Beta Theta Pi (ΒΘΠ) is a social collegiate fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, where it is part of the Miami Triad which includes Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi. Beta, as it is nicknamed, was the first college fraternity to be founded west of the Allegheny Mountains, and it has 129 active chapters and colonies in the United States and Canada. 183,772 members have been initiated worldwide, with 125,944 of t...
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Beta Theta Pi (ΒΘΠ) is a social collegiate fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, where it is part of the Miami Triad which includes Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi. Beta, as it is nicknamed, was the first college fraternity to be founded west of the Allegheny Mountains, and it has 129 active chapters and colonies in the United States and Canada. 183,772 members have been initiated worldwide, with 125,944 of those living. Beta Theta Pi currently has more than 5,000 undergraduate members. Beta's Administrative Office is located at 5134 Bonham Road, Oxford, Ohio. In 2006, the driveway up to the administrative office was renamed "Lugar-Bates Drive" in appreciation for the work that Senator Richard Lugar Denison '54 and Bert Bates Missouri '56 performed in the $20 million "Upon These Principles" capital campaign.
— The "Founders' Paragraph"
The purpose of Beta Theta Pi was laid out publicly in 1879, when Beta Theta Pi became the first college...
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