Some of the Bruhs at GSU have Black and Gray Jersey which we where to distinguish our chapter colors but certainly not to offend or disrepect the franternity because we certainly know that it is all about the Old Glory Gold and Royal Blue

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Where did this "chapter color" tradition come from? Who decide what the chapter's "chapter color" is? What other chapter does this "chapter color" thing? I know there is more than one, because I seen a whole lot of colors at the convention. One last question, is the "chapter color" tradition really meant to help a chapter stand out at conventions?

We have a chapter color...Royal Blue and Old Glory gold. lol:p

I do not know all of the chapters that have different colors for there chapter but our chapter colors are not predominate. The colors are not worn nearly as much as Old Glory Gold and Royal Blue which are worn most of the time. I am unware of the origin of the tradition to distinguish your chapter or if it is a tradition at all. More over I think that it is just a way to say what chapter you are from.


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This thread may contain some useful info on lines and such

Ahhhh....I knew it was familiar!

That dardenr sure was a knowledgable fellow, wasn't he? I wonder what became of him.

Nothing much I'm sure. Nothing positive ever becomes of those types.
:)

I hear he was pretty hot. :D

Is there a 27 out there? I only manage to hear about one 27 and he was a recent pledge at NC A@T.

My chapter has never pledged more than 23.

The longer you are in the fraternity, you will undoubtedly meet Brothers from pledge classes of 27 and many, many more. But I don't believe you will find that most of those chapter necessarily pledge in height/line order.

So are lines/numbers more an HBCU/NPHC/Southern thing? The only chapters in the Midwest that I know of do lines/numbers are those which are almost completely african-american, and they do it because they see that's what the NPHC groups on their campus do.

Someone once asked in my pledging chapter if we would do names and numbers, and it was shot down with a quickness as most of the group felt it was too "social" and has some majorly negative connotations on many campuses. Of course, I was a pledge class of 38 (and we were a small class). My home chapter regularly pledges in classes in 50-70 person range.

My initial post explains that this is not just an HBCU/NPHC/Southern thing. My chapter pledged in lines nearly 30 years before the first NPHC members were on campus and it is neither an HBCU nor Southern.

I said "more", not completely. :)

Lines and numbers exist outside of the South, outside of the NPHC, and outside of HBCUs.