The rent board's criminal complaints are the culmination of an ongoing, three-year crusade by Doina

I. Contescu '89 and Kincade Dunn, the twoformer undergraduates evicted from 14 Mt. Auburn.

Harrop, who lives in Providence, R.I., is onthe national board of trustees of Sigma Chi. Hebought the house, sight unseen, on April 13, 1992,after Light inspected the property, according torent board records.

Contescu said she became suspicious after Lightinspected the property. A real estate agent toldher she would have to move because Light, then afirst-year proctor in Canaday, would occupy thehouse himself.

"We thought, He gets housing on campus, why ishe trying to move in?" Contescu said. "We thoughtthat didn't sound right."

She said she found out from friends at theCollege that Richard T. Antonino '92 and DallasWrege '92, two Sigma Chi members planned to occupythe house instead of Light.

Contescu insists that she would have moved outif Harrop had intended to occupy the house. "IfDr. Harrop had really planned to move in, we wouldhave moved out because that's his right," shesaid.

At an April 1992 rent board hearing--the firstof four--Harrop testified that he planned to moveinto the house in the summer. Wrege and Antoninoasserted they had no plans to move into 14 Mt.Auburn, and the rent board granted Harrop aneviction certificate in November 1992.

During the hearing process, the tenants wereallegedly subjected to intimidation and harassmentby the would-be occupants. Dunn said yesterdaythat she and Contescu received arson threats andunwanted subscriptions to over 30 magazines. Shesaid Harrop even filed a change-of-address form,routing her mail to a Sigma Chi chapter house inCalifornia.

But despite an appeal from Contescu and Dunn,the board reissued an eviction notice April 30,1993, and the two women moved out by the end ofJune. Two days later, they said, Light and twoSigma Chi members moved furniture into the house.

Dunn, who now lives in Boston, then moved to anapartment near Mt. Auburn St. Three months afterbeing evicted, Dunn "crashed" a Sigma Chi party ather former her home that October.

Dunn, who said she studied English for twoyears as a Harvard undergraduate, took photographsof fraternity paraphernalia and the two bedroomsin the house. "I just snapped pictures and then Ileft," Dunn said.

She mailed the pictures to the rent controlboard, aided by the Tenant Advocacy Project (TAP).TAP is a free legal service run by Harvard LawSchool students.

The rent board reopened the case in December1993.

Contescu and Dunn said yesterday that they aresuing Harrop, Light and the Sigma Chi nationalorganization for more than $300,000 for "emotionaldamages."

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