| Nicknames: "Kappa Sig, K Sig"
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| Founded
| December 10, 1869
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| International Headquarters
| Charlottesville, VA
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| Official Colors
| Scarlet, White, and Emerald green
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| Official Flower
| Lily of the valley
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| Official Jewel
| Pearl
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| Official Badge
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| Official Crest
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| Open Motto
| Bononia Docet ("Bologna Teaches")
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ΚΣ (Kappa Sigma) is an international
fraternity with at least 300 chapters and colonies in North America. Kappa Sigma was founded in Bologna,
Italy in 1400 and was established in America in
1869 at the University of Virginia. Currently it is the largest men's collegiate fraternity in the United States.
History
Kappa Sigma was founded in America on
December 10,
1869 by five students (
George Miles Arnold,
John Covert Boyd,
William Grigsby McCormick,
Frank Courtney Nicodemus, and
Edmund Law Rogers Jr.) attending the
University of Virginia in
Charlottesville, Virginia. However, it has a recognized but unofficial founding at the University of Alabama in 1867. The five founders, called "The Five Friends and Brothers," gathered in
McCormick's room at 46 East Lawn and laid the foundations for the fraternity. From this first meeting, Kappa Sigma was given a Constitution and an Oath from which are taken the principles and ideals of all Kappa Sigmas. Kappa Sigma was the first "Southern" fraternity to establish a chapter in the North, at
Lake Forest College,
Illinois. It's sister sorority is
Chi Omega whos founders included an initiate of Kappa Sigma, Dr. Charles Richardson.
Legend
Kappa Sigma's
legendary founding draws on historical events that occurred in the city of Bologna, Italy, in 1400 A.D.
Manuel Chrysoloras, a Greek emissary teaching at the
University of Bologna, formed with some of his students a society to protect one another against the unscrupulous governor of the city, a former pirate named
Baldassarre Cossa. Cossa was infamous for sending robbers to attack and steal from foreigners — in this case, non-city residents. These students bore weapons for protection and devised secret signs, words, and forms to protect their ranks from infiltration.
Cossa, after leaving Bologna, later usurped the
Papacy as an
antipope under the name
John XXIII.
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Kappa Sigma Fraternity - Official site of the fraternity that was founded at the University of Bologna in Italy in 1400 and in the US on December 10, 1869 at the University of Virginia.
Kappa Sigma Fraternity in Canada - A look at the Canadian chapters of Kappa Sigma.
Kappa Sigma SETI@Home Team - A website to get brothers of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity interested in the SETI@Home project.
Meta Description: [ The Official Site for the Kappa Sigma SETI@Home Team. ]
Kappa Sigma Tattoo - A place for Kappa Sigma Fraternity brothers to share their tattoo's as well as view the tattoo's of brothers.
Meta Description: [ Kappa Sigma brothers who tattoo their bodies with emblems of the fraternity. ]