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Originally posted by deuika
As for my own pondering, why would they be concerned with the history of Phi Beta Kappa? If one was interested in the origins of Greek Lettered Organizations period, why of course this would be important information, but why would this history be relevant to that specifically of BGLOs? Isn't Phi Beta Kappa an academic organization? Yes, the oldest of Greek Lettered Orgs, but really has no hmmm what's the word, relevance to that of Black Greek Lettered Organizations. Are you implying that BGLOs are stealing from GLOs by being Greek Lettered without adding an appendage citing Phi Beta Kappa?
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Not in the least. You clearly don't know your GLO history as well as you think. Phi Beta Kappa was the first Greek-lettered fraternity and was founded as a social organization, becoming academic only after campus protest forced the revealing of their secret motto. It was the predecessor to the modern American fraternity system.
Also, at a minimum, you'd think that the 4 sororities in the NPHC would learn the history of the word sorority, since it is something they chose to incorporate in their name. That history is included in the NME of all other NPC sororities besides the one the word was coined for.
I am just curious that they assume we don't already know the history of stepping, or that the Alphas and Sigmas didn't teach it as they taught stepping. While it was nice to see the article give Greek coverage, the article wasn't exactly accurate (Phi Gamma Alpha and Phi Kappa Alpha as two examples) and did not cover every single situation.
I will wait for an NPHC member to clarify this information for me.