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Gamma Delta Chi (ΓΔΧ)
Dartmouth College is host to many Fraternities and sororities in North America, fraternities and sororities, and a significant percentage of the undergraduate student body is active in Greek life. In the fall of 2022, 35 percent of male students belonged to a fraternity, and 36 percent of students belonged to a sorority. Greek organizations at Dartmouth provide both social and residential opportunities for students and are the only single-sex residential option on campus. Greek organizations at Dartmouth do not provide dining options, as regular meal service has been banned in Greek houses since 1909. Social fraternities at Dartmouth College grew out of a tradition of student College literary societies (American), literary societies that began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The first social fraternities were founded in 1842 and rapidly expanded to include the active participation of over half of the student body. Fraternities at Dartmouth built dedicated Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Emerging into national prominence at the turn of the 20th century, Dartmouth has since been considered among the most prestigious undergraduate colleges in the United States. Although originally established to educate Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans in Christian theology and the Anglo-American way of life, the university primarily trained Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalist ministers during its early history before it gradually secularized. While Dartmouth is now a research university rather than simply an undergraduate college, it continues to go by "Dartmouth College" to emphasize its focus on undergraduate education. Following a liberal arts curriculum, Dartmouth provides unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpha Chi Alpha
Alpha Chi Alpha () is a fraternity at the American Ivy League university of Dartmouth College. Alpha Chi Alpha is a member of Dartmouth's Greek system, which currently has fourteen fraternities, nine sororities, and three co-ed undergraduate houses that fall under the umbrella of the Greek system. Alpha Chi Alpha is referred to among Dartmouth students as simply Alpha Chi. The house, which is located at 13 Webster Avenue on the Dartmouth College campus, is a college-owned fraternity, meaning that the brothers do not own the land or house. This also means that Dartmouth College paid for $1.3 million in renovations (done during the summer of 2004), which included the razing of the "Barn" structure that was used as social space by the brothers of Alpha Chi to make way for a newly expanded basement and main floor area which were to act as a new social space for the fraternity. The house is nicknamed the "Magic Green Cottage" and the "Cheese Lodge" by its members and has the unique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psi Upsilon
Psi Upsilon (), commonly known as Psi U, is a North American fraternity,''Psi Upsilon Tablet'' founded at Union College on November 24, 1833. The fraternity has chartered fifty chapters at colleges and universities throughout North America, some of which are inactive. Psi Upsilon's foundation provides scholarships and other financial guidance to students throughout the United States and Canada, giving preference to its members, as well as mentoring and other support services. History In 1833, five sophomore and two freshman members of the Delphian Society, a local literary group, had become friends and began to meet regularly to exchange essays and engage in literary debate. The seven men thus founded Psi Upsilon on the evening of November 24, 1833. The first constitution was adopted on January 10, 1834. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chi Heorot
Chi Heorot (often referred to simply as "Heorot" or "XH") is a local fraternity at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. It was a chapter of the national fraternity Chi Phi until 1985. History Predecessors Chi Heorot origins date to 1897 with the establishment of a local fraternity called Alpha Alpha Omega. In 1902 it was granted a charter as the ''Chi chapter'' of Chi Phi. Soon after, the fraternity moved to its present location on East Wheelock Street, and in 1927 sold off its eighteenth-century house and built the house that stands today. By the mid-1900s, the Dartmouth chapter of Chi Phi was having some issues with its national charter. Some of these disagreements are alleged to have regarded the admission of an African-American student into the Dartmouth chapter, in violation of Chi Phi rules of the time. Chi Phi Heorot In 1968, the ''Chi chapter'' of Chi Phi disassociated from the national fraternity and became the local fraternity Chi Phi Heorot. After se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chi Gamma Epsilon
Chi Gamma Epsilon () is a local fraternity at the American Ivy League university of Dartmouth College. "Chi Gam," as it is commonly known, was part of Kappa Sigma fraternity before breaking off for political reasons. On campus, Chi Gam is known for its dance parties such as Gammapalooza, its house pong game known as ship and its commitment to community service. In past years Chi Gam gained a reputation as the "Baseball Frat," although now the house is populated by a wide variety of different people, including members of the Dartmouth Lightweight Crew team, Dartmouth Cross Country team, and leaders of student organizations. History Predecessors Chi Gamma Epsilon has been an integral part of Dartmouth College’s Greek life for over a century. Originally founded in 1904 as the local fraternity Beta Gamma, the organization was established by eleven founding members who sought to create a brotherhood dedicated to camaraderie, leadership, and tradition. A year later, in 1905, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phi Delta Alpha
Dartmouth College is host to many fraternities and sororities, and a significant percentage of the undergraduate student body is active in Greek life. In the fall of 2022, 35 percent of male students belonged to a fraternity, and 36 percent of students belonged to a sorority. Greek organizations at Dartmouth provide both social and residential opportunities for students and are the only single-sex residential option on campus. Greek organizations at Dartmouth do not provide dining options, as regular meal service has been banned in Greek houses since 1909. Social fraternities at Dartmouth College grew out of a tradition of student literary societies that began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The first social fraternities were founded in 1842 and rapidly expanded to include the active participation of over half of the student body. Fraternities at Dartmouth built dedicated residence and meeting halls in the early 1900s and 1920s, and then struggled to surviv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Sigma Phi Epsilon (), commonly known as SigEp, is a social college Fraternities and sororities, fraternity for male college students in the United States. It was founded on November 1, 1901, at Richmond College, which is now the University of Richmond, and its national headquarters remains in Richmond, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. It was founded on three principles: Virtue, Diligence, and Brotherly Love (often abbreviated as "VDBL"). Sigma Phi Epsilon is one of the largest social fraternities in the United States in terms of current undergraduate membership. History In the fall of 1900 18-year-old divinity student Carter Ashton Jenkens, the son of a Baptist minister, transferred from Rutgers University, Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey to University of Richmond, Richmond College, a Baptist institution in Richmond, Virginia. At Rutgers Jenkens had been initiated into the Chi Phi fraternity. At Richmond, which did not have a chapter of Chi Phi, Jenkens was part of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigma Nu
Sigma Nu () is an undergraduate Fraternities and sororities in North America, college fraternity founded at the Virginia Military Institute in 1869. Since its founding, Sigma Nu has chartered more than 279 chapters across the United States and Canada and has initiated more than 235,000 members. It is part of the Triad (American fraternities)#Lexington Triad, Lexington Triad, a trio of national fraternities that were founded at colleges in Lexington, Virginia. The fraternity is a member of the North American Interfraternity Conference. History Sigma Nu was founded by James Frank Hopkins, Greenfield Quarles, and James McIlvaine Riley shortly after Hopkins witnessed what he considered a hazing ritual by upperclassmen at the Virginia Military Institute. James Frank Hopkins, Greenfield Quarles, and James McIlvaine Riley enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute in 1866. Hopkins entered the institute at the age of 21 and was, at the time, one of the oldest cadets entering the institu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigma Lambda Beta
Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity, Incorporated () is an American Latino-based fraternity with multicultural membership. It was founded in 1986 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. History Sigma Lambda Beta fraternity was founded at the University of Iowa on April 4, 1986. Its founder was Baltazar Mendoza-Madrigal, along with seventeen other men. Mendoza-Madrigal, a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, was inspired by the significant contributions of his fraternity to the African American community and recognized a similar need within the Latino community. With permission granted by the national board of Phi Beta Sigma, he was able to maintain his membership while establishing a new organization that aimed to serve and unify the Latino community. This process resulted in the creation of a fraternity that shared many ideological and procedural similarities with Phi Beta Sigma, reflecting their shared goals, ideals, and challenges. The founding meeting, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kappa Pi Kappa
Kappa Pi Kappa (), also known as Pi Kap and formerly known as Kappa Kappa Kappa (colloquially as Tri-Kap) and briefly as Kappa Chi Kappa, is a local men's fraternities and sororities, fraternity at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The fraternity was founded in 1842 and is the second-oldest fraternity at Dartmouth College. History Kappa Kappa Kappa was founded on July 13, 1842 by Harrison Carroll Hobart and two of his closest companions, Stephen Gordon Nash, and John Dudley Philbrick, all Class of 1842. The main archive URL iThe Baird's Manual Online Archive homepage The society was based on the principles of democracy, loyalty to Dartmouth, and equal opportunity, equality of opportunity. Originally a literary and debate society, Pi Kap officially became a social society in 1905 and has remained so ever since, making it the oldest extant local fraternity in the country. Due to the similarity of the society's Greek initials with the Latin/English initials of the unaffi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theta Delta Chi
Theta Delta Chi () is a social fraternity that was founded in 1847 at Union College, New York, United States. While nicknames differ from institution to institution, the most common nicknames for the fraternity are TDX, TDC, Thete, Theta Delt, and Thumpers. Theta Delta Chi brothers refer to their local organizations as ''charges'' rather than using the common fraternity nomenclature of ''chapters''. History Origins and growth Theta Delta Chi, the eleventh oldest of the college fraternities, was founded in 1847 at Union College in Schenectady, New York by six members of the class of 1849, including William G. Akin, Abel Beach, Theodore B. Brown, Andrew H. Green, William Hyslop, and Samuel F. Wile. In the first minute book of the ''Alpha charge'', taken in 1848, the names Jesse D. Fonda and Theodore J. Fonda were listed alongside the other six founders. The Fonda brothers seemed to be under the impression that they were founders and the existence of this record led to the mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeta Psi (ΖΨ)
Zeta Psi () is an international collegiate fraternity. It was founded in 1847 at New York University. The fraternity has over 100 chapters, with roughly 50,000 members. Zeta Psi was a founding member of the North American Interfraternity Conference. As one of the world's oldest collegiate fraternities, Zeta Psi has historically been selective about the campuses at which it establishes chapters. History 1847 to 1860: formation On June 1, 1847, three students at New York University established Zeta Psi fraternity in a New York City bungalow. Its founders were John Bradt Yates Sommers, William Henry Dayton and John Moon Skillman. These men formed the core of the first chapter, ''Phi'', but Dayton left New York due to poor health shortly and died within the year. The fraternity established a second chapter, ''Zeta,'' at Williams College. The ''Delta chapter'' was founded at Rutgers University later that year. Three chapters followed in 1850: ''Omicron'' (now ''Omicron Epsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
