Sorority Houses a Possibility at U. of Tennessee?

[OleMissGlitter]

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[epchick]

Originally Posted by OleMissGlitter

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AOII at Tennessee's House Campaign

According to this website, the Panhellenic building accomodates 60 women from each sorority.

Now, volgirl's comment said the new houses would hold 40-50 beds, now is that combined with the Panhellenic building, or are they going to get rid of those suites?

I would wonder why you'd downgrade from 60- to 40-50, especially since (according to the articles) the reason for the houses was that the sororities had outgrown the suites (too many girls, etc).

Did i make any sense? lol

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by epchick

According to this website, the Panhellenic building accomodates 60 women from each sorority.

Now, volgirl's comment said the new houses would hold 40-50 beds, now is that combined with the Panhellenic building, or are they going to get rid of those suites?

I would wonder why you'd downgrade from 60- to 40-50, especially since (according to the articles) the reason for the houses was that the sororities had outgrown the suites (too many girls, etc).

Did i make any sense? lol

The current suites are not residences - i.e. no one sleeps in. Safety and fire codes say that around 60 people are suppose to be in the suite at a time. Since many chapters have three times that amount, the chapters need larger spaces. Thus the new chapter houses will include chapter room for the full membership along with bedrooms (residency) for 40 to 50 members.

Panhellenic Building

"The Panhellenic Building houses 15 of the 18 social sororities at UTK. Although the building is not a residence hall facility, each sorority has a suite consisting of a large living room, a kitchen, an office, and a storage area."

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by TSteven

"The Panhellenic Building houses 15 of the 18 social sororities at UTK. Although the building is not a residence hall facility, each sorority has a suite consisting of a large living room, a kitchen, an office, and a storage area."

I wish my school would build something like that for the greeks on campus so they could at least have a place other than classrooms to hold meetings/chapter, and keep things locked up.

[irishpipes]

From the UT website:
http://www.tennessee.edu/news/article.php?id=3854

"Fourteen of UT's 17 sorority chapters have submitted business pro formas and financial statements for individual facilities. Thirteen residential buildings and one non-residential building are planned on the approximately 21-acre site."

Does this mean that all of the NPC sororities are now planning on building traditional sorority houses? For a while there was talk that 6 NPCs would build traditional houses and the rest would build townhouses or stay in the current situation. There are 14 NPCs, so are 13 building houses and one building something else? I hope they are all considering building actual houses. It never seems to work well when housing is inequitable.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

From the UT website:
http://www.tennessee.edu/news/article.php?id=3854

"Fourteen of UT's 17 sorority chapters have submitted business pro formas and financial statements for individual facilities. Thirteen residential buildings and one non-residential building are planned on the approximately 21-acre site."

Does this mean that all of the NPC sororities are now planning on building traditional sorority houses? For a while there was talk that 6 NPCs would build traditional houses and the rest would build townhouses or stay in the current situation. There are 14 NPCs, so are 13 building houses and one building something else? I hope they are all considering building actual houses. It never seems to work well when housing is inequitable.

There are seventeen chapters that make up University of Tennessee Knoxville Panhellenic Council. Thirteen are members of NPC, three are members of NPHC, and one is a member of NALFO.

My speculation is that the thirteen residential buildings most likely will house the thirteen NPC chapters. Not sure about the one non-residential building. Might make sense to build a new building for suites for those chapters that do not want a residential building. That way, all of UT's sororities will be in the same general location. Then again, the non-residential building may be for a single chapter.

NPC chapters
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Omicron Pi
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma
Delta Zeta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Phi Mu
Pi Beta Phi
Sigma Kappa
Zeta Tau Alpha

NPHC chapters
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Delta Sigma Theta
Zeta Phi Beta

NALFO chapter
Lambda Theta Alpha

[CarolinaDG]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

From the UT website:
http://www.tennessee.edu/news/article.php?id=3854

"Fourteen of UT's 17 sorority chapters have submitted business pro formas and financial statements for individual facilities. Thirteen residential buildings and one non-residential building are planned on the approximately 21-acre site."

Does this mean that all of the NPC sororities are now planning on building traditional sorority houses? For a while there was talk that 6 NPCs would build traditional houses and the rest would build townhouses or stay in the current situation. There are 14 NPCs, so are 13 building houses and one building something else? I hope they are all considering building actual houses. It never seems to work well when housing is inequitable.

Please, God, tell me that this isn't going to be a repeat of USC...

[AnatraAmore]

For those of us who might be a little lost on the USC housing situation, can someone enlighten us?

[Buttonz]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

I wish my school would build something like that for the greeks on campus so they could at least have a place other than classrooms to hold meetings/chapter, and keep things locked up.

My school is making one of the new dorm building for Greeks only but thats the only thing they will do for Greek housing...but most upperclassmen live off campus anyway

[FSUZeta]

many of the fraternities at fl. state have built houses on land offered by the university off campus-it seems to be going well for them. the university has shuttle buses that run thru the neighborhood, but i would imagine that a lot of the fellas drive to campus and park at the football stadium,