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Delta Upsilon occurs as Non-Secret International Gentlemen's fraternity founded on November Four, 1834 at Williams College. Delta Upsilon is unique therein it has there are no secrets. No secret rituals, secret lesson, secret catchword, secret handclasp, or even more secret items usually associated by owning fraternities. A International Fraternity recently Celebrated its 170th day of remembrance. A International Fraternity Headquarters is Located in Indianapolis, Indiana

A Fraternity believes inside little joe information called A 4 Foundation Information. These information come:

A Promotion of Friendship A Development of Character A Diffusion of Liberal Culture A Advancement of Justice

Delta Upsilon is from either a number one both letters of the fraternity shibboleth, Δıκαıα ΥποΘηκη which written in english Dikaia Upotheke translates to "Justice, Our Foundation"

A Fraternity was originally founded as an Anti-Secret social fraternity to combat against a prevailing secret societies at a period. These secret societies got conspired amongst themselves, to require control of campus honors, & produce honors that were non according to merit. Such Activities experienced artisocratic tendencies & disgusted a founders of Delta Upsilon. Above a years nonetheless, a fraternity has since turn into just non-secret. Deltthe Upsilon is currently a thriving international fraternity by having 82 chapters in the United States and Canada.

Delta Upsilon is informally referred to as DU or even Delta U. Members of Delta Upsilon come typically known as DUs, Deltas, & Ducks.

History

Philanthropy
Delta Upsilon is known for going smashing eleemosynary cases within numbers of communities internationally. A independent organization it provide trend lines to is Boys and Girls Club.

Chapters

Alberta[http://www.dualberta.com], Arlington[http://www.uta.edu/student_orgs/deltaupsilon], Bowling Green, Bradley[http://www.bradleydu.org], Bucknell, Cal Poly, California[http://www.ducalifornia.org], Carnegie, Carthage, Central Florida[http://www.duucf.org/undergrad], Chicago[http://du.uchicago.edu], Clarkson[http://www.clarkson.edu/orgs/du], Colgate[http://groups.colgate.edu/ifc/du/du.html], Cornell[http://www.rso.cornell.edu/du], Culver-Stockton[http://homepages.culver.edu/greeklife/deltaupsilon], Denison, DePauw[http://www.depauw.edu/student/greek/du],

[[Florida Gainesville, FL [http://grove.ufl.edu/~deltau]
[[Fresno Fresno, CA
[[Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA [http://www.gtdu.org]
[[Guelph Guelph, ON [http://www.guelphdu.com]
[[Hamilton Clinton, MY
[[Harvard Cambridge, MA
[[Houston Houston, TX [http://www.uh.edu/du]
[[Illinois Champaign, IL [http://www.duillinois.org]
[[Indiana Bloomington, IN [http://www.indiana.edu/~duwebpg]
[[Iona New Rochelle, NY
[[Iowa Iowa City, IA
[[Iowa State Ames, IA [http://www.stuorg.iastate.edu/deltaupsilon]
[[Kansas Lawrence, KS [http://www.ku.edu/~deltau]
[[Kansas State Manhattan, KS [http://www.ksu.edu/deltaupsilon]
[[Kent State Kent, OH
[[Lafayette Easton, PA [http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~Eduf]
[[Lehigh Bethlehem, PA [http://www.lehigh.edu/~induf]
[[Louisville Louisville, KY
[[Manitoba Winnipeg, MB [http://www.deltau.mb.ca]
[[Marietta Marietta, OH [http://www.marietta.edu/~deltau/deltau.html]
[[Massachusetts Amherst, MA [http://www.umass.edu/rso/deltau]
[[Miami Oxford, OH [http://www.mudeltau.org]
[[Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
[[Michigan State E. Lansing, MI [http://www.msu.edu/~deltau]
[[Michigan Tech Houghton, MI [http://www.mtudu.org]
[[Minnesota Minneapolis, MN [http://www.tc.umn.edu/~deltaups/]
[[Missouri Columbia, MO [http://www.students.missouri.edu/~deltau]

Nebraska Lincoln, NE [http://www.unl.edu/du]
North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC [http://www.unc.edu/du]
North Carolina State Raleigh, NC [http://www.ncsudu.com]
North Dakota Grand Forks, ND [http://www.nddu.org]
North Dakota State Fargo, ND [http://www.deltaupsilon.net]
Northern Arizona Flagstaff, AZ
Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA [http://www.uni-du.org]
Northwestern Evanston, IL [http://groups.northwestern.edu/du]
Northwestern State ,
Ohio Athens, OH [http://www.ohiodeltaupsilon.org]
Ohio State Columbus, OH
Oklahoma Norman, OK [http://www.soonerdu.com]
Oregon Eugene, OR
Oregon State Corvallis, OR [http://oregonstate.edu/groups/du]
Pace Pleasantville, NY [http://www.deltaupace.com]
Pacific Stockton, CA [http://www1.uop.edu/student/opa]
Pan American Edinburg, TX [http://www.dutpa.org]
Penn State State College, PA [http://www.greeks.psu.edu/ifc/du]
Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Purdue W. Lafayette, IN [http://www.purdue.edu/du]
Rochester Rochester, NY [http://www.durochester.org]
San Diego San Diego, CA [http://www.dusdsu.org]
San Jose San Jose, CA [http://www.sanjosedu.com]
South Carolina Columbia, SC [http://web.sa.sc.edu/du]
South Dakota Vermillion, SD
St. Norbert De Pere, WI [http://www.snc.edu/dupsilon]
Swarthmore Swarthmore, PA [http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/deltaups]
Technology Boston, MA [http://web.mit.edu/du/www]
Toronto Toronto, ON [http://www.dutoronto.com]
Tufts Medford, MA
Virginia Charlottesville, VA
Washington Seattle, WA [http://www.students.washington.edu/deltau]
Washington State Pullman, WA
Western Illinois Macomb, IL [http://www.wiu.edu/DU]
Western Ontario London, ON
Western Reserve Cleveland, OH [http://home.cwru.edu/du]
Wichita Wichita, KS
Wisconsin Madison, WI [http://www.uwdu.org]

Notable DUs

James A. Garfield: Williams 1856, second fraternity man to become President of the United States

Justin L. Morrill: Middlebury 1860, United States Senator from Vermont and author of the land grant college act

Rossiter Johnson, Rochester 1863, historian and novelist

David Starr Jordan, Cornell 1872, first president of Stanford University

Daniel S. Lamont, Union 1872, Secretary of War

George W. Goethals, Manhattan 1877, General United States Army, chief engineer during the building of the Panama Canal

Otto M. Eidlitz, Cornell 1881, contractor and civic investigator

Charles Evans Hughes, Colgate and Brown 1881, Governor of New York, U. S. Vice President, Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court

Alexander D. Noyes, Amherst 1883, financial editor of the New York Times

Charles G. Dawes, Marietta 1884, Vice President of the United States and Ambassador to Britain

Fenton W. Booth, DePauw 1892, dean of Harvard Law

Rupert Hughes, Western Reserve 1892, historian and novelist

Stephen Crane, Lafayette and Syracuse 1894, journalist and author of Red Badge of Courage

Alfred J. P. Sloan Jr., Technology 1895, chairman of the board of General Motors

Arthur M. Hyde, Michigan 1899, United States Secretary of Agriculture

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Colgate 1900, theologian

William B. Greeley, Stanford and California 1901, chief forester, U. S. Forest Service

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was recognized as New York State Author for 2001-2003.

Michael Eisner

Lou Holtz

Tom Vilsack

Linus Pauling

Lester B. Pearson, Toronto '19, 14th Prime Minister of Canada 1963-1968, President of the United Nations General Assembly 1952, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1957

John Thain, Technology 1978, CEO New York Stock Exchange

John E. Bossnack, inventor of DISTANCE, network monitoring program which helped enable the network administrators at DePauw University to better monitor network traffic.

George S. Welch, Aviator

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