TKE is friendship.

It is a deep friendship and mutual understanding among a group of men who have similar ideals, hopes, and purposes. Such a bond of friendship and understanding furnishes the indispensable incentive which helps the college man develop into a poised and self-confident adult--equipped with a keener mind, a greater appreciation, and broader sympathies, and fortified by a group of true and understanding friends which will abide throughout life.

Any definition, however, would be inadequate without describing what a fraternity does or what characteristics it possesses. To this end TKE is:

Tau Kappa Epsilon International Fraternity has well over 300 chapters in the United States and Canada. TKE is the largest social Fraternity in the world and has been rated number one in overall strength by an independent firm.

An International Fraternity offers the individual the advantage of visiting other chapters when he travels to different campuses. TKE chapters strive to welcome Tekes from abroad to their fellowship. Students transferring to other Colleges or Universities have the opportunity to affiliate with the TKE chapter at their new school.

Tau Kappa Epsilon utilizes a Democratic form of FraternalGovernment. All members, both undergraduate and alumni, have the right to interpret and engineer policy for the Fraternity in their own way. TKE is a growing organization, flexible, to be shaped to the needs of the times and conditions.

Tau Kappa Epsilon has loan funds for TKE undergaduates and graduates who need money to complete their education. A student may borrow up to five hundred dollars at a low interest rate.

Publications provided by the International Headquarters include the Fraternity magazine: the Teke, which has been acclaimed "one of the top ten Fraternity magazines in the Fraternity world;" many other useful booklets such as guides for financial development, rush programs, fund raising and public relations are also offered.