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Originally posted by GammaZeta
One thing I never got was the M.I.T and B.U chapters. At one time their houses were like 200 feet away! The M.I.T house I think used to be the B.U house, but I'm not sure. The M.I.T house is almost right in the middle of Boston University. Oh well, never could figure that one out.
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The original Alpha chapter house of LXA was at 157 Bay State Road. It is now a BU women's dorm (and my former address my final 2 years at BU). It is listed as such in a BU Fraternity rush brochure from 1949. (The historian in me can't leave this stuff on Ebay!)
I dont' know about a "near Fenway" house for the MIT chapter, but the house I remember (and tipped a few wet ones in) is 2 blocks down from 157 BSR.
The reason the MIT fraternities are in the middle of BU is a common part of BU lore. When John Silber took over the presidency of BU in 1970, he closed the Greek system with his own personal fiat. (BU wasn't much of a school at the time, so no one was going to argue w/ him, no matter what he did.) The houses were either bought by BU or sold/leased to chapters from other schools - usually MIT. 157 BSR is right next door to one of the two AEPi Mu Tau chapter houses.
LXA was the first mens' fraternity to return from exile in about 1985, and has not had to close or reorg, etc since. When the Greek ban was lifted, the Student Activities office was beating potential colonizers off w/ a stick. But TriDelta and LXA were first to come back, (I believe) because they were Alpha chapters.
(And pardon the thread crash, gentlemen.
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