ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Sunday, March 24, 1996                 TAG: 9603250098
SECTION: CURRENT                  PAGE: NRV-18 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG - ONLY FIVE PEOPLE LIVE IN THE SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON 
SOURCE: ELISSA MILENKY STAFF WRITER 

GREEK ROW BLACKSBURG ZONING CHANGES WOULD ALLOW RENOVATION OF TECH'S FRATERNITY AND SORORITY HOUSES

LENGTH: Short :   34 lines
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  ALAN KIM/Staff. 1. Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, one 
          of five fraternities on Roanoke Street, may be joined by others if a
          new zoning ordinance passes creating special districts for 
          fraternities and sororities. (ran on NRV-1). 2. Brothers of Kappa 
          Alpha fraternity say they'd like to purchase the home they've been 
          renting on Roanoke Street, pending changes in the zoning ordinance 
          that would allow them to make major renovations. 3. Five fraternity 
          brothers live upstairs at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house. 4. The 
          house has no kitchen (it was destroyed during a party) so the 
          brothers have to purchase meals on campus. 5. Members of Sigma Alpha
          Epsilon reside in this Roanoke Street house. color. 6. Josh Allison,
          president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, surveys the damage to one of the 
          rooms on the main floor of the fraternity house. The floor tiles are
          loose because of moisture rising from a wet crawl space, which is 
          made up mostly of heavy clay. 7. Nestled in the corner of U.S. 460 
          and Prices Fork Road, on campus and next to the golf course, sit 
          seven sorority and three fraternity houses. Graphic: Map by staff. 
          color.