The Theta Nu Epsilon Society.

The Pi' Chapter at Dickinson University.

The Pi' Chapter at Dickinson College was legitimately founded in 1887, and was chartered by the Alpha Chapter. It only remained a chapter for about a year, and then no longer participated in national affairs. But that does not mean it ceased functioning. By 1889, it assumed the name of the Phi Chapter, and we believe, but the historical record is vague, that it likely began issuing charters of its own accord. That is, the Dickinson Chapter broke its ties of honor and amity with its rightful peer chapters and presumed to have the authority to create other chapters in the name of the whole society. This would have placed it in conflict with the Original Conventions of the society and the Alpha Chapter. (It also appears sometimes as the Rho chapter, but that was likely just in error.)

The Dickinson Chapter in 1918.

As mentioned in the longer discussion on the page on National Organizations, the Pi-Omicron National was the first illegitimate national, and seems to have been busiest creating chapters in the middle and southern Atlantic coast states, and the easternmost of the Midwestern states.

There is a law school at Dickinson College, and one form of Theta Nu Epsilon initiation is a strongly law-themed initiation.

By 1909, the Omicron Chapter abandoned any pretense of being a chapter of Theta Nu Epsilon, and reorganized as Skull and Key. Skull and Key at Dickinson also modified itself into a Junior class society, and ceased to exist, by faculty interdiction, in 1983.

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