AlphaChiGirl -
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I am pretty sure this varies from org. to org. Some groups have certain housing rules in the national constitution, and others leave it to the House Corp. for the particular chapter.
At our house, men were never allowed off the first floor (the common areas, i.e. library, foyer, dining room, TV room, etc.) - with three exceptions:
1) Male family members are allowed upstairs during Parents' Weekend - for those three days the whole house is open to guests.
2) Boyfriends or male family members are allowed in the house on "move-in" day in August and "move-out" day in May... to help with furniture, boxes, etc.
3) We had a full-time porter who was at the house during the day six days a week, and handled maintenance, repairs, etc. Before he could go on the second floor, he had to warn everyone over the intercom five minutes before! (so you could shut your door or whatever)
Re: curfew - no men (except the security guards) are allowed in the house between 11 pm - 8 am on weekdays and 1 am - 9 am on weekends!
I wonder how our house rules compare to others? FYI, we had a 60-girl house, 150-member chapter, NPC, large univ. campus.