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Originally Posted by 33girl
Yes, it is feasible, IF
IF enough women decide that they could care less about living in houses, then IU could easily support all 26 plus probably a few others. But if the "IU sorority life = living in a house with all your sisters" tradition refuses to die, then they won't even be able to support the one they have.
This is a moot point now as the new unhoused chapters could conceivably take much larger amounts of members than the housed chapters currently do. I think that's the reasoning behind it in the first place.
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Couldn't agree with you more about the tradition of living in the chapter house, but I don't see it dying out soon. I only lived in the chapter house for a short time and there things I really enjoyed about it, but overall I didn't care for the experience. I was happy to live out and pay for a meal plan plus live out fees. However,
I was in the minority. I do know there are women who would love to be Greek but can't afford the house bills plus other fees, so maybe the unhoused idea may take off. We'll see.
Based on what I have heard from friends who advise chapters at IU, alumnae still living in the area, and alumnae who work for the university, the original rationale behind the unhoused chapters was twofold: 1.) Keep these newer chapters smaller so that they would be able to pair/socialize more easily with the growing number of smaller unhoused fraternities and 2.) Offer more opportunities for women to go Greek. Not sure how those are really working out since the newest chapter did not stay around 75 which is the size of several of the unhoused fraternities and a lot of women still did not match after formal recruitment.
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