Does your school have a sorority/fraternity row?

[fantASTic]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Just curious - why not?

Because our school is not very supportive of greek life. We only have it because they basically have to, being a public university, and they are very very strict and harsh with us. I feel like all it's going to do is cause it to be a hot spot for police. Plus, much of our on campus housing is very bad. THe place where they want to put us? Currently, in a 4 person townhouse they provide you with two sets of furniture. The entire house has one ethernet wall port, but buying your own wireless is strictly prohibited. They're falling apart.

Plus, they're refusing it make it a "Greek Row." They're letting the football team have a house, and other sports teams and groups as well.

I just don't see any benefits, especially because our Greeks are already very close.

Plus, all oncampus housing has to have an RA, and I can't see that going down well. And, it is going to be a 20, 25 minute walk to classes as opposed to a five minute drive and a two minute walk. Lame.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

Because our school is not very supportive of greek life. We only have it because they basically have to, being a public university, and they are very very strict and harsh with us. I feel like all it's going to do is cause it to be a hot spot for police. Plus, much of our on campus housing is very bad. THe place where they want to put us? Currently, in a 4 person townhouse they provide you with two sets of furniture. The entire house has one ethernet wall port, but buying your own wireless is strictly prohibited. They're falling apart.

Plus, they're refusing it make it a "Greek Row." They're letting the football team have a house, and other sports teams and groups as well.

I just don't see any benefits, especially because our Greeks are already very close.

Plus, all oncampus housing has to have an RA, and I can't see that going down well. And, it is going to be a 20, 25 minute walk to classes as opposed to a five minute drive and a two minute walk. Lame.

I can relate to that...familiar story, unfortunately.

[AGDLynn]

The Univ of West Ga will be announcing in the fall if there will be a new Greek Village to open Fall 2009. Each of the 6 NPC sororities will probably have a house each plus at least 1 new sorority. (Currently the 6 NPC sororities are living in a dorm that was built in 1972.)

I'm not sure how many IFC fraternities there are; each can have a house or...
Some of the fraternities have houses they don't want to give up (at least for now)..

also, the school is considering opening a town-house type building that can house smaller Greek orgs who can't fill a whole house.

Would be near the new football stadium that they are trying to raise money for.

[dgdramadawg]

Originally Posted by AGDLynn

also, the school is considering opening a town-house type building that can house smaller Greek orgs who can't fill a whole house.

How would this work when the houses grow too large for the townhomes?

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by dgdramadawg

How would this work when the houses grow too large for the townhomes?

As long as they have a super big chapter room, won't it still work out? But I guess it would be hard to have that big a chapter room in a townhouse.

[KSigkid]

We do not have one. The fraternities that are recognized by the school rent houses off campus in either Allston or Brookline (communities that neighbor Boston). There are Greek Houses on BU's campus, but they are all MIT fraternities; BU sold them to MIT when the school got rid of Greek life in the 70s, and the groups were not able to get them back when Greek life returned in the mid-80s.

Apparently the new Dean of students is more welcoming of Greek Life, but I would be shocked if the school ever aided GLOs in securing housing.

[ksigUWa]

University of Washington has a pretty large greek system. immediately to the north of campus there are at least 29 fraternities with houses and 16 sororities with houses. quite a few of the houses also have annexes where a smaller group of the older members usually live. heres a map thats almost up to date and gives the general layout of the system. frats in blue, sororities in red.