Thanks for that post about Beta, honeychile - it brought back a lot of memories. Way too many nights dragged out to there to keep an eye on my friend's cheating Beta boyfriend....
It's indeed a beautiful house - you should see it at Christmas - they put a two-story high tree in the living room. We had a really posh tree-decorating social with them, very different from the more uproarious parties thrown by other houses.
Penn State has some amazingly gorgeous fraternity houses - old fieldstone mansions with baloneys, grands stairways, etc. When I was at school, the guys kept most of the houses really well. Sadly, (with Beta as a standout exception) I understand that many of them no longer do so. I have friends who are TKEs who said that the undergraduates have trashed their beautiful house so badly that the the town is trying to get it closed.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive...07dnews-07.asp