Damasa-I might be wrong on the date, but I know for sure that they are the oldest active local in the US. It's like their huge claim to fame and stuff, it's all over everything they ever write, promote etc.... I en think they have had people come to their house about it for some reason or another in the past!!

LoL, I know what you mean, I just hope they aren't promoting something false! lol, would that ever look horrible!!!
But I do know that Phi Sigma the local at UWP was established in 1866.
If you could find out the date on that other organization, that would be awesome! If not, still awesome! lol

blaine

LXA was founded at MIT in 1912. They were founded at Boston (Alpha chapter) in 1909.

The BU chapter was closed for a short period - during this time, their house was sold to the MIT chapter, I believe this happened in the early 70s, but I'm not sure.

BU forced all fraternities off-campus, and attempted to jack the houses on Bay State Road. The fraternities sold them immediately to nationals to avoid annexation, and most were passed to MIT chapters. This explains why AEII is firmly entrenched in the middle of BU brownstones, as is Beta and to a lesser extent LXA and Phi Delta Theta. Also, this explains why the BU houses have essentially moved from the eastern part of campus (near Kenmore) to the western part (Allston-Brighton).

So yeah - AEPhi Alum was correct, the chapters at MIT and BU have been there for a long, long time. There's a long, convoluted history of greek life at BU, and this has helped shape in part the random locations of some MIT houses.

Now, nothing can explain the bizarre location of the MIT ZBT house - which lies just four short blocks AWAY from campus from our house in brookline . . . so the BU chapter of ZBT is nearly a mile closer to MIT than the MIT chapter.

Theta Chi's beta chapter was founded at MIT in 1902. They are about to celabrate their chapter centineal. Woohoo for them!!