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Originally Posted by excelblue
However, after speaking to a few people, some think that this would cause a schism in organizational dynamics, where there'd be an internal "north vs south" rivalry. Yet, I personally see it differently in the sense that our brotherhood remained strong even while we didn't have a house, but having a house helped.
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It might.
We had an official house (with letters on it, by the other sorority houses) and there was a house several blocks away on "Elm Street" that was owned by the dad of a townie sister that he rented out. Obvi it was easiest to rent it to sisters. Official house held 12-14, Elm Street held I think 6.
There was DEFINITELY a schism between the two, but I honestly think the same schism would have occurred with the people involved no matter WHAT the living arrangements were. This just really didn't help. Everyone needs to have a place to get away from GLO stuff occasionally, but the problem was that people were making Elm Street the "anti-sorority" house - when they were all IN the sorority. It happened other times when groups of sisters had apartments in complexes or something similar, but Elm Street was the worst.
We didn't have a live-in policy for officers (we would have shot ourselves in the foot if we had) and that was part of the problem. Although I don't know if forcing someone who didn't want to live there to live there, or to have to choose our president based on who is living in the house, would have been any better.
For comparison, this is a chapter of 50 where all the Greek housing is off campus. It's also female.
I don't know how this would work out for dudes.
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