The Office of Residential Life and the Coed Fraternity Sorority Council agreed on a plan to have Greek house members apply for Fall-term housing one week before the rest of the campus.
Ryan Carey '96, one of the students who worked on the new plan, says it "facilitates communication between ORL and individual housing."
In January, ORL released a draft proposal of a plan that would prevent Greek members from applying for on-campus housing until their house filled its beds. But the new plan does not do this. The new plan also does not provide fiscal incentives for houses to fill their beds, something Greek leaders were lobbying for.
Under the plan, which Carey said is final, Greek members would have to file their applications on April 13, one week before the general ORL deadline.
Carey said this gives ORL more time to plan for the excepted housing crunch this fall and to make the process of assigning rooms "logistically simpler."
Houses that do not reach minimum occupancy will still be fined by ORL.
He said the new plan gives the Greek system more independence in its housing procedure because houses that have difficulty reaching minimum occupancy will deal with the CFSC, which will try to analyze problems within the system, Carey said.
"It's really out of the College's hands," he said.
Despite the lack of direct incentives for houses to reach minimum occupancy, Carey said there are already "inherent incentives" for a house to fill its beds, such as house strength and rent funds.
"In general, it's always nice to have a full house," he said.
