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The Greek Village complex on the north end of campus was just finished over this summer, but the dust had little time to settle before new residents poured in from all over. It was some time in the making, but the new residents seem to think it was well worth the wait.
“It’s good to have the school take care of a lot of the problems we used to deal with on our own, we don’t have to worry about the AC, anything like that. Our utilities are all covered, it’s nice,” said David King of Pi Kappa Alpha, citing the reduced maintenance burden.
Others, like Chandler Weatherby of Kappa Sigma, were excited about the closeness of having so many Greek organizations in a single central location, “I love it. It’s great. It’s closer to everyone; we can always hang out with somebody.”
Troy Moore of Kappa Alpha agreed, “I like being around everyone else, all the girls and all the guys, it’s really great.” However, the restrictions placed on organizations did seem a sore point for Moore, “We have to get everything approved by the school if we want to get anything done, like if we want to hang up a picture.”
“We’re real excited to be in the Greek Village, it’s a new era for all of us,” said Brent Love of Pi Kappa Phi, “We like how close we are to the sororities, and how we can build closer relationships with them and the other fraternities as a Greek community.” When asked for anything he didn’t like, “Just the grass in front of our place, but everything else is positive about the Greek Village.”
However, not all Greek organizations decided to move in. Of all the Greek organizations on campus, Chi Phi and Sigma Nu chose not to. When asked about their decision not to, both cited the burden of university policy and restrictions placed on the Greek Village and its residents.
Steven Dawson of Sigma Nu spoke on those restrictions as a major factor, “We decided not to move because we were the first fraternity on this campus, we have more history than any other fraternity, we live on over three acres of land and we are not interested in being confined to the university’s policies and we like to display our own colors.” He continued, “[The University] begged us to come in, but there’s nothing there that we don’t already have better.”
“We thought the Greek Village was going to put a lot of restrictions on us, and would make some of our traditions and other things we like to do a bit harder to do,” said Lee Mangum of Chi Phi. “We’ve been there for 37 years, we’re not going anywhere that is restricted like living in a dorm.”
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