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
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