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Originally posted by JoinerLxa
The only other detail I remember is that the house was white
(clapboard), alota trees around, and VERY LARGE greek letters
(maybe 5-7 feet tall) on the side (or perhaps the front), arranged diagonally. I think that was the side of the house, and I
don't remember the front. Certainly don't remember any NEON.
I do think it was on a corner though...
and may NOT have been a close neighbor of the old LXA house
(after driving round and round, I saw the big greek letters
and stopped). SAE?? SPhE?? oh well....too bad I didn't find
you anyway 
Kevin
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AhA! Got it. That was the old Sigma Phi Epsilon location. The house used to be white, now it's gray. A lot of student's call this the "Transient Frat" House, because, in the last 10 years, has been home to SigEp, TKE, Sigma Chi, and one other fraternity (short-lived, can't remember)...and Sig Ep and TKE occupied that house more than once...it seemed to change hands annually.
Last occupied by TKE in 2002, the chapter was closed when a police raid turned up a lot of stolen UNC computer equipment in a students room. Oops. Now (again, 3rd time?) it's Sigma Chi, and they really cleaned the place up.
Even though this house rotates fraternities a lot, LXA never occupied this house. However, interesting fact about LXA - in the last five years of the original chapter's existance, they occupied no less than 7 different properties, of which four have been demolished (some into parking lots, one other because of structural integrity - NO, the LXA's didn't create the mess, it was an old house).
When recolonized, LXA in their second year DID occupy one of the old houses, and found LXA graffiti in some hidden locations like closets, etc....autographs and the like of brothers I used to hang out with - very cool.
And, just last fall, by fate, I had a customer refinance a house they bought that was the LXA house I was initiated in. Way cool! However, when I saw what the house was worth, I wept...I always wanted to buy that house myself (not just sentimental reasons...the interior was gorgeous)...no way I could ever afford it. And, in the closets, where brothers (myself included) autographed their name and zeta numbers...they had been painted OVER....almost charged the owner an extra point on the loan for doing that.....grrr.....
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