 During its long history as a fraternity council room, the Estufa has been involved in numerous pranks and has been broken into or vandalized many times, often by the rival Sigma Chi fraternity.The building is accessible only to members of Pi Kappa Alpha, and according to fraternity lore no woman has ever seen its interior.The Estufa has survived both accidental and intentional vehicular collisions as well as "attempts to destroy it with fire, dynamite, water and other weapons" according to an "Albuquerque Journal" article from 1952.