San Diego - fraternities

[nibot]

I spammed the UCSD fraternities asking about summer housing. I received the following response:

Unfortunately here at UCSD we do not have houses.

It's a strange, strange world.

They don't have co-ops either, but that's less surprising.

I created a wiki page to track these SanDiego oddities.

Comments

[emidala.livejournal.com]

that is one of the funniest lines I have ever seen on LJ.

unfortunately here at UCSD we do not have houses -

I am laughing so hard that I think the bikes below my window are falling like dominos!!!

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

Not terribly surprising given that UCSD is a relatively new university, and one with a much more primarily academic focus than most universities. (Chicago and Columbia are the obvious comparisons to me, though I actually don't know too terribly much about any of them, just the stereotypes.)

Also, at Stanford, sororities were all unhoused between the 1950s and the late 1990s. I think it had to do with body image and other dangerous behavior associated with sororities. I'm not sure why they evicted the sororities but not the fraternities though. I think the rehousing may have something to do with the fact that all sororities are now officially dry nationwide.

[heike.livejournal.com]

At Santa Cruz there is no official frat housing on campus. The frats and sororities used to only exist unofficially on campus. I remember one year a sorority managed to get housed all in one hallway of a dorm, so it became their defacto sorority house.
There must be some off campus, but I never heard of their houses while I lived there. Of course, since them the fraternities have taken a lot of heat due to the fish eating incident. I know there are a lot of food and housing co-ops off campus, though.

Here at State, Fraternity Court is where all the on campus fraternity housing is. All the buildings look alike, and they are extremely ugly. Sadly, I could find no pictures offhand to show you.