Housing Requirement

[Theta1234]

At my daughter’s school, it is highly desired to live in the house. It’s a lottery to see who can get a spot. Technically, according to their by-laws, you can be required to live in the house the school year after your initiation. One of the other chapters at her school has this as well. It isn’t as desirable to live in their house. If there aren’t enough volunteers to live in the house, they start drawing names and those girls are required to live in unless they find a substitute.

Officers used to be required to live in. They recently changed that as Officer terms are Jan-Dec and housing contracts are Aug-July so it was always a bit of a trick for the officers to arrange other housing for their off semester. The President, House Manager and one other are still required to live in, but they have beautiful suites and private restrooms.

[navane]

I am on the house corporation board for one of our chapters. The beds are filled based on a priority order which includes required live-in by exec board members, house manager, etc. Then the order after that is priority is given to the members initiated the longest and by highest amount of merit points from the previous semester. If any beds are not filled, members are moved-in I believe in reverse order of precedence.

If any beds remain unfilled for whatever reason, then the chapter still has to pay the board for the empty beds. That happened about 3-4 years ago and the chapter had to cancel some social events due to needing the money to pay for empty beds. The next year they got themselves sorted out.