Indiana University-Bloomington

PeppyGPhiB · #1 07-28-2009, 02:06 PM

I guess I don't understand why the school feels that greek life is only worth living if everyone lives in? At most schools, only a small percentage or half of the chapter lives in, and some chapters have a hard time filling the house with so many members wanting to live out! I don't know what the housing situation is in Bloomington - maybe there's a housing shortage in the community/campus? - but why would they want to limit the system's growth just so they can cram everyone into the houses?

KSUViolet06 · #2 07-28-2009, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

I guess I don't understand why the school feels that greek life is only worth living if everyone lives in? At most schools, only a small percentage or half of the chapter lives in, and some chapters have a hard time filling the house with so many members wanting to live out! I don't know what the housing situation is in Bloomington - maybe there's a housing shortage in the community/campus? - but why would they want to limit the system's growth just so they can cram everyone into the houses?

It's just part of the culture. In their second year, students typically don't live in the dorms, but most will go to either an apt. or their sorority house. The chapters also have HUGE houses, so it's also a bit of a neccessity to have as many live in as possible.

ElloPoppet · #3 07-28-2009, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

It's just part of the culture. In their second year, students typically don't live in the dorms, but most will go to either an apt. or their sorority house. The chapters also have HUGE houses, so it's also a bit of a neccessity to have as many live in as possible.

Thank you KSUViolet. I am doing much better now and am actually taking summer classes and will be starting at a new school here in a couple of weeks. It just always makes me sad to think "what if" knowing that if things had gone a different way I might still be at a school I loved having the time of my life. But that's in the past...my new school does not have greek life so we will see how things go!