So, I visited a few months ago, and one thing I noticed is that all of the houses (besides SAE’s frat castle obviously) are pretty small. What’s up with that? Some of them just look like large apartments. How are parties thrown with such little space? I can’t imagine some of these buildings holding more than like 80ish people without getting to crowded.
Evidently, there there was once (or there still is) some local ordinance that prevented Vanderbilt from building sorority houses to accommodate more than a few girls. As a result, all the Greek houses only house 6 students each.
There is plenty of room inside of them to throw parties. Essentially every house has at least one really large room where they tend to throw parties. Parties are also thrown in backyards. They do get crowded, that’s kinda the nature of fraternity parties. Many have another floor underground. They’re larger than they look at first glance. You’d have to walk inside one.
@michaelcosmos I was in a frat at Vandy back in the stone ages - as I recall, there was some kind of deal decades ago before I was a student in which the frats had to build their houses on campus - not sure why - but the university got to impose size limits.
The “castle” you speak of is the SAE house - not sure how they got around it but likely grandfathered in somehow.