Sleep Porches

[PeppyGPhiB]

Wow, I always thought sleeping porches were a very common arrangement. I guess not!

ETA: Here's info. with a photo of a porch at the UW Alpha Xi Delta Web site: students.washington.edu/alphaxi/recruit.php

ETA again: More photos here from an AGD chapter site: agddeltatheta.com/workpartypictures.htm

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Wow, I always thought sleeping porches were a very common arrangement. I guess not!

ETA: Here's info. with a photo of a porch at the UW Alpha Xi Delta Web site: students.washington.edu/alphaxi/recruit.php

ETA again: More photos here from an AGD chapter site: agddeltatheta.com/workpartypictures.htm

I painted the laundry room pictured on the Alpha Gam site two summers ago, along with the help of a sister who works in my office. I remember it so well as we were explaining to an older alumna about why people thought we had interests in Bob Marley or Rastafarians due to our color combo of red, buff, and green, and she had never heard of Bob or Rastas.

Sleeping porches are in the majority at UI and Wazzu, and I think that they have pros and cons. My chapter has two porches, and I remember being told years ago that WaterChild's chapter house had two, and one was just for women who snored or talked in their sleep.

I have no idea what boys did when bringing women to their porch beds (my boyfriends lived off campus), but from what I was told people either just shacked up in public because they were d-runk and p-lastered, put up blankets or a sheet (butt hutt), or went to a room. I think only one fraternity doesn't allow women on their porch (Theta Chi), Farmhouse is in a converted dorm and has bedrooms, and Sigma Chi has apartments. Phi Delt may not have a porch and Sig Ep is porch free in their new place.

If I remember right when the Sigma Nus remodled over at Wazzu they put in heated floors for the porch.

[WaterChild]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

Sleeping porches are in the majority at UI and Wazzu, and I think that they have pros and cons. My chapter has two porches, and I remember being told years ago that WaterChild's chapter house had two, and one was just for women who snored or talked in their sleep.

We have four. It's a cool system, actually. Two porches are for your average sleepers, one porch is for girls that need the room to be extra quiet and whispering and other noises are strictly prohibited, and the fourth is the loud porch for snorers and those that don't mind late night singing and nonsense.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by WaterChild

We have four. It's a cool system, actually. Two porches are for your average sleepers, one porch is for girls that need the room to be extra quiet and whispering and other noises are strictly prohibited, and the fourth is the loud porch for snorers and those that don't mind late night singing and nonsense.

I took the tour many moons ago (2002) when I was considering UI, so it has definitely been awhile. I do remember the amazing salad bar, and a room down in the basement for seniors that they could sleep in. Oh and the bathroom had a cute sea design, which I later figured out was DUH nautilus shells.

[WaterChild]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

I took the tour many moons ago (2002) when I was considering UI, so it has definitely been awhile. I do remember the amazing salad bar, and a room down in the basement for seniors that they could sleep in. Oh and the bathroom had a cute sea design, which I later figured out was DUH nautilus shells.

Oh, really? That sounds adorable. We don't have nautilus shells anymore, they're just plain blue/yellow.

[SWTXBelle]

My daughters' camp, Skyland Camp for Girls, in Clyde, NC was started by the great-grandmother of the current owners. She bought a hotel, turned it into a camp, and installed a sleeping porch on the 2nd story. Now all the younger girls store their things in the rooms, but sleep amongst the pine trees on the sleeping porch. (Older girls are in cabins). I always thought it was neat.

[ASUADPi]

My initiation chapter, at U of A, has sleeping porches. If I remember correctly from what I was told, I think most of the sororities have porches. They do this because 1. total is high (I think it is around 180, but some chapters are well into the 200's, hence our chapter coming back early) 2. with sleeping porches more girls can live in the house. (But don't quote me on this I only know about my house a couple of others having porches)

Example, our house has 18 rooms. 1 room is for the president and her roommate. The upstairs has 17. While it would be cramped, the house would only hold 36 girls if they 'lived in' their rooms. (15 rooms could hold 2 girls, 2 could hold 3). The thing is, the rooms weren't designed to "live in". They were designed for the sleeping porch. With that being said, 53 girls could live in (upstairs). That gives the house more money. The only girl who got to sleep in her room was the president (and her roommate), everyone else was on the porch.

The rooms have(had) desks, closets, some had dressers and a daybed. The nice thing was that if you were tired, you could go up to bed and not be disturbed. But if you needed to be up late studying, you could do it without bothering your roommates. Plus, each room door had a white board on it, so you could let your roommates know if you were going to be up late studying or if you were sick. As for being sick, 17 rooms with daybeds, there would be a place to sleep. And if for some reason more than 17 girls are sick, well suck it up you'll probably get sick too

As for guys, not allowed in a sorority house. I remember when I was there, before you could bring a guy upstairs, you had to shout "man on the floor". Because you know in a sorority house we walked around in our bra's and underwear upstairs.

Waterchild- those would have been my kind of porches! I would need the porch for the light sleepers, because that is what I am