"Why are five of them at Howard?"
 

My son asked me this question when peaking at my laptop (I had forgotten that I had up a difference screen on a change to the Wikipedia article on the NPHC) and without even pausing a beat to ask him what it was about, I started in on Howard having Alpha Phi Alpha's Beta chapter at it and being one of the pre-eminent HBCUs...

*Please* tell me that there *have* to be other Caucasian 44 year olds who aren't a member of one of the Noble Nine and who've never attended an HBCU and who know the NPHC like that, right, right? *whimper*

Maybe somebody who gets paid to care that much :-)

You are probably the only volunteer!

TTKA tried to colonize at Howard, not sure what exactly happened ,but in the end it wasn't successful.

Our first chapter at an HBCU was at Howard. It was chartered in, I think, 1952.

/AllI'veGot

I don't understand what the original post in the thread is trying to say. Can someone please explain?

Naraht is impressed that he's a white person who knows that 5 of the NPHC GLOs were founded at Howard; and he has extensive knowledge of the overall topic such that he can discuss it with his kid.

Just naraht being naraht :)

OK. Cool.

Self-flagilation...
 

The issue was that I am a 44 year old caucasian who has never belonged to an NPHC GLO nor attended an HBCU, *however* when my son asked me "why are five at them at Howard?" I didn't have to think about it at all, I knew exactly what he was talking about. (Of the Nine members of the NPHC, five of them:AKA, DST, ZPB, OPF and PBS (though not in that order) were founded at Howard University).

OK. Cool.

Cool story bro.

This is one of my favorite topics on GreekChat.

Officially, not enough numbers to sustain a chapter at the size the fraternity requires.

Unofficially, it wasn't a good fit, from campus to fraternity to individual members.

An org with looser size requirements would be a better fit there.

Heh...:cool: