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Housing Highlights
Did you know that Alpha Chi Omega provides facilities for 117 of its 133 collegiate chapters?
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If you have questions or comments concerning the Alpha Chi Omega National Housing Corporation, please contact Barb Bridges, Housing Projects Director, 317-579-5050 or e-mail: Barb Bridges.
Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act of 2007: H.R. 643 and S.638
For the past several years, Alpha Chi Omega has joined an interfraternal community grassroots effort in support of the Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act (CHIA). This effort is sponsored by the Capital Fraternal Caucus, a Washington, D.C.-based Greek umbrella organization representing the country's fraternities and sororities. CHIA would allow fraternity and sorority foundations to make tax-deductible financial contributions for infrastructure improvements to meeting and dining areas in chapter houses in the same way that the tax code currently allows colleges and universities to use tax-deductible contributions to improve university-owned student housing on campus. This bill would make it substantially easier for Greeks nationwide to raise the money needed to install critical life-safety improvements in our chapter housing, expand housing capacity, and otherwise modernize the housing we provide to our students.
Alpha Chi Omega's Involvement
Every spring, since 2003, Alpha Chi Omega sends a delegation of National Officers and collegiate representatives to Capitol Hill to encourage Representatives and Senators to co-sponsor the CHIA. In the summer of 2005, we began asking members to join the effort by writing to their Representatives and Senators encouraging support of the CHIA. These letter-writing campaigns have proven to be very effective. After the campaign began in the summer of 2005, 97 sponsors in the House and 16 sponsors in the Senate were added. A Greek Phone March has since been added to the efforts. A few times a year, we ask members to call their Representatives and Senators on a specific date to bolster the efforts in support of the Act.
How Can You Get Involved?
- Educate yourself about CHIA by going to www.fraternalcaucus.com.
- Register with www.fraternalcaucus.com to get regular updates on the progress of the grassroots movement.
- Write a letter to your senators and represenatatives. A letter writing tool is available through the Fraternal Caucus web site, as well as contact information for your representatives.
- Participate in the Phone Marches. Periodically check the web site to learn about when the next Phone March will take place.