The front of the TKE house as seen from the street.
| Location |
| 203 1st Street, Davis, CA 95616 |
| Close to campus, located on the corner of 1st and A |
| Websites |
Facebook: ![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small} http://www.facebook.com/davistke |
| Contact |
| President: Alex Sherman |
| Vice-President: Clay Han |
Tau Kappa Epsilon (often shortened to TKE, pronounced like "Teke") is a fraternity at UC Davis. Tau Kappa Epsilon is the largest college social fraternity by number of chapters worldwide, with chapters across the US and Canada. The Davis chapter of TKE was founded in 1989 and reaches around 60 active members every year. As a fraternity, TKE has strong involvement at UC Davis by participating in several philanthropies and performing community service as well as hosting their annual philanthropy, TKE Sweetheart, which helps raise money for the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Beyond participating in the fraternity, Tekes are also involved with other organizations such as ASUCD, IFC, Clinica Tepati, BloodSource, and various sports teams including soccer, tennis, and rugby. Additionally, TKE members have majors in and pursue careers in all fields of study, with recent members having received acceptances from Johns Hopkins Medical, Stanford School of Business, Georgetown Law, USC law, and UCLA Law this year alone.
Recent Chapter Awards:
2012 IFC Award of Excellence: New Member Evaluation and Recruitment
3rd Place - 2012 Kappa Alpha Theta Mr. Casanova
2nd Place - 2010 Kappa Alpha Theta Mr. Casanova
 Taken out front of the house, shortly after the initiation of the Beta Iota pledge class, Fall 2011.  Brothers congratulate Phillip Vogeley after placing third in Mr. Casanova 2012.  Taken after a Sacramento Kings basketball game, Winter 2012. |
 Shortly after the initiation of the Beta Kappa pledge class. Taken outside of Geidt Hall, Winter 2012. |
 Final preparations are made before TKE Sweetheart 2012.  A photograph taken after TKE Sweetheart 2012.  Tekes at Arrow Jam 2012. |
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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
2012-03-17 19:18:43 i do know they have a really awesome philanthropy with TKE Sweetheart and most of the people i know have nothing but good things to say about them. Seem pretty down to earth too. they've been exploding in recent years on campus, from what ive seen. —shaikhshake
