<p>Can anyone compare fraternity life at (1)colleges where the frat lives separated and (2)colleges with a resisdential system where members live in dorms?</p>
<p>fraternities are still going to vary a lot from school to school.</p>
<p>This is kinda unrelated...</p>
<p>...Found out at Orientation that we can't have Fraternity Houses, because we can't have Sorority houses. Why not, you ask?</p>
<p>Well. In Rohnert Park, if a building contains more than 9 female residents at one time, it is considered a brothel.</p>
<p>Fun times.</p>
<p>snopes.com:</a> Brothel Laws Ban Sorority</p>
<p>ask to see the law on paper</p>
<p>We don't have houses at our campus because the old president was really religious and against them. We actually didn't have any up until a few years ago. How sad is that?</p>
<p>In my state Sororities can't have parties because those are brothels. They need a frat to pair up with. They don't have problems though, because there are like 4 frats for every sorority.</p>
<p>I just started thinking...if you can't have more than 9 female residents, there couldn't be apartments or DORMS or anything like that. And all those people with a lot of kids would have to get rid of numbers 9+. It can't be true. Even if it was/is, it wouldn't be right because places would have to turn away females, which is discrimination. Sorry, I've been awake for too long.</p>
<p>^I think dorms are okay because there are men and women living in those, just not in the same room.</p>
<p>I dunno, it makes sense that it's phony. Kind of a weird thing to lie about though.</p>
<p>what about all female schools? or all female dorms?</p>
<p>it's easier for a school to say "well, we want to have greek life but it's illegal" then to say "we don't support greek life"</p>
<p>I don't know, but I'm not sure if anyone actually answered my question. Looking for differences in frat life when members all live together or separately.</p>
<p>It's just a different relationship with the brothers. I have been in a fraternity for the past year and a half and I have chosen to live in the dorms instead of the house. I feel very close to many of the members, but I feel like some of the people who lived in the house are closer to each other and it's easier to get to know everyone. However, it also can feel kind of exclusive when you don't live in the house. It really depends on the fraternity. I'm moving into the house this year, so if you want I can let you know if it feels any different than it did before. =)</p>
<p>Also, the law is not true. I'm 99% sure you can look at any state and find a sorority who has more than 6/7/9/whatever number it happens to be this time living in the house. It is simply an urban legend. Brothels are defined by what happens in the house, not who lives in the house.</p>
<p>a lot of schools are in places where the house can't hold all of the members anyway. Usually the executive board and some of the younger brothers live in the house.</p>
<p>When you live in a house together, it's easier to be closer. You're seeing each other all the time without the need to extend any effort. I would assume that fraternities who don't have houses are still pretty close because they make that effort.</p>
<p>Or did you mean differences in Greek Life from the campus' perspective? Schools with fraternities in either their own houses or together in dorms probably create a bigger party scene/do more special events because usually if chapters don't have houses, the house that a bunch of seniors are living together in becomes "the fraternity house" but often with landlords breathing down their necks/ having a smaller house (most students aren't renting out houses that can house more than 8 people) that they just don't have the space/freedom.</p>