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There were no house moms at Ball State when I was there in the 80s-90s (still aren't), but they were there up to the mid 1960s. Why there are no more house moms is a Ball State legend.
Back then, everyone's house mom was an older lady, usually a widow (ours was in her 60s, her picture is on the composite). It was not considered a suitable job for a young woman. Apparently the house moms at all the fraternity houses were quite strict and so all the chapters got together and plotted to do away with them.
The story goes, the undergrads all decided to prank the house moms till they quit. Our alums claim that some of our members found a dead dog that had been hit by a car, frozen in a snowdrift and put it in the house mom's shower! Of course she quit!
Apparently all of the other chapters did equally evil things to their house mom's, so the university was confronted with all of the house mom's positions vacated at once. The university then dropped the house mom requirement.
It may just be urban legend, but many of our alumni swear it was true.
Ball State's Greek Life is just full of stories like that!
Ask me, and some time I'll tell y'all the story about David Letterman and our Civil War cannon!
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