Old School Movie
 

Is anybody else here gonna go see the movie "Old School" with Will Ferrell in it? He's a Teke after all. I'm just curious as to whether or not there will be any Teke references in it. He has worn his letters on Saturday Night Live before. The one segment I saw him with letters had him on a game show. They referred to him as 'the fraternity guy' or something, but he stepped up to the game show podium and yelled "RUSH TKE! WHOOOOO!!!" It was damn cool. hehe

I am going to go see it. Is Will definately a TKE? I know I have heard he is but we are not the only one that claims him.

Hmm..I'll have to tell my Teke that's Will is a Teke.. :)

Hehe, me and Dusty are gonna go see it here soon, it looks hilarious!

Is Will a Teke?
 

I personally have seen Will Ferrell on Saturday Night Live at least once wearing TKE clothes. And he mentioned it once. According to some of my brothers, they've seen him do it on a few episodes. If it happened that he wasn't a Teke, then shall we say 'infringement.' hehe

I have seen that episode too but I think it is just a prop shirt. Mike Myers wore a TKE shirt in one of the older ones making fun of sorority girls. The one actress had a Tri Delt shirt on. I know Mike Myers isn't a TKE. This would be a good question to be answered byt the IHQ members that read this board. Can someone look it up?

Mike Myers? Really?
 

Wow. I didn't know Mike Myers wore a TKE shirt during one of his skits. I remember something of the skit, but I do not remember a Teke shirt in it. Of course, I wasn't even a brother the last time I saw it. If the cast of SNL wants to use the shirt then they should atleast portray it in a dignifying manner (although it is a comedy show). I mean come on. Those are our letters. If some joe schmoe can wear them for the TV then why can't Ron Jeremy wear letters even though he was initiated as an honorary and denied by IHQ? I hate to beat a dead horse, but atleast Teke's wanted Ron Jeremy to be a brother (not that Austin Powers/Mike Myers or Will Ferrell wouldn't be great additions).

Is there any way of finding out if Will Ferrell is a Teke? And furthermore, I wonder if there is a way to find out why SNL has our letters as part of their props? Any suggestions?

The only way the way we could find out is if somebody from IHQ looks it up because they are the only ones that can look that info up.

I have a friend who lives down there and she said that the house involved is a Teke house. Will Ferrel actually made the arangements for the house to be used with IHQ, and when they finished they had one hell of a party and Vince Vaughn and Wll actually came. The house is the San Diego State Univ. chapter I do believe

Will Ferrell is definately not a TKE. He is a Delta Tau Delta.

It is confirmed by the NIC site as well in a article at the snl site.

here is the snl article it is near the bottome of it...

http://www.saturday-night-live.com/s..._nightout.html

I don't know if Will used the San Diego TKE house. It maybe the Rutgers TKE house. He is at the Rutgers TKE house in the comdey central special on Old School. To bad the house looks like crap inside. They should have picked up the trash. I wonder if it is intentional for the show though.

Already seen it. Seeing it again... 5 more times

Will Ferrell not a TKE?
 

I'm closer to believing he is a Teke now more than ever. Just some stuff he was saying on the Comedy Central special as well as the fact that he is not on Delta Tau Delta's Who's Who of famous alumni. I checked their nationals page and could not find him. I did find a list of actors who I had no clue of their identity. He is pretty famous. Why not brag about that stuff you know?

Anyhow I'm sure the house is in such shambles just to add on to the story line of the 'Reel Comedy' special. I mean come on. Would your chapter leave their house dirty like that if they knew that it was going to be on national television? Think about it. He was also 'hazing' a brother in it too. Did you think that was real? The Barney stone? It was merely a mock of MTV's Cribs with Will Ferrell in a trashed fraternity house. Nothing more. Although I'm sure some of the stuff was real, I'm also sure alot of it was fake. All that trash on the side of their house. I know the city would complain about that, if not the neighbors. It was all rigged.

IHQ members confirmed he is not a TKE. The National Interfraternity Councel site also confirms he is a Delt.

http://www.nicindy.org/entertainment.html

Well damn. Doesn't that suck. Good research ZNTKE.

He may be a Delt but he is giving us alot of good PR.

The Will Ferrell debate
 

Okay. It's been common rumor for a few years that Will Ferrell was a Teke (at my chapter). When I told them he was a Delt, they refused to believe it. Some even threatened me. Well, not that bad, but it has sparked a tremendous debate within my chapter, because we have no lives. Anyways, this past weekend our Prytanis had to go to an SEIFC retreat and he asked some Tekes there and it was of their common knowledge that he was a Teke from UCLA. I wish somebody from IHQ would come on here and clear it up.

Dude, even people from IHQ on the TKE listserve say he is a Delt from USC. Your chapter will just embarrass themselves if they claim somebody that is not a TKE. Trust me is he was a TKE IHQ would claim him and put him with all the other famous alums. Show them the National Interfraternity Council site I listed. Do a search on Delta Tau Delta and Will Ferrell you will see. Call IHQ. Show your chapter this thread.

wel anyways the movie was crazy funny no matter what fraternity he is in.....

We don't claim him as a TKE to like rushees or anything. Just amongst each other. I keep telling them about this stuff and one of my brothers did his research about it too. He found sites that say both. Also, like I said earlier about my President going to an IFC conference. Well he said that there were pamphlets being distributed and it had famous Greek alumni on it. It said also that Will Ferrell was a Teke. I have yet to see an official from IHQ say otherwise. Granted I won't be taking sides on the issue till I know for sure.

I guess but if you don't believe IHQ then who would you believe?

Greek 101, the merch catalog, has a list of famous greeks on the back page every issue and recently Will Ferrell and Greg Kinnear were both claimed to be TKE's by them. I don't know what the dela is with Greg Kinnear or Will Ferrell. Usually that list is fairly accurate. I don't think a greek catalog that sends stuff out to practically ALL fraternities and sororities would put down someone for the wrong organization. Who knows.

Greek 101 relies on greek to submit the famous people and obvious a TKE submited him. The NIC web site should be proof enough because it governs almost all the national fraternities. Plus that web link I put up from the Saturday Night live article where Will says he was a Delt should be more proof. But I give up if everyone wants to claim a Delt as the brother go for it.

Here are articles where Will says he is a Delt or legit non chapter sites saying he is a delt.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/...-ferrell_x.htm

http://www.saturday-night-live.com/s..._nightout.html

http://www.nicindy.org/entertainment.html

http://www.delts.org/expansion/information/who.shtml

yeah, i just read the USA Today article where he says he himself is a Delt

Just found something strange on the Delt website though. Ferrell went to school and graduated at USC... there is only a colony at USC. They have no house on the fraternity row and no recognition from IFC, and the nationls site says it's the "Crescent Colony"

http://www.delts.org/chapters/chaplink.shtml

there's the link. How can Ferrell be a Delt from back in the day from USC when they're not even a chapter yet? Unless I'm missing something, of course. Perhaps they had their charter taken and they're starting up again. But wouldn't they regain the same chapter designation they had prior to that? Either way, the whole situation sounds fishy.

If he's a Delt, why would he do a special at a TKE house? Doesn't really make sense.

He did the special at the TKE house because there is not Delt chapter at Rutgers hwere he did the special, plus he did want a Delt house to look like crap on national tv. They probably are a restart. Just because TKE restarts keep the same names doesn't mean other fraternities do. If Will was a TKE he would be telling nation wide publications that he was a Delt.

On a side note. Old school is a funny movie.

I'll believe the Delt website. I would like to clarify that his name wasn't on that list a week ago or whenever the debate began. I did check that much. I also took it from Greek 101, the magazine, that he was a Teke. I think that's where it all began. And ZNTKE, it's not that I didn't believe IHQ. I never saw them write anything. I'd believe it if I had saw it in writing. I never did so I could "not believe" them as you put it.


YITB

I meant that only because I had gotten the info that he wasn't a TKE from them and let you guys know. I can see where everyone would think he is a TKE though.

not sdsu house
 

That is definately not the San Diego State house in Old School. The SDSU house is next to a Sigma Chi and SAE house in a cul-de-sac and looks nothing like this one... but at least they have an official house.

At Cal State San Bernardino, we have rented probably seven different houses over the past 15 years. The university and Cal State regents will never build a row of any kind - those schools that have one have had them for over 30 years and that's the breaks!

i dont know anything about the delts, but maybe it is a theatre, or scholastic fraternity, if that is the case he would be allowed to be in both. you are just not allowed to be in two social fraternities

Per the Black Book -
An honorary member is one of the following who, having been nominated by a collegate chapter and CONFIRMED BY THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, is not a member of any other national social fraternity and who has been regularly initiated into Tau Kappa Epsilon. (1) male members of the faculty of the school where the chapter making the nomination is located, (2) male persons who have rendered or are rendering important service to the school, the community, the state, or province, or the nation, who are of good moral character; or (3) male persons who have rendered important service to the chapter making the nomination or to the fraternity.

oddly, this sounds like they don't have to have any relation to TKE, as long as their aren't in a social fraternity, and are rendering important services to the country...

just ALWAYS be sure that if you wanna make someone honorary, follow the right steps. if your not sure on them, talk to your province people, or IHQ.

Will-Ferrill--Delt
 

So, Will is not a frater. He is a Delt and Delta Tau Delta is one
damned fine fraternity!

The Delts may be fine, but T K E is better! I'm kinda glad my post has illicited so many responses. It almost brings a tear to my eye.

WILL FERREL REEL COMEDY TKE SPECIAL
 

i was part of the Alpha Eta Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon where Will Ferrel filmed the comedy central special of OLD SCHOOL... We WERE located at 15 Union Street Rutgers New Brunswick Campus.. The house was a mess and the directors wanted it that way because it was authentic... Does anyone have the video? if so I would GREATLY appreciate it... please get back to me if anyone has it, a thousand internets to you!:D

This thread is about 5 years old.

That video is on the Alpha-Eta website. Just go to http://www.ahtke.org/ and you can download it. There's a link and screenshot from the video right on the front page.

"January 10th...1899...We all remember that day...as the Day of the Dogs. That's when, uh, packs of wild dogs attacked these members and killed all of them."

I still laugh every time I watch that video.

I cant find this video anywhere!! Please if somebody has it can you reply here or PM me?! I know what TigerTKE was true a few years ago (as you can see here http://web.archive.org/web/200904210...www.ahtke.org/ ) But I go to Rutgers now and would LOVE to see this video!

You can't find the movie Old School anywhere? Really?

not the movie, the comedy special