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Originally posted by naraht:
I will admit that at the time that the Iotas were admitted to the NPHC they were certainly in the same order of magnitude in terms of number of chapters as the first eight members of the NPHCs (Not sure whether the Iotas are still the smallest of the nine. However there was certainly a stretch of time when there were more Alpha Phi Omega chapters at Historically Black Universities than there were Iota Phi Theta chapters at HBUCs. (Our first Alpha Phi Omega chapter at an HBUC was in 1946) I don't know enough about GSS,TBS or KKY history to say that about them.
Alpha Phi Omega (and GSS) run into comments at HBUCs about copying colors,handsigns and calls from the HBCUs, (APO colors=Blue & Gold, handsign = (national) "boy scout sign", HBCU = index & pinky extended or thumb, index & pinky extended, call = skeet,skeet)
Also, I seriously doubt that it is exclusively members of the NPHCs who know the history of stepping and non members of the NPHCs who do not...
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Was the stating of the obvious truly necessary?
If your organization was founded before mine, I would naturally assume that its possible that you had a chapter at an HBCU before my organization did.
That comment had no relavance to our discussion.
Personally, I think this topic is going nowhere. Let's agree to disagree before someone says the wrong thing and intentionally/unintentionally disrespects one's organization.
Rather than attempting to get someone to believe/ accept another person's opinion,
lets move on............
You now have a good idea as to why BGLO's emphasize "incorporated". That was the original question and should be left as such.
I will check this topic out some other time, but I think a lot of the posts made by various people have answered the original question.
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[This message has been edited by suntzu1963 (edited August 14, 2001).]
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