When I walk up the front steps to the house I can smell the food that is being cooked at a nearby campus diner, mixed with a bit of car exhaust, and a nearly inconspicuous bit of nature. As I am walking I usually don’t look up, I know by heart what I would see anyway: blue painted house, small tree to the right and left, bit of shrubbery, old and very large tree to the right side of the house, porch swing and bench. Instead, I keep my eyes to the ground to make sure I step on the Delta T symbol, which has been crafted into the sidewalk and is the symbol of the Triangle fraternity, for good luck. Not sure why I think this will bring me good luck, no one ever told me it would or anything. It just feels right. Sadly this is the end of good feeling coming from the aesthetics of the Triangle house. To be honest the inside is quite dilapidated. For instance one of the front windows broke because it rotted out of its frame and fell when someone went to use it. This being the case I want to propose that money be raised to renovate the house and make it livable. However, some might say that another fraternity house that is lived in would only add to possible drinking problems not to mention that the house is historical and will be very costly to get the proper materials and building styles to stay within code while renovating. Despite this, I think that having a livable house will increase brotherhood in Triangle and make it easier to be coordinated for our work for the community. I propose that the higher-ups of the Triangle organization should find a way to work with the current actives at the Louisville chapter to come up with the funding to renovate the chapter house so that it can be lived in, in order to increase brotherhood and academic status for its current members and those that follow.
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