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FSU fraternities

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OK - since you asked. There is some question as to whether there were national fraternities here in the late 1800s. That still is an open question. The first fraternity at Florida State College was KAOrder in 1902. They helped found the chapter of KD Sorority here and so the KD Chapter name is "KA". FSU was all-female from 1905 till 1946. Once the doors opened the fraternities begin to organize. Many of the men students were returning veterans who had been in fraternities at other southern schools. In fall 1947 there were colonies of eight fraternities: ATO, Pike, Phi Kappa Tau, Phi Delta Theta, Delta Tau Delta, SAE, KA,and Theta Chi. Bu agreement, all the chapters were to be installed at the same time on March 4, 1949 but the Delta initiated the night before and because the "first". For some reason Phi Delta theta did not initiate their chapter until a year later. The University built eight fraternity houses, three along Tennessee Street and five along Wildwood Drive. Seven of the eight fraternities accepted the offer of housing; one (Pike) did not. Lambda Chi Alpha was just colonized and so they took the remaining house. Fraternities kept coming and by the mid-1960s 13 more fraternities had been added to the original eight: Lambda Chi, Kappa Sigma, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Tau Epsilon Phi, Chi Phi, Delta chi, Phi Kappa Psi, AEPi, Fiji, Sigma Phi Epsilon and TEKE. Delta Tau Delta was the first fraternity to "leave", in 1970. Continued below...