1) To cherish and maintain the high ideals in which Tau Kappa Epsilon was founded: Love, Charity and Esteem.

2) To regard intellectual, moral, and physical development as a vital importance and to foster and preserve high academic standing.

3) To recognize man as a social being and that exclusiveness is the direct endeavor of a true Fraternity.

4) To take inspiration from our Ritual in the belief in the Fatherhood of God and the sanctity of the family relations.

5) To employ secrecy to insure the dignity of our Ritual and the privacy of our internal affairs.

6) To train each member in leardership, personal and civil responsiblity, and to instill the principles of good citizenship.

7) To stimulate lifelong support and participation in institutional programs and to develop close cooperation between members, administration officials, faculty, and other student organizations.

8) To select members based on personal worth of chartacter, not for wealth, rank, or honor, as above all this Fraternity stands for MEN.

9) To Achieve the art of gracious and purposeful living, both in the institutional community and in the years that follow.

10) To operate as a Fraternity in conduct as well as in name.