Haven't been referred to as that before...
To answer your questions...
I pledged at Kappa Chapter @ Carnegie-Mellon University (It was Carnegie Inst. of Technology when we got our charter in 1929, changed to Carnegie-Mellon in the 1970s.)
As for how I pledged, lets just say that Kappa in many ways including pledging is most similar to the chapters at other "Historically white geeky schools"(My wife's terminology).
I'm #8 in my pledge class because that's where I am alphabetically (not because of my height). I first learned about "stepping" when I was sectional staff representative to Zeta Phi chapter at Howard. (I was on section staff from 1990-> 2003)
I remember when PVAMU (& Texas Southern, I think) presented stepping at the 1994 convention in Dallas. (About twice as many people showed up to that seminar than the convention schedulers expected)
Hope Sigma Pi and Tau Zeta grow, from what I can see, each have less than half a dozen brothers on campus.
YiLFS
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