 Chi Heorot ( " Heorot " , " XH " ) was founded in 1897 as a local fraternity named Alpha Alpha Omega , and in 1902 was granted a charter as the Chi chapter of the Chi Phi Fraternity . In 1903 , the fraternity moved to its present location , and in 1927 it sold off its eighteenth @-@ century house and built the house that stands today . In 1968 , the house dissociated from the national fraternity , and adopted the name Chi Phi Heorot . The " Heorot " in Chi Phi Heorot comes from the medieval poem Beowulf , in which Heorot is the great hall where warriors converge to tell their stories . After several suspensions by the college in the early 1980s , it re @-@ joined the Chi Phi national in 1981 . This was short @-@ lived ; in 1987 , because of damage done to the house that the college insisted upon having repaired for safety reasons but the Chi Phi national refused to help finance , the Dartmouth brotherhood again opted to become a local fraternity . In exchange for financing renovations to the structure , the college assumed ownership of the property and house . In its second incarnation as a local fraternity , the brotherhood chose the name Chi Heorot . Notable alumni include Gerry Geran ' 18 , Adam Nelson ' 97 , and Andrew Weibrecht ' 09 , all Olympic medalists . 
