Thanks for Your Support

28zpfa03 · #1 12-13-2003, 01:14 AM

I would like to say Thank You to all of you who supported us as we entered into the brotherhood of Alpha Phi Omega. I would like to send a special thanks to the members of the Mighty Zeta Phi Chapter at Howard University- the place where I was born.

Thank You,
#28 TAILored to Perfection
28-ZP-FA03

Attractive#7 · #2 12-15-2003, 03:15 PM

??? I thought it was 27 of y'all???

28zpfa03 · #3 12-17-2003, 12:27 PM

When someone drops line you continue to keep your number you do not delete your number at all because that is who you are, why take someone else's identity?

But when you look at my pledge class you will know that I was not left out: The G.E.S.T.A.L.T. ExeQuetive Branch 27- contains 28 letters that's where I am located

Senusret I · #4 12-17-2003, 01:35 PM

Attractive#7 · #5 12-18-2003, 03:16 AM

Alpha Phi Omega never ceases to amaze me. That is one thing I love about our fraternity. Each chapter is so different and we all have different chapter traditions, but we are all bound in Leadership, Friendship, and Service. I have never heard of keeping your number when someone drops, but to each his own. To me it just seems like you are still giving honor to a person who does not exist in our fraternity; therefore, deserves no honor. My pledge class started off with 20 perspective members, but over time some people realized that they were not Alpha Phi Omega Material. That is ok b/c it's not for everyone. I love the brothers of my pledge class...I learned many things from them and hopefully they learned from me. I would not trade those other 14 members for the world and will never forget those lost upon they way and remember that they were just that...lost.

Virtuous Woman · #6 12-19-2003, 03:28 AM

Congratulations and welcome to the bond!

I don't think that keeping your number is wierd when someone drops. My chapter does it that way also. It depends on how "old" the pledges are whether or not the numbers will change. After a certain point, they will keep their original number. It sucks sometimes because my number always drops

I guess not everyone has what it takes to be number TWO.

Attractive: I'm sure that at your school the reason that you do not see missing numbers is that it is illegal to pledge for BGLOs and missing numbers could be seen as a sign that there was a pledge process.

Attractive#7 · #7 12-19-2003, 05:49 AM

Well that is an interesting theory, but i have been to 2 schools and i have never seen it. What is a BGLO?

Senusret I · #8 12-19-2003, 06:58 AM

Black Greek Lettered Organization.

VW, shut up, we all know Beta Iota is cat.

naraht · #9 12-20-2003, 02:13 AM

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Originally posted by Virtuous Woman
Attractive: I'm sure that at your school the reason that you do not see missing numbers is that it is illegal to pledge for BGLOs and missing numbers could be seen as a sign that there was a pledge process.

Yeah, but since Alpha Phi Omega can pledge, we don't have to deal with whether or not what we do is an illegal pledging in that way.

Personal feeling, getting rid of the pledge program may not work for the NPHC greeks, but they are desperate... In my opinion there is a 50/50 chance that at least one of the NPHC greeks will go bankrupt in the next 10 years. Used to think it would be one of the frats, but that was before the incident in Los Angeles.

YiLFS
Randy Finder

sweete81 · #10 12-20-2003, 03:19 PM

Howard does that all of the time and have been doing it for quite sometime for not just BGLO but for all GLO's on our campus. Because this is an open forum and it would go into some very in depth stuff, I will not go into to great detail herre:} but at Zeta Phi, just like you have a spec family, you have a number family that helps you get through the process. Many times, numbers have a certain type of attitude or bond that links them together and it is up to the pledge {trefoils for us} to be that ish. Like, if you are going to be a nine in my chapter, you better be tight, because that is the standard, 18 you got to be a pimp, 11 got to have Attitude, deuces-dutty, so on and so forth. Your number family is even more personalized because you will only have one number on any given line so therefore it is up to all of those who have that same number to make sure that they earn the number on their shirt! Now if someone could not earn their number which causes them to drop then that is that number family's loss. So figuratively speaking, you have 6 pledges but #5 drops then there is no number 5. But you can't take someone's elses because they did not earned that number through their process. ex. #6 remains #6 because that is what he/she worked for during their process. I hope that explains some of it. Like I said earlier, I can't go into too much detail over a public forum.

ATJ · #11 12-21-2003, 12:34 AM

I could not have said it better myself. I'm glad i didn't have to go down to number 26, 25, or 24 everytime someone drops, i enjoy being 27 (especially since we are twenty seven). Not only that but i get to set the standards for 27's from here on out.

so anxious · #12 12-21-2003, 03:12 AM

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Originally posted by sweete81
.... Many times, numbers have a certain type of attitude or bond that links them together and it is up to the pledge {trefoils for us} to be that ish. Like, if you are going to be a nine in my chapter, you better be tight, because that is the standard, 18 you got to be a pimp, 11 got to have Attitude , deuces-dutty, so on and so forth. Your number family is even more personalized because you will only have one number on any given line so therefore it is up to all of those who have that same number to make sure that they earn the number on their shirt!

Grandspesh,

I don't have an attitude!!!!

#18 S.O.T. APO · #13 12-21-2003, 11:20 PM

No Numba 11, you dont have an attitude...U have to have attitude.

Any wayz...It is true. 18's will always lay the pimp hand way strong if you step outta line and the 9's always back them up, and their lil's will do the same. Thats how Zeta Phi gets down.
Its not the first though. There are 13 from Spring 03B and there is a numba 14. There are 27 in the Fall Class but there is a numba 28. There is always one that doesnt make it.

Attractive#7 · #14 01-10-2004, 03:06 PM

So how long has zeta phi been doing the number thing? This is just really interesting to me becuz i dont ever recall people keepin their numbers... maybe i just didnt' pay attention to it when i was there.

naraht · #15 01-11-2004, 06:29 AM

Attractive, when were you at Howard? I've been on section staff since about 1990, the traditions have changed some, especially with the group that tried to keep it going 94-95. But for a chapter at a BGLO to not keep track of numbers, that would be strange...

Randy