Tau Kappa Epsilon

Tau Kappa Epsilon (ΤΚΕ or Teke, pronounced T-K-E or Tēk) is a college fraternity founded on January 10, 1899, at Illinois Wesleyan University with chapters in the United States, and Canada, and 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. The colors of the fraternity are cherry red and true grey. TKE was also one of the first fraternities to abolish "Hell week" when in 1928 it was replaced with an initiation period consisting of lessons portraying attributes of brotherhood.