page_title: Dartmouth College Greek organizations
section_title: Kappa Kappa Kappa (ΚΚΚ)
hierarchical_section_title: Dartmouth College Greek organizations / Fraternities / Kappa Kappa Kappa (ΚΚΚ)
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of Kappa Kappa Kappa at the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
context_page_description: Dartmouth College is host to many Greek organizations, and a significant percentage of the undergraduate student body is active in Greek life. In 2005, the school stated that 1,785 students were members of a fraternity, sorority, or coeducational Greek house, comprising about 43 percent of all students, or about 60 percent of the eligible student body. Greek organizations at Dartmouth provide both social and residential opportunities for students, and are the only single-sex residential option on campus. Greek organizations at Dartmouth do not provide dining options, as regular meals service has been banned in Greek houses since 1909.
  Social fraternities at Dartmouth College grew out of a tradition of student literary societies that began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The first social fraternities were founded in 1842 and rapidly expanded to include the active participation of over half of the student body. Fraternities at Dartmouth built dedicated residence and meeting halls in the early 1900s and in the 1920s, and then struggled to survive the lean years of the 1930s.
context_section_description: Kappa Kappa Kappa ("Tri-Kap") is a local fraternity founded on July 13, 1842. The organization has no affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan, which was founded after Kappa Kappa Kappa was founded and unfortunately adopted the Latin initials "KKK", similar to the Greek alphabet letters Kappa Kappa Kappa. According to legend, Kappa Kappa Kappa sued the Ku Klux Klan for defamation of name, but lost because the judge ruled that the similarity in the initials of the organizations was sheer coincidence. Kappa Kappa Kappa was the first society at Dartmouth to have a freestanding fraternity building in Hanover and one of the first in the country. Some prominent alumni include Channing Cox (1901), Dr. Bob (1902), Nick Lowery (1978), Paul Donnelly Paganucci (1953), and Peter Robinson (1979).
caption: Tri-Kap, 2007
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