New Sorority Housing at Auburn

[33girl]

Wouldn't everyone pretty much have to step up at the same time, Panhellenic advisories/rules being what they are?

[carnation]

I'm not sure how it would have to pan out at AU, but at MS State, one sorority finally said to heck with the university's rule about no sorority houses, we're building one. You'd better believe that the others rushed to buy land and keep up. One sorority that was floundering said no way and left at that point. So much for Panhellenic spirit, lol.

But I remarked earlier about how little privacy they had in those 2 dorms with 9 chapter rooms crammed in the basements. I don't blame the sororities for wanting to get out of there.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

True- but at Tennessee the sororities are beginning to build houses.

Thanks for the reminder. I do recall reading about this on another GC thread regarding UT sororities as well.

Houses Are in the Future for Sororities

Originally Posted by ThetaDancer

Just curious, but why is that?

From the Tennessee Panhellenic Website - Do the sororities have houses?

The UT Panhellenic community chose to build a Panhellenic Building to meet the needs of their members in the 1960s. It still provides our chapters a wonderful place to host events, and meetings, as well as a place to meet friends between classes. In addition, many chapters have designated floors in residence halls where many women live together from the same sorority. What we have is the best of both worlds.

[UGAalum94]

The downside to houses is that they cost more money and that dues have to go up a lot, and I think that you also end up needing more alumnae support in terms of house associations and upkeep etc.

If you really could have the best of both worlds: housing people wanted to live in with some autonomy and the security of on-campus support for upkeep and financing of the structure, wouldn't that be great?

And houses the groups own also can destroy any sense of a level playing field among groups. With dorm floors and chapter rooms, a small group can afford to exist and be solvent with a small chapter; with true group supported houses, forget it. It's not going to work out to just have a tiny house when everyone else has mansions.

[texas*princess]

When I read the initial posts (before opening up the link), I thought the "same building" meant like it is at UNT.

At UNT, the sorority homes are pretty much connected together (same building pretty much) - but they are seperated (sort of like really big townhomes!) and they look like traditional greek homes on the outside (pillars, etc)

I personally don't dig the layout of the Auburn place. I like that they have individual bedroom suites (at the old ADPi house we had roomies and while I loved my sisters, it was hard cramming 2 ppl's things in one room and still trying to keep it orderly.) but that's about it.

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Wouldn't everyone pretty much have to step up at the same time, Panhellenic advisories/rules being what they are?

Apparently not. At least, that's not what's happening at UT. Initially all of the groups were going to have townhouses in a Greek Village of sorts, but one group decided it wouldn't suit their needs long term and wanted to go ahead with an actual house. Other groups followed suit and dropped out of the townhouse plan. However, not every group on campus had prepared for the eventuality of a house (financially) and therefore are staying with the townhouse option or possibly a lodge since they can't afford or aren't ready to build - at least not right now. I think the chapters planning to build houses are AOII, ADII, DDD, Chi O, and KD. I've heard rumors of others as well.

There is more information at this website put together for AOII's capital campaign.

[shinerbock]

Are they still putting these new buildings in where the CDV was (Hemlock & Mag)? I thought I heard they had changed this.

[AUAZD2001]

The locaton has changed. They will be located much closer to the stadium where the old ROTC field and hanger used to be.

[PinkRose1098]

It looks pretty in the rendering but I don't like it. Everyone being that crammed in there looks uncomfortable to say the least and a nightmare during recruitment. What about girls ditching parties and going to another sorority (yes, I know the rules but just saying). You definitely will know everyone else's business if the space of a year and you might even pick up a few new songs if the insulation is cheap. I guess it just doesn't give me the nice living space vibe for a chapter.