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...service and publicizing their rush, Sigma Chi tried to prove that they were a more open group than the other clubs on campus. Feltman says they regretted their party policy of not admitting non-Sigma Chi men. “It was part of our risk management agreement with Pi Eta, but it made us seem more final club-like,” 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...
...April 20, 1996, three Pi Eta members met with a representative of Sigma Chi at a Bickford’s Restaurant on Route 1 and hammered out new bylaws for the Pi Eta Speakers Associates, the corporation that controls the property at 43-45 Mount Auburn St. For 10 years, seven members of the board would be Pi Etas and five would be Sigma Chis. Over the next 10 years, the makeup was to be even, six Pi Etas and six Sigma Chis. The 10 years after that, Sigma Chi would have the majority of members, with seven members versus...
...exchange for their membership in the Pi Eta Speakers Associates, Sigma Chi promised to arrange for a loan of $200,000 to fund capital improvements on the house and take on the responsibility for operating and maintaining the property. In September 1996, students again set up shop at 43-45 Mount Auburn...
...Pi 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...