The pool table in Kappa Sigma is gone. So is the piano. And girls are living there now — not just sleeping over.

But the transfer students currently living at 2251 Sheridan Road, the former home of Kappa Sig, say signs of fraternity life remain in the house.

“I think the guys in Kappa Sig vomited, barfed, urinated and did everything possible on this carpet downstairs,” said Communication junior Lizzie Levin, a transfer from the University of Colorado.

After Kappa Sig brothers vacated the house in June following the chapter’s suspension, the building became NU’s first dorm solely for transfer students.

Tiling in the basement still contains the fraternity’s letters, and efforts to deodorize the lounge carpet continue.

“It says, ‘Cobble or die’ on this light fixture in front of me,” noted Weinberg junior Ashley Metz, a transfer from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. “I have no idea what that means.”

Although they have had to deal with their share of party leftovers, the building’s new occupants said they are adjusting.

“I like my room,” Metz said. “It’s cozy.”

The house, of course, wasn’t initially meant only for transfer students, said Mark D’Arienzo, the associate director of the University Housing Administration. But residents seem to have fit right in.

“It was not done initially by design, but it seems to have been met with a great deal of success,” he said.

Transfer students living in the facility said they appreciate living together.

“We’re all so lucky to be able to live on campus together,” Levin said. “It’s nice to not have to live with the freshmen, seeing as a lot of us are two or three years older and we’ve already had that experience.”

About 40 students live in doubles and singles in the four-story house. Before the students moved in, D’Arienzo said, the rooms were outfitted with furniture and received a fresh coat of paint and new carpeting.

The locks were changed a couple of days after fraternity members moved out — preventing some ex-tenants from stopping by to reminisce.

Eric Wrzesinski, a McCormick senior who lived in the Kappa Sig house last year, said he hasn’t seen the building’s face-lift.

“No one’s supposed to go in there,” he said. “It would be a little abnormal (seeing others living there).”

D’Arienzo said he doesn’t know what the future holds for the former Kappa Sig house.

“(Housing transfer students together) is something we stumbled upon,” he said. “We’ll be watching to see how it works.”

Kappa Sig is not the only fraternity that has had to adjust to seeing new faces in its old house.

When Phi Kappa Sigma failed to adequately maintain its house at 584 Lincoln St., the Evanston Police Department condemned the building in summer 2001. The university started using the building the following Winter Quarter as housing for 25 students — mostly transfers or those returning from abroad.

After being kicked off in 2001, Delta Kappa Epsilon rented out its space to graduate students.

Similarly, when Sigma Chi was suspended from campus in 2000, the fraternity rented its house out as university office space, said Kyle Pendleton, the associate director for the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life. Sigma Chi plans to return to campus this year.