Publicity on founding years?

[naraht]

It may be comparing somewhat apples and oranges, but it appears to me that someone who spent a semester in one of the GLOs in the NPHC greek system at Howard University would, whether they really wanted to or *not*, learn all of the founding years of the NPHC fraternities. For example, most of the time that "Phi Beta Sigma" would be seen, the year 1914 would be seen.

OTOH, for members of NIC Fraternities, I haven't seen anywhere near the publicity over their founding years, though the older (1865 and before) seem to emphasize it *slightly* more. To pick a slightly younger fraternity, my *guess* is that someone in a NIC fraternity on the same campus as TKE might get through school with no idea that TKE was founded in 1899.

The NPC Sororities appear to be able the same as the NIC Fraternities in that regard, maybe a *touch* more publicity of founding years, but not much.

The Fraternities in the Philippines are even more interested in publicizing it than the NPHC fraternities in the USA, to the point where I've found at least 3 fraternities that claim to be descended from an American group apparently for no other reason than to make them look older...

For Alpha Phi Omega (USA), I think there is a split between the chapters at the HBCUs (more like the NPHC groups) and the non-HBCUs which don't emphasize it as much)

So how much publicity in paraphenalia and other places does the founding year of your GLO get?