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Vincennes University is the oldest institution of higher education in Indiana.
The heritage of the University began with the Ordinance of 1787 which stated, "Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and to happiness of mankind, schools and the means of higher education shall forever be encouraged."
In 1801 Jefferson Academy, the direct forerunner of Vincennes University, was founded at Vincennes, Indiana.
The Indiana territorial legislature, at its first session in 1806, passed an act to incorporate the first university in the Indiana Territory, "to be called and known by the name and style of Vincennes University". William Henry Harrison, first governor of the Indiana Territory, and later (1841) President of the United States, was the first chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University.
Vincennes, the home of Vincennes University, is one of the great historic centers of the Midwest. Founded in 1731, Vincennes was a center of frontier
trading for may years.
It is the oldest city in Indiana; it was the capitol of the Indiana Territory, and the first county seat in the state. It has the first Catholic Church, the first Presbyterian Church, and the first Methodist Church established in the state. It is the home of the first Masonic Lodge in Indiana, the first newspaper (the Indiana Gazette, later the Western Sun) and the first college in the Indiana Territory.
Vincennes is now a beautiful and progressive city situated on the banks of the Wabash River in Knox County.
Its people are greatly interested in their college and the service it renders to the community and to the state.
Iota Zeta Chapter History
The chapter started as Phi Delta Sigma on September 27, 1970. Fourteen Vincennes University students met in the basement of Clark Hall and they
wanted to become a community service fraternity. On April 26, 1974, we became Iota Zeta Chapter of Sigma Nu Fraternity
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