After discovering the national organization for Delta Lambda Phi, which has been around since 1987, he put the word out through e-mail lists and list-servs that he was starting a Boston chapter and pulled together the alpha (first) rush class.
"Throughout the last semester we've formed a bond between the seven of us," Mercurio said.
Treasurer and Secretary Christian P. Pincock, a senior at the New England Conservatory, said the pledge process helped them get to know each other.
"With this we became brothers," Pincock said. "It's more like a family."
Mercurio said the fraternity allows brothers to connect in a way they cannot in most political or social campus groups.
"[In groups like Spectrum] people are coming and going--much less consistency," he said. "And it's hard because people are closeted."
Michael K. T. Tan '01, co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA), said Harvard's organizations--both BGLTSA and GirlSpot--fill those needs well.
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