How to obtain a hallway

[thomaskat]

Hey everyone,
obtaining off campus housing for more then 7 or 8 guys has proved to be an issue, and since there are no on-campus houses we have decided to try to obtain a dorm floor or hall for the remainder of the men in the fraternity.

Does anyone here have any idea as to who we would speak to first, Residential Life or the greek office?, any sort of advice as to convincing the school to allow this?

Thank you in advance

[Eirbear]

I'd actually talk to Res Life first, since they're the ones who are going to have to find room on a floor to house you. My sorority has a dorm floor (as well as a house, but the house only holds 9 women, so...there we are), and I know that when we're doing housing sign-ups and such, we work close with Res Life, rather than Greek Office.

Originally Posted by Eirbear

I'd actually talk to Res Life first, since they're the ones who are going to have to find room on a floor to house you. My sorority has a dorm floor (as well as a house, but the house only holds 9 women, so...there we are), and I know that when we're doing housing sign-ups and such, we work close with Res Life, rather than Greek Office.

I have to disagree.

I'd speak with the Greek Life office first because getting their support seems more favorable. Working with them to get on-campus housing works much better than going at it alone.

[LPIDelta]

I think OTW is right. I would definitely talk with Greek Life first--having the support of the Greek Life staff would certainly go a long way toward achieving your goal.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Yeah, good luck. I know it never would've worked at my school, where housing assignments are made according to class/credit standing. We could have gotten together as a group and requested rooms next to each other, but there's no way the greek life or residential offices would've done us any favors just because we were in the same GLO. Go for it, just don't be surprised if the school doesn't want to set a new precedent by basically creating greek housing for just your group.

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Yeah, good luck. I know it never would've worked at my school, where housing assignments are made according to class/credit standing.

When I was a collegian, we explored the possibility of blocking off a hall/wing of dorms for our members. At that time, we had a sister who was VP-Student Affairs (the highest ranking female admin) who was willing to lobby on our behalf.

We decided against making the push for on-campus housing because it required just too much commitment -- and being that our numbers fluctuate every year, we knew we couldn't pull it off. Looking back, I'm glad we didn't because two years ago, hundreds of UHM students didn't have on-campus rooms. They had to be put up in Waikiki hotels.