What’s it like to be in a Huge Chapter?

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by DGTess

This is foreign to me (my chapter totaled 15-20 at the time), but is it really an issue that seniors, and some juniors, simply refuse to live in houses -- to the point they'd resign rather than do so? I don't get the concept at all. We were so concentrated on our studies and internships/plant trips/interviews etc. that the idea of finding an apartment, keeping it clean, doing our own shopping for toilet paper and light bulbs and such, and general home responsibilities was something we literally couldn't be bothered with.

IIUC, my university-owned chapter house (we didn't have a house then) sleeps about 30 of the 100-member chapter, and every year there are more who want to live in than out, largely for the same reasons. MOST of the others live in dorms. Is this the oddball?

It is difficult to get sophomores to live in, let alone juniors and seniors. To a large degree, this generation has never shared a room, or a bathroom, or a closet. They also want the freedom to have boys spend the night, to host parties, and serve/consume alcohol.

[KSUViolet06]

To clarify, while I think larger meeting spaces is critical, I think the current housing sizes (in terms of number of beds) work well for KSU sororities even with the exponential growth.

Two reasons:

*With the addition of the new colony, the NM class numbers will probably top off around 50 (assuming that number of PNMs tends to remain at about 400.)

*The average KSU sorority member follows the pattern of spending either freshman or sophomore year in the dorms, living in the house sophomore or junior year, then living in an apt AFTER you live in (as either a junior or senior depending on when you joined and what year you were in when you chose to live in.) The current sizes will pretty much allow for a good portion of the sophomore class to live in. It also ensures that you'll ALWAYS have it full, because you are not asking for an entire class of 60 to move in. More like half that. And really once you add in Exec, you have fewer beds than that!