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Originally posted by PGPeripheryGirl
Um actually Finer Woman, this has happened with every historically white GLO on Howard's campus. Phi Sigma Pi has line names, numbers, calls and hand symbols. Delta Sigma Pi and Alpha Phi Omega have line names and numbers. Even Pals have a call and hand symbol now. Student government has calls. Specific floors in the Quad make strolls. Clearly organizations and even individuals on Howard's campus absorb certain aspects of Greek life and make them their own. So if Pikes at Howard make up calls, strolls, line names/numbers and hand symbols, they would not be the first historically white or non-NPHC organization to do so by a long shot...
edited for: spelling and grammar because Word usually does it for me...
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And it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if this Pike chapter did embrace some local tradition. According to the anecdotes I've read on GC, many chapters of many different GLOs have local traditions as well as national ritual. It doesn't take away from their bond in the brother/sisterhood, but ties them into the campus.
I've said this before and will probably get heat for it again. One does not lose their pride in their ethnic background just because they choose to join a group that is predominantly of a different race.