TKE - The Black Book

Advisor, and Board of Advisors Chairman, committee chairman, volunteer official, Past Grand Officer and such other persons as may be deemed appropriate. Publication and distribution of the directory may be by electronic format, printed copy, or other common means of mass communication as the Chief Executive Officer deems appropriate. Such Official Directory shall contain, but not be limited to, a listing of all chapters and official colonies, the mailing addresses of each, and the name of the last known Prytanis and Board of Advisors Chairman, the names and addresses of the members of the Grand Council, directors of the TKE Educational Foundation, Grand Province Advisors (or other volunteer leaders), and the chairmen of the various committees and task forces, as well as the names, offices held, and addresses of the officers and/or trustees of any other related Fraternity agencies or corporations.

SEC. 6. Other Publications. The Grand Council shall authorize in the fraternity budget the issuance of whatever manuals, books, and other publications may be deemed necessary.

DIVISION SEVEN: RITUAL AND TRADITIONS CHAPTER XXI: Observance of Ritual SECTION 1. Paraphernalia to be Uniform. It shall be the duty of each chapter to be equipped with all the paraphernalia prescribed by the ritual. Such paraphernalia shall be uniform and must be issued by the Offices of the Grand Chapter. This paraphernalia remains the property of the International Fraternity lent to the chapter for the purposes indicated.

SEC. 2. Initiation by Ritual Only. No person shall be initiated except by the full, regularly adopted ritual, nor shall any deviation there from or change therein be permitted.

SEC. 3. Who May Initiate. Only collegiate chapters may initiate into collegiate membership, but alumni associations may initiate honorary members, alumni members of local fraternities heretofore or hereafter chartered and installed as chapters of this Fraternity, and alumni members of other national fraternities who are eligible for membership in Tau Kappa Epsilon by the terms of merger agreements which have been or may be entered into with such fraternities. Upon approval of the Grand Prytanis, alumni of a school where a chapter is held in suspension may be initiated by a chartered alumni association and such initiates shall sign the scroll of the collegiate chapter designated by the Grand Prytanis. Upon approval of the Grand Prytanis, the Chief Executive Officer, using Fraters of his choice as an initiation team, may initiate as honorary members men who have been of service to the Fraternity, and such initiates shall sign a scroll hereafter designated as the Grand Chapter Scroll.

CHAPTER XXII: Traditions SECTION 1. Grand Chapter May Adopt. The Grand Chapter may adopt, declare and preserve such traditions of this Fraternity as it shall, from time to time, see fit.

SEC. 2. Traditions. The following are hereby adopted as traditions of the Fraternity: First: Death of Members. Upon the death of a member of a collegiate chapter, the members of such chapter shall wear the black ribbon under their badges for a period of fourteen days.

Second: Death of a Grand Officer. Upon the death of any of the Grand Officers, or of a Past Grand Prytanis, the members of all collegiate chapters shall wear the black ribbon under their badges for a period of 14 days.

Third: Wearing Badge. No member shall at any time permit his badge to be worn by a member of the opposite sex, except when pre-engaged or engaged to be married or married.

Fourth: Wearing the Badge to Commemorate the First Three Chapters. The badge shall be worn with the right side vertical in commemoration of the geographical location of the first three chapters in the form of an equilateral triangle, having its right or west side in a vertical or north-and-south line.

Fifth: Founders' Day. January 10th in each year shall be known and celebrated as Founders' Day by each collegiate chapter, each alumni association, and the Grand Prytanis shall send a suitable message to be read as a part of the program of each celebration.