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Originally posted by James
I don't know what motivates the the men that want to join Pike versus an NPHC group, or just stay independant, but from the outside it looks like the members want to join a more social organization than a more service one.
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What some of us older members of NPHC groups are saying that we do not have that kind of luxury to "just be a social group". The kids in college may just see our NPHC organizations as just that, but after college, there is a lot more we do afterward. And that is what you, yourself see when working with us. We see our organizations starting kids off with the basis premise of service along with socialiablity.
So on your assessment, the fact that most "traditonal NIC" organizations are mainly social, then that would say to me, in my opinion, that the young men who sought Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity out from Howard University see the social life at Howard as substandard and they keep telling us to give folks a different choice...
What some of us are saying, what is that choice? And basically questioning intent to join. Because we know both NIC and NPHC networking pretty much operates the same way and in several ways crosses paths. But right now, in my opinion, they young men fail to see that.
Hey, but its their choice... They can do whatever they want to do. But I know plenty of adults that also complain and wish they made different choices. And I find that silly... Especially when we are talking about the premise of the NPHC organizations international mission statements...