Craziest sorority or fraternity house amenities

[KDKells]

We have houseboys still. Every semester we elect 6 fine gentlemen from different houses and organisations on campus. They just help set up dinner each twice a week and clean up. And in return they can eat all their meals at our house!

[DubaiSis]

And somehow our houseboys all called in sick on Super Tuesday. Because syncing of cycles is real people and should be feared!

Free laundry is a luxury I'd have appreciated. I think that is more common. And probably keeps the machines from breaking due to overfilling.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

Elevators are required now for ADA compliance. Buildings built before the ADA was passed are grandfathered in.

Greek housing is exempt from ADA requirements. However, houses on University land must conform if the U requires it. Also, some have reconfigured rooms on the first floor to allow for handicapped members/visitors.

[jolene]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

And somehow our houseboys all called in sick on Super Tuesday. Because syncing of cycles is real people and should be feared!

Sister, you may owe me a new keyboard. Bwahahahah!

[DaffyKD]

Originally Posted by navane

Unless something has changed in the past couple of years, the Gamma Phi Beta chapter at SDSU still has hashers which serve Monday night dinner.

KD at SDSU had hashers when i was a collegiate back in the days of dinosaurs. No idea what the status is today. Was a part time job which gave the guys some extra spending money.


DaffyKD

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Greek housing is exempt from ADA requirements. However, houses on University land must conform if the U requires it. Also, some have reconfigured rooms on the first floor to allow for handicapped members/visitors.

I don't think it's any kind of requirement at Purdue, so I commend Tri-Delta for being inclusive.

[DiWantstoTravel]

I know my daughter's chapter at OU still has houseboys - they help with dinner and various light maintenance around the house. My uncle loves to tell his stories about being a house boy at the Pi Beta Phi house at Kansas State - he courted and married my lovely Aunt, who was an active at the time. This was in the early 1950's.

[jolene]

Originally Posted by DiWantstoTravel

I know my daughter's chapter at OU still has houseboys - they help with dinner and various light maintenance around the house. My uncle loves to tell his stories about being a house boy at the Pi Beta Phi house at Kansas State - he courted and married my lovely Aunt, who was an active at the time. This was in the early 1950's.

Aw. That's so sweet.

[jenidallas]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

Elevators are required now for ADA compliance. Buildings built before the ADA was passed are grandfathered in.

The new houses at TCU will have them as well. Those houses will owned by the university so much of the structural design is fixed but each chapter is selecting key finish out items to customize the property.

[sugar and spice]

Before I rushed, I thought that all Greek houses had hidden chapter rooms (like, in the basement concealed behind a hidden door!). Now, with chapters at peak membership and many of them hitting 200+ members, I can understand how this might be . . . not particularly feasible, haha, but I'm still disappointed that it's not the case. (Although at least one fraternity on my campus had a hidden chapter room—its existence was revealed when there was a fire at the house—so hey, it's not like this is totally non-existent.)

Love:
- Bama Gamma Phi Beta's “coffee shop” (I'm one of those people who can only do work in libraries/coffee shops so this would have been the perfect compromise for me—a coffee shop without having to leave my house!)
- Really nice, old-school libraries lined with bookshelves—as a book fiend, nothing makes me madder than when a sorority calls a room a library and it's just full of desks/study tables and has no books in it, haha
- A couple of the sororities at my school had sunbathing decks (although not tanning machines, which I think is gross, sorry) and several of the fraternities were right on the lake and had their own piers
- One of the fraternities at my school had an enormous ballroom complete with second-floor balconies overlooking it--definitely an improvement over the usual dirty fraternity basement party room

Surprised we don't see more:
- Gyms
- Pools

[Sister Havana]

Originally Posted by sugar and spice

- Really nice, old-school libraries lined with bookshelves—as a book fiend, nothing makes me madder than when a sorority calls a room a library and it's just full of desks/study tables and has no books in it, haha

The Theta house at IU has one of these. (At least they did when I rushed!) It was absolutely gorgeous! I noted it as a big plus in my rush notes. : )

[jolene]

Originally Posted by Sister Havana

The Theta house at IU has one of these. (At least they did when I rushed!) It was absolutely gorgeous! I noted it as a big plus in my rush notes. : )

I would have joined for that. As Sugar and Spice said it's not a library when there are no books. It's a study.

Don't know where this is, but this AXO house has a gym: https://www.unigo.com/in-college/col...sorority-house

[carnation]

My mother grew up across the street from the old Pi Phi (now ADPi) house at Arkansas. Before rush started, my aunts said, "Um, don't count on a bid from Pi Phi if they find out we're your aunts."

Seems that back in the forties, the chapter actually had a beauty shop set up in the basement where they could wash and do each others' hair. It also seems that my younger aunts (children at the time) would sneak in and do each others' hair.

[Remiechi]

Up until the year before I pledged back in the late 80's, our house had a smoking lounge; it's hard to believe there was a designated room just to hang out with cigarettes!

[SoCalGirl]

Originally Posted by sugar and spice

Surprised we don't see more:
- Gyms
- Pools

The extra liability risk usually kills the idea of having gyms and pools.