Chi O Houses Across the Country

[chi-o_gurlie08]

I'm sooo Jealous!!!
Nu Theta does not have any lodging to speak of right now.... You see...The town of West Liberty, WV has an old law on the books that states that "Any domicile wherein eight (8) or more unrelated, unmarried females reside constituites a brothel and is illegal and will be dealt with as such".
Ridiculous, I know. We are going to have a floor next year (Krice Hall, 4th floor).

[littlelou]

Epsilon Delta at Southern Miss has two floors of the Panhellenic residence hall, but in the Fall of 07 we get to move into The Village! It will be the home of all sororities on campus and will house 30 members and a graduate student. We will have a foyer, half bath, kitchen, chapter room and patio, plus the double-occupancy girls rooms. To date, our ED alumni have raised over $125,000 to create an endowment for our place in The Village! We are so lucky to have such wonderful alums-other chapters on campus haven't raised nearly as much and we are so thankful! It will be beautiful when we get our hands on it!

Sorry-I don't have any pictures because they are all of construction!

[lillady85]

I love looking at all the pictures of houses! It's sad that being in the city we can't have a house (laws similar to those of no more than 8 women in a house) but it's ok. Do most chapters live in houses or is this only on bigger campuses?

[Cardinal026]

I couldn't find an answer of exactly how many chapters have houses. I thought I was bored enough to go through chapter sites and look it up, but I gave up after discovering that 48 do...out of 170 chapters though, I know there are a lot more!

I don't think it really has anything to do with the size of the campus, more of what the university will allow, and what there is space/funding for. My chapter is at a huge school, there are over 30,000 students now, but greek life is relatively new (Chi Omega was the first national sorority on campus, in 1970) and for us its more a matter of university support - they don't think we're really serious. And in their defense, when it comes to a house, we're not. For the last two years, they've extended the offer of a greek floor to all the chapters if they could commit 30 girls, and only one sorority has been able to do that. Its sad, but it is most likely in our future...just not sure how far away!