Can I get the same experience being in a sorority if I can't live in their house?

[33girl]

It's a lil different story when:
1) you don't own the house and no house corp is involved (everyone signed individual leases directly with the landlord)
2) you don't do ritual or formal rush at the house anyway since it's too small.

In our case, we just let the women know that there were times they'd have to be out of the house (or stay in their rooms) for big-little, open rush parties etc. It worked out alright - they both had practically fulltime jobs on top of school and were gone a lot anyway. My mom's BFF's son was a boarder at a house at Penn State though - quite different affair than our little shacks - and I never did know just how that would work out.

I could have sworn during the DePauw/DZ brouhaha it said they had boarders, although I may still not be fully awake and just imagining that one.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by 33girl

It's a lil different story when:
1) you don't own the house and no house corp is involved (everyone signed individual leases directly with the landlord)
2) you don't do ritual or formal rush at the house anyway since it's too small.

In our case, we just let the women know that there were times they'd have to be out of the house (or stay in their rooms) for big-little, open rush parties etc. It worked out alright - they both had practically fulltime jobs on top of school and were gone a lot anyway. My mom's BFF's son was a boarder at a house at Penn State though - quite different affair than our little shacks - and I never did know just how that would work out.

I could have sworn during the DePauw/DZ brouhaha it said they had boarders, although I may still not be fully awake and just imagining that one.

As small as they were at that time, I wouldn't be surprised if they did.

We had to do the same things with our RA, and while it was never a huge problem, we resented having to do it since our RA had always be an AOII before. We did do ritual in the dorm so she had to completely leave the area before that started and promise never to go near the ritual closet. I don't think she really had any interest.