Chants and songs
 

Wassup people! Just trying to find out some of the best chants that APO has to offer. Here are a few of the ones I came up with.


Back in the days
In 1-9-2-5
Frank Reed Horton created something so live

With 13 others, there was a brand new
Greek organization called A Phi Que

Leadership, Friendship, and Service as goals
APO rocks the blue and gold

We're not here to hate or imitate you
We just want to represent A Phi Que

(Step)


Another one that I came up with is this:

Leader: I said my brothers!

All: Yes!

Leader: I said my blue and gold brothers!

All: Yes!

Leader: What time is it?

All: Time to explain.

Leader: Explain what?

All: The A Phi Que name.

We are the brothers of APO
We wear the colors of blue and gold

That cold December at Lafayette
14 together met

As they created a frat that stood
On LFS and brotherhood

Now it's time to change this
Check out the way we MOOOOVE and stomp our feet.

Lead with your head
Befriend with your heart
Serve with your soul, woooo
That blue and gold

(Shari Hunt, Mu Alpha Chapter)


PS - Haven't we done this before?

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A-Phi-Who?:confused:

Strawter:cool:

lol

lol. I knew you would catch that.

Strawter:cool:

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A Phi Que is what the chant said. I mean didn't you read it. Anyway, yeah like I said A Phi Que. Those are the letters that I rock. I mean I don't go around saying Omega Psi Phi. I say Que Psi Phi. I go to an HBCU and just like the other panhell organizations we call it like we see or we hear it. Most of the people here say A Phi Que, we say APO, but when you are in a stepshow or taking part in a chant or song you call it out what it is and that is GREEK!

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I pm-ed you

Strawter:cool:

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I didn't get it.

Hmmm..... ***Just Peeking In, Dont mind me.***

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Umm, okay. I would send it again, but I don't have the energy. Carry on.

Strawter:cool:

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LOL

When have I been known to miss a beat???;)

It's funny that you say this...when I first got in the org I thought the same thing...til one day someone pointed something out to me. The symbols AFW say Alpha Phi Omega not Aye-Phi-Que. People started calling the Omega sign Que because of Omega Psi Phi. The thing is, you said other panhellenic people call y’all that…don’t let them name you, you name yourself. We are not pan-hell…we shouldn’t try to be. Let them do them and we do what we do. And furthermore, that was kinda messed up the statement you made about didn’t you read it. You know he read it, you were getting smart. It’s a certain respect factor that we all should have as brothers…

If I was getting smart, forgive me. I just got into a frenzy because of the fact that I have worked extremely hard on these chants for my chapter and for someone to have the audacity to to critique my chant instead of praising it, that really ticked me off. I am cool now though because I don't let things like that get to me. Well take care bruhs because this might be my last and final post in this forum. Holla back if you have my contact and if not, then I guess I will talk to you if I need to. Peace and blessings.

Like the the famous song "I Can't Wait!" (Barbershop II soundtrack)

Hey Dom,
I couldn't wait to post to this one. You know you were wrong, but I just wanted the Brothers to prove how wrong you were. I agree with Attractive#7, we are not Pan-Hell(even though I am in a PH org), so we have to be different. Everybody, please remember just cause one person has a set opinion about something please don't think the whole group is that way!
On behalf of the Delta Phi Chapter I just want to APOlogize for this particular chant.

I still love everyone that has supported us!

I would be intersting to figure out when the first time that Alpha Phi Omega and Omega Psi Phi were on the same campus.. MIght be 1946 at Johnson C Smith, but may be eariler. I don't have a good feeling when large Historically White schools in the north like University of Michigan (for example). started getting NPHC chapters.

And no one uses what an actual person from Greece would consider the "best" transliteration. A F O.

Another question on Q = Omega, do the other members of the NPHC use Q for omega in describing chapter names?


Moving back to Chants and songs. Has anyone actually used any of the songs in the History Book on campus in the last two decades or so?

Randy

Although Alpha has no chapters with "Omega" in the name (except Omega Chapter itself) I know that a few ALA grad chapters (which end in Omega) do indeed use "Q" as an abbreviation. For example, I think Eta Omega Omega in New York goes by HQQ or EQQ for short.

The FIRST time APO and Omega Psi Phi were on the same campus.....from my research it appears that was Beta Chapter of APO and Omicron Psi Chapter of Omega, both established in 1927.

When I was pledgemaster, the Spring 2001 line at Mu Alpha did have to learn several of "the" APO songs during their last week. I think it's important to teach what we have before making it up from scratch.

Qs at U of Pitt.
 

Web page for Qs at U of Pitt says
Founded March 10, 1927 by Brother J.D.Advent
9th Floor Schenley Hall
Chartered March 10, 1928

Any idea on the difference between founded and chartered? I didn't realize that the NPHC had chapters at HWI that early.

Cool on the use of songs, but some of the tunesare a wee bit dated. I look at the creation of stepping chants as being much more up to date.


Randy

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Perhaps chartered for them means when they were recognized by the university, but I really don't know.

Uh Randy, yes you did know that NPHC orgs had chapters at HWI's that early.....Cornell....1906?

About dated song....bet you didn't know that Alpha has a song to the tune of "Danny Boy."

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Yeah, most NPHC's are not just at hbcu's but a hwi as well. some of them started early.

Alpha Phi Alpha - Cornell - 1906
*head slap*
And the two that started in Indiana.

Your assessment of my stupidity is appreciated.

Randy

Not stupidity, just an oversight. :)

Now you know...I will not let that one go! Kappa Alpha Psi at Indiana University and the wonderful Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. at Butler University.

*Aww come on now, you knew I was going to represent!

lol you guys are funny...Randy...I think and this is just my opinion, but I think that when they are founded are when they got it together on their campus and when they are chartered is when they are officially recognized by the fraternity nationally. For example if we started a pg here in 2001 and then when chartered with the frat 2002 we would use the 2001 as a founding date for historical purposes.

Hyper...

Yup. Just couldn't remember those off the top of my head. I'm too close to Howard U. :) :)

Attractive. Maybe. I don't know enough about the extension process for Omega Psi Phi today, much less 70+ years ago...

Randy

Randy brings up another interesting subject
 

Someone told me as a PG that most of the HBCU's chapters of APO were founded by Ques? I don't know how true that is because my charter advisors were in a variety of NPHC's orgs, that could be one reason why some say A PHI Que. I would like to know if it is true and if so, how many other chapters were founded by NPHC members (mainly members of NPHC's before joining our org)?

No clue unfortunately, but love to know...

Randy

Tenn State
 

The Psi Phi chapter were founded by Omega Psi Phi men. Our frat benches are right next to each other.

Strawter:cool:

Yeah thats interesting, cause the Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity shield is right next to the Que's shield in the "Punchout." (our take out place on campus)

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Alpha Phi Omega til the that i die...Psi Phi chapter founded by the Mighty RHO PSI...

Hello brothers this is an interesting post. But being in a newley recharted chapter I have been called Aye Phi Que by instructors, alumni and other people the knew Alpha Phi Omega back in the day At Norfolk State. I had an instructor that didn't even call my name for roll he just said "Aye Phi Que" But I read somewhere that I cant remember but will search the The whole "Que" thing was created at an HBCU to distiguesh between Omicron and Omega. So Hence Que was created for Omega. But I take it since our chapter was called Aye Phi Que Long before I was Born I think is cool to be called that now. To me it has nothing to do with men or women in the chapter. just my 27 cents. "Apologize for spelling I am at work"

DAMN I'm good.

While it is certainly up to the chapter as to what you want to be called on campus, in this case, I'm not sure that trying to go by APO or APhiO on campus is worth the stress in relations with the alumni or the instructors. To me, using Que as part of the abbrevation gives a tie to the HBCU GLO experience that helps in terms of recruitment deal with the fact that the 14 (or 20) faces in the manual are Caucasian. (GSS, KKY and TBS also have to deal with this of course)

The people most likely to be confused by Aye Phi Que are probably the active brothers at the other chapters in the section, but they'll figure it out. I've never talked to a staffer who had an issue with chapters using Aye Phi Que who wasn't corrected by a more senior staffer. There *is* no official way to abbreviate the greek letters for our fraternity in English.

(Now using *Viking* is a different kettle of fish)


Still wonder when the term Que for Omega was first used by Omega Psi Phi, for all I know it was originally an insulting term which was adopted later with pride (like "Mormons" to describe latter day saints".)

I may be wrong but I read somewhere that the term "Que" was used because of the similarities of the Omega letter looking like a "Q" thus the Que's calling themselves that. The O was more reserved for Omicron.

It isn't really "reserved" as much as sort of obvious because of the identical shape. Alignments between English and Greek letters really depend on whether you are dealing with shape or pronounciation. Using O for Omega is just fine because an O standing by itself in english is pronounced the same was an Omega. The easiest way in english to get a pronounciation alignment for our Greek letters would be Ah F O since the Alpha is a short A...

As for when Omega Psi Phi started using Q, haven't gotten an answer for that...

Randy