Greeks have been in the news a lot lately. Recently the Kappa Sigma fraternity decided to disband its chapter, ("Fraternity decides to disband," Jan. 17). And this past fall around the beginning of the semester I remember the headline "Housing shortage still affects some students," Sept. 19. Given both of these stories, there is a common theme: Sororities should fill vacant fraternity houses instead of taking up dorm space meant for underclassmen.

No matter how much money is passed to the university for a sorority dorm floor or how much cheaper it is than a house, the dorms are not meant for greeks. At the same time, lounges are not meant to be dorm rooms. As a freshman, I lived in supplemental housing and the arrangements were very uncomfortable. I was unable to sit up straight in my bunk bed because of the ceiling. I also had the experience of living in a dorm with two sororities, and their drunken belligerence was not much better. By moving sororities out of dorms and into the vacant houses, more space is available to the freshmen who have to live on campus.