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Last year, a new independent redistricting committee designed a map that reignited a long-fought struggle. The map drew District 6 to include all dorms except Foster and was deemed by Councilmember Stephen Volan the “most student-heavy map ever.”  

The youngest person ever elected to the council is Republican Jason Banach, who was 22 and had just received his undergraduate degree when he assumed office in 1996. Other councilmembers have served while in graduate school at IU, but in the city’s 200-year history, the city has never been represented by a full-time IU undergraduate student. 

Students are now in the midst of the formal fraternity recruitment process, where prospective members decide which house they want to join, and the brothers decide how to perpetuate their unique house personality.

The 31 Cornell fraternities represent a full spectrum of institutional personalities. There are the “smooth houses” that project social sophistication, “jock houses” that celebrate their members’ athleticism and “social houses” that emphasize social connections and relationships.  Each house draws its vibe from the overall Cornell Greek system, its history and the values and policies of its national organization.

Another year and lawmakers are again faced with the thorny but necessary job of reforming the California Environmental Quality Act, the landmark law that has improved countless construction projects. But CEQA lawsuits have also too often been used to thwart progress on the state’s most pressing needs by stalling or blocking important projects.

In the latest example of CEQA run amok, a California appellate court is considering whether noisy college students are an environmental impact, akin to pollution or habitat loss, that should be addressed before UC Berkeley can build a new dormitory to ease its student housing shortage.

The settlement is the largest payout by a public university in a hazing case in the state of Ohio.

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Bowling Green State University has agreed to pay $2.9 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a student who died from alcohol poisoning while pledging a fraternity almost two years ago. The settlement is the largest payout by a public university in a hazing case in the state of Ohio.

Students noted that despite high laundry prices, machines are often malfunctioning or ineffective.

When laundry is done properly, clothes and linens come out clean. But that is not always the case at Dartmouth, with students reporting issues ranging from damp clothing to moldy washers in College dormitories.

KEARNEY, Neb.—The University of Nebraska’s Kearney campus will soon be adding a Greek Village to its student residential portfolio, and it will also provide more housing for UNK’s Greek community. When finished, this will increase residential living space from nine of UNK’s fraternities and sororities to all 12.

Turning a historically commuter campus into a campus community is more than a cultural shift; it’s also a massive infrastructure project.

The University of Utah is embarking on an effort to transform its 170-year-old campus by doubling on-campus housing—adding 5,000 new student beds by 2030. To reach that goal, the university will launch a public-private partnership, also known as a P3, with a company that can design, finance, build and maintain the new student housing.