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Originally posted by TKEmz894
That same thing happened to a chapter of Sigma Nu, at Tulane, they got their charter pulled, then a year later this bunch of guys became a DKE colony......Now I heard this second hand from the Pikes at Tulane, after a long night of bar hoping so it might not be true, but everyone around their seemed to confirm it.....
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TKEmz894,
Sounds like you heard parts of a couple of stories that got combined in the telling and retelling around the watering holes. I don't think it could have been a DKE colony since the Tau Lambda chapter of DKE has been at Tulane since 1898. What might have happened was that some years ago the old DKE house on Henry Clay Ave needed major repairs and the cost was going to be out of sight. I heard that the Alumni Chapter suggested selling the old house, which was on a very prime residential street, and using the proceeds along with some alumni help to buy a house on Broadway Ave which is Tulane's traditional Fraternity Row. If the SN chapter was closed then their house would probably have come up for sale and would have been a logical place for the DEKEs to buy. I have a couple of cousins who were DEKEs at Tulane a few years ago, so I'll try to call them and see if I can find out any more. I don't think initiated SN's could join DKE but if some of their pledges found themselves out in the cold with no chapter it might have been possible for some of them to have found a good fit with DKE. I'm not sure of the exact rules that apply here. Anyway, DKE has been in New Orleans since the end of the Nineteenth Century and has always had a very strong house with great Alumni support.
Best regards and Interfraternal greetings.
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