Tau Kappa Epsilon

Location

203 1st Street

Hours

24-7

Contact

President:

Steven Cross (415) 710-0426

Rush Chair:

Matt Chernin (925) 330-5026

Web Chair:

Andrew Miller (805) 208-8929

AIM:

RushTKEUCD

Twitter:

DavisTKE

Website

Facebook.com/DavisTKE

Information page

Tau Kappa Epsilon (often shortened to TKE, pronounced like "Teak" and not to be confused with "Tweak") is a fraternity. Tau Kappa Epsilon is the largest college social fraternity by number of chapters worldwide, with chapters in the US and Canada, and relations with a "Studentenverbindung" (student fraternity) in Germany. The Davis chapter of TKE was founded in 1989. They are known in Davis for their parties (usually with an ice block) and their philanthropy (they hold an annual competition among sororities.)

Relay for Life - Saturday 10am to Sunday 10am, April 4-5, 2009
Fighting cancer is a team effort. The impact we can make together is much greater than what any of us could do alone. By supporting our team, you will be a part of a life-changing event that celebrates the lives of those who have battled cancer, remembers loved ones lost, and empowers all of us to fight back against a disease that takes too much.
Cancer never sleeps, and neither will we...........

If you would like to support our 2009 Relay for Life team, please check out our team's page at:
TKE Relay for Life
Update 4/06/09: With your help we raised nearly $1,700 in donations to Relay for Life

The Sigma Chi chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon in Davis, California, held our first annual "Tau Kappa Epsilon Family Day" on January 24th, 2009.

TKE Family Day included an open house at the fraternity, dinner for the parents and fraters alike, a silent auction, and a walk through campus to a lecture hall. There, we held an awards night for those fraters that contribute to our fraternity's success and those that have a high level of academic achievement.

The goal of the event was to showcase to the parents what their son dedicates so much of his time to — what their son means when he says he is proud to be a part of the best fraternity, TKE. No other fraternity at UC Davis has an event even similar to this. TKE Family Day began as an idea in our chapter's meeting in October, and through the hard work of many, we sent formal invitation letters to the parents of our fraters. The parents were able to RSVP through our website and over twenty eight family members of Teke's showed up. Based on the success of TKE Family Day, it is something that our chapter will keep as a tradition. View family day photos

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i've never heard anything about their parties or philanthropy, but i do see their posters featuring Ronnie Reagan everywhere. also, was the above photo taken at the bottom of the ocean? can we do any better than that? - ArlenAbraham

Their iceblocking parties were a frequent event when I was a freshman and had to walk to parties. Imagine 100 strangers putting their mouths on the same indentation on a block of ice and the TKEs pouring Kamikazes down the channel. Console your fears of saliva-borne diseases with the ideas that alcohol kills everything and that hopefully the ice has melted sufficiently since the last person put their mouth there that you've got fresh ice. Also don't expect to feel your mouth again for a while. - DanielMedinaCleghorn

2006-04-30 02:35:08   I'm glad my old party house (502 Oeste) is being put to good use. —JaimeRaba

2006-04-30 02:47:16   My brother is a TKE (albeit on the opposite side of the country). I've heard good things. Anyone who makes Michael Morris black out running a tread mill is ok in my book. —ZacMorris