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Originally Posted by Blondie93
I will defer to DukeDG, but my understanding is that the sororities at Duke have nothing but a basement where everyone has to store their initiation stuff together (separate holding tanks, locked).
The men, of course, have houses. So, the entire system is not without housing, so maybe this would not apply.
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Absolutely correct. When I was there we had tiny tiny houses (Duke-owned) that we shared for storage purposes. There was a meeting room in ours and we used to have our officers meet there until my junior year when it turned out it wasn't safe to have that many people (8!) in the house at once!!!
Now they took those houses away completely and we just have storage. Out chapter meetings are in huge conference rooms in the student center and we conduct recruitment in different dorms' commons rooms and other meeting rooms (in this very odd and competitive allocation system!).
Fraternities have dorms, which are owned by Duke, and function as their houses where they live, have social events, conduct recruitment and so on. Occasionally, though, Duke decides to reshuffle all the fraternities (and selective living groups) so the fraternities suddenly end up in a totally different "house".
I consider Duke's Greek system to be very strong because of high participation, Greek members' involvement and leadership in other organizations on campus, etc., but perhaps others use different criteria for a strong Greek system?
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