NPHC BGLO's how do you feel about non NPHC BGLO's

[naraht]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

Most don't.

That's why APO isn't a BGLO period and shouldn't even be mentioned in a "nonNPHC BGLO" thread.

Agreed, but Alpha Phi Omega, Gamma Sigma Sigma, Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma generally do fall into the same grouping at HBCUs. Non-socials who started at non HBCUs (or a collection thereof for GSS) and whose chapters at HBCUs function similarly to NPHC in terms of calls, signs, stepping, lines and other characteristics.

For APO (many times at HBCUs abbreviated as A Phi Que) represents a culture shared across a number of chapters but isn't anything official. It is noticed and at least one convention had a seminar specifically demonstrating Alpha Phi Omega stepping.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by naraht

It is noticed and at least one convention had a seminar specifically demonstrating Alpha Phi Omega stepping.

I taught a strolling workshop at the 2006 convention with about 30 attendees. Most of the participants were not from HBCUs, if that means anything.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I taught a strolling workshop at the 2006 convention with about 30 attendees. Most of the participants were not from HBCUs, if that means anything.

Actually, I was thinking of the 1994 convention in Dallas/Fort Worth. Prairie View A&M's chapter ran that...

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by naraht

Actually, I was thinking of the 1994 convention in Dallas/Fort Worth. Prairie View A&M's chapter ran that...

I know you were, I'm just adding that there have been additional events since that.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I know you were, I'm just adding that there have been additional events since that.

Cool. However, if this ever spreads far enough that the chapter I initiated at (Kappa @ the incredibly geeky Carnegie-Mellon University) begins stepping, someone is going to die.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by naraht

Agreed, but Alpha Phi Omega, Gamma Sigma Sigma, Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma generally do fall into the same grouping at HBCUs.

That doesn't a "BGLO" make.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

That doesn't a "BGLO" make.

True, but sometimes the only way to tell with those 4 groups at HBCUs is to look at the pictures in the Pledge manual. (That is definitely a way in which Alpha Phi Omega nationally does *not* line up with the NPHCs. Pledging<>Hazing!)

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by naraht

True, but sometimes the only way to tell with those 4 groups at HBCUs is to look at the pictures in the Pledge manual. (That is definitely a way in which Alpha Phi Omega nationally does *not* line up with the NPHCs. Pledging<>Hazing!)

They still aren't BGLOs.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

They still aren't BGLOs.

Shrug, what makes a BGLO then? The school they were founded at? (Like Indiana University)? Whether they have a majority of their chapters at HBCUs? (No idea if this is true of all of the NPHC). The race of their founders?

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by naraht

Shrug, what makes a BGLO then?

The things that cancel groups like APO out.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

The things that cancel groups like APO out.

Could you be a *tiny* bit more specific?