Ninety-eight years ago this week,

Robert Peary, Theta/Bowdoin '77, 

became the first man to reach the 

North Pole.  With the explorer, 

throughout the entire journey, 

was a DKE Flag, one of five he 

planted at the top of the earth.

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Everyone has stepped in it, but few know 

what it's called -- the metal thing that 

measures your foot at the shoe store.

Named the Brannock Device, it was 

invented by a college kid, patented in 

1927, and no one has designed anything 

better to replace it.  The college kid?  

Charles Brannock, from DKE's Phi Gamma chapter at Syracuse.

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Only one fraternity can say five of its 

brothers have been, or are, President of 

the United States – Deke.  

And only one Deke has been able to 

say his father lived in the White House 

while he lived in the Deke House – 

Robert Todd Lincoln.  

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Steve Synyshyn, a member of the Alpha Tau chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity talks of how people he had known for years began to treat him differently after he joined a fraternity. "It was kind of awkward, even around some of my good friends," he says. "People brand you."

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