This may be a little hard to fathom for an SUU student, since our school is much smaller, and has a much smaller Greek component.
Indiana has 42K students. The greek houses are the home to about 6% of them (2,600).
Almost all fraternity and sorority houses nationwide are located off-campuses, and are owned by the national organizations not by the universities.
Indiana now has 42 houses in quarantines, with over 400 positive cases. That number was from a week ago "in what school public health experts are calling an 'uncontrolled spread of COVID-19'".
When you think "frat house" at SUU, you might think of a dumpy ranch house south of campus with 10 guys living in it.
Indiana has some like that. It's Acacia Fraternity house has 16 residents ... and a positivity rate of 87.5%.
But they also have much bigger ones, like Alpha Chi Omega sorority house, with 84 residents. It had a 5% positivity rate during the week of August 24th. By the next week, 35 of 84 had COVID-19.
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