But the snopes sorority link doesn't really answer the question.
Some municipalities do indeed have zoning laws prohibiting more than a specified number of non-family members (male or female) from living together, but not even in those cases would a household in violation of those codes be labeled a brothel.
Doesn't really answer, and neither does the # of people living in a family dwelling, since I'm absolutely 100% positive that the KA's TKE's had houses they lived in (I stayed there on a number of occasions) and equally as sure that the ZTA's and Chi O's did not, though they did have houses.
I'm not arguing that it's certainly because of some brothel thing, but it's pretty clear the rules are different for the women.
Wha? I can't imagine what possible reason they would've had for doing that.
No dead spots, for one thing. You wound up with a basketball surface that was about 4" thick of solid wood. It was gorgeous, too. The wood had great looking end grain, and it was stained a very dark brown, as opposed to the blonde color gym floors usually are. Except for that pesky buckling, and I suspect that was a lot easier to repair with the system they had than straight lengths would've been.
My alma mater had neither fraternities nor sororities, and no legends about falling libraries or misconstructed buildings. Though one dorm was built a foot off from the plans, because some students carefully moved all the marker flags before construction began. I'm pretty sure that's actually true, I knew a few of the flag movers.
I just tried the Lemon Fruit Water and it tasted artificially sweetened to me (well it is "artificial" in that lemon and water together are not naturally sweet but it tasted like a diet beverage to me. It gave me the same kind of bitter aftertaste.)
The peach is close to perfect. Peachy, lightly sweet, no aftertaste. I've noticed that their lemon stuff has been hit or miss--I thought the lemon ginger tasted like plastic and left a nasty aftertaste, and was very, very happy when they got rid of it and brought the lemon cucumber out.
Universities sometimes do not allow sororities to live in houses because of "security issues". I was told this by one college administrator. I am not sure what keeps all-male house from being crime targets, but my guess is that the university would have the policy because of the fear of a rapist gaining entry.
Houses where I attended, even if owned by the university, did not have a guard at the front door monitoring entry like all other dormitories did.
Sororities were allowed block housing in dormitories and were given townhouse style suite situations in another dormitory.
"There are no sorority houses because of an old brothel law."
When my mother attended university, she was living at a women's dormitory that had previously been a brothel. They occasionally had blokes turning up who were unaware of the repurposing, and expected entry at difficult hours.
but my guess is that the university would have the policy because of the fear of a rapist gaining entry.
well, that's no different than an all girls dormitory, I would think.
But the University would have direct control over a dorm and could make "no visitor" rules and stuf flike that-- houses had more autonomy.
Still seems like a pretty discriminatory practice to me.
