re: Suspended LSU fraternity ignoring ban, secures off-campus house

Holy crap, that’s where they’re moving?

That building has been for rent for years. The owner is likely desperate, but TBH I didn’t think it was set up for residential living or even had the right zoning for it.

That corner is on the brink of becoming iffy with the closure of the gas station by Walmart bringing the trashy folks across the street. And we don’t know yet what is being built where it was. Plus they opened some sort of sketchy smoke shop.

This building they’re moving to is just far enough away from the residential homes near it that it might could work without bothering too many people. Although directly behind it is old apartments that houses mostly foreign families with young kids, and a small Korean church.

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Neighbors are always concerned but don’t realize alternatives if they put their foot down.

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They probably interviewed the daughter of the Calvin’s owners, who owns Basel’s Market. It’s a very small cafe/bistro in a cute old house attached to this building. Her only parking is the small lot of this building. I assume her place is owned by the same person who owns this building, based on the line about understanding his need for tenants.

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LL where is this exactly?

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Across from CVS at Highland and Lee. Next to Shell Station and that bank.

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How do you possibly insure something like that?

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Are other frat houses not insured?

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Are other frat houses not insured?

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It's difficult and hideously expensive to insure chapters that are on campus and fully approved by universities. I can't imagine any legit carrier would write a policy for a rogue outfit like this. They're probably self insuring, which means if someone gets hurt on their property they'll fold up their tent and slip away in the night, leaving the injured party SOL.

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Lol alcohol poisoning and suicides are just boys being boys yeah?

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they're adults. If they fail the Darwin test, so be it.

I’m guessing they just want to rent it to hold social events because I’m not sure how you turn that into living quarters. The layout inside is not really made for that and I doubt the owners are going to let them make those kind of changes

Usually an accommodation can be reached between tenants.

Our house was across from a church. We had a good relationship with them as long as we didn’t leave cars in their lot Sunday morning.

It helped that we called the cops on people trying to rob them of their AV equipment because having a bunch of night owls around meant people would notice unusual activity like that.

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I graduated in the early 90s. Since that time is Greek life on the rise, decline or about the same? At my university it seems to be about the same level of kids involved.

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It has been a decade plus for me, even then the greek life people always beat their chest because the numbers were up. A lot of that was because running a fraternity was getting increasingly expensive. so even the old row fraternities were adding too many kids.

A house party required outside bar tenders, security and all that nonsense. or you had to go off campus, rent out a bar. Can't tailgate at the house so need to buy tents

It is a lot easier to control actives from hazing with pledges of 20-30 rather than it is 50-60. Not to mention the odds of getting a rat go way up as you add randos.

Good. Fraternities and sororities need to get from under the foot of woke school administrators.