapter Rooms on one leg, and four on the other, with the girls living on a dorm floor corridor on that side. There are keys to open the CRs, but anyone *could* walk in if the dorm's open. The CRs each have one wall that's a kitchen, and either one full wall or two half-walls of windows. All furniture, TVs, ceiling fans, etc. are up to the sorority to provide. (We can redo the carpeting, etc, but I think you have to go through the university to do so.) I *think* they're about 20x20-- that's it! Over the years, sororities have been from under 25 to over 125 girls in a chapter, so it could get squishy!
Initiations *have* been held in the CRs-- it involved lots of covering of windows and locking of doors. Ugh. When we were still local, we'd often go outside to some park after dark and do things there. (Hey, we were *local*. No clues.)
Each sorority had a half-floor of Scheele, known as corridor. Members usually are supposed to live on corridor the year after they pledge, if they're going to live on campus and not commute. Seniors can live off-campus, so there are often unofficial "party" or "sorority" houses rented by four to six girls who try to let other sorority members get the lease the following year. But as for corridor, you get a two-sink, five-john, four-shower bathroom on your wing. If you didn't fill corridor, upperclass and nontraditional students could be placed in the dorm there, starting on the "L" connecting two wings, and then onto corridor itself. And you could have a roommate who was in another sorority or a GDI, though we used to have corridor theme parties when we were local, so that was also tough to arrange if your chapter was small!
The fraternities used to have some large chapter houses on Mound Street, and other fraternities had housing they owned. Only PMA Sinfonia, Sigma Tau Gamma, Sigma Pi (two houses) and Theta Chi have their own "house" houses. Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Delta Theta, and Sigma Phi Epsilon have the huge brick university houses, with a larger kitchen area and a faux-brick downstairs living room and smaller tv room area. Two older ones were torn down when Lambda Chi Alpha and Pi Kappa Alpha left campus, but the old Delta Sigma Phi house is being used to house someone else. Sigma Chi used to have the "grey house" as its unofficial chapter house (they all rented there) but it burned down a few years ago. They're in dorms or on their own (dunno). And I don't know what will happen with the new Lambda Chi Alpha colony.
Alumni feel that the university is trying to get rid of the old housing system, and there's been a rumor over the years that they'd build a fraternity dorm to parallel Scheele Hall. (That was decades ago, so who knows now?) Other rumors are that the university is buying up houses on one street as they go up for sale, and will eventually build fraternity housing there and tear down the old box housing, forcing *all* fraternities to live in university quarters. Dunno how true *that* is, either. It'd give the school a newer fraternity row, but take away the traditional homes that many orgs have had for decades.
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