Indiana University Recruitment

[Hoosierxgirl]

Most upperclassmen live in houses or apartments. These are concentrated near the stadium, the mall, and on campus. In my house, because we live-out senior year, people usually try to live with other women in their pledge class and often houses are passed down from year to year. The house I'll be renting next year with 4 other women in my pledge class was "passed down." I think it would be possible for a new sorority to reserve a few floors in a dorm or an apartment complex but I don't know of any huge houses that house more than 8-10. From what I understand, ASA rented an apartment complex in the 90's but later folded along with a few others. Unless land or a house becomes available, I don't see a chapter lasting here long but then again, anything is possible.

[barnard1897]

Just to clarify, while AOII did recolonize within the last 2 decades, they only left campus for 2 years to "clean house," essentially. When they returned to IU, they were poised to do so with a brand new house in a much more attractive location, after a successful internal fundraising campaign.

Most driving forces outside of campus would like to see them change to Q/T and get with the program, so to speak. NPC did send a task force to campus a while back to pursue the issue of bed quota and several recommendations they made were not well-received by collegians or their advisers. There has to be a sea change internally if these women want to move forward, but do they really want to make room for more members to join the system? Some chapters do, but others are quite comfortable with the perceived elitist structure currently in place. So of course they are in favor of extension. Then, it's someone else's problem to make room for the others.

I get the whole idea of living in and how much that makes a difference in the greek experience on that campus. The problem is, as OPs have noted, there is the lack of open-mindedness among PNMs (who only want to be in one of a handful of houses) and actives (who think the current system best serves their needs). Those houses, in turn, tend to be the ones with the smallest NM classes because of their small bed quota/smaller houses. I've been told by women from these chapters that they like it small, they like to be perceived as having few coveted spots, and bed quota helps make that happen. Pretty sad when you consider how many more loyal alums could come from expanded NM classes in most of the houses that already exist.