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Originally Posted by Senusret I
Consider it my unfamiliarity with UK.... my mom was offered a bid from Delta Zeta at at Ferris in the early 70s, but I can only assume Michigan and Kentucky were two entirely different climates.
(Remember at her school the NPHCs rushed with the NPCs)
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From my own personal experiences some Black women were given bids to NPC orgs, because it was the height of the Black Power movement and there was a underlying unrest on campuses. It was a way to say "hey we aren't prejudiced." Consequently the late 60s-70s was a big epansion era for Delta (most of the Zeta to Nu xxx collegiate chapters-lol) and the other NPHCs on PWIs. And yes for many NPHCs to exist on PWIs, they had to follow the rules of the NPC or IFC.
I think I have told you this, but neither Delta nor any other additional NPHC group were allowed to charter at SIUC, supposedly because there was no available housing. The AKAs, Kappas and Alphas were already on campus in housing. But soon they found the restrictions unbearable.
It wasn't until Frankie Freeman, the first Black US Civil Rights Commissioner was invited to campus by the NPC (because she was a woman)to speak that Delta was allow to charter without a house. Why? She was our national president at the time and wore those folx out about the fact that her sorority wasn't represented at SIUC--(we were apart of SIUE's chapter.) That then opened the doors for the Ques, SGRhos (who were on campus, but i think were affiliated with SIUE or a St. Louis collegiate chapter,) Sigmas, and Zetas to charter without houses, as well as the exisiting BGLOs to move out of the campus-owned houses.