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Originally posted by CASIGKAP
There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for not living in the house. Granted, there are special circumstances in which a girl can be excused (i.e. caregiver etc.) but in no way should a girl be shocked that she is required to live in the house. I learned from Day 1 of rush that you are required to live in the house at least 1 year.
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see, I wasnt told until I started my new member period-- I think the sisters thought it would discourage people from pledging AXO. Being told you will have to live in the house is a deterrant for many people at Rush (since most sorority girls do not live in their house on my campus). Also, besides ZTA, no other house is a typical "sorority house" - our house is the next best thing, with only 20 members living in. I think the DG house holds 8. I dont know about GPB, but its not a lot of sisters either. SK and SDT dont have houses (unless they got one this year but I dont think so). So its basically us and ZTA that require sisters to fill a decent amount of spots, and i think my chapter tried to conceal that during Rush. My pledge class(Fall class, the spring class wasn't initated yet so they werent required to live in yet) was shocked to learn that we were being pulled in first. It was an issue, and some girls said they would deactivate if they were pulled. However, luckily, the house was able to be filled (with some of the Spring girls) and no sisters in my class dropped as a result. I did later learn that sisters had turned in their letters the year before, and they needed to have subletters move in to fill spaces. I would have hated to live with a subletter!
We changed this when I was a senior and in control- we let the new girls know right away about the housing policy, put living in the house in a positive light, and therefore we had a wait list the next year. its all about spin. Seriously, it shouldnt have been that hard to fill 20 spots when you had 80 women.