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Originally posted by Hootie:
I'm learning a little bit more about Greek culture in one of my classes this semester. FYI:
Hellenic means pure greek culture dynamic and Hellenistic is the spread of the ideals. I believe (from my notes) that the term panhellenic meant in greek times "unifying force." It's significance is that it helped to create a "fusion" of city-state identity into a greek identity (Hellenistic). This dates back to 776 with the first Olympic Games.
Still doesn't explain the seperationg of pan and hellenic in NPHC. HOWEVER I will see if my teacher has an explination...perhaps the term "pan" means something too!?!?!
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I'm not sure which group came first, NPC or NPHC, but I would assume from your explanation of the word panhellenic that NPC came first, and NPHC wanted to incoporate the word panhellenic into their name, but didn't want the 2 groups to be confused, and the only differentiation to be that the C in NPC stood for 2 different things for the 2 groups, council vs. conference? Of course it's entirely possible that NPHC was first and NPC chose the non-hyphen panhellinic to differentiate themselves
As to the post on what is "normal", most people consider themselves normal, providing they aren't drastically different than what they were brought up around. So, of course to two little kids on the playground, one purple and one green, they would wonder why the other wasn't "normal". If you were brought up in a nudist colony, you'd wonder why everyone was so wierd, wearing clothes and all. that's not normal!
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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.