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Delta Kappa Epsilon (), commonly known as ''DKE'' or ''Deke'', is one of the oldest fraternities in the United States, with fifty-six active chapters and five active
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across North America. It was founded at
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in 1844 by fifteen
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s who were discontent with the existing fraternity order on campus. The men established a fellowship where the candidate most favored was he who combined in the most equal proportions the Gentleman, the
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and the Jolly Good Fellow.


History


Founding fathers

Delta Kappa Epsilon was founded on , in room number twelve in the corner of Old South Hall on the campus of Yale College in
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, Connecticut. The fifteen founders were: William Woodruff Atwater, Dr. Edward Griffin Bartlett, Frederic Peter Bellinger, Jr., Henry Case, Colonel George Foote Chester, John Butler Conyngham, Thomas Isaac Franklin, William Walter Horton, The Honorable William Boyd Jacobs, Professor Edward VanSchoonhoven Kinsley, Chester Newell Righter, Dr. Elisha Bacon Shapleigh, Thomas DuBois Sherwood, Albert Everett Stetson, and Orson William Stow. At this meeting, the Fraternity's secret and open Greek mottos were devised, as were the lapel pin design and secret grip. The open motto becoming – "Kerothen Philoi Aei" – "Friends From The Heart, Forever."


Active and pledge pins, banded flag

The Flag consists of three bands of color: Azure (blue, truth), Champagne (gold, fidelity) and Gules (crimson, courage) with a ''dexter'' rampant lion in the middle band. flags have been carried to the
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by its discoverer, Admiral Robert Peary and to the
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by astronaut Alan Bean. Adorning the active pin are the Greek letters etched downward, diagonally across an ivory scroll and centered atop an onyx diamond, encased in rope-textured gold trim and stars gracing each of the four corners. Active members' initials for their given name along with their number as initiated in chapter completes the active pin. Delta Kappa Epsilon pledges wear a triangle-shaped label pin with the same heraldic colors of Azure, Champagne & Crimson, with gold facing upward & always on collared shirts.


Chapters


Founding of chapters

Within five years of the founding of ''Phi chapter'' at Yale, chapters were installed at
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,
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,
Colby College Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. It was founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, then renamed Waterville College after the city where it resides. The donations of Christian philanth ...
,
Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educati ...
, University of Nashville and
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. October 16, 1844 - ''Phi'' adopted its chapter name; Sherwood begins chapter install at
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. November 1, 1844 - ''Theta chapter'', first members initiated; initiation fee was a dollar & fifty cents. September 15, 1845 - ''Zeta chapter'',
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, only sixty-nine members initiated during brief initial existence (re-established in the 1980s). November 1, 1846 - ''Sigma chapter'', Amherst, founded by Ledoux. December 23, 1946 - First Convention, New Haven, Connecticut Delta Kappa Epsilon's first West Coast chapter was founded at the
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on Halloween night, 1876. The ''Mu chapter'' in
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, New York at
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is one of the few with a Temple, open only to DKE member initiates of the ''Mu chapter''. The ''Lambda chapter'' at Kenyon College built the first fraternity lodge in 1854. Delta Kappa Epsilon became an international fraternity with the addition of the ''Alpha Phi chapter'' in 1898 at the
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, Canada. Expansion to the United Kingdom had little success. Today, chapters are located only in the United States and Canada. Currently, Delta Kappa Epsilon has ten colonies, or associate chapters, that include
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, Ithaca;
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, Boston;
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, Boulder, University of Mississippi, Oxford;
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, Knoxville;
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, Austin;
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;
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, Nashville; and
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, Pullman. has grown to fifty-six chapters and has initiated over 85,000 members across North America.


Southern influence

Despite traditionally selecting and installing chapters along the Eastern Seaboard, holds a strong reputation as a Southern fraternity; rightfully so, as two of the founding members were southerners. Between 1845 and 1846, thirteen of the thirty-eight active members of ''Phi chapter'' at Yale were southerners. Although
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, would not be founded until 1873, the ''Gamma chapter'' of was founded in Nashville, twenty-five years prior, in 1847. Also that year, the ''Psi chapter'' at
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and then ''Chi chapter'' at
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would firmly root Delta Kappa Epsilon as an institution steeped in southern heritage.


Purpose of chapters

Community service is a major focus for each chapter of , in addition to the social aspect that integrates collegiate academics with Greek system of fraternities and sororities. Chapters compete and are awarded equally on merits of
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, chapter improvement and community service. The Lion Trophy is awarded each year to the chapter with most notable achievements in each category. In 2016, the Lion Trophy was awarded to the ''Rho chapter'' at Lafayette College. In 2011, Lion Trophy winner was ''Psi chapter'' at the
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. The chapter won this award in the wake of sponsoring a food drive to help relieve the Tuscaloosa communities devastated by tornadoes that year. The 2012 winner of the Lion Trophy was the
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, and in 2013, the Lion Trophy went to both the ''Psi chapter'' and the ''Iota chapter'' at Centre College


The Delta Kappa Epsilon Club of New York

Members of Delta Kappa Epsilon who have completed their undergraduate education are eligible for membership in The Delta Kappa Epsilon Club of New York. The DKE Club was founded on May 9, 1885, occupying several different clubhouses throughout Midtown Manhattan including
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which it purchased from the Yale Club of New York City in 1916. After renovations totaling $75,000, the clubhouse opened in January 1917. However just nine years later the Club relocated again when it sold the building to the Army and Navy Club of New York. Partially due to the
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, in 1932, the DKE Club entered into an affiliation with the Yale Club of New York whereby members would have the same access to its clubhouse and facilities as the 11,000 members of the Yale Club itself. Designed by James Gamble Rogers, the clubhouse is located at 50 Vanderbilt Avenue across from Grand Central Terminal. Upon opening its doors in 1915, the building became the largest clubhouse in the world and continues to be the largest college clubhouse in existence today. The club has often hosted dinners and other events for notable alumni members of the fraternity such as polar explorer Robert Peary (who took a Deke flag to the
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with him in 1909).


Notable members

Delta Kappa Epsilon members have included five of forty-five of the Presidents of the United States.


United States presidents

* Rutherford B. Hayes, Kenyon *
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, Harvard *
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, Michigan * George H. W. Bush, Yale * George W. Bush, Yale Franklin D. Roosevelt was a member of the ''Alpha chapter'' at Harvard and would be considered the sixth ΔΚΕ to serve as President of the United States; however, the Harvard chapter was de-recognized by International due to the chapter's stance on dual membership with other fraternities. In the election of 1876, the Republican Party chose between two members, nominating Hayes rather than rival and fellow , James G. Blaine. Blaine also ran unsuccessfully for President in 1884.


Vice presidents

* Dan Quayle, DePauw *
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, Harvard *
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, Michigan * George H. W. Bush, Yale


Other notable alumni

Many American and Canadian politicians, businessmen, sports figures, and artists have been members, including Joe Paterno,
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, J.P. Morgan, Jr.,
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, Cole Porter,
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, Ron DeSantis,
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,
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,
Dick Clark Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting '' American Bandstand'' from 1956 to 19 ...
,
Tom Landry Thomas Wade Landry (September 11, 1924 – February 12, 2000) was an American professional football player and coach. He was the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL), a position he held for 29 seasons. Dur ...
, David Milch, and George Steinbrenner. ΔΚΕ flags were carried to the
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by its discoverer, Admiral Robert Peary and to the
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by astronaut Alan Bean. During the
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, the first Union officer killed in battle was member Theodore Winthrop of Phi. The dying Edwin S. Rogers (Theta) of Maine was attended to by a Confederate Psi from Alabama, who observed the pin and sent it to the family. During the
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, the first American officer to be killed was a DKE member, Surgeon John B. Gibbs (''Phi Chi''). member J. Frank Aldritch (''Psi Phi'') died when the USS ''Maine'' was sunk.
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, the first Chinese graduate from an American university in 1854, was a member of the ''Phi chapter'' of . Later, his citizenship was revoked and he was denied reentry to the United States by the government of
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, another member of . Dave Calhoun, the current CEO of
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is a member of the ''Sigma Alpha chapter'' of . The late
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donated $1 million to the Delta Kappa Epsilon Foundation of Central New York, which handles finances for the fraternity's Syracuse chapter.


Controversy

In 1846, one year after establishing the ''Zeta chapter'' at Princeton University and reportedly very unpopular with staff, the chapter was kicked off campus. The chapter was reinstated six years later, and again removed from campus and charter revoked. Only sixty-nine members were initiated during the chapter's brief existence. On June 6, 1892, a pledge was led blindfolded through the street during his fraternity initiation towards Moriarty's Cafe, a popular student hang-out. He was told to run and did so at top speed. He ran into a sharp carriage pole, injuring himself. He was rendered unconscious, but the injury was not thought to be serious at the time. He suffered an intestinal rupture and died five days later of peritonitis. In 1967, ''The New York Times'' reported on "frat-branding", the alleged use of a hot branding iron to make a "Δ" shaped scar on new fraternity members. The Yale chapter's then-president George W. Bush stated that they were "only cigarette burns." In 1983,
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banned activities allowing them to return a year later but off-campus. In New Orleans in 1987 dozens of fraternity members marched in blackface in a parade in broad daylight. In 1989,
Colgate University Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York. The college was founded in 1819 as the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York and operated under that name until 1823, when it was renamed Hamilton Theolog ...
banned all activities after the officials found members guilty of hazing, blackballing and other violations of university regulations. In 2005 Colgate University barred ΔΚΕ from campus for refusing to sell its house to the school and join a new student-residence initiative. filed a lawsuit charging that the school violated its right to free association as well as antitrust laws by monopolizing the student housing market. In 2006 the Supreme Court of Madison County found that the fraternity had failed to state a cause of action and that its claim was "time-barred." In 1989
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banned all activities on campus and asked the national office to revoke its charter after reports of a racially tinged hazing incident during a pledge trip to
Kenyon College Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio. It was founded in 1824 by Philander Chase. Kenyon College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Kenyon has 1,708 undergraduates enrolled. Its 1,000-acre campus is s ...
in Ohio surfaced on campus. After the allegations emerged the Virginia Tech administration under President James D. McComas acted swiftly and terminated the registration of DKE and ended its affiliation with the university less than a week later. Allegedly a white pledge had asked a black student at a Kenyon College party in Gambier, Ohio, if he could kiss her while another pledge photographed them. The pledge had been instructed to do something unusual during the trip and bring back photos to prove it. After friends of the woman learned of the incident, an argument ensued and the Virginia Tech pledges were escorted off the Kenyon College campus. Its charter was not revoked and the DKE chapter continued to operate in its off campus house in Blacksburg despite the ban. Through the efforts of influential Virginia Tech DKE alumni and university donors, the chapter was ultimately re-instated in mid 90s. In 1997, members of ΔΚΕ at Loyola University New Orleans and Tulane University invited students to celebrate Martin Luther King's Birthday “with fried chicken from Popeye's, watermelon and a ‘forty’.” In December, 2008, the
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suspended recognition of the local DKE chapter for alcohol, hazing and fire safety misconduct. The chapter never closed, and continued without affiliation or oversight by UC Berkeley. The national office and the alumni association maintained their association with the local chapter. Four years later, the chapter opted not to reapply for recognition by the university and continued as an independent fraternity. In May 2012, during a routine patrol of the campus, the chapter was visited by the County Vice Enforcement Team. Several citations were issued for under-age drinking. In October 2010, ''Phi chapter'' at Yale came under fire after its members shouted inflammatory and misogynistic chants at an Old Campus pledge ritual, including " No means yes. Yes means anal". The chapter's president, Jordan Forney, apologized for the fraternity's conduct, characterizing it as a "lapse in judgment." but Yale's
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magazine '' Broad Recognition'' called for administrative action against the leadership of . By October 24, 2010, Dean Mary Miller of Yale College had strongly recommended to the National Executive Director, Dr. Douglas Lanpher, that the chapter at Yale be put on probation indefinitely. Instead, on May 17, 2011, the chapter was suspended for five years. The order barred from conducting any activities on the Yale campus during that time. In January 2011, the chapter at the
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had its student group status suspended for five years after hazing video surfaced of pledges being confined in a plywood box, forced to eat vomit, and deprived of sleep, by other fraternity members. In November 2014, a colony in
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, since closed, had the minutes leaked from a meeting in March 2014 by the
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student newspaper, '' The Student''. The minutes allegedly made reference to comments that joked about rape, sexual harassment, transphobia and hazing. The story gained traction in both national and international media, being picked up by ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''Time'' magazine. In 2018 after Christine Blasey Ford accused
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of sexual assault, an old photograph surfaced showing two members of marching across the Yale campus, one carrying a flag made from women's underwear. Kavanaugh, who is not in the photograph, was a member of the fraternity when the photograph was taken. One of the members told the student paper that the underwear was obtained consensually, but female classmates said their rooms were ransacked by members while they were in class, saying they were "loud, entitled, pushy and creepy". In the spring of 2018, the chapter at Virginia Tech had its student group status suspended for ten years after being found responsible for alcohol violations, hazing, interference with the student conduct process, and failure to observe rules and regulations while on deferred suspension. The ''Sigma Alpha chapter'' of DKE, the oldest fraternity at Virginia Tech, continues to operate but is not recognized by the university. The chapter is eligible to be re-instated in 2028. Following the fraternity's turbulent return to Yale University campus life in 2016, few female sports teams, and fewer sororities, agreed to mix with the ''Phi chapter'' of ΔΚΕ.


See also

* List of Delta Kappa Epsilon brothers * List of Delta Kappa Epsilon chapters * List of social fraternities and sororities


References


External links


DKE Organization Home Page
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DKE history

The DKE Club of New York



Delta Tau Chi
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