What are your chapter's arrangements?

honeychile · #1 12-14-2003, 11:07 PM

When I was an active, we always wished that we had a house, but Pitt didn't allow them (a duplex with KKG & Theta was grandfathered in). The rest of the sororities lived in Amos Hall, the dorm aptly named for the first Dean of Women. I'll go into more detail later, but in the meantime, let's take a poll:

Please list your chapter and its arrangements:

Do you have a chapter house?
A suite?
A floor in a dorm?
A room in the Student Union?
Other?

polarpi · #2 12-14-2003, 11:12 PM

Eta Psi chapter, Valparaiso University:

* Could live on the chapter's corridor (one-half of a floor in the sorority dorm)
* Each sorority had a CR on the first floor of the sorority dorm to hold meetings and other activities in.

texas*princess · #3 12-15-2003, 12:07 AM

Right now the Gamma Upsilon ADPi's reside in a house that was originally built for Kappa Alpha. KA is no longer on our campus and ADPi has been in the house for about 2 years.

Next year, we will be moving into the newly built Sorority Row! Alpha Phi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, & Zeta Tau Alpha will also be moving into the new sorority row! We are all excited at the prospect of having panhellenic neighbors to help strengthen the overall panhellenic bonds between all our chapters

What is even more exciting is that Sorority Row will be completed sometime this next summer and everyone will be all settled into their new houses for rush in fall!!!!

nauadpi · #4 12-15-2003, 01:54 AM

Epsilon Xi has a wing in the all greek res. hall... We have a wing there, where alphas and deltas both live in suite style rooms...and in our wing is a CR... Which we happily have new carpet, new fans, and new blinds in....

ADPiAkron · #5 12-15-2003, 10:52 AM

Beta Tau Chapter at The University of Akron has a house. It sleeps 16 women...has 8 bedrooms, 4 full baths, 2 half baths...the entire house is one....meetings in the basement, etc.

ASUADPi · #6 12-15-2003, 02:38 PM

Since I went to two schools I'll list both.

Delta Gamma
Has a house. Has 17 or 18 rooms (sorry can't remember exactly), so the house can sleep about 56 girls. The girls actually sleep on a sleeping porch. They have a formal dining room for chapter, informal for lunch and dinners for the rest of the week and a chapter room. Very nice house.

Gamma Rho
They live in a sorority dorm called Adelphi Commons. The rooms are suite style and they have a CR.

Brianna

honeychile · #7 12-15-2003, 03:02 PM

Alpha Iota has a suite - all but 2 of the sororities at Pitt are in Amos Hall, which was "the" hotsy-totsy apartment complex prior to Pitt buying it. AI has the Penthouse Suite (10th floor), so the ceilings are much higher - 20' in the Formal Living Room!

1) Alpha Iota
2) Sleeps 17-18 (3 singles), no more than 3 ladies to a bathroom.
3) Formal & Informal Living Rooms, Chapter Room, 2 pullman kitchens (read: small!)

One of these days, I will get my scanner connected, and will post the floor plan of the suite - both for our benefit & that of the other Amos sororities.

We don't have Emory on GreekChat, do we? I can describe theirs, if no one represents.

#8 12-15-2003, 07:55 PM

Well, this is a crazy, but true story (well, pretty close to the exact truth........the exact detais have been lost through the years): Some lady from Baylor donates a bajillion dollars every year and said that if Greek houses were ever built, she would stop her funding, SOOOO as you can guess we will never have greek houses. However, a while back they decided it would be a great idea to have a "Panhellenic building." SO after years of fundraising and planning, and a few bajillion dollars of our own later, each of the nine sororities at Baylor has a chapter suite int eh Stacy Riddel Forum, right off campus. It's a huge building, each chapter suite is like 2500 square feet total. It has a big kitchen, a large bathroom, an office, and two storage rooms. It also has a chapel that is just gorgeous, and a large computer lab. Our greek grad assistant lives there in a small one bedroom apartment and the PH office is also there. So that's our setup. Oh, and since it's opening, word on the street has been, hands down, that our suite is the best!!!!!

Blue Violets · #9 12-16-2003, 04:38 AM

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.

honeychile · #10 12-16-2003, 09:11 AM

Quote:

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!!

adepiash · #11 12-16-2003, 01:55 PM

Gamma Mu at Southwest Missouri State University has a house. We've lived in it since it was built about 8 years ago and has recently been redecorated. It houses about 60 women. We meet in the basement for meetings and ritual and have a huge dining room and social room for other meetings. We also have a huge kitchen for our cooking staff and two large bathrooms for each floor.

ADPi~Ally · #12 12-16-2003, 06:31 PM

Eta Mu at Sac State does not have a house, dorm suite, or anything. None of the sororities at csus do. We hold our meetings at the union, like the others do. We do have a specific room each semester but other clubs/meetings use the room too. I think if would of been really cool to have a house to fully get the greek experience.

honeychile · #13 12-16-2003, 09:57 PM

At Emory (at least, when I visited), they have a drop dead gorgeous townhouse on a sorority/fraternity row. They had a large, beautifully decorated room for rush, a good sized kitchen, an all-purpose/meeting room downstairs, and a loft for 4 lucky sisters to live in, with a study area.

Penn State (Delta Kappa) has an all purpose room with a kitchenette on the ground floor of a dorm, and a lot of the sisters live in the dorm upstairs. That's the way all the sororities are set up.

Adelphean · #14 12-17-2003, 06:12 AM

At Beta Beta we have a house. However we don't live in it. We have a two huge rooms. One is more formal than the other. We have a library, and 3 bathrooms with a sitting area. We also have a large kitchen, ritual room, 3 or 4 smaller rooms/closets, and a big back porch/patio area.

We are currently fundraising for our new house that will (with any luck) be built by August '04. The new house will sleep 17 girls.

-Lindsay

ADPiSAI · #15 12-17-2003, 02:59 PM

Eta Tau also has nothing.
We used to have a house (long before my time), but we don't anymore because members of this one non/anti-Greek group kept breaking in and throwing our important ADPi stuff in the river. There's no on-campus Greek housing, since we're a small school with a small Greek community. With the initiation of our newest member, however, there is now one on-campus apartment that is all ADPi. We do a lot of events there now. As for meetings, we use the student lounge on campus, but they're really not totally helpful when it comes to booking it. There was talk about putting the booking under names of other clubs so they wouldn't give us so much crap about "hogging the time" in there (a few hours, once a week? yeah, hardly hogging when nobody else ever uses it!!).