Indiana University Recruitment

[IUGreekGirl]

33girl you're totally right. A chapter with 300 members is not a Greek experience that I, nor I think any of my fellow IU greeks, would want.

With this in mind, extension is really the only other option that we have to help more women find a place in the Greek system. We truly hope that if an organization chooses to extend on this campus it will succeed. We understand that this new chapter will need a lot of support and we plan on providing that.

One thing I don't think has been mentioned on the topic of extension-- there are several chapters at IU now that rechartered in the 80s without houses. Those chapters have flourished. I personally know a woman who was part of one of the unhoused chapters and she said that not having a house didn't negatively affect her Greek experience.

Hopefully this is the same experience that other women will have in a few years.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by IUGreekGirl

One thing I don't think has been mentioned on the topic of extension-- there are several chapters at IU now that rechartered in the 80s without houses. Those chapters have flourished. I personally know a woman who was part of one of the unhoused chapters and she said that not having a house didn't negatively affect her Greek experience.

Hopefully this is the same experience that other women will have in a few years.

But that chapter (I only saw one 80s recharter in irishpipes' thread) got a house eventually and has a house now, right? And they chartered with the goal of getting a house sooner rather than later? And there was room to put it?

From what I'm reading, there is just flat out no room to build (from what some people are saying, the amount of room for Greek houses [fraternities and sororities] is actually decreasing) and any chapter that agrees to being unhoused now has a very good chance of being unhoused forever.

I'm not trying to contradict or be Susy Crankypants - just stating to any national thinking about it, don't buy a pig in a poke.