Sorority House

[cinnamon11]

What do you think is better-a single room in your sorority house or a room shared with sisters?

Pros/Cons of each?

Lets get some discussions!

[Kevin]

Shared rooms bring in more money for the house corp and for a house corporation, they leave a lot more flexibility. If you're not able to fill all of your rooms, you can charge 3/4 to one person to rent a room for two (for example). If I was to build a house right now, I'd have every room built assuming 2-4 members would live in it.

[jazing]

Am I allowed to answer this even if I'm a guy?

[thetalady]

I am not sure that men can truly appreciate the drama that can occur among women living in close quarters...

[jazing]

Originally Posted by thetalady

I am not sure that men can truly appreciate the drama that can occur among women living in close quarters...

See I was thinking guys living together can have similar drama, but they are like two sides of a coin.

[Old_Row]

Originally Posted by jazing

Am I allowed to answer this even if I'm a guy?

Wouldn't most guys want two girls in a room if given that chance? Hahaha.

[ChioLu]

There are sorority houses with single rooms!!!???
Never heard of that except for a couple of officers (like President or NM Educator) getting a single room. At Tulsa Univ., we thought we were lucky to have 2 girl rooms in a cluster of 3 rooms that shared a bathroom.

[IndianaSigKap]

This is the big trend right now at IU, building single rooms or double rooms. Both Beta and SAE have single rooms. Beta is all singles, SAE has a few. Delta Gamma at IU did a major renovation maybe 10 or so years ago and they made some of the really small rooms singles. They have singles, doubles and quads. It's very popular among the PNMs. Chapter houses that were built a hundred years ago have really small day rooms. Now that students have computers, TVs, DVDs, in their room the rooms are even smaller. I think it's a great idea. You can allow more live outs. I wish chapters had single rooms when I rushed, I would have looked at those chapters more favorably.

[jazing]

Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap

This is the big trend right now at IU, building single rooms or double rooms. Both Beta and SAE have single rooms. Beta is all singles, SAE has a few. Delta Gamma at IU did a major renovation maybe 10 or so years ago and they made some of the really small rooms singles. They have singles, doubles and quads. It's very popular among the PNMs. Chapter houses that were built a hundred years ago have really small day rooms. Now that students have computers, TVs, DVDs, in their room the rooms are even smaller. I think it's a great idea. You can allow more live outs. I wish chapters had single rooms when I rushed, I would have looked at those chapters more favorably.

From all the AEPi houses I've visited, it seems most rooms were single. Either single or double no more. I know UF is all singles and Miami is mostly singles.

[sigmagirl2000]

Originally Posted by jazing

From all the AEPi houses I've visited, it seems most rooms were single. Either single or double no more. I know UF is all singles and Miami is mostly singles.

I'm pretty sure that in general this isn't determined by the organization, but by the available housing in the area, etc. Perhaps they prefer to build new houses with only single and double rooms, but I've definitely been in AEPi houses with triples and quads.

[DubaiSis]

As a sophomore, go with the shared room. As a senior, save the risk of going to jail and take a single.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

As a sophomore, go with the shared room. As a senior, save the risk of going to jail and take a single.

FWIW, I believe that everyone should share a room at some point. I had never shared a room for longer than a few nights (sleep overs, camp) until I lived in the sorority suite. It wasn't always the greatest of experiences, but I'm really glad I did it. My DH does find it odd that I did have four different roomies, though!

Needless to say, by the middle of my junior year, I grabbed one of the singles and held onto it like a life preserver!

[WCsweet<3]

We had shared rooms (minus the president) and a sleeping porch. I often feel like that lowered the drama. No one waking anyone else up for 8ams or keeping others awake during finals.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by WCsweet<3

We had shared rooms (minus the president) and a sleeping porch. I often feel like that lowered the drama. No one waking anyone else up for 8ams or keeping others awake during finals.

If you have an 8am, how do you keep your alarm from waking everyone else on the sleeping porch? I've been wondering this since I first heard of this concept.

[WCsweet<3]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

If you have an 8am, how do you keep your alarm from waking everyone else on the sleeping porch? I've been wondering this since I first heard of this concept.

We had a wake up system. There were girls who were assigned it based on a point system. So Suzy who didn't have many points was given one shift a week to wake girls up. Girls had an option to put their names down for 630, 7, 730 or 8. So Suzy who had the 7am shift on Tuesdays would quietly wake all the women who signed up for 7. She would then wait ten minutes and make sure they got up or ask if they wanted to be put for 730. It worked really well actually. I still miss sleeping on the porch. Plus it wasn't that bad for Suzy either. They often got ready while waking people up and took quick breaks to walk the porches.

Some girls knew how to put their alarms on silent and only have them vibrate.