New Sorority Housing at Auburn

[AUAZD2001]

I was looking on the Auburn website and stumled on this:

https://fp.auburn.edu/housing/docume...%20preview.pdf

It's set to be ready for fall 2009. It's not like how I invisioned it 4 years ago when it was first proposed. I dunno how I feel about it. What do ya'll think? How do you think this will affect recruitment?

[AU_ZTA86]

Interesting - not quite what I was expecting either - 6 sororities in one bldg?? That's going to get really crowded when having members live there. Not sure what it will do to recruitment.

L
AU ZTA Gamma Rho

[carnation]

Crud. My computer froze when I tried to open it but....why are they doing this? Isn't the current system working any more?

[AUAZD2001]

Originally Posted by carnation

Crud. My computer froze when I tried to open it but....why are they doing this? Isn't the current system working any more?

The new set up will give sorority women private rooms and they'll only share a bathroom with one other person. It will make it more like apartment living and make living in chapter housing more competetive with off campus options. Also, rumor has it, Auburn will be requireinf ALL freshmen to live on campus, so with sororities in the Village, that frees up over 600 beds on the Hill.

[carnation]

Back in the day, all women had to live on campus! Seems like it was changed to let seniors live off campus my senior year. I wonder when the rest of the rules changed.

[AUAZD2001]

The buildings look pretty big. 3 floors of 4-person suites. 20 suites per floor=60 suites. My guess would be 2 sororities per floor. It will be the same number of beds as they have on the Hill right now. But the 6 chapter rooms on the first floor... No privacy. at least on the Hill, even if you share a building, your chapter room in the basement, completely seperate from the other chaper.

[carnation]

They'd better rethink that. At Mississippi State in the seventies, there were several chapter rooms in each basement and each sorority pretty much knew what the others wore to initiation. Also, some would listen to each others' ceremonies through the walls with drinking glasses.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by carnation

They'd better rethink that. At Mississippi State in the seventies, there were several chapter rooms in each basement and each sorority pretty much knew what the others wore to initiation. Also, some would listen to each others' ceremonies through the walls with drinking glasses.

I'm cracking up envisioning this.

I don't get why people get so bent out of shape knowing what people wore to initiation. I guess because ASA is pretty open about what we wear...I know we had pics up everywhere from before/after initations. We held our initiation in a local church though, so you'd have had to work pretty hard to "spy" on us.

[AUAZD2001]

I wonder if having 6 sororities all in one building would affect inter-sorority relations. Division in the building: Our side vs. their side? Or maybe a common bond: Our building vs thier building?

[lady4k485]

I just left waffle house yesterday at 3:00 pm. Too busy to stop and say Hello! Where r u at