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George Orwell’s infamous year started poorly for the men of Pi Eta. A copy of their club newsletter—containing such gems (allegedly meant as jokes) as the phrase quoted on the Perspective posters and a reference to female party guests as “a bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter”—was accidentally released and circulated in April. More than 100 students rallied in front of the club the following Saturday night during a party, and that Tuesday, Dean of the College John...
...clubs were growing strained during this period. In fact, less than a year later the College decided to break ties with the final clubs (which included disconnecting the clubs from Harvard heating and phone systems, among other mostly symbolic actions) because of their discriminatory admissions practices. Still, Pi Eta was particularly special. “The other clubs were seen as gentlemen’s clubs. [Pi Eta] was thought of as the fraternity at Harvard,” Epps recalls. “It was mostly a social club for boys who had not made the varsity teams...
...recent years, Greek groups have experienced a surge of popularity. Sigma Chi started the wave when four students formed a colony in 1989. After they maintained an active and interested group for a few years, the national fraternity granted the Harvard students a charter to become the Kappa Eta chapter...
...Like Pi Eta a few decades earlier, Sigma Chi prided itself on its outsider status. As the President of Perspective, Feltman says he would not have felt comfortable joining the Delphic or the A.D. like his roommates, and the fraternity promised a close-knit brotherhood he considers tighter than that of the clubs. “We were able to sell it as ‘not a final club,’” he says...
Luckily for them, serendipity struck when tax foreclosure proceedings on the Pi Eta house began in 1995. Pi Eta was considering selling the house, a well-located property with large rooms suited for group gatherings, until members heard about Sigma Chi’s needs. Ordinarily the price for such a space would have been out of range for a fledgling fraternity like Sigma Chi, but Pi Eta decided to cut them some slack...