<p>What is the housing situation with regard to fraternities? Do most members live in the houses? And as far as meals -- do most fraternities have regular meals at the frat? </p>
<p>Is this very variable between the different houses?</p>
<p>It varies. I know most have regular dinners with the exception of maybe one or two nights a week. </p>
<p>I'm not really sure about residency requirements. . .I know a couple that require members to live at least one year in the house, but if you already have a contract for an appartment or something, or course, you'd still expected to be an active member. One of the RA's in court hall is a brother in ACACIA, so evidently they don't require their members to live in the house.</p>
<p>Sparticus would be able to tell you far more than I since he's pledging. I went to rush and received a bid, but ultimately chose not to accept right now. I personally like going to frats (even just to hang out, not necessarily a party), but I wasn't sure if I'd want to live there. Just my opinion.</p>
<p>Most of the mainstream fraternities have a live in requirement for a year or a semester or something, but even that is flexible. That said, I think living in is a great way to bond with the house. The guys are your friends, and they're students just like you are. It's no different from a residential hall except the facility is often a lot nicer and you don't have an RA looking over your shoulder. </p>
<p>Many houses have meal plans. Most have sit down dinners at least a few nights a week, and buffet the other times. We have waitressed, sit-down dinners monday thru thursday, on demand breakfast and lunch monday thru thursday, and brunch and an informal group dinner on sunday. Basically, we have friday and saturday "off" to go out and eat with friends outside the frat, etc. </p>
<p>My house has an unlimited (i can go make a sandwich at 3AM if i want to) meal plan which is far less than the cost of the meal plan at Cornell dining (I save like 1200 a year, and I get to eat things like lobster, flank steak, and salmon on thursdays). Plus we have waitresses, haha.</p>
<p>wow thats pretty nice, which frat are u in?</p>
<p>Sigma Phi Society</p>
<p>have any of you ever been to the gay frat that instead of cheap beer, every room in the house is a different mixed drink? (sex on the beach room, white russian room etc.) i was skeptical about going first but it probably was the most fun ive had at any frat.</p>
<p>I went to the Asian frat and it was terrible. It was in Collegetown and the condition of the place was terrible.</p>
<p>i heard the asian frat had the sickest parties... but thats from someone who visited cornell and went to that frat so no clue really</p>
<p>hows delta upsilon?</p>
<p>DU is a fun place I liked them a lot.</p>
<p>I wen't to a decent party at one of the asian frat houses in collegetown.</p>
<p>AJP...that's called a rooms party, lots of fraternities have them. are you referring to a frat you consider "gay" who happened to have one, or to frats in general who have parties like that? Because if it's the latter you're probably insulting the greater part of the fraternity system, and if it's the former, you're way too inspecific.</p>
<p>no no no, its a frat that has predominately homosexual members or at least thats what the brothers as well as the people in attendance said to me. i wasnt using slang in that comment. sorry if it sounded insulting.</p>
<p>gotya, my mistake, what fraternity is it?</p>
<p>do all the frat houses get the unlimited food and waitresses that sparticus mentioned? or is it the only the ones on campus? and do sororities get it too?</p>
<p>I am in the only house with waitresses to my knowledge, but many houses have "open kitchens." That said, one does not join a fraternity for the food. He joins for the brotherhood. Anything that goes along with the brotherhood he likes best is a perk. If you love your food and building but hate your "friends," the food won't be very pleasent to eat and the house won't be very pleasent to sit in.</p>
<p>Given that most upperclassmen at Cornell are living off campus, my query was meant to determine if dining and living in the frat would replace an off campus apartment or be in conjuction <em>with</em> said apartment. Of course -- the other perks of the fraternity membership would apply.</p>
<p>You either live off-campus in an apt/house or you live in the frat house, so yes living in a frat house would replace living off campus. At many frats, you can get a room in the house for much cheaper than a comparable off-campus room (though given how ridiculously overpriced housing in Ithaca is, that isn't saying much).</p>
<p>Yeah, living in a fraternity is usually cheaper than living in an apartment, especially considering the location and amenities of a fraternity house.</p>
<p>and yes, the fraternity is instead of an apartment if you want it to be.</p>
<p>i've heard people say that seniors would rather live off campus than in frat /sorority house, is that true? thanks.</p>
<p>Depends on what you want in your housing, I know people who lived off-campus sophomore/junior and in a house junior/senior and I know people who lived vice-versa, it's all relative.</p>
<p>ajp is most likely referring to KDR, which has many gay brothers and throws fantastic room parties.</p>
<p>haven't been to KDR.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, it seems that a good portion of seniors are <em>gasp</em> growing up and don't necessarily want to live in a mansion partying with 40 other guys. A lot of seniors move to "annex houses," which are essentially collegetown apartments passed down from year to year by the fraternity brothers. Sometimes the fraternities will have parties at the annexes, and the brothers living in the annexes still come up to the house often for meals and weekend events and such.</p>