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Until a little over a year ago, Sigma Chi and Pi Eta were partners, hoping to continue the tradition of non-final club social life at Harvard. Their relationship soured when Pi Eta decided it was time to sell the house. Sigma Chi filed a suit against Pi Eta, Pi Eta filed a countersuit against Sigma Chi, and now the only date in their future seems to be the one in court...
...weeks ago, the liberal magazine Perspective posted signs saying: “Pi Eta advertised to its members the ‘Amazing pounding of private parts some poor suspecting fat load is going to take this Saturday by your huge and erect penis.’ Boycott final clubs!” The poster neglected to mention that this quote was from a 1984 newsletter of a group that was disbanded in 1991—and was not a final club...
These omissions were all the more marked because, until those posters appeared, most current students had probably never even heard of Pi Eta. Like many things in Cambridge, its origins date back to an earlier century. Five undergraduates founded the club Nov. 24, 1865, decades before the creation of many of the final clubs that exist today. According to a history of the group, “For many years, meetings were devoted largely to formal debate, individual recitation, and general literary discussion.” As students’ ideas of fun shifted in the mid-20th century, club...
...status at Harvard was unique in that it stood outside the rigidly elite final club hierarchy. An 1953 article in the Pi Eta News explained, “The most striking trait of most clubs in our system is their exclusiveness, for, due to high expense and restrictive policies, many clubs only elect men from private schools. This obviously limits from the start the variety of personalities represented in each club. Within this restricted atmosphere Pi Eta is an exception. Our group is made up of almost every type of personality at Harvard—athletic, intellectual, well...
...Pi Eta’s reputation for being more open and diverse than the final clubs served it well for many years. The Crimson, which frequently ran stories predicting the demise of the club system, included a mention of Pi Eta in its 1971 registration issue. “The Pi has a lot of jocks, spaghetti dinners, and all the beer you can drink, which makes it a better deal for your money than any of the ‘final’ clubs,” The Crimson advised...