Selective living groups and fraternities will have more choices as they vie for new sections this semester.
A new menu of on-campus sections available to living groups was released at a meeting of Campus Council Thursday night. Last semester, some living groups protested that the original menu of places to live was unpalatable.
Many of the sections include common rooms and more of them are on first floors—features that leaders of student living groups requested last Fall.
A chart showing the new menu for sections (.xls file) is available on The Chronicle’s Web site.
The revised menu was created this week by members of the Residential Group Assessment Committee, fraternity and SLG leaders and Residence Life and Housing Services administrators.
Council members also discussed plans for Central Campus and considered a proposal for Central housing from several greek organizations.
The Panhellenic Assocation, Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity could potentially establish space for themselves on Central. Campus Council Vice President Alex Reese, a junior, said the initiative is part of an attempt to foster a greater sense of community on Central.
Junior Elliot Johnson, Central Campus representative, added that having a greek presence on Central would increase social opportunities on the campus.
About two-thirds of greek buildings would be near Alexander Avenue, Reese said, and RGAC would assess the groups’ adaptations to Central.
The groups would have access to one-bedroom apartments and two-bedroom suites, said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education. Groups would fill entire buildings and share common rooms.
Common areas would give groups like the Panhellenic Association space to carry out their activities, said senior Alyssa Dack, recruitment vice president of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. Because Panhel does not currently have designated commons space, Central could help create a sense of unity among sorority members as well as provide opportunities for programming.
“Right now the nine chapters don’t have the chance to bond,” Dack said.
Still, Nowicki emphasized that adding greek space to Central would not make it an exclusive campus.
“We haven’t forgotten the independents,” he said. “Central is not just for sororities, but also for general [students].”
In other business:
Campus Council is working with the Haitian Student Association, the Duke University Union, Duke Partners for Service and Duke Student Government to coordinate student aid efforts for the recent earthquake in Haiti.
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