Don’t step on Wall-E, y’all.

See, when I was a house mom, I was dealing with mental health crises, student financial issues, doing emergency health checks on my girls if I saw someone or was told that someone was extremely drunk, mediating fights, doing inspections for alcohol, lecturing the girls about flushing tampons...I was in charge. But…

I did this when I was in grad school for higher education administration, being a sorority’s house mom: free room and board, great student affairs experience, zero commute to my internship and classes. Downside: I had forty-five roommates, all between eighteen and twenty-one. We all were on the same cycle, no shit.

It has to do with how much authority the director is given and what weight the landlords (either the university who leases the house to the Greek org or the Greek org’s housing corporation that owns the residence) gives to enforcing the residence’s rules. When I was a sorority director, I had a house board made up of…