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[Diamond Darlin’]

If you can answer this, in what kinds of facilities do you hold things like initiation, and chapter meetings if you do not have a house? Just curious.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

We don't have a house, so we've been having initiation in Key Biscayne in a sister's dad's condo's general room (think kind of room you might rent for a small business meeting, or community event, nice carpeting and stuff w/ a small kitched attatched).

Chapter meetings are held in classrooms in various buildings (which can make PR rounds quite a chore!)

Recruitment the rooms vary by night, each group takes turns in each of the six rooms designated for rush and it is in the ballrooms, the faculty lounge, the infamous "chicken room" which is tiled annex of a cafeteria (really loud and annoying and SMALL and we're trying to get the school to let us not have to use it anymore), and another 2 conference rooms!

[tld221]

Originally Posted by Diamond Darlin’

If you can answer this, in what kinds of facilities do you hold things like initiation, and chapter meetings if you do not have a house? Just curious.

Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

We don't have a house, so we've been having initiation in Key Biscayne in a sister's dad's condo's general room (think kind of room you might rent for a small business meeting, or community event, nice carpeting and stuff w/ a small kitched attatched).

Chapter meetings are held in classrooms in various buildings (which can make PR rounds quite a chore!)

Recruitment is in the ballrooms, the faculty lounge, the infamous "chicken room" which is tiled annex of a cafeteria (really loud and annoying and SMALL and we're trying to get the school to let us not have to use it anymore), and another 2 conference rooms!

To echo BP_FL and OTW, you pretty much use spaces you can get through connections or where you have relationships with. For example, my graduate chapter does a lot of community service events at a community center in Brooklyn, so if we need to have a meeting or event, then we will use that space. it's great for visibility, since there are a lot of teenagers (hopefully college bound) there on the weekends.

a chapter soror of mine works for Brooklyn Academy of Music, so we tend to have chapter meetings in a space she books for us there. again, great location in downtown Brooklyn and easily accessible, and of course good visibility. though seeing 30+ women wearing assorted greek paraphernalia is not the norm around here, it definitely gets some looks from passersby. there is a local daycare center we use for meetings, inductions, etc. we have had a relationship with them for a while as well.

My undergrad chapter advisor is a university dean and she will rent out auditoriums, conference rooms, classrooms, even dining areas if we are to have events, meetings, inductions, step practice, whatever really. and then there are sorors who open their homes to such things, lets say there is a committee meeting or a soror get-together.

so yeah, while it would be nice to have a house to be able to do all these things, you would hope that your chapter members are that connected enough to make a space happen, and often more than one. i know chapters that have meetings in churches, schools, rec centers...

when there is a will there sure is a way.

Originally Posted by Diamond Darlin’

If you can answer this, in what kinds of facilities do you hold things like initiation, and chapter meetings if you do not have a house? Just curious.

We held recruitment events/Initiation in the Campus Center meeting rooms as well as the Student Services Faculty Lounge. The Faculty Lounge doesn't sound like a lot, but it's actually quite new with a lanai that gives amazing views of Diamond Head and the ocean. Great background for picture taking.

Chapter meetings take place at the Campus Center.

I'm thinking that chapters who don't have houses pretty much use whatever meeting rooms are available on campus. Where else are they going to go?