Kappa Sigma Fraternity
| Kappa Sigma | |
|---|---|
| ΚΣ | |
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| Founded | December 10, 1869 University of Virginia |
| Type | Social |
| Scope |
International  United States Canada
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| Motto | Bononia Docet ("Bologna Teaches") A.E.K.Δ.B. |
| Pledge pin |  |
| Colors |
Scarlet White Emerald green |
| Symbol | Star and Crescent |
| Flag |  |
| Flower | |
| Publication | The Caduceus |
| Philanthropy | A Greater Cause; Military Heroes Campaign |
| Chapters | 318 |
| Members | 20,000 collegiate 282,000 lifetime |
| Headquarters |
1610 Scottsville Road Charlottesville, VA 22902 United States |
| Homepage | kappasigma.org |
International
Kappa Sigma (ΚΣ), commonly nicknamed Kappa Sig or K-Sig, is an American collegiate social fraternity founded at the University of Virginia in 1869. Kappa Sigma is one of the five largest international fraternites with currently 318 active chapters and colonies in North America. Its endowment fund, founded in 1919, is the oldest college fraternity foundation and has donated more than $5 million to undergrads since 1948. In 2012 alone, the Fraternity's endowment fund raised over $1 million in donations.
According to the traditions of the fraternity, Kappa Sigma evolved from an ancient order, known in some accounts as "Kirjath Sepher", said to have been founded between 1395 and 1400 at the University of Bologna. The story says that the corrupt governor of the city, one-time pirate and later papal usurper Baldassare Cossa, took advantage of the students at Bologna, one of Europe's preeminent universities which attracted students from all over the continent, by sending his men to assault and rob them; this motivated one of the university's scholars Manuel Chrysoloras to found a secret society of students beginning with five of his most devoted disciples, for mutual protection against Baldassare Cossa.
On December 10, 1869, five students at the University of Virginia met in 46 East Lawn and founded the Kappa Sigma Fraternity in America. William Grigsby McCormick, George Miles Arnold, John Covert Boyd, Edmund Law Rogers, Jr., and Frank Courtney Nicodemus established the fraternity based on the traditions and of the ancient order in Bologna. These five founders became collectively known as the "Five Friends and Brothers." In 1872, Kappa Sigma initiated Stephen Alonzo Jackson, who would go on to transform a struggling local fraternity into a strong international Brotherhood. The organization attributes much of its success to Jackson noting that, "Since his death in 1892, the success of the Order is the direct result of Jackson's devotion 'to make Kappa Sigma the leading college fraternity of the world.'"
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