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musical chairs
It seems like to me that in the past ten years or so, we all have
been playing musical chairs...one gets kicked off, another takes
the house, for a while, then one returns, uproots their renters,
but another house screws up leaving a candidate for the renters
again...and so on. In between times, the university obtains a
house or two, turning it in to another campus building or a gay
house or a scholarship house or what have you. At any rate, in
about five years we've lost 2-3 houses, had some move up at a
fast pace, having glommed onto a good house--but as soon as
they are replaced by the original owners, this so-called 'top chapter' heads downward and may fold or be a sub standard group once more. Many, Many schools are in this quagmire, not
just CU...but the houses we used to see at CU...many are no more greek-occupied. Risk management and lust apartments have hurt us as the old sleeping porch, 2 man rooms, etc. are rapidly disappearing. Will we go to lodges or places with just a
few living quarters + a meeting/party room...like a lodge of sorts?
Kansas State is unlike most in that they virtually all have good housing. But we can all point out, like Hoosier did, it is getting increasingly harder for all of us to reactivate or go on established
campuses where a few still hang on to their houses or they have
ridiculously-high quotas. This will kill us on growth on many of the
campuses, like most the southern biggies and oldies.
I have no answers and the undergrads help little...
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