[honeychile]

Originally posted by Blue Violets
Omicron (Duke University) has....NOTHING!

No house, no chapter room, no floor, no suite, nothing :-D

The University graciously allows all of the sororities to use a meeting room in the Student Center for an hour or two each week for the meetings. But they are not "our" rooms to use, so we can't hang anything, leave anything, decorate, etc. The hour before our meeting each Sunday evening, our room is used by AOII and then Tridelta comes in after us :-D Alpha Phi and Chi-O use the room next door and on Tuesdays, PiPhi, KKG, KAT, and DG have their meetings in these 2 rooms too. Other days of the week they're used for everything from alumni meetings to classes to blood drives to ....

In short, we have nothing. Our chapter's "memorabilia" is sitting in a storage locker the school provides each sorority in a building on the other side of campus.

I WISH we had SOMETHING. Not having a stable place/area/room has meant that we have to 'fight' for space to hold special events, such as initiation. My pledge class & I were initiated in a meeting room in the Jewish Student Center. My big sis's pledge class was initiated in a commons room in one of the dorms. It's kind of sad I think... We don't have any composites up, for example, because we have no place to put them. Our chapter's history is so rich--founded in 1911--that I wish we had some place to put SOMETHING.

This absolutely shocks me!! Such a chapter rich in tradition, and supposedly a Greek-friendly campus! At least, everyone I know who went to Duke was a Greek - my camp counselor talked Theta constantly!!