Phi Kappa Psi at Cornell sits at the center of a unique collegiate community, the Franklin C. Cornell Fraternity Quadrangle on the southern edge of West Campus. Surrounding "the Quad" are a group of great neighbors we call "the Komai Ionia," or villages of Ionia.

"Mount Ionia" was the name Simeon DeWitt, founder of Ithaca, gave to the city cemetery across the street. The Greek isle of Ithaca lies in the chain of Ionian Islands.

Renowned Cornell artist and friend of brother John A. Hartell ('21)('24) -- Jason Seeley '40 --- memorialized this association with the statute of Ulysses between the Statler and Uris Halls.