List of Zeta Psi chapters

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Each chapter in Zeta Psi has a unique name composed of one or two Greek letters. A colony petitioning Zeta Psi to become a chapter chooses a name for their chapter upon receiving their charter. From this point on, the name is fixed. Even if the chapter goes inactive—in that it has no undergraduate members—the name will be taken up by any group that re-establishes a chapter at the university campus.

The name can be based on many different factors. For instance, it is common for new chapters to take on an element from an existent chapter that has helped them form. Theta Xi chapter in Toronto adopted the Xi from their neighbor chapter in Michigan, and in turn every chapter in Ontario has a "Theta" as part of their name from their relationship to the Toronto chapter. Other times, a name is related to other factors like the Roman Catholic Villanova University chapter being named Alpha Omega chapter due to the Christian significance.

A one or two letter name can only be re-used if the chapter possessing the name is pronounced "deceased." This has not happened since 1892.

Active chapters[]

Name Chartered Institution Location Status Notes Reference
Alpha Epsilon 1909 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL, US Active


Alpha Mu 1938 Dalhousie University Halifax, NS, CA Active Inactive: 1940-1947, 1988-1997, 2007-2012 [1]


Alpha Theta 2001 University of Waterloo & Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON, CA Active Inactive: 2010-2015


Alpha Pi 1975 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA, US Active [2]


Alpha Psi 1883 McGill University Montreal, QC, CA Active Inactive: 1971-1977


Beta 1868 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA, US Active Inactive: 2011-2013


Alpha Beta 1899 University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, US Active Inactive: 2001-2015 [3]

[4]


Beta Delta 2015 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, US Active


Beta Tau 1977 Tulane University New Orleans, LA, US Active


Delta 1848 Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ, US Active Inactive: 2009-2011, 2014-2019


Gamma 1875 Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, US Active Inactive: 1888-1905, 2007-2019 [5]


Gamma Epsilon 2009 Georgetown University Washington, DC, US Active


Gamma Psi 2016 University of Guelph Guelph, ON, CA Active This chapter in Ontario is missing the customary "Theta" letter reference to the Toronto chapter.


Delta Chi 1969 American University Washington, DC, US Active Inactive: 1972-2010


Zeta Tau 2015 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI, US Active


Eta 1889 Yale University New Haven, CT, US Active


Theta Eta 2009 Brock University St. Catharines, ON, CA Active


Theta Xi 1879 University of Toronto Toronto, ON, CA Active First Greek letter fraternity in Canada.


Theta Omicron 2012 Trinity College Dublin Dublin, IE Active Not recognized by university.


Theta Phi 1947 University of Western Ontario London, ON, CA Active


Theta Psi 2010 Queen's University Kingston, ON, CA Active Not recognized by university.


Iota 1870 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, US Active Temporarily Inactive 2017 [6]

[7] [8]


Iota Alpha 1979 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX, US Active Inactive: 2005-2008


Iota Delta 1981 University of California at Davis Davis, CA, US Active Inactive: 1998-2014


Iota Nu 2013 University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV, US Active


Iota Omicron 2008 University of Oxford Oxford, ENG, UK Active Not recognized by university. First Greek letter fraternity in the UK.


Kappa 1855 Tufts University Medford, MA, US Active


Kappa Phi 1984 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art New York City, NY, US Active


Mu Theta 1930 University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, CA Active


Mu Pi 2007 Binghamton University Binghamton, NY, US Active


Nu 1884 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH, US Active


Nu Delta 2000 Marist College Poughkeepsie, NY, US Active


Omicron 1958 Nebraska Wesleyan University Lincoln, NE, US Active


Omicron Epsilon 1850 Princeton University Princeton, NJ, US Active Inactive: 1883-1982


Pi 1865 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY, US Active Inactive: 1894-1950


Pi Kappa 1969 Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Bloomsburg, PA, US Active Inactive: 1999-2008


Pi Tau 1976 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA, US Active


Psi Omicron 2019 Université de Paris Paris, Île-de-France, France Active Not recognized by university.


Rho Alpha 1979 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, US Active


Sigma 1850 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, US Active [9]


Sigma Beta 2015 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA, US Active


Sigma Epsilon 1926 University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, CA Active Inactive: 1993-2012


Sigma Gamma 2007 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, US Active Not recognized by university.


Tau 1857 Lafayette College Easton, PA, US Active Inactive: 2014-2018


Tau Theta 2005 University of Ontario Institute of Technology Oshawa, ON, CA Active


Tau Gamma 1968 Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, US Active


Upsilon 1858 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, US Active


Phi 1847 New York University New York City, NY, US Active


Phi Epsilon 1976 University of Maryland, College Park College Park, MD, US Active


Phi Lambda 1920 University of Washington Seattle, WA, US Active


Chi Gamma 1967 University of Calgary Calgary, AB, CA Active Inactive: 2007-2013


Psi 1868 Cornell University Ithaca, NY, US Active


Psi Epsilon 1853 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH, US Active Inactive: 1865-1870, 1874-1919 [10]


Omega Alpha 1864 University of Chicago Chicago, IL, US Active


Inactive chapters[]

Name Chartered Institution Location Status Notes Reference
Alpha 1879 Columbia University New York City, NY, US Inactive,
2009 		Inactive: 1937-1980; evicted from campus housing 2007 [11]

[12] [13]


Alpha Nu 1991 Claremont Colleges Claremont, CA, US Inactive,
2007


Alpha Omega 1984 Villanova University Radnor Township, PA, US Inactive,
1999


Beta Sigma 2007 University of Georgia Athens, GA, US Inactive,
2008


Chi 1850 Colby College Waterville, ME, US Inactive,
1989


Delta Alpha 1990 University of Colorado Boulder, CO, US Inactive,
1996


Delta Kappa 2001 University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB, CA Inactive,
2004


Epsilon 1852 Brown University Providence, RI, US Inactive,
1986[14]


Lambda 1867 Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME, US Inactive,
1991


Lambda Psi 1910 University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI, US Inactive,
2008 		Inactive: 1933-1997


Mu 1892 Stanford University Stanford, CA, US Inactive,
1998 		Inactive 1981-1984, 1987-1992 [15]

[16]


Mu Alpha 1999 Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX, US Inactive,
2003


Nu Sigma 2003 Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ, US Inactive,
2016 		Suspended by the University for five years. [17]


Omega 1947 Northwestern University Evanston, IL, US Inactive,
1993


Omicron Sigma 1962 Oregon State University Corvallis, OR, US Inactive,
1971


Pi Epsilon 1921 University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, CA Inactive,
2010 		International leadership is preparing to recharter the Pi Epsilon chapter for its centenary in 2021. [18]


Pi Sigma 1960 Pennsylvania State University State College, PA, US Inactive,
2018 		Penn State University is suspending the fraternity through spring semester 2022. [19]


Psi Kappa 1996 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, US Inactive,
1998


Psi Zeta 1979 Ohio State University Columbus, OH, US Inactive,
1984 		Temporarily Active 2017, 2019. OSU suspended all its IFC chapters' activities including the Psi Zeta's in November 2017. [20]

[21] [22]

Rho 1956 Middlebury College Middlebury, VT, US Inactive,
1987


Rho Epsilon 1852 Harvard University Cambridge, MA, US Inactive,
1998


Sigma Omicron 2011 University of St. Andrews Saint Andrews, SCO, UK Inactive,
2014


Sigma Phi 1970 University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL, US Inactive,
2016


Sigma Zeta 1924 University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, US Inactive,
2009 		Inactive: 1995-2000


Tau Alpha 1992 Texas A&M University College Station, TX, US Inactive,
1998


Tau Delta 1973 Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA, US Inactive,
2002


Theta 1960 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT, US Inactive,
2012


Theta Tau 1994 University of Vermont Burlington, VT, US Inactive,
2002


Upsilon Mu 1975 University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, US Inactive,
2009


Xi 1861 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, US Inactive,
2019 		Inactive: 1970-1975, 1991-1993, 2002-2004; chapter operations suspended through end of 2021. [23]

[24]


Zeta 1848 Williams College Williamstown, MA, US Inactive,
1991


Deceased chapters[]

Name Chartered Institution Location Status Notes Reference
Alpha 1852 Dickinson College Carlisle, PA, US Deceased,
1856


Beta 1858 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, US Deceased,
1861 		At the beginning of the Civil War all but two of the Beta chapters active members left campus to enlist in the Union and Confederate armies. The brotherhood in Ann Arbor was subsequently reorganized with the chartering of the Xi chapter in 1861 and morally supported by the efforts of Elders Lewis Pilcher and James F. Spalding. However, the Xi chapters founding is officially recorded in Fraternity history as 1858, founding father Liberty Holden (Chi chapter, Colby College), the origins of the two chapters being so closely intertwined. [25]


Gamma 1861 Georgia Military Institute Marietta, GA, US Deceased,
1861 		Died with the Institute's demise following the Civil War. [26]


Gamma 1874 United States Naval Academy Annapolis, MD, US Deceased,
1874 		Due to "government restrictions against fraternities". [27]


Eta 1861 Pennsylvania College (now: Gettysburg College) Gettysburg, PA, US Deceased,
1872 		Unfavorable conditions following the Battle of Gettysburg. [26]


Theta 1856 Union College Schenectady, NY, US Deceased,
1871 		"Due to loss of men during" the Civil War. [26]


Mu 1879 Columbia University New York, NY, US Deceased,
1881 		[28]


Omicron 1850 Princeton University Princeton, NJ, US Deceased,
1882 		[29]


Pi 1858 Amherst College Amherst, MA, US Deceased,
1859 		Charter "moved" to Rensselaer after Civil War. [26]


Rho 1852 Harvard University Cambridge, MA, US Deceased,
1892 		[29]


Psi 1853 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH, US Deceased,
1873 		[29]


Omega 1864 University of Chicago (now: Old University of Chicago) Chicago, IL, US Deceased,
1887 		Died along with the Old University of Chicago in 1887. [26]


Notes[]

  1. ^ Pledge Manual of the Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America. Pearl River, NY, USA: Zeta Psi. August 2000. p. 28.
  2. ^ "Zeta Psi Virginia Tech Webpage". Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  3. ^ Zeta Psi Chapters. Pearl River, NY, USA: Zeta Psi. 2017.
  4. ^ "Zeta Psi back on campus, moves into original house". Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  5. ^ Pledge Manual of the Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America. Pearl River, NY, USA: Zeta Psi. August 2000. p. 27.
  6. ^ This chapter had been noted as the first fraternity chapter to form West of the Mississippi. Cited in the historical study "The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi" by Laurie Wilkie.Wilkie, Laurie (April 2010). The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520260603.
  7. ^ "Man, 20, found dead after party at Berkeley frat house". Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  8. ^ "Sister of man who fell from roof of UC Berkeley frat house says no one called for help". Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  9. ^ "Univ. of Pennsylvania says Zeta Psi fraternity didn't abuse camel". Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  10. ^ Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America Pledge Manual. Pearl River, NY, USA: Zeta Psi. 2006. p. 22.
  11. ^ "Columbia Zeta Psi". Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  12. ^ "Life at das Zëtehaus". Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  13. ^ "Zeta Psi's Eviction: Unjust and Ominous". Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  14. ^ The former Epsilon chapter of Zeta Psi went co-ed, renaming itself Zeta Delta Xi on January 24, 1987.
  15. ^ "Zeta Psi fraternity suspended, loses house". Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  16. ^ "Stanford Fraternity Disbands". Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  17. ^ "Zeta Psi suspended from campus for five years". Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  18. ^ "Zeta Psi - University of Manitoba". Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  19. ^ "Zeta Psi fraternity's recognition suspended through spring 2022". Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  20. ^ "Ohio State suspends 37 fraternities amidst hazing, alcohol investigations". Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  21. ^ "One Ohio State fraternity remains on full suspension from November ban". Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  22. ^ "Zeta Psi OSU - Facebook". Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  23. ^ "Zeta Psi - Xi Chapter History". Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  24. ^ "Xi Chapter Status". Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  25. ^ Biographical Catalogue of the Xi Chapter of the Zeta Psi Fraternity. New York, NY, USA: Zeta Psi. June 1897. p. 7.
  26. ^ a b c d e Pledge Manual of the Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America. Pearl River, NY, USA: Zeta Psi. August 2000. p. 32.
  27. ^ Pledge Manual of the Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America. Pearl River, NY, USA: Zeta Psi. August 2000. p. 33.
  28. ^ Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America: Double Diamond Jubilee. Paducah, KY, USA: Turner Publishing Company. 1997. p. 15.
  29. ^ a b c Semicentennial Biographical Catalogue of the Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America. New York, NY, USA: Zeta Psi. December 1899. p. 161.

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