New Omega house at USC Greek Village.

[Wolfman]

Here's the architectural rendering of the last house to be built in the USC (South Carolina) Greek Village. Construction will commence in June. It was designed by a black architectural firm.

http://jbaarchitecture.com/USC_Omega_House.htm

[neosoul]

the link didn't work

[jitterbug13]

And I thought they had finished the house! I need to get in touch more with my alma mater.

[Wolfman]

Sorry for the link; it does works in other
contexts.You can find the Omega House rendering also on the following link:

http://www.sa.sc.edu/greeklife/Greek...ublication.pdf

[neosoul]

thanks Wolfman! The design looks awesome... yay for the Men of Omega!

[mccoyred]

Originally Posted by Wolfman

Here's the architectural rendering of the last house to be built in the USC (South Carolina) Greek Village. Construction will commence in June. It was designed by a black architectural firm.

http://jbaarchitecture.com/USC_Omega_House.htm

It looks nice from the small pic. I was pleased to see that it does not have those plantation columns out front like all the other houses!

[Wolfman]

Originally Posted by mccoyred

It looks nice from the small pic. I was pleased to see that it does not have those plantation columns out front like all the other houses!

No Old South theme, huh. Per the architect's website, the columns will be brick, and the design was inspired by the Prairie architectural style, popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright in the early '20th century.

[DSTCHAOS]

I like plantation columns.

Nice house, Bruhs.

[jitterbug13]

I can't remember which sorority it was, but the staircase on the insidewas built to look like the staircase in Tara (Gone With The Wind). I'm glad the bruhs are doing a house that doesn't look like everyone else.

Yay Zeta Square!!!!

[AXEAM]

Originally Posted by Wolfman

No Old South theme, huh. Per the architect's website, the columns will be brick, and the design was inspired by the Prairie architectural style, popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright in the early '20th century.

If some of the white students had their way some Bruhs would be hanging from those columns.

[jitterbug13]

^^^^^^
TRUE!!!!! I remember when they started planning Greek Village (when I was in undergrad). They were probably thinking "those Black greeks don't have enough to build a house and the Alphas will stay in raggey McBride". President Sorstean (sp) ruined those plans when he personally called the bruhs himself. Actually, it was supose to be near the adult/family housing and then the families starting worring about parties and noise all night long.

Axeam, I think you're starting to rub off on me.

[Wolfman]

Originally Posted by AXEAM

If some of the white students had their way some Bruhs would be hanging from those columns.

This underlying sentiment of white privilege and bigotry has to be challenged. The sub rosa "hate speech" about our house at the USC Greek Village by some white fraternity members flies in the face of the fact that the fraternity/sorority row is on university property, on the flagship state university in a state where black people pay taxes to support state-sponsored higher education just like all other people. It is not "their" Greek Village. We are not interlopers! We have to change our way of thinking! Maybe our presence is just an aspect of the next phase of "desegregation"--transgressing the de facto spaces where some white folks think they can maintain the Old South. If some want to do this, they'll have to do it on their own private property, not quasi-state property. The Greek Village is ours too! President Sorenson had the right idea. We poneyed up the money and are building a nice house like the rest of the groups. They'll just have to get used to the bruhs!

[AXEAM]

Originally Posted by Wolfman

This underlying sentiment of white privilege and bigotry has to be challenged. The sub rosa "hate speech" about our house at the USC Greek Village by some white fraternity members flies in the face of the fact that the fraternity/sorority row is on university property, on the flagship state university in a state where black people pay taxes to support state-sponsored higher education just like all other people. It is not "their" Greek Village. We are not interlopers! We have to change our way of thinking! Maybe our presence is just an aspect of the next phase of "desegregation"--transgressing the de facto spaces where some white folks think they can maintain the Old South. If some want to do this, they'll have to do it on their own private property, not quasi-state property. The Greek Village is ours too! President Sorenson had the right idea. We poneyed up the money and are building a nice house like the rest of the groups. They'll just have to get used to the bruhs!

Bruh. I agree w/everything you stated in your post.....except the part that we have to change our way of thinking. The black students @ USC welcomed the Omega house (well maybe not the alphas that's an inside joke.)
the problems seem to be w/some white students. Have you ever notice that blacks @ HBCUs never react in this manner towards mostly white orgs on campus.

[AXEAM]

Originally Posted by jitterbug13

^^^^^^
TRUE!!!!! I remember when they started planning Greek Village (when I was in undergrad). They were probably thinking "those Black greeks don't have enough to build a house and the Alphas will stay in raggey McBride". President Sorstean (sp) ruined those plans when he personally called the bruhs himself. Actually, it was supose to be near the adult/family housing and then the families starting worring about parties and noise all night long.

Axeam, I think you're starting to rub off on me.

That could be a good thing.

[Wolfman]

Originally Posted by AXEAM

Bruh. I agree w/everything you stated in your post.....except the part that we have to change our way of thinking. The black students @ USC welcomed the Omega house (well maybe not the alphas that's an inside joke.)
the problems seem to be w/some white students. Have you ever notice that blacks @ HBCUs never react in this manner towards mostly white orgs on campus.

Bruh, I think I know what you're saying. The point I was addressing is the result of some--even bruhs--who think that we shouldn't have gotten involved with this project,esp. after this incident. This project is something that the Fraternity wants to parlay into something bigger. I'd be great if an HBCU or two did the same thing and we could do this there. I'm reminded of the documentary about Bro. Percy Julian who brandished a shotgun, daring anybody to mess with him and his family, when arsonists and others tried to run him out of his house when he moved to toney,white Chicago suburb Oak Park, IL. back in the day. If our ancestors ran away from situations where there was some disapproval to our presence, where'd we be today? A bruh in my present grad chapter recently went to South African and he told me that many black South Africans have never been to many of the national sites of interest in their own country. Economics and the awakening that this is now their country is something that is a growing reality there; and in some ways there is residual inferiority or defeatist attitudes amongst our people in certain ways. I had a conversation with a young black woman about politics the other day and she expressed the attitude that Barack Obama shouldn't run because he can't win: the white power structure won't let him get to the top. However one feels about his candidacy on political grounds, this attitude is a bit distressing, seeing how so many risked their lives to enable us to fully participate in the fruits of this country,according to one's desires. That's what I was getting at. And, to be honest, some blacks have negative or ambivalent feelings about the growing white presence in HBCUs, even though you won't find the same kind of response by blacks as in the SC incident. You're right. But the difference centers around this cast/race apartheid mentality by some whites about certain institutions and social spaces and what they represent: the bastion of their culture and civilization; thus we should not transgress on "their" social space.

P.S. I hear you about the Ape beatdown at SC.