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Originally Posted by ForeverRoses
I'm not sure what is going on at Iowa, however having grown up in Ohio and now living in Indiana, I can at least compare Ohio State and IU/Purdue. One thing is location. OSU is in a large city with lots to do. Ohio State students may work or even live pretty far from campus. It is also easy to go home of the weekends. The bars are no longer close to campus, so students going out mix with the general population of Columbusites.
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Correct. My niece is a senior at The OSU and she has absolutely no time for Greek Life. I had dinner with her a few days ago and she admitted that she would have liked to have been in a chapter, but knew she couldn't fulfill the commitments along with all of the others that she has.
When I was at OSU (and I'm sure when OldU was too), the bars were at the end of 15th and everyone could get in. They have cleaned up High Street (giving many alumni panic attacks), and there are not too many places where the Greeks now congregate together. And I agree, it's too easy to go home on the weekend -- heck, sometimes I went home on weeknights just so I could stay on campus over the weekend.
Ohio State would be more akin to University of Michigan than Indiana.