The choice: live in the house or depledge

[33girl]

I wouldn't say you're no longer an individual, but dammit, there are responsibilities involved in being Greek and it's not a bad word.

We went into terrible debt because we were too nice about letting people out of their obligation to live in the house. They weren't RA's, they didn't live at home, they didn't have loan issues (i.e. a scholarship requiring you live on campus). Maybe if we would have taken a firmer stand we wouldn't have had to deal with all the money issues (which led to other issues) that we did.

And WE had to deal with on-campus/off campus issues. Reading this article, basically what has happened is that they have had to move from one on-campus location to another, and they can't live with the person they picked. Boo fricking hoo!! As I said before...the only way I excuse this is if they weren't told that this "pulling in" can happen. If it was and they signed on without reading the fine print, consider it a lesson learned.

Believe me, I wish there WASN'T such a focus on the house. It would probably enable my sorority to have lots more chapters. But until everyone decides that the size/appearance of your house doesn't matter, it's going to continue to be a factor in Greek life that members have to be prepared to support.