[sweete81]

Thank you for the clarification both of you!!! In response to your question, personally I will not have a problem with your sorority being reactivated on Howard's campus because Howard needs a change of pace especially when it comes to our Greek Life!!! Honestly, I do not know anything about GSS outside of its relationship to APhiQ back in the day, but any organization whether it be Greek or not that is dedicated to service has to be an upstanding organization. The one obstacle you may encounter: as anyone familiar with Black Greek life may know, Howard is the Alpha Chapter for 3 out of 4 Black Greek Sororities and unless y'all really publicize your organization, then you may encounter membership problems. Now as far as individual interactions with members of GSS go I believe that no problems will occur as long as people respect others then there should be no problems. Now with that being said, my bruhs (female or male) should respect members of GSS and that in the past some campuses had APO/GSS ties and we cannot assume that they will come and try to replace APO female bruhs (that effort would be in vain anyways). In the same token members both undergrad and alumni members of both organizations need to respect that both organizations are co-ed and they can not enforce the whole "bruh/soror" & "APO/GSS" relationship because we are not constitutionally bound to the other. In closing, if people know their role, then there will not be any trouble. With any case, when people step outside of their role then that is when problems occur.

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P.S. To clear up the whole APO/APHIQ issue I spoke to some alums of Zeta Phi (40 and 50 year members of Alpha Phi Omega). They said that APhiQ does not refer to modern day "Viking" or any other all male chapter. A PHI Q or A Phi O was the name given to Historically Black chapters back in the sixties to not only distinguish themselves (hence Howard being the Black Beta, so on so forth), but because they felt that the Greek letters were not APO but A PHI Q and thusly referred to the organization as such. Now during the time these chapters as well as most chapters of APO were all male. However, the correlation between all male chapters and A Phi Q is incorrect in the sense that only males can be A Phi Q. Anyone "made" or crossed at an HBCU are considered A Phi Q. I hope this sheds any light to those who are unsure of what A Phi Q is.