Underground Slippery Rock
As an undergrad at Pitt, I actually made a roadtrip to Slippery Rock with a few brothers. Their house was big and had a few acres of land all to itself. The membership was alive and well, approx. 50 or so actives at the time.
As for their traditions the underground chapter held true to almost all LCA heritage. The collection of Assoc. Member class paddles was impressive and dated from the present all the way back to the chapters colonization. The members were very proud to be LCA, despite the fact that the chapter was not recognied.
As for the ritual, and without getting too specific, the chapter did have it and used it. It was something that all members took very seriously. The one big difference was that it was conducted on a very very large scale. Even though I hold the ritual near and dear to my heart, I have to admit that I was very impressed by the theatrical type twists they used.
They treated all the Pitt LCA's with great respect. Many of them held out hope that a formal recoloniation could eventually take place.
As for other PA underground LCA chapters, I did meet an AXP from Bloomsberg who mentioned that his chapter sprang from the remnants of the disbanded LCA chapter of the early to mid 1990's.
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