[quote]Originally posted by JayBEE!:
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I'm sure we were right in there. This is what I said earlier: "Let me say it like this…. Before Martin Luther King graduated from college in 1958; ….before nine Little Rock, Ark., schoolchildren were escorted to Central High School by federal troops, ending efforts to thwart court-ordered integration in 1957; ….and Before Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, ….Alpha Phi Omega allowed a black campus to have a chapter of a white founded organization in 1947."
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But see, you know during the times and dates NPHC was founded. The affiliates have long been fighting Civil Rights before MLK attended Morehouse... There were numerous out-reachings made by caucasian folks toward Black colleges. I still do not understand your logic for saying that. Are you saying, that your organization broke the "color barrier"? Because, my Soror Eleanor Roosevelt became an Honorary member in 1941...
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The reason why I can join a NPHC is only because our organization is not apart of the black founded organization group of The National Pan-Hellenic Council. If Alpha Phi Omega, National Service Fraternity did petition itself to join and the NPHC accepted it's petition, dual membership would end. Like most fraternal organizations,
We do have social events. The current state of Alpha Phi Omega, National Service Fraternity overall it acts more like a society or a social club on most predominately white campuses. 95% of those chapters are co-ed. Alpha Phi Omega, National Service Fraternity began to allow chapters to become coed in 1976. After that you saw a big decline in black chapters because none of them voted to allow the female membership.
This is why we are old in tradition but seldom seen. Our chapters, that are in the '25/'52 family are all male and the sorority is all female. But there are both coed chapters in the fraternity and in the sorority. The importance of the '25/'52 family is that it allows who we are to remain alive.
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Is your organization a part of ANY National Council such as IFC, NIC, NPC because my Sorority constitution specfically states, must not have pledged to a NPHC or National PanHellenic Conference Sorority. I don't think you guys are under those rules 'cuz pretty much you all sound like you are much like the "Golden Key" or "Soroptimist" or "Boule" groups.
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But if I could draw another young man to this organization, it's worth the tribulations.
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So, why couldn't you recruit through the NPHC affiliates--or rather, have folks join your organization as a "stepping stone" to a NPHC affiliate? They'd get some prior experience and add your organization for their resume. I aske because the tone that I am getting from your words is that your organization and the NPHC affiliates are "drawing" from the same pool of applicants which makes things a little redundant... As far as the "community service" aspect goes for "young men"--we can never have all those bases covered. But, IMHO, I think a step show given by any ole greek will get tired, very fast...
Some of us are already saying, "I'm too old for that kind of thing..."
So, basically, other than the once or twice a year huge step show, what is the point for another exhibition? I am sure you are not saying you want a "step show" every night?
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