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Originally posted by LuaBlanca
Tri-Kappa?!
as in K K K? 
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If you think is bad, I have a good story for you.
At the University of Wisconsin, there used to be a honor society called the Ku Klux Klan. It had nothing to do with the national KKK and as far as anybody can tell, the society had nothing to do with racial issues whatsoever. (The society was formed in 1919, when the national KKK had very little influence and wasn't nationally known . . . so the UW group hadn't known about the national KKK.) The most influential members of the junior class were asked to join.
The national Ku Klux Klan started gaining numbers around that time and by 1925 the UW honor society changed its name because they didn't want people to think they were affiliated with the national secret society.
Still, an all-around weird situation.
More information can be found at the bottom of this page if you're curious:
http://www.uwalumni.com/askabe/traditions.html