Penn State Alums Urging Changes to Dry Policy (Phi Delta Theta)

[tallgreekalum]

Phi Delt chapters that want to be wet should look a becoming a local like Virginia and Sewanee. You could also join another national.....

Originally Posted by PhiGam

Phi Delt's house here is about as dry as the pacific ocean.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by tallgreekalum

Phi Delt chapters that want to be wet should look a becoming a local like Virginia and Sewanee. You could also join another national.....

Wow. Did these chapters disaffiliate from Phi Delt just so that they could be wet? That seems odd to me

ETA: I'll ask this again since I never got an answer that last time I posted this question: If your chapter has a house, is there some sort of requirement for living in it?

[Tex1899]

ETA: I'll ask this again since I never got an answer that last time I posted this question: If your chapter has a house, is there some sort of requirement for living in it?

This is generally a chapter/local issue, not a national issue. If a chapter has a house, and it doesn't look like a large single-family home, then there's probably a one year requirement to live in, unless you can find someone to take your spot. At some schools in the Big 10 and old Big 8 schools, you might have a two year live-in requirement, or a 2.5 year live-in requirement (which means you're there 3 years).

[GooniePDT49]

Originally Posted by Tex1899

This is generally a chapter/local issue, not a national issue. If a chapter has a house, and it doesn't look like a large single-family home, then there's probably a one year requirement to live in, unless you can find someone to take your spot. At some schools in the Big 10 and old Big 8 schools, you might have a two year live-in requirement, or a 2.5 year live-in requirement (which means you're there 3 years).

Yeah I agree with that, but there's also zoning issues involved. Chapter houses are not allowed in New Britain CT. If a single family house were to convert to a frat house, the zoning for my town would change in regards to the house. Houses with more then 4 women (unrelated) are also considered bordellos (whorehouses) according to my town and are also banned....yeah its stupid.

[GooniePDT49]

Originally Posted by Tex1899

This is generally a chapter/local issue, not a national issue. If a chapter has a house, and it doesn't look like a large single-family home, then there's probably a one year requirement to live in, unless you can find someone to take your spot. At some schools in the Big 10 and old Big 8 schools, you might have a two year live-in requirement, or a 2.5 year live-in requirement (which means you're there 3 years).

As I stated in an earlier comment, its zoning. My town has an ordinance where more then 4 women is a whorehouse, and so they invoked an "unrelated" rule where no more then 3 people who arent related can live in a single family house. This doesnt apply to apartments or condos. This is how the town gets away with not allowing chapter houses, although a state decision would overturn this. Not sure if anyone has ever challenged it.

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by GooniePDT49

Houses with more then 4 women (unrelated) are also considered bordellos (whorehouses) according to my town and are also banned....yeah its stupid.

Originally Posted by GooniePDT49

My town has an ordinance where more then 4 women is a whorehouse

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[GooniePDT49]

I just think a dry policy is stupid. I mean look at Prohibition... lasted 15 years, and it took 53 years (1865 - 1918) to get the amendment passed. CT and RI were the only 2 states that never ratified it, probably for good reason. I dont drink, but if I did why the hell would I waste my time going to a bar when I can throw a few back at my house. I own a house that is rented out by fraternity guys who belong to a dry fraternity, and I allow them to drink there because I own the house and not the fraternity. If a dry frat wants to impose its policies on my house, they better be paying my utilities and my mortgage.