re: University Of Alabama SGA Votes To Leave All-White Sororities Alone

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I think there's a fair possibility that if the university begins to require oversight of new members, that the greeks will go off campus. If you want precedent, look up why Comus, Momus, and Proteus stopped rolling at Mardi Gras. The greek system has enough money to buy property and houses off campus, where the university will have zero say.

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I think you underestimate how much cheaper it is for a greek chapter to be located on campus with all the university subsidies, underestimate how much it would cost to run the same thing off campus, and overestimate the amount of financial resources most chapters have.

And if you think a chapter has problems with the university, try to locate a house in a residential area. I promise you, the neighbors will be far less accomodating to parking, noise, and late partying than a university would be.

From a university's standpoint, if a chapter decides to locate off campus, the response will be, "see ya later." The cost benefit ratio of even having a greek system at all is heavily weighted to the cost side, in the eyes of most college administrators.

And guess what, Most of your alums have moved on with their lives and don't give much of a shite any more. Certainly not enough to shell out the kind of dollars we're talking about to fund a chapter free of all university subsidies and control.

I'm a greek alum, but it is what it is. We thought we had a lot of leverage when I was an undergrad, too. Only after getting a little real world experience can I look back and see how ridiculous it was to think a bunch of 20 year old drunkards could dictate terms to anybody.

TL;DR version: Adapt to the modern world or get left behind.