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My freshmen year at UMass Dartmouth there was one BGLO, Iota Phi Theta. They has only 3 members, two of them were going to graduate at the end of the year. They never held any info sessions so I pledged this other fraternity for 2 weeks and dropped because it wasnt for me. Towards the end of that year Sigma Phi Rho came on to our campus. I watched them from a far and talked with some of their guys and I decided they werent for me either. I think I should have went to a bigger school that has more diverse so I could have more choices. My school has around 8000 students and the African-American population is about 8-10 percent. The majority of this 8-10 percent are Cape Verdean and many of them dont consider themselves black. Going into this fall Iota Phi Theta has now dissolved and Sigma Phi Rho has around 6 or 7 members. Many of my teachers in high school and middle school were apart of BGLO's. They encourraged me to join, but my school didnt have that much to offer for BGLO's. I thought about starting my own but I didnt think my school could handle that, because of one folding and the other with low membership.
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