There Is No Place Like Home

There Is No Place Like Home

By: Jory Tally

The latest news on The University of Mississippi is where the future sophomores in sororities are going to live next year. It has been a tradition for numerous years for the girls to live in the dorm Crosby right by Stewart which houses incoming freshman. It has not been required for the sophomore pledge classes to live in Crosby but the girls who want to be involved more with their sorority choose to live there.

The reason for this latest disrupt with housing is due to the upcoming freshman class of 2015. It has been said that the upcoming class is going to grow by four hundred more students. The class of 2014 is the largest freshman group to enter Ole Miss and due to the fact of how the incoming freshman classes are growing it was only fair to force to the sophomores planning to live on campus in the fall to find their own places.

Another issue with why the girls will not be able to live on campus in the fall of 2011 is because of the school deciding to tear down the dorm Miller, which houses 122 students. With the growing incoming students and the housing on campus decreasing this is the only decision that made sense for Ole Miss to do in order to make room.

However, the issue has been solved on where the sophomores will live for the upcoming school year. Due to the fact of the school announcing the living arrangements for next year during the spring semester of 2011, the sororities took action fast on where they are going to find places for their future sophomore girls to live. The main places the sororities have made deals with are The Connection off Old Taylor Road and Campus Creek which is right near campus.

The news hit the upcoming sophomores fast and there were many mixed emotions about the situation. A future sophomore who had planned on living in Crosby had up and downs about the issue. Maggie Bankston, a Tri Delta who will be living in Campus Creek said, "The part that makes me sad is not being able to share clothes with my pledge sisters or get to pre-game with all of them before we go out. The good thing about not living in Crosby is the fact that we will have our own rules and own place."

Anna Katheryn Ward had mixed emotions about the news as well. She will be living in a wing of the Exchange next year with most of her pledge sisters of Phi Mu. "I am excited to get out of the dorms and have my own bathroom."-Ward. The traditional living arrangements for the upcoming sophomore sorority girls was a devastation but it is currently now worked out from the progress of the sororities working quick and making good deals with the apartment complexes.






http://www.assetcampushousing.com/portfolio/the-connection-at-oxford

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/stu_housing/crosby.html