Phi Kappa Sigma (ΦΚΣ) is an international all-male college leadership and social fraternity. Its members are known as "Phi Kaps", "Skulls" and sometimes "Skullhouse", the latter two because of the skull and crossbones on the Fraternity's badge and coat of arms. Phi Kappa Sigma was founded by Dr. Samuel Brown Wylie Mitchell at the University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell recorded the initial ideas and concepts of Phi Kappa Sigma on August 16, 1850.

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  • Phi Kappa Sigma (ΦΚΣ) is an international all-male college leadership and social fraternity. Its members are known as "Phi Kaps", "Skulls" and sometimes "Skullhouse", the latter two because of the skull and crossbones on the Fraternity's badge and coat of arms. Phi Kappa Sigma was founded by Dr. Samuel Brown Wylie Mitchell at the University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell recorded the initial ideas and concepts of Phi Kappa Sigma on August 16, 1850. He then began to discuss the idea with other students, first Charles Hare Hutchinson, and then Alfred Victor du Pont, John Thorne Stone, Andrew Adams Ripka, James Bayard Hodge, and Duane Williams. The seven men formally founded the Fraternity on October 19th, 1850 becoming the founding fathers of Phi Kappa Sigma
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  • 2 Timber Drive
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  • Chester Springs
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  • USA
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  • ΦΚΣ
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  • Stellis Aequus Durando ("Equal to the Stars in Endurance.")
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  • Phi Kappa Sigma
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  • Phi Kaps, Skulls, or Skullhouse
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  • International
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  • Pennsylvania
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  • Social
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  • Phi Kappa Sigma (ΦΚΣ) is an international all-male college leadership and social fraternity. Its members are known as "Phi Kaps", "Skulls" and sometimes "Skullhouse", the latter two because of the skull and crossbones on the Fraternity's badge and coat of arms. Phi Kappa Sigma was founded by Dr. Samuel Brown Wylie Mitchell at the University of Pennsylvania. Mitchell recorded the initial ideas and concepts of Phi Kappa Sigma on August 16, 1850.
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  • Phi Kappa Sigma
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