Is this Still Phi Sig?

Each time I visit our fraternity home in Kenmore Square, I'm struck by the changes.  Physically many spaces in the house seem unfamiliar; walls have been added or removed, rooms repurposed, lofts built, or I simply don't remember the way things were.  Socially too, Omicron has changed.  Brothers are more scheduled, more academically ambitious, more athletic, and by all accounts more socially adept.  There's more hanging out in individual rooms and less hanging out in First Lounge or on the front steps.

Is this even the same fraternity?  Just as you never step into the same river twice, no two of us have the same Phi Sig experience.  Nevertheless, there's an unbroken web of connections from brother to brother, going back through the years to the earliest days of our chapter. 

Whether you remember Simkins, whether you remember the house before the purchase of 485, whether you remember Blue Room, or moving in immediately after pledging, or Rush via Zoom during the pandemic, you are connected to every other Phi Sig by a web of individual and small-group connections.  No matter how much the house changes, it's still Omicron and we are all still family.

Rich Downey, ‘94, Alumni Association President