No Sorority Houses

als463 · #1 11-14-2007, 10:17 PM

If anyone is planning on going to a university with a large greek system that has houses-Scratch Penn State of your list. I graduated from PSU and the fraternities had houses but, the sororities did not...It was alright because we each had suites (like a living room/ kitchen area for chapters to have meetings and generally hang out) but, that can even get competitive. Some chapters try to have the "nicer" suite or they cross their fingers and hope that ABC or XYZ gets kicked off campus for lower membership numbers just so they can bid on their suite. It's weird...but, it worked and I love my sisters....

schnocks · #2 11-14-2007, 10:35 PM

My campus does not have any form of housing for Greek life ... no houses, no suites, no nothing. And I honestly feel that I am just as close with my sisters as I would have been if we did have a house. I don't think it's been detrimental to my sorority experience at all. Maybe it takes a little more effort to get together in a big group, but that's no big deal.

Dionysus · #3 11-14-2007, 10:40 PM

The sorority I pledged didn't have a house at the time, everything still went cool. We just had to hide our ritual stuff (caskets, dead bunny, and rusty crown) in our president's parents' basement.

PeppyGPhiB · #4 11-14-2007, 11:28 PM

None of the GLOs at my alma mater have housing, for a variety of reasons. I imagine there are pluses and minuses of it. We had to do recruitment and chapter in classrooms, but we didn't have a house to maintain and, therefore, obsessions about numbers and keeping the house.

I never would have gotten any work done if I had lived with my sisters. It was bad enough being in the same dorm with a few of them...all we did was goof off. Plus, I think if we had houses that only had beds for half the chapter, it would actually divide the chapter, live-ins vs. live-outs.

KSUViolet06 · #5 11-15-2007, 01:43 AM

There are tons of schools without sorority housing. We had another chapter come up and visit with us for initiation. They were from a school where the sororities didn't have housing (Defiance College) but they all had a really good experience in Sigma and were still just as close with each other as we were.

nittanyalum · #6 11-15-2007, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Dionysus

We just had to hide our ritual stuff (caskets, dead bunny, and rusty crown) in our president's parents' basement.

LOL!