Laws in Pennsylvanina against sorority houses

[prospectiverushee]

Originally posted by AlphaChiGirl:
Louisiana and some parts of(I've heard--may not be right) St. Louis have those laws...supposedly in Louisiana, the only houses that can house more than eight women are convents? (If there are Louisianans who can set me straight--please do so! I know it's why Tulane can't have sorority houses, but I thought LSU did, so maybe it's just a New Orleans thing?

Good thing Rhode Island doesn't have that law. I love my sorority house.

I use to go to Louisiana Tech which is in the northern part of the state. They have that same 7 women in one place equals a brothel. The have lodges instead of houses. They have their meetings and recruitment in the lodges,but live either on-campus or near by.

[mgdzkm433]

Carnation,

We have all heard the farmiliar statement that prostitution is the oldest profession. In the US, many towns and cities and even states made laws at their origin to prevent women from having brothels. They wanted to do away with this 'oldest profession' and as we can all see, they were unsucessful. However, even though it is sexist or doesn't agree with the 'times', many small towns and rural areas, and even some states still have laws on the books such as this one. If you enter a library and look up some laws, there are still some pretty outdated laws on the books. Of course, most of these outdated laws are not enforced, and haven't been enforced for 50+ years. In the state of West Virginia, it is illigal for a man and woman who are not married to live together. This is very outdated and not enforced. There are all kinds of quirky laws, such as in Massachusas (sp?) all men entering a church must have a rifle with them!! No, we don't enforce them, and yes they are outdated. They are silly and should have been struck from the books long ago, but some of these laws do exist. I'm sure at this point that the 'greek sorority house being a brothel' is mostly a myth, but I wouldn't be surprised if some small towns still had this law and have not taken the time to strike it. Keep in mind that nobody recently made these laws, they are old. Also, the reason why men are not included in this law is because 1) men's whore houses either didn't exist in that time or were very infrequent, and 2) women at the time were inferior and this was just one more way to control them. I just wanted to let you know that it is quite possible that these laws still exist, but I seriously doubt that they would ever be enforced.

[daisymargarita]

kmullini, I know what you mean! My boyfriend lives in Fairfax and his brother goes to George Mason University where he is a brother in the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. My boyfriend always talks about how the houses are kind of hard to find sometimes cuz they're scattered everywhere.

But where I am, at Longwood College, that's not really a problem, with Farmville being a small town. There are several houses off campus that are "frat houses" and they're all within walking distance of the school. But we don't have sorority houses either, because of that whole idea of prostitution. We have a dorm on campus that is strictly for sororities. Our Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life is trying to make a fraternity row somewhere nearby but I don't think it will happen. And that law about a certain number of women... how old-fashioned can you get???

[kmullini]

Daisy Margarita,

Thats cool with how Longwood is set up. Sounds ideal. I've never been to Longwood myself though. Yeah, I think there is too much politics going on with Fairfax. I think if it was more rural like Longwood, Virginia Tech, it might be better off. But then it is a young university. Yeah, that law is pretty old-fashioned. It may be the law is just alot of talk and nobody has the patience/money to deal with it.

Kevin
Beta Theta Pi

[PM_Mama00]

Originally posted by carnation:
Is this thread for real?

How can a house of x numbers of girls be considered a brothel and a house of the same number of guys not be considered whatever you call a bunch of male ho's? Think about the legal implications-- I mean really, folks!

In Michigan, or at least Dearborn and Detroit where my sorority and others are located, the Brothel law is in effect. So yeah, this thread is for real

[AngelPhiSig]

All the greek orgs on my campus have an off campus house. From what I know there is a law in Clarion (dont remember when it went into effect) that a GLO cannot have letters on their house inside the borough. Which is why the new-old Phi Delt house didnt have letters, and the new one outside of borough limits does. And why some Theta Xi bros were worried because they didnt know if their house was in limits. And also why the TPA girls dont have letters. They can place a sheet or banner outside their house, but cannot have the letters painted or nailed or whatever to the house. Many orgs inside the borough fall under the grandfather clause, since we have had our houses since before the law went into effect. But if we would lose our house, then get it back, we would not be able to have the letters on it.

Thats my knowledge, any Clarion-ites want to contribute/correct?

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[LeslieAGD]

Originally posted by PM_Mama00:

In Michigan, or at least Dearborn and Detroit where my sorority and others are located, the Brothel law is in effect. So yeah, this thread is for real

Yeah, at EMU the Greek Houses also have to have a special zoning permit to be considered a Greek House and to be able to put letters up on your house/lawn.