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...actively pursuing community 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...
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...
...Feltman agrees that the house had become integral to the group, but he’s trying to have a positive outlook on the situation. “The loss of the house is a set-back for the fraternity overall, but the benefit that it has is that it forces the guys to think about why they’re in a fraternity,” he says. “They’re struggling, but they’re coming up with some great answers...