[kddani]

CMU does own the houses.

This is interesting, because as an undergrad, I thought they got away with murder. None of the houses up there followed the 3rd party vendor rule for mixers- so we'd have lots of mixers with them b/c no one ever found out (they're only a couple block walk away from Pitt). One particular mixer a fraternity spent around 1000 bucks on alcohol for us, lol, whatever we wanted. They had open parties all the time.

It's interesting that they fraternities have to pay for the cops patrols. Pitt's cops do walk throughs all the time and actually have a good relationship with the fraternities- they're mainly trying to make sure no one gets hurt.

CMU is a VERY VERY expensive school and if I were a student and having to pay that extra money for the cops to do walk throughs i'd probably be ticked.

CMU is an odd kind of campus... A TON of foreign students, and very heavy on the math, science, and computers. Girls where turtlenecks to parties there, lol, no joking. The guys can't stand the lack of decent girls, lol.

I love how they say that only 15% of males at CMU belong to a fraternity and that the others must be finding other ways of entertaining themselves. Yes, it's called sitting in the computer lab all night working on their computer engineering assignments. CMU is a lot like what I would imagine MIT is.