Written by: Kalen Beck & Lee A. Wong
Graphics by: Raul Gonzalez

In 1878, Kappa Sigma’s most herald member, Stephen Alonso Jackson, charged the Order:

"…May we not rest contentedly until the Star and Crescent [Kappa Sigma’s emblem] is the pride of ever college and university in the land."

Having accepted that charge, as all true Kappa Sigma’s should, Brother Alex Tsoukalas, an initiate from the Epsilon-Xi Chapter at the University of Texas at El Paso and Brother Gilbert Gonzalez of Epsilon-Phi at Texas Tech University, introduced the principles and traditions of Kappa Sigma at the University of Texas at San Antonio — forming the interest group ΝΚΣ in 1992. On May 13, 1993, after an exponential growth and an apparent attraction at UTSA, the interest group was granted colony status. The Kappa Sigma Colony at UTSA, as it was named, endured two years of hardships, but with diligence and commitment as its watchwords, the colony members were able to recruit model students that shared the ideals of the Fraternity and fulfilled other requirements necessary to be granted a charter. Initially, the colony was to be chartered as the Xi-Epsilon Chapter; however, our Founding Fathers had a passion for the Order so great that their work was completed in record time. Accordingly, on April 29, 1995, the Kappa Sigma Colony at UTSA was granted its well-deserved charter and became the 273rd chapter of Kappa Sigma—ordaining the Xi-Delta Chapter.

For roughly 13 years, Xi-Delta has been a dominant presence at the University of Texas at San Antonio, striving for continued excellence and perpetual betterment; Xi-Delta continues to produce leaders, model citizens and nobler men… It remains and shall remain.

— Manet Mansuraque Est.

Vision: An organization with an even more dominating presence at the University of Texas at San Antonio, with strong, diverse representation and involvement in other Registered Student Organizations, complete with becomingly reputed gentlemen, reverent scholars, and well developed leaders amidst the chapter and the community.

Mission: To cultivate a Brotherhood in which we counsel our members in accordance with the teachings of our ritual and the principles embodied in the Star and Crescent, instilling in the verdant: a sense of duty to our fellow man and the world, scholarly discipline, behavior and etiquette conventionally accepted by society, and professional civility.

"Hazing is fundamentally at odds with the ideals of Kappa Sigma." We in the Xi-Delta Chapter recognize that hazing is demeaning, demoralizing and an inappropriate, ineffective means of educating our members, as it creates a false sense of "earned respect." New members and initiates are bound by Kappa Sigma’s Code of Conduct and take very seriously the fact that "hazing runs contrary to any concepts of brotherhood." No member, pledge or initiate, will ever be subject to any forms of physical or mental abuse. Furthermore, we fully understand that, "conduct which represents hazing is illegal... universities and colleges prohibit hazing, often with expulsion from school as a sanction."

The Xi-Delta Chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity is a registered organization with StopHazing.org and condemns those who impose upon or subject themselves to hazing.