Case Western Reserve University

Students

As of 2004, the university had approximately 3,700 undergraduates and 5,700 graduate and professional students.

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Student life

As of fall 2005, upperclassmen are free to live in new "apartment-style" dormitories that come with air conditioning, full kitchen area, and full sized beds. Case requires freshmen and sophomores to live in the dormitories unless living with a relative within fifty miles of the university. Meal plan participation is also mandatory for freshmen and sophomores with some exceptions made for religious and medical reasons. New housing for underclassmen, along with a "Greek village" bringing all the college's fraternities and sororities together with the other undergraduates, is slated to be constructed within the next ten years.

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The dormitories are divided into two areas, one featuring suite-style rooms for upperclassmen (new as of fall 2005) and the other featuring shared-style rooms. Both feature gigabit ethernet network access, and a wireless campus network is also available. Buildings are organized into "colleges", grouping together students of similar ages and creating a sense of ownership and hall pride.

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Residence life at Case has a long history of being liberal in its policies, including allowing coed suites (an option offered to upperclassmen, when requested and agreed upon by all occupants of a suite), a generous guest policy, and res life staff with a generally "hands-off" approach to supervising students.

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Greek system

Case also boasts the size of its Greek system. In all, nearly 1/3 of the campus undergraduates are in a fraternity or sorority. There are 6 sororities and 16 fraternities.

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Fraternities

• Alpha Epsilon Pi
• Beta Theta Pi
• Delta Kappa Epsilon
• Delta Tau Delta
• Delta Upsilon
• Lambda Chi Alpha
• Phi Delta Theta
• Phi Kappa Psi
• Phi Kappa Tau
• Phi Kappa Theta
• Sigma Alpha Epsilon
• Sigma Chi
• Sigma Nu
• Sigma Phi Epsilon
• Theta Chi
• Zeta Beta Tau
• Zeta Psi

Sororities

Note: Some sororities may officially be referred to as fraternities due to the history of the group.

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• Alpha Chi Omega
• Alpha Phi
• Delta Gamma
• Phi Mu
• Phi Sigma Rho
• Sigma Psi