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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Well, if breathesgelatin is around, she can fill us in on what happened at W&L when she was there -- there's a thread about somewhere around here. Definitely the exception, though.
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Yes, this happened while I was at W&L, my junior year.
Sigma Phi Epsilon was kicked off campus over the summer of 2003.
That fall the brothers of SigEp (or SPE in old school W&L parlance) decided to go in together and pledge Alpha Delta Phi and try to conduct rush from an off campus house (all the recognized fraternities at W&L were housed). They all resigned their membership in SigEp, although SigEp refused to release them from their membership obligations. In defiance, they were initiated into Alpha Delta Phi anyway.
Alpha Delta Phi (formerly SigEp) failed to receive recognition by the W&L's local IFC, and they failed to get any freshmen to pledge their fraternity come January (W&L has deferred recruitment). So, essentially, the chapter had folded by the end of the 2003-2004 schoolyear.
Some (not all) of those same brothers THEN joined Phi Kappa Psi, a fraternity which had traditionally been at the top of the mid tier at W&L, but had experienced some problems in recent years. I heard that some of these members were even initiated into Phi Kappa Psi but I have no idea if that is 100% accurate or not. Possibly they were just social members who lived/ate at the house and the initiation story was just braggadocio. It is certainly true that some of these members participated in national Phi Kappa Psi events and claim this affiliation on their facebook pages to this day, etc. So possibly, some of these guys had experienced three fraternity initiations.
At the time of this occurrence there was a lot of discussion on campus over whether SigEp might sue Alpha Delta Phi for initiating the members that SigEp refused to release, but I think SigEp just figured it wasn't worth the effort.
The differences were: SigEp as a whole was kicked off entirely, the entire chapter attempted to affiliate with Alpha Delta Phi, and Alpha Delta Phi was clearly a 'downgrade' from SigEp.
I know that Alpha Delta Phi has on other occasions colonized deactivated chapters of other fraternities (in fact there is a guy on GreekChat who will come and defend these actions to his dying breath), but I don't really think that Alpha Delta Phi would be the type of fraternity the OP is interested in. I don't think any 'legit southern fraternity' would ever pull this kind of shit.
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