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...Eta, though, had a different view of the situation. By August 2000, they decided they wanted out of the deal. Brian R. Barringer ’88, one of the Pi Etas, says they were simply disappointed with the relationship. “We had expectations of the group and they didn’t live up to them,” he explains. “We were interested in an organizational structure and a group that could have financial strength...
Barringer attributes the decision to a “lack of synergy” between the two groups. The main problem with the personal relationship between the organizations seems to be that Pi Eta is no longer much of an organization. Pi Eta grads occasionally gathered at the house after football games and Sigma Chi has invited alumni to past events, but without a more explicit connection to an undergraduate body, many Pi Eta alums seem to have lost interest. “We do have alumni, but I wouldn’t describe them as particularly active...
...there is no undergraduate Pi Eta group, the society lingered on as little more than a landlord for a national fraternity. This status continued to bother the Pi Etas, who saw no reason to continue their end of the 30-year deal. It seemed like the best choice was to give up, and against the wishes of Sigma Chi, the house was placed on the market in January...
Prior to the meeting of the Pi Eta Speakers Associates April 18, 2001, the Pi Eta members put together a special agenda. Among the orders of business were to amend the bylaws to clear the board of Sigma Chis, request the resignation of Sigma Chis and conduct an election to fill all of the vacancies in the officership of the corporation. The Sigma Chi delegation walked out and filed a suit against the Pi Etas in Middlesex Superior Court the next day. Not to be outdone, Pi Eta filed a countersuit against Sigma...
...Sigma Chi says they lived up to their end of the deal—paying off taxes, spending more than $100,000 on capital improvements, putting in 6,000 man-hours of “sweat equity” labor and trying to foster a relationship with the Pi Eta alumni through social functions. They claim that these actions have given them an ownership interest in the house and that by removing the Sigma Chi members of the Pi Eta Speakers Associates, Pi Eta alumni are “attempting illegally to divest and disenfranchise the Kappa Eta/Sigma Chi members...