Delta Upsilon | |
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ΔΥ | |
Founded | November 4, 1834 Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
Type | Social |
Scope | International |
Mission statement | "Building Better Men" |
Motto | Δικαια Υποθηκη ("Justice, Our Foundation") |
Slogan | "A DU in Everything, Every DU in Something" |
Colors |
Sapphire blue Old gold |
Flag | |
Publication | The Delta Upsilon Quarterly |
Chapters | 95 active chapters (2012) 155 chapters since founding |
Members | 3,954 undergraduate 80,000 living alumni collegiate 110,000+ lifetime |
Animal | Duck (unofficial) |
Headquarters |
8705 Founders Road, Indianapolis, Indiana United States |
Homepage | Delta Upsilon fraternity website |
Delta Upsilon (ΔΥ) is the seventh oldest extant, all-male, college Greek-letter organization in North America. Founded on November 4, 1834, at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, it is popularly and informally known as "Delta U" or "DU" and its members sometimes called "DUs". Though historically set at New England private universities, as of 2012 it had 76 chapters across the United States and Canada. A number of its buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In 2013, Business Insider named Delta Upsilon one of the "17 Fraternities with Top Wall Street Alumni". Notable members include president of the United States James A. Garfield, president of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, Canadian prime minister Lester B. Pearson, Linus Pauling, Joseph P. Kennedy, Lou Holtz, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Charles Evans Hughes, Les Aspin, and others. Forty-two brothers of the fraternity have sat in the United States Congress, three in the Parliament of Canada, one in the Imperial House of Peers of Japan, and six on the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. Its members have received six Nobel Prizes, five Olympic gold medals, one Pulitzer Prize, four Medals of Honor, one Lenin Peace Prize, one Presidential Medal of Freedom, seven investitures into the Order of Canada, and one investiture each into the Order of St Michael and St George, the Order of Merit, and the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.