Editing Delta Kappa Epsilon (section)

== Controversies and member misconduct ==

*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 the charter revoked. Only 69 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.<ref name="Nuwer">{{cite book|last1=Nuwer|first1=Hank|title=Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking|date=August 22, 2001|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=025321498X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHM9ltEQIU0C&q=Rick+Cerra+hazing+death&pg=PA250}}</ref><ref name="Monroeville">{{cite news|title=Students' prank caused death|work=[[The Monroeville Breeze]]|date=June 9, 1892|page=6|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/40530142}}</ref><ref name="Yale">{{cite news|title=Much Sorrow At Yale|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/33447124|work=The Inter Ocean|date=June 12, 1892|page=27}}</ref><ref name="Yale book">{{cite news|last=Dwight|first=Frederick|title=Quarter-Century Record, Class Of 1894 Yale College|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NEs3v-YlUr4C&pg=PA471|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|year=2009|page= 471}}</ref>
*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."<ref>Maureen Dowd, [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20A13FD3D5C0C748CDDAD0894D1494D81 Liberties; President Frat Boy?], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 10, 1999</ref>
*In [[New Orleans]] in 1987, dozens of '''{{lang|grc|ΔΚΕ}}''' fraternity members marched in blackface in a parade in broad daylight.<ref>Richard Fausset and Campbell Robertson, [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/us/northam-blackface-virginia.html], ''[[The New York Times]]'', Feb. 8, 2019</ref>
*In 1989, [[Colgate University]] banned all '''{{lang|grc|ΔΚΕ}}''' activities after the officials found members guilty of [[hazing]], [[blackballing]] and other violations of university regulations.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1XEhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=W4gFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2590,4932253&dq=delta+kappa+epsilon+colgate&hl=en Fraternity at Colgate closed for school year], ''[[The Daily Gazette|Schenectady Gazette]]'', July 27, 1989.</ref> In 2005 Colgate University barred the fraternity from campus for refusing to sell its house to the school and join a new student-residence initiative. '''{{lang|grc|ΔΚΕ}}''' filed a lawsuit charging that the school violated its [[freedom of association|right to free association]] as well as [[antitrust law]]s by monopolizing the student housing market.<ref>Alex Kingsbury, [https://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051128/28frat.htm Say It Ain't So: Frats Gone Mild] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513150933/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051128/28frat.htm |date=2013-05-13 }}, ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'', November 20, 2005.</ref> 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."<ref>[http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/03/08/colgate Whose House? Colgate's House], ''[[Inside Higher Ed]]'', March 8, 2006/</ref><ref>[http://www.courts.state.ny.us/reporter/3dseries/2006/2006_50327.htm ''Delta Kappa Epsilon Alumni Corp. v Colgate University''], 2006 court decision.</ref>
*In 1989, [[Virginia Tech]] banned all '''{{lang|grc|ΔΚΕ}}''' 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]] in Ohio surfaced on campus. After the allegations emerged the Virginia Tech administration under President [[James Douglas McComas|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 '''{{lang|grc|ΔΚΕ}}''' 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1989/11/18/racial-incident-leads-va-tech-to-oust-fraternity/900f79b7-64f1-4dba-85a0-5fd35ab473a7/ |title=Racial Incident Leads Va. Tech To Oust Fraternity |newspaper=The Washington Post |accessdate=2021-11-19}}</ref>  Its charter was not revoked and the DKE chapter continued to operate in its off-campus house in [[Blacksburg, Virginia|Blacksburg]] despite the ban. Through the efforts of influential Virginia Tech DKE alumni and university donors, the chapter was ultimately re-instated in the mid-1990s.
*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 [[Malt liquor#Container size|‘forty’]].”<ref>Rhoden, William C, [https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/25/sports/in-the-end-where-will-power-lie.html]. ''[[The New York Times]]'',  JAN. 25, 1997</ref>
*In December 2008, the [[University of California, Berkeley]] suspended recognition of the local DKE chapter for alcohol, hazing, and fire safety misconduct.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.dailycal.org/printable.php?id=104728 |title=Fraternity May Contest Recent Loss Of Affiliation |work=The Daily Californian |publisher=The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. |access-date=23 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304121450/http://archive.dailycal.org/printable.php?id=104728 |archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dailycal.org/2012/08/22/uc-berkeley-fraternities-consider-remaining-unaffiliated-with-campus/ |title=UC Berkeley fraternities consider remaining unaffiliated with campus |first=Chloe |last=Hunt |date=22 August 2012 |work=The Daily Californian |publisher=The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823065751/http://www.dailycal.org/2012/08/22/uc-berkeley-fraternities-consider-remaining-unaffiliated-with-campus/ |archive-date=23 August 2012 |url-status=live |access-date=16 July 2017}}</ref> In May 2012, during a routine patrol of the campus, the County Vice Enforcement Team visited the chapter. Several citations were issued for underage drinking.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailycal.org/2012/08/01/alameda-county-wide-vice-enforcement-team-has-monthly-operations/|title=Alameda County enforcement team issues students underage drinking citations|first=Karishma|last=Mehrotra|date=1 August 2012|work=The Daily Californian|publisher=The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120802165326/http://www.dailycal.org/2012/08/01/alameda-county-wide-vice-enforcement-team-has-monthly-operations/|archive-date=2 August 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>
*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 "[[Sexual consent#"No means no"|No means yes]]. Yes means [[Anal sex|anal]]".<ref>Amanda Raus, [http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Offensive-Chants-Get-Frat-Boys-in-Trouble-105082699.html Offensive Chants Get Frat Boys in Trouble], [[NBC]] News Connecticut, October 15, 2010</ref> The chapter's president, Jordan Forney, apologized for the fraternity's conduct, characterizing it as a "lapse in judgment."<ref>Jordi Gasso, Sam Greenberg, [http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2010/oct/15/dke-apologizes-for-pledge-chants/ "DKE apologizes for pledge chants"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101108055104/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2010/oct/15/dke-apologizes-for-pledge-chants/ |date=2010-11-08 }}, ''[[Yale Daily News]]'', October 15, 2010.</ref> but Yale's [[feminist]] magazine ''[[Broad Recognition]]'' called for administrative action against the leadership of '''{{lang|grc|ΔΚΕ}}'''. By October 24, 2010, Dean [[Mary Miller (art historian)|Mary Miller]] of Yale College had strongly recommended to the '''{{lang|grc|ΔΚΕ}}''' National Executive Director, Dr. Douglas Lanpher, that the chapter at Yale be put on probation indefinitely.<ref>Hannah Zeavin, [http://www.broadrecognition.com/yale-new-haven/the-straw-that-broke-the-camel%E2%80%99s-back-dke-sponsors-verbal-assault-on-yale%E2%80%99s-old-campus/ "The Last Straw: DKE Sponsors Hate Speech on Yale's Old Campus"], ''Broad Recognition'' magazine, October 14, 2010</ref> Instead, on May 17, 2011, the chapter was suspended for five years.<ref>Barbara Goldberg, Ros Krasny and Tim Gaynor, [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sexual-harassment-yale-idUSTRE74H06W20110518 "Yale punishes fraternity for sexist chanting"], Reuters, May 17, 2011</ref> The order barred {{lang|grc|ΔΚΕ}} from conducting any activities on the Yale campus during that time.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/18/connecticut.yale.frat/index.html?hpt=Sbin "Yale suspends fraternity for raunchy chants"], CNN, May 19, 2011</ref>
*In January 2011, the '''{{lang|grc|ΔΚΕ}}''' chapter at the [[University of Alberta]] had its student group status suspended for five years after a hazing video surfaced of pledges being confined in a plywood box, forced to eat vomit, and deprived of sleep, by other fraternity members.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/65171/universitys-dke-fraternity-suspended/|title=University's DKE fraternity suspended - Globalnews.ca|date=27 January 2011|website=globalnews.ca}}</ref>
*In November 2014, a '''{{lang|grc|ΔΚΕ}}''' colony in [[Edinburgh]], since closed, had the minutes leaked from a meeting in March 2014 by the [[University of Edinburgh]] student newspaper, ''[[The Student (newspaper)|The Student]]''. The minutes allegedly referred to comments that joked about rape, sexual harassment, transphobia and hazing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.studentnewspaper.org/leaked-frat-minutes-reveal-shocking-discussions-of-rape/|title=Leaked frat minutes reveal shocking discussions of rape threats, sexual harassment, transphobia, and hazing|date=18 November 2014}}</ref> The story gained traction in both national and international media, being picked up by ''[[The Independent]]'', ''[[The Huffington Post]]'', and [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]].
*In 2018, after [[Christine Blasey Ford]] accused [[Brett Kavanaugh]] of sexual assault, an old photograph surfaced showing two members of '''{{lang|grc|ΔΚΕ}}''' 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 '''{{lang|grc|ΔΚΕ}}''' members while they were in class, saying they were "loud, entitled, pushy and creepy".<ref name="dke2018">{{cite magazine|title=The Long Decline of DKE, Brett Kavanaugh's Fraternity at Yale|magazine=The New Yorker|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-long-decline-of-dke-brett-kavanaughs-fraternity-at-yale|access-date=18 September 2019}}</ref>