Tau Kappa Epsilon (ΤΚΕ or Teke, pronounced T-K-E or Tēk) is an international all-male secret and social college fraternity founded on January 10, 1899, at Illinois Wesleyan University. The organization has chapters in the United States, Canada, and an affiliation with a German fraternity system known as the Corps of the Weinheimer Senioren-Convent (WSC). There are currently 291 active TKE chapters and colonies throughout the United States and Canada, making it the largest fraternity in terms of
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View More chapters established. In 1928, TKE became one of the first fraternities to abolish "hell week", instead replacing it with a secret initiation period.TKE is also historically known for never allowing discriminatory recruitment practices against race, religion, or national origin, despite widespread pre-Civil Rights Act of 1964 discrimination in other fraternities.
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