Non IFC/NPCs with houses?

[sairose]

So it's quite common for IFC and NPCs to have houses. However:

--I rarely, if ever, hear of NPHCs with houses. Why is this? Or is it more common and I'm not aware of it?

--What about other groups? I know there are at least a few SAI chapters with houses (Beta, at Northwestern; Sigma Alpha somewhere in Illinois; maybe a few others), as well as a few Phi Mu Alpha houses. How many other groups like these have houses? And if you have pics, please post!

[jhujenn]

Alpha Chi Sigma, a professional chemistry fraternity, has houses at some schools. I know that Purdue, Illinois, Virginia, and others have houses.

Phi Mu Alpha has an "unofficial" house at my alma mater. They used to have an official one but sold it about 7 years ago.

Delta Omicron has had unofficial houses from time to time on my campus, although we don't currently. We've never had an official house on campus, however, I know there are campuses that do.

[Diamond Delta]

There are several independent sororities at New England schools tha have houses. Agonian comes to mind.....

[Tom Earp]

NPHC Chapters at Known as Predomentaly Black schools have Houses.

But on most campi, they dont because of smaller numbers.

Houses cost money to keep up and unless there enough membrs, it is hard to do. Plain and simple.

This is just a thumbnail sketch from what I know from NHPC Friends.

[chideltjen]

There is a local sorority in Chico that has a house. I don't think they are NPC. They are called Alpha Chi.

And SAEPi... the famous MTV SL sorority, also had a house. (One that wasn't provided by mtv.)

[shadokat]

All of the locals on my campus had houses. KAPsi had an "unofficial" house, as did all of the NPC sororities and the IFC fraternities. There wasn't one group on campus that didn't have a house somewhere with letters on it designating it as a fraternity or sorority house. Mind you, many were crap holes, but it sufficed.

[sugar and spice]

There's an professional engineering frat here that has a house, I think. Looking at old yearbooks, tons of the professional GLOs used to have houses back in the earlier half of last century.

I think the NPHC organizations might have houses at a few big Southern schools -- Bama? And wasn't DST looking to take over a house at LSU? What happened with that?

[enlightenment06]

as Tom said, it's because most NPHC college chapters at predominantly white institutions don't have enough members to have an entire house.

[jhujenn]

I think the Phi Beta Sigma at Ole Miss has a house and I know that AKA and Delta Sigma Theta had houses there as well.

[jubilance1922]

I'm a member of the beta chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma and we have a house. Several of our chapters do.

At my school, Theta Tau engineering fraternity, Kappa Eta Kappa engineering fraternity, and Triangle fraternity all have a house.

As for NPHCs: Alpha Phi Alpha has a house at Univ. of Michigan, and they are getting their house back at Alabama. Also at Alabama, the AKAs, Deltas, and Sigmas have a house. At Georgia Tech, the Deltas have a house, and I think the Kappas do too.

That's all that I know about...

[DolphinChicaDDD]

Originally posted by shadokat
There wasn't one group on campus that didn't have a house somewhere with letters on it designating it as a fraternity or sorority house. Mind you, many were crap holes, but it sufficed.

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds exacutly like my undergrad. I remember one fraternity house where I REFUSED to go in the basement because I was seriously scared the house would collapse.

I actually kinda felt bad for some of the fraternities, because during mixers EVERY girl from EVERY sorority felt like it was a good idea to write letters on EVERYTHING (ie walls-esp the bathroom, the floor, the fridge...I even saw a group's name on the cover of the toilet seat.) The only interesting thing was seeing the letter's of sororities that are no longer active (and seeing my old babysitter's name).

[TSteven]

At the University of Kentucky, Kappa Alpha Psi rented a house from the University right before the start of the 1980-81 school year. The Phi Beta Sigma chapter did likewise within a month.

Unfortunately, they were part of the fraternity houses (which also included the Alpha Tau Omega, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Phi Kappa Tau houses) that were torn down to build the new main library. Along with other buildings.

UK is presently developing Greek housing. And my understanding is that the new housing will include NPHC, IFC and NPC chapters.

[Steeltrap]

In the 1980s, when I was an undergrad at the University of Southern California, Kappa Alpha Psi rented a house on the Row (28th Street). My sorority has a house near USC, but it's not residential.

[tld221]

our school has floors for houses.
i think thats kinda crappy, cause thats makes them less visible on campus. and they are all in one section of one dorm, and u need a keycard to take the elevator up, so its really isolating.

even worse, the school is moving all the greeks out of their dorm now to make it all freshman, and move them to the downtown dorms (that sux even more for them).

itd be cool to have houses here, then again the rent in teh city is monstrous. the houses would be some studio apt in williamsburg or astoria. and of course, it would really look out of place.

imagine walking across a sorority or fraternity house on broadway and prince st. or bleeker? kinda weird.

but i would enjoy it.