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09-15-2013, 09:18 PM
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"Why are five of them at Howard?"
My son asked me this question when peaking at my laptop (I had forgotten that I had up a difference screen on a change to the Wikipedia article on the NPHC) and without even pausing a beat to ask him what it was about, I started in on Howard having Alpha Phi Alpha's Beta chapter at it and being one of the pre-eminent HBCUs...
*Please* tell me that there *have* to be other Caucasian 44 year olds who aren't a member of one of the Noble Nine and who've never attended an HBCU and who know the NPHC like that, right, right? *whimper*
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09-15-2013, 09:33 PM
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Maybe somebody who gets paid to care that much :-)
You are probably the only volunteer!
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09-16-2013, 02:13 AM
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TTKA tried to colonize at Howard, not sure what exactly happened ,but in the end it wasn't successful.
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09-16-2013, 07:59 AM
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Our first chapter at an HBCU was at Howard. It was chartered in, I think, 1952.
/AllI'veGot
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09-16-2013, 08:10 AM
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I don't understand what the original post in the thread is trying to say. Can someone please explain?
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09-16-2013, 08:25 AM
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Naraht is impressed that he's a white person who knows that 5 of the NPHC GLOs were founded at Howard; and he has extensive knowledge of the overall topic such that he can discuss it with his kid.
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09-16-2013, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by amIblue?
I don't understand what the original post in the thread is trying to say. Can someone please explain?
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Just naraht being naraht 
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09-16-2013, 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Naraht is impressed that he's a white person who knows that 5 of the NPHC GLOs were founded at Howard; and he has extensive knowledge of the overall topic such that he can discuss it with his kid.
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Originally Posted by Sen's Revenge
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OK. Cool.
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09-16-2013, 08:46 AM
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Self-flagilation...
The issue was that I am a 44 year old caucasian who has never belonged to an NPHC GLO nor attended an HBCU, *however* when my son asked me "why are five at them at Howard?" I didn't have to think about it at all, I knew exactly what he was talking about. (Of the Nine members of the NPHC, five of them:AKA, DST, ZPB, OPF and PBS (though not in that order) were founded at Howard University).
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09-16-2013, 08:48 AM
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Originally Posted by naraht
The issue was that I am a 44 year old caucasian who has never belonged to an NPHC GLO nor attended an HBCU, *however* when my son asked me "why are five at them at Howard?" I didn't have to think about it at all, I knew exactly what he was talking about. (Of the Nine members of the NPHC, five of them:AKA, DST, ZPB, OPF and PBS (though not in that order) were founded at Howard University).
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OK. Cool.
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09-16-2013, 11:23 AM
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Cool story bro.
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09-16-2013, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by ARKTTKA
TTKA tried to colonize at Howard, not sure what exactly happened ,but in the end it wasn't successful.
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This is one of my favorite topics on GreekChat.
Officially, not enough numbers to sustain a chapter at the size the fraternity requires.
Unofficially, it wasn't a good fit, from campus to fraternity to individual members.
An org with looser size requirements would be a better fit there.
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09-16-2013, 06:54 PM
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This is one of my favorite topics on GreekChat.
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Heh... 
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