 The Pi Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon ( " Deke " ) was founded in 1853 . It was the fourth social fraternity at Dartmouth College . Eight brothers of Delta Kappa Epsilon were famously involved in a 1949 murder of a fellow Dartmouth student . The men , after heavy drinking at three different fraternities , sought out a former member of the freshman football team . Finding him asleep in his dormitory room , but wearing a letter sweater that the eight men felt he did not deserve to be wearing , they beat him and he soon thereafter died of the injuries . Two Delta Kappa Epsilon brothers were brought to trial , fined , and given suspended sentences for the crime . In response to the murder , College President John Sloan Dickey announced that he felt it was important to reduce the influence of the fraternity system on campus . The organization was renamed Storrs House in 1970 before dissolving entirely . 
