Established in 1868The Psi Chapter of the Zeta Psi International Fraternity resides in the luxurious, spacious tudor located at 534 Thurston Ave. Located at the very tip of North Campus, it is less than a minute’s walk to campus or the Balch/Risley bus stop. In addition, our location places us right text to the famous, “Louie’s Lunch” and the sushi truck, ideal for brothers looking for a quick bite to eat before class.
Being a brother also entails certain benefits such as free parking in our dedicated parking lot, free house washer and drying machines, high-speed internet (Red Rover), free color printing and much more. |
HousingActive undergraduate brothers are always guaranteed housing in one of our 19 spacious rooms. Instead of dealing with Cornell’s Housing Lottery or attempting to look for off-campus housing in Collegetown, brothers are able to choose rooms via a merit based system tied to the number of positions held in the house and brotherhood involvement. Brothers reside on the second and third floor and share common space on the 1st floor and basement. You can often find brothers watching TV downstairs, working quietly in our in-house library or playing pool on the 2nd floor landing. As evidence above, 534 Thurston provides many commodities that other forms of housing on campus simply do not offer.
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DiningLunch and dinner are provided every day Sunday-Thursday with breakfast being provided throughout the week. When dinner is not being prepared or served, brothers have 24 hour access to our fully stocked kitchen. With fully functioning top of the line appliances, including a deep fryer, brothers can easily make food if they have any dietary restrictions or if they wish to eat something else for dinner. Our current chef, Steve McKenna, has a wealth of experience and is flexible with food offerings based on brother preferences.
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History
On January 1st, 1868, three young men who had transferred from the University of Michigan founded Cornell's first fraternity, Zeta Psi. From the very start, Zeta Psi had as its goal to recruit the finest men from a fine university, and the founders took it upon themselves to do just that. The early days of Zeta Psi at Cornell were characterized by a small, but strong brotherhood, committed to academic as well as athletic excellence. In 1869 it was a group of Cornell Zetes who first published what is now known as the Cornellian. The crowning achievement for these early fraternity pioneers was the construction of the most expensive fraternity house ever built at the time, in 1891, located in the space where a parking lot now exists across from The Chapter House on Stewart Ave.
The Psi chapter Zetes occupied that incredible house until the 1940s, when the brotherhood lost many members due to the draft of World War II. When brothers returned from the war, they moved into the building that is now the Jewish Living Center. The original house burned down in the late 1940s, never to be rebuilt. Zeta Psi occupied that house until the late 1950s when they moved into the house that stands at 660 Stewart Ave.
Zeta Psi received a magnificent opportunity in 1972, when a wealthy alumnus donated enough money to purchase the rights of the house standing at 534 Thurston Ave for Zeta Psi as long as it exists at Cornell University. Zeta Psi has continued to reside at that location ever since.
Zeta Psi has had a long and distinguished relationship with Cornell University, having many distinguished alumni including the entire Schoellkopf family, donators of the university football field. It has always been important for Zeta Psi to recruit the finest men on Cornell's campus. Throughout our proud history, we have always had a good share of campus leaders, academic achievers, and intercollegiate athletes.
Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America is one of the oldest and most distinguished national fraternities. Founded in 1847 at New York University, Zeta Psi has broken much new ground for the fraternity system, being the first fraternity to expand to the west coast of the U.S., the first fraternity to expand into Canada, and the first fraternity to be represented at every Ivy League institution. Zeta Psi International Fraternity only establishes chapters at the finest academic institutions, with 52 current chapters on its roll. Zeta Psi's list of famous and powerful alumni is staggering, including Pete Wilson, Les Aspin, the entire Dean Witter family, Howard Dean and a number of wealthy businessmen.
If you are considering joining a fraternity, or are simply interested in seeing the embodiment of what the word brotherhood means, stop by 534 Thurston Ave., home of Cornell's first and foremost fraternity.
Zeta Psi received a magnificent opportunity in 1972, when a wealthy alumnus donated enough money to purchase the rights of the house standing at 534 Thurston Ave for Zeta Psi as long as it exists at Cornell University. Zeta Psi has continued to reside at that location ever since.
Zeta Psi has had a long and distinguished relationship with Cornell University, having many distinguished alumni including the entire Schoellkopf family, donators of the university football field. It has always been important for Zeta Psi to recruit the finest men on Cornell's campus. Throughout our proud history, we have always had a good share of campus leaders, academic achievers, and intercollegiate athletes.
Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America is one of the oldest and most distinguished national fraternities. Founded in 1847 at New York University, Zeta Psi has broken much new ground for the fraternity system, being the first fraternity to expand to the west coast of the U.S., the first fraternity to expand into Canada, and the first fraternity to be represented at every Ivy League institution. Zeta Psi International Fraternity only establishes chapters at the finest academic institutions, with 52 current chapters on its roll. Zeta Psi's list of famous and powerful alumni is staggering, including Pete Wilson, Les Aspin, the entire Dean Witter family, Howard Dean and a number of wealthy businessmen.
If you are considering joining a fraternity, or are simply interested in seeing the embodiment of what the word brotherhood means, stop by 534 Thurston Ave., home of Cornell's first and foremost fraternity.
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