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I believe DG lent money many years ago, but has not in the past several decades. Council and-or Convention would make that decision, not EO (EO staffers take care of the day-today, Council & Convention makes the big decisions).
From what I've seen the trend nationwide and in Canada is to go to suites if housing has not been established...but it seems to be reversing now. Insurance is a HUGE expense.
Kappa, 30 is a goodly number for a house (our old house held 44 and was one of the smallest at another Southern school). With the numbers at USC, you should be able to fill it easily, plus the dorm floor.
Figuring how many to live in a house has to be carefully calculated to help pay for all those other living areas and overhead expenses. My daughter's a DZ...her house crams about 65 into tiny rooms on 2 floors, with 2 sleeping porches per floor. The rooms are smaller than dorm rooms...she is miserable and has no place to work on drawings and boards for her interior design major. Every room in the house is in use...They have to cram women into the chapter room there are so many so she can't leave stuff out there. They've even got a girl living in one of the TV rooms!
One odd thing...they redecorated a room as a beautiful library...but the only thing on the shelves is a TV and VCR/DVD unit. But you can't watch TV there because members use it for study! No wonder the girls flee to apartments.
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