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SAM disappeared at MIT due to reasons specific to the chapter; it got overrun with non-frat members living there, and various other weirdness in the 1970s, and the house voted to leave the fraternity, then become an MIT co-ed independent living group, Fenway House. It sort of became the GLBT place at some point too, and was generally both small (15-30 students) and weird.

I lived there as an undergrad in the 1990s. The most famous alum is probably Lori Berenson, who was held by the Peruvian government for years for (maybe inadvertently) supporting a terrorist organization.




Thanks for the history of Fenway house, I didn't know it. (I was EC, of 80s vintage. Ashdown in the 90s.)

> it got overrun with non-frat members living there

Presumably because they couldn't fill the beds and needed the money?




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