Rushing/ Mardi Gras

fallenchemist
Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:49:55 +0000

Sororities do not have housing at Tulane. The story is that there is a law that makes it illegal for that many unmarried women to live in one residence that is zoned as a house (the brothel law) but I have also heard that is an urban tale that just is not true, and that in fact the reason Tulane Soroities have no houses with living quarters is that by the time that could have been considered there just wasn’t anything available near campus that was affordable. I don’t know the correct story, but I know there are no residential sorority houses.

I don’t know the answer to the frat question. I do know that like a lot of other schools there is no rushing until second semester freshman year, so you wouldn’t be moving into a frat house then. I know Tulane requires students to live on campus both freshman and sophomore years, but I don’t know if living in the fraternity house is considered equivalent, since frats operate by permission of the university and under their oversight. Someone else will have to weigh in on that.

I’m sorry, but I don’t understand the question about Mardi Gras.