<p>I thought I read somewhere on CC that there weren't any sorority houses at Tulane - as in a physical chapter house. Yesterday I stumbled upon a pdf for a 2005 Sorority Recruitment Manual that shows photos of 6 chapter houses and their locations on Broadway, Audubon and Zimple. I haven't been able to find an updated manual published more recently. And, in some of the sorority photos on the Tulane site, it also appears that girls are posing for pix in front of "their house." So I guess I'm wondering if they are still around and in use. They do look small, so if they exist maybe they're only for chapter meetings and the board to live in?</p>
<p>I don’t know all the details, but I do know that the sorority houses at Tulane are not residential. There were all the old stories that it is illegal for more than a certain number of unmarried women to lilve in one residence and all that. Same thing was said at Wash U and a few others. Not sure how correct or incorrect that is.</p>
<p>Same thing was said at Penn State. When is some enterprising law student going to challenge that nonsense?</p>
<p>Thx FC. So it sounds like there are houses in which they congregate for meetings, meals, gatherings, etc, just not live in. Some schools we have visited, hold their meetings in a “student union” which my D was not a fan of. She likes the idea of a traditional sorority house. So this could be a happy medium and another + for Tulane. She was disappointed to find that at some of the schools she was considering (Auburn, Clemson) that there were no chapter houses at all and they just met in dorms.</p>
<p>On tour of Tulane the tour guide said, and from my experience with daughter at Loyno next door, there is an old law that if 5 women congregate in the same living establishment it is considered a brothel. That is why no residential sorority houses exist in NO.</p>
<p>So, has anyone seen these houses - inside or out? Wondering why there hasn’t been an updated manual since '05 - or at least not one published as a pdf that you can google… I’m hoping they’re still standing next week when we visit. :)</p>
<p>I have heard that the brothel law is a myth at virtually all these schools so there may be nothing to challenge, but who knows. Even if it is just a story and they could have a live-in house, I suspect it would be far too expensive these days to get one big enough.</p>
<p>Let us know when you get back nj_mom. Would be another nugget of information for the future.</p>
<p>Tour guide from this weekend said she will live in her sorority’s house next year as a junior. It holds exactly three girls for living purposes. Most live elsewhere. (Nothing like my large state alma mater with sororities like mansions holding 40-50 girls.) Sounds like most students move off campus after sophomore year to nearby apartments. A couple girls said they thought of their sorority as just one more EC activity. All good, IMHO.</p>
<p>Tulane’s sororities do have houses, most are on Broadway. They aren’t huge and for that reason it would be illogical to pack in lots of girls. If they did, I can assure you that the women would choose not to live in them. That being said, Greek life at Tulane isn’t all that huge. A lot of people involved in Greek life aren’t just friends with people in their sorority and therefore choose to live elsewhere with other people.</p>