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Joshua A. Feltman ’95, who will graduate from Harvard Law School in June and is the current chapter adviser, was around for the fraternity’s early days. He recalls joining his brothers, who were “definitely a random group of guys,” for a range of informal activities, including tutoring at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, taking trips to Wellesley and drinking...
Without the ability to poster or advertise through any of the official Harvard channels, getting the Sigma Chi name out to the campus proved difficult. Feltman would never have even heard of the group had it not been for his brief stint on the rugby team. A few of the guys invited him to check it out and soon he was a committed member of the brotherhood. “There’s very little that reinforces community at Harvard,” he says. “What we’re about is community...
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...
...clubs did have the advantage of physical spaces, and without a house, Sigma Chi was forced to be creative about meeting. “We’d scam wherever we could,” Feltman says. “We’d sign up for a JCR under the auspices of being a study group.” Administrators, particularly Epps, were not pleased about the students’ involvement with the organization and students caught bending the rules were taken to task—and to the Administrative Board. In retaliation for Epps’ actions, Sigma...