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Originally posted by PSK480
The house, is a zoning code. Say you and your buddies, just some friends from school, not brothers, wanted to rent property that is zoned as a fraternity/sorority house. The city is going to classify a group by their recognition on campus. No recognition means you can't rent it b/c it will not be used for what it is zoned for. Same thing as if I wanted to open say a convience store in my house. No haouse anymore, just a convience store. The house is zoned as residential, I wouldn't be able to open the store unless I got the property re-zoned. Also it states in the article that they sign leases, so yes it is their house by lease. But, as I stated before, I'm sure DE has the same type of law as PA and that is a chpater can not own property.
Why should they lose their charter? You are found in violation of that many policies and you can't tell me that violating that many policies means your upholding the ideals that the fraternity was founded on.
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PSK
Weren't most older GLOs actually started as secret off-campus organizations that had no formal ties to the university? Using your analogy are those fraternities not real since they didn't have university recognition? What about chapters in Canada where some schools do not recongize Greek life or chapters at Harvard, Alfred, UC Santa Clara?
If the initial fraternities on a campus existed before the IFC and those fraternities started the IFC then why would they need IFC recognition to be a real fraternity?
As far as this relates to TKE at UD:
1. The town does recognize TKE as a fraternity. The town let TKE move into the house and they lived there the whole year. Then with 2 weeks left in the semester the town makes up a new law and tries to evict them. That is bullshit.
2. The town has a noise ordinance that only applies to fraternities. If a fraternity has more than 2 noise violations then they can be evicted. The town considered TKE a real fraternity when they enforcing the ordinance.
I think TKE will win their lawsuit but even if they don't they will just move into a different house and continue to operate.
PSK. If a student graduates, would they have to be evicted from a student rental? Should a chapter be evicted if they have a non member live in the house like a cook, maid or a girlfriend?
Zoning isn't about who uses a property, it is about how a property is being used.