Hangin' with the Girls

i was wondering about a couple things. at my school the sisters are required to have lunch together every day, but i have no idea how that works. do you each have to buy something to eat and bring it to the house, or do you all cook something? i know that sometimes they have dinner at the house too, but i don't know how that works either. i would love to know how that works in your sorority b/c i think it might be a little hard to work out if you have a class during the lunch hours. thanks a bunch

hi, since we are on the topic of sorority houses, i want to know how the phone works... isn't it a little hard to get phone time if there are a ton of other people living in that house? just curious...thanks

[RUgreek]

I feel weird answering sorority questions here, but I happen to know the answer to this stuff. The lunch and dinner thing is just like the fraternities, we have cooks and the chapter pays for them to cook the meals for the whole house. It's all worked into the semester dues, so you'll realize what the extra grand is going for that you'll be paying for. Second, I'm not sure what the phone question is all about, but from my understand everyone has their own phone line in their rooms in a chapter house, it's not one phone for the whole house. Hope this stuff helps.

RUgreek

[-sketchball-]

at my school, all the sisters take lunch in their houses every weekday. we have a team of cooks who prepare everything for us. there are several menu options, and a salad and sandwich bar, so you have a choice of what you want to eat. i think most people eat between 12-1, but if you had a conflict with that time, you would simply ask the house mom to set aside a plate for you, and you'd go to the house & eat whenever was more convenient. and, while everyone is required to pay for 5 lunches/week, i guess if you really couldn't make it to the house that day, there would not be a penalty or anything if you just ate elsewhere. it's not as if they take attendance at lunch, but you ARE required to buy the meal whether or not you come.
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don't worry about getting phone time! each bedroom will have its own phone line, so you will be sharing with, at most, 2 other girls! it's like living in the dorms. each girl pays her own phone bill for the long distance calls she makes.

[lizzie3d]

Here, most of the 7 sororities and a couple of the 14 fraternities have cooks. At my house, we all try to get together for lunch and dinner every day-- kind of like having dinner with your family every night while you were growing up. Most of the fraternities and a few of the sororities do not have cooks, however, because of financial difficulties. For those of you that don't know, I go to school in Grand Forks, ND, the site of the 1997 Red River Valley flood. Since '97, money has been pretty tight for some houses, so they can't afford a cook. In this instance, I've heard that either it's not a requirement to eat together, or everyone pitches in and cooks together on one or two special nights of the week.

The phone question comes up a lot here. Our house JUST got phones in each bedroom of the house a couple semesters after the flood. All I can say is there are MANY horror stories about lines to use the phone, rules on time limits, etc. Our house was, I believe, the last GLO on campus to have phone lines linked to every room.



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Lizzie
Theta Sigma Chapter
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[mwedzi]

My chapter has a house now, though we didn't when I pledged. It's very small for a sorority house, just 3 bedrooms. It's like a normal house. Our chapter never gets bigger than 30 women, though. Of course we don't all live there 10 to a room. Only 4-6 women live there. They pay the rent (cuz they get the housing), though we all chip in for food and utilities.

No one is required to eat there. In fact, there are no planned lunch times. You could very well go there at lunch and find no one there. It is just like a normal house with 5 people living in it that is full of AST stuff that we used for meetings, ceremonies and what not.

just wondering...what is a house mom?

[9 Pearls]

If you are not a member yet, don't you think that all that will be explained if you become one? Sometimes people worry over little things. Many members have come before you and I'm sure everything worked out because its a sisterhood and you make it work. Stop sweating the little things

[33girl]

Originally posted by redop:
just wondering...what is a house mom?

It depends on the school/housing situtation. Sometimes a house mom is an older lady who lives with the sisters (she's usually an alum) and does a lot of mom-type duties. In smaller houses it's a sister who is in charge of the bills & stuff at the house.

[Dewgirl]

Although my chapter doesn't have a house, I can answer as to how things work at the other houses on my campus.

None of the fraternity or sorority houses on our campus (even the biggest ones) have house moms (or dads for that matter!) I can't even imagine that...isn't it like having one of your parents there? That's part of the reason I went to college...to get away!

As for the phones, most of our houses have a "house phone" for people to contact the chapter, but then there are other individual bedroom phones, etc.

[twinstars]

i think our nationals forces us to have a house mom....... all the sororities & fraternities at my school have one. i've never heard of a "house dad," especially not in a sorority house! having one really isn't a big deal. her job isn't to force her morals onto us or anything, but just to see that everything runs ok so the girls have less to worry about. it's not as if it's her right to give us a curfew or something, or approve/disapprove of who we date. plus, we got to choose her ourselves by interviewing several candidates for the job.