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Originally Posted by naraht
OK, to be specific, note this is from about 30 minutes of research on Wikipedia and google. (note, I'm using the terms graduate chapters and alumni/ae chapters interchangably here, I know some use one term and one the other)
Alpha Phi Alpha: Graduate chapters end in Lambda, many three letter.
Omega Psi Phi: A mess. Some of the newer undergrad chapters are three letters. Some of the later(?) graduate chapters are three letters with the second and third the same. Maybe they started with having all chapters assigned names in order and latter changed to the 2nd & 3rd identical.
Kappa Alpha Psi: Appears to use only geographic names for graduate chapters .
Phi Beta Sigma: Graduate chapters end in Sigma, many three letter
Iota Phi Theta: Graduate chapters end in Omega, many three letter
Alpha Kappa Alpha: Graduate chapters end in Omega, many three letter
Delta Sigma Theta: Formerly used: Most graduate chapters end in Sigma, many three letter. Changed to geographic names during the 1956 National Convention (December 26-30, 1956) (term changed from graduate chapters to alumnae chapters)
Zeta Phi Beta: Graduate chapters end in Zeta, may three letter
Sigma Gamma Rho: Graduate chapters end in Sigma, many three letters
So I count it as 6 that more or less follow the "end in a specific letter" rule, one (DST) that used to, one that never did(KAPsi) and I'm still trying to figure out Omega Psi Phi.
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Just because you will find this interesting, there are two active alumni chapters which do not end in Lambda:
Rho (Philadelphia)
Omicron Lambda Alpha (DC)
I do not know off the top of my head why Rho is special.
Omicron Lambda Alpha was the first intermediate chapter, which loosely defined means a chapter for people enrolled in graduate and professional schools or approximately in that age group.
Omicron Lambda Beta was the only other intermediate chapter. They were for graduate students at Illinois.
Me and another Greekchatter were discussing this last week and we were uncertain whether Chi Chapter at Meharry Medical College was considered by the fraternity to be a collegiate chapter or an alumni chapter. We decided to ask somebody but neither of us did. lol