Ole Miss sorority housing

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by sarahsmilehawk

Oh I hope I didn't come off as rude! Obviously a house with 40-60 women is very large, but I'm surprised that they aren't bigger considering how large the chapters are at Ole Miss. And I know part of why my house holds so many is because it's newer (built in the 50s) and has been added onto (in the 90s, I think).

Chi Omega's house at KU is a registered historical building, so they have to go through all kinds of paper work to do any building (as they learned when a truck drove through their formal room last year!). I'm not sure if they've built onto it or not. It is positively enormous and the outside looks completely uniform like it was built exactly that way 100 something years ago.

I know chapters are on the large side at KU (mine is 150ish), but only 13-15% of students are Greek, so go figure.

Sorry to have gone SO FAR off topic!

Oh....you weren't rude! I was just thinking (as a homeowner) that a house that sleeps 48 is pretty HUGE!

[Ole Miss Phi Mu]

Originally Posted by OleMissGlitter

Phi Mu just finished a huge addition/renovation too. Ole Miss Phi Mu could probably comment on that better.

I believe that it can have about 50-60 girls in the house. The exec. suites are a little bigger than the other room but not by much. We also added a new chapter room and made the living room bigger.

[AOII4ME]

Originally Posted by sarahsmilehawk

I think all of the posters are making great points and I don't know anything about Ole Miss, buuuut... Your houses are so small! My house at Kansas holds 77, so all freshmen and juniors and many seniors (including all Exec members) live in. In fact, Chi Omega has this enormous old house that I swear must hold about 100. I just thought that was an interesting difference!

I would love to see the dining room! The dining areas in Oxford seem huge, to me. Can't imagine how large it must be to accommodate 77. But it must be a wonderful feeling to have that many sisters sit down to dinner. Don't envy the cooking and cleaning bills, lol.

[ISUKappa]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

It's funny that anyone would call a house that holds 40-60 women small!

I think she's mostly making the comparison that total chapter size at Ole Miss is so large, it does seem "small" that the houses can only hold 40-60 women. I also understand OleMissGlitter's point that chapters are restricted by their lot and can't add on to accommodate more women living in.

Originally Posted by AOII4ME

I would love to see the dining room! The dining areas in Oxford seem huge, to me. Can't imagine how large it must be to accommodate 77. But it must be a wonderful feeling to have that many sisters sit down to dinner. Don't envy the cooking and cleaning bills, lol.

Our house could accommodate 65 girls living in (at a campus where chapter total was 92 when I was there and has since been lowered to 85) but we rarely had all women eating at the same time, so the dining room held more like 50-55. We had an overflow area for those dinners where we had more women than usual eating (Scholarship banquet, Founders Day, etc...). There was definitely a process to keeping everything coordinated, though!