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...Perhaps Pike will have a different fate. For one thing, its alums include Strom Thurmond, Ted Koppel and S. Truett Cathy, the founder and CEO of Chick-Fil-A. But it’s not just the illustrious past of PKA that has attracted over a dozen Harvard students to its Cambridge colony. Harvard’s PKA, which joins four male and two female Greek organizations on campus, promises to be a place for all party-seekers...
Parry is enthusiastic about setting up the frat, though it wasn’t his idea originally. Last month he received a phone call from a PKA recruiter, courting him to launch the fraternity at Harvard. Parry says Pike develops new chapters based on recommendations from other members across the country, and he was recommended by his friends at Southern Methodist University and Vanderbilt University. After contacting Parry and asking for further recommendations, Pike also contacted the Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma sororities on campus and asked members to suggest Harvard guys who qualified, in the words...
Some students are mystified as to why anyone would start another fraternity in light of the relative obscurity of the current frats, although others expressed conditional interest. Kyle A. Lehman ’05, whose father was a Pike at the University of Maryland, says he believes that “depending on the housing situation, [the frat] will provide social opportunity outside of house parties and give other options to many guys who are left standing outside final clubs...
...next few months Pike will risk following the wayward path of Harvard’s current frats, but if PKA catches fire, Harvard students may look back on the days before Pike and wonder how they ever lived without it. “It could change the face of Harvard social life,” Parry says...
...Many people, not just at Harvard, have been thinking about how you could possibly put the Pike somewhere else,” Wrinn said. “There has never been a realistic proposal for a way to develop that land...