<p>I have read a couple articles and have talked to some current frosh about the major changes the administration is making to the housing system. Apparently, next year, students will be grouped into "residential colleges" of about 40-60 students as opposed to the residential colleges at Yale of 400-500 kids. As for frats and other SLGs, they'd supposedly be placed in Central Campus. I for one chose to apply to Duke ED rather than other top schools because of its normal housing system, but after I recently heard this news, I'm a bit unnerved about my decision. Has Duke released any more information on the subject besides a Chronicle article from last year? And, does anyone have clues as to how this will work in East Campus.</p>
<p>This does not affect the freshman housing on East Campus. All freshman will still live on East, as they do now. The new housing model is just for upperclass housing. The purpose of the new model, in the administration’s view, is to provide a system that is “fairer” to everyone. Under the current model, fraternities and some selective living groups have an ability to live together for soph-senior year. In effect, the new model broadens this model to all upperclassmen. It also puts in place dedicated housing for sororities for the first time in Duke’s history.</p>
<p>Only 5 frats out of 16 are on central, 1 of which was already on central though. All 9 sororities will be on central, but not all girls need to live there. The selective livings groups benefited most from this “random” housing lottery, as most of them will continue to live on west. Central is officially frat row, alert the EMS.</p>
<p>The University did not buy up off campus houses, that’s out of their jurisdiction. If they could, ADPhi, KSig, and Theta Chi would be gone before you know it</p>
<p>Jurisdiction? the frats only rent out those houses. Sure the leases are for 5 years or so, but its the same thing as the University buying more houses for classrooms or program buildings. :/</p>
<p>From what I heard, East Campus is going to stay the same. Apparently, they’re trying to divide up the proportions of students living on Central campus into 50% sophomores, 25% juniors, 25% seniors? (someone may have to confirm this, I’m not entirely sure).</p>
<p>Last January/February’s Duke alumni magazine’s lead article highlighted major enhancements to the undergraduate housing paradigm. You may find this to be a useful, authoritative source for current information:</p>
<p>[Model</a> House by Elissa Lerner - January/February 2012](<a href=“Duke Mag”>Duke Mag)</p>