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Members of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, located at 2005 Stewart Ave., will move out of their house this spring, and members of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity will move in. The fraternity purchased the house the sorority was leasing. Sorority members will trade places with the fraternity, moving into The Legends, 4101 W. 24th Place, where the fraternity members are currently staying.

Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and Alpha Gamma Delta sorority will switch residences next academic year as a result of Lambda Chi Alpha acquiring the house currently occupied by the sorority.

Noah Greene, Lambda Chi Alpha president and Overland Park junior, said the chapter will be living in the house presently occupied by Alpha Gamma Delta, 2005 Stewart Ave., after living at The Legends Apartments, 4101 W. 24th Place, for two years.

Martha Cusick, manager of The Legends, said the sorority signed its lease already at The Legends for next year. Cusick said the complex had an open house for the sorority last Saturday.

The sorority only leased the house on Stewart Avenue until June, said Kim Heck, Alpha Gamma Delta house association president. Sorority officials had expected that the new house on Sigma Nu Place would be completed before the lease ran up.

Heck said she wanted to move into the new house by Fall 2006. Construction on the house has not yet begun, which Heck said was surprising.

“We had expected our construction to move at a quicker pace,” she said.

Until then, members will live in apartments at The Legends.

Greene said he wasn’t sure if the fraternity would take possession of the house this summer. He said the 85-member fraternity would have the house no later than fall.

Fraternity members lived in The Legends for the past two years in Building 8, along with a few members in Buildings 4 and 7.

“I can’t really have that fraternity feeling when we’re all separated,” Greene said. “With the house, it will bring that whole atmosphere back.”

Lambda Chi Alpha had to move out of its house across from Sigma Nu fraternity, 1501 Sigma Nu Place, two years ago because of mold problems, Greene said. Members have been looking for a house ever since.

Raymond Berrens, Lambda Chi Alpha member and Overland Park freshman, said was positive about moving into the house.

“Right now, we don’t have as much of a presence as I’d like on campus,” he said. “When we get a house near campus, people may get to know us more.”

Berrens said there were benefits to moving to the house aside from increasing the fraternity’s profile on campus. He said he would purchase a bus pass next year as opposed to purchasing a yellow parking permit like he did this year. Riding the bus to The Legends was a possibility, but only one bus comes for every hour, Berrens said.

Fraternity members will not have to cook meals as they did in The Legends. Members will have the opportunity to purchase a meal plan where the house mom prepares the food.

“It will just be nice not having to worry about going grocery shopping every month,” Berrens said.

As a freshman, this will be the first time Berrens will be able to live in a fraternity house. He said he was happy about moving into a house and recognizes the benefits, but he also accepts the drawbacks.

At The Legends, members had their own bathrooms and showers. This will not be the case at the house.

Greene said he did not know the arrangement of the house, but he said members would share rooms and bathrooms.