Does your school have a sorority/fraternity row?

[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.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by CZAXOTerp

Univ. of Maryland has a Fraternity Row, it's on campus and 13 houses total. - 11 fraternities and 2 sororities. Additional chapters have houses in the surrounding area- there is a block that has 7 sorority houses and that block is referred to as the Graham Cracker.
Our Fraternity Row is featured in the movie, St. Elmo's Fire.

There are 14 chapter houses on Fraternity Row, 11 fraternities and 3 sororities.

[Thetagirl218]

My school is in the early stages of getting Greek Housing, but there are so many factors in the air, it might be years before its completed! I know the school tried designating dorms for greek lifein the past, but it didn't work out, hence the plans for different housing.

[kchaptergphib]

At Minnesota, we have a "frat row" that is along University Avenue, facing the oldest part of our campus (~150 years old). Obviously, many houses have changed hands/ left/ taken over the house next door/ university moved into a former fraternity house/ etc in the past hundred-plus years, but thankfully many remain. This is where most of the fraternities are located.
http://collections.mnhs.org/visualre...archType=Basic
Above is a picture from 1928. The campus would be on your left, with fraternity row on your right. You would be looking up University Avenue, with all the row fraternities on your right, including...
1800 block:
unoccupied (originally Zeta Psi and formerly Tau Kappa Epsilon)
Kappa Sigma (technically on a cross-street, = behind ZPsi/TKE)
Alpha Tau Omega
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Omega Nu Alpha (local, originally Phi Kappa Sigma)
1700 block:
Alpha Delta Phi
Phi Sigma Kappa (technically on a cross-street, = behind ADPhi)
co-op (originally Psi Upsilon)
Delta Tau Delta
Delta Kappa Epsilon
1600 block:
Beta Theta Pi
Sigma Chi (original house)
Sigma Chi 2 (originally Chi Phi)
Phi Kappa Psi
Delta Chi
1500 block:
Sigma Nu
original Theta Chi house (technically on a cross-street, = behind Sigma Nu)
Chi Psi/Lodge

The sororities are in small clusters, about 8 blocks up University avenue from where the picture is taken. Some other fraternities are also located up there, farther from campus, but closer to the ladies Additional organizations that are located in this other, ~ 6 block area are:

fraternities
Delta Upsilon (originally Phi Delta Theta house)
Phi Gamma Delta (on Univeristy Ave)
Triangle (on University Ave)
Sigma Alpha Mu
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Kappa Alpha Psi (on University Ave)

sororities
on one block:
Alpha Chi Omega
Gamma Phi Beta
former Chi Omega house
Alpha Phi
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kappa Kappa Gamma 2
across the street:
former Delta Delta Delta house
former Alpha Delta Pi house
former Kappa Alpha Theta house
on another block:
Alpha Gamma Delta
Delta Gamma
Kappa Alpha Theta
across the street:
Pi Beta Phi
Pi Beta Phi 2
Alpha Omicron Pi

(We also have Alpha Gamma Rho and Farmhouse, and two local, more agricultural-focused sororities, but they are all located in Saint Paul, near the ag campus)

I think that's pretty much everyone (besides locals, or others who have moved houses again!)

[NikkiB]

Kappa has 2?? nice

Originally Posted by NikkiB

Kappa has 2?? nice

squirrely girl will correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Alpha Gams at WKU have two houses at one point?

[SWTXBelle]

I know AOII had two at Texas State at one point .. .

[AGDLynn]

I'll jump in since I've been to the houses. Alpha Gam at WKU did have 2 houses but sold one.

[CZAXOTerp]

Originally Posted by JessSigKap

There are 14 chapter houses on Fraternity Row, 11 fraternities and 3 sororities.

My bad about the # of sororities w/ houses on the row (when I went thru - there were actually 4 sororities on the row)

[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.

[kchaptergphib]

Originally Posted by NikkiB

Kappa has 2?? nice

Yup, and so does Pi Phi. And Gamma Phi is all one house, now, as the original Gamma Phi Beta house was connected to the former Delta Upsilon house next door.
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~gammaphi/Gamm...a/Welcome.html
The trees are blocking a lot of the house in the picture, but the brick part on the left used to be DU, the older section on the right, Gamma Phi. Now it's all Kappa Chapter's lovely home!

[TrulyKappa]

At Georgia Southern we have a small street called Olympic Boulevard. All of the 6 sororities have a house on the right side. There are a few fraternity houses on there like KA, SAE, ATO, Kappa Sig, the empty Sigma Nu house...one fraternity is living in the Kappa Kappa Gamma House current but we are suppose to be getting it back in August I think