Pitt asks NPHC groups to expand

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This chaps my hide.

I also attended a PWI and pre-Proposition 209, also known as the ban on affirmative action, I came from what would be considered a large chapter (for a PWI). There were 15 on the line before mine, 18 on my line, 23 on the line after mine, then 10 on the line after. AT any one time, there were 30 Sorors runnin' the campus (and I mean that). There was also a high representation of the other NPHC orgs, of which every one was represented (except for the Bruhs, of which there were consistently like, 4).

Now, my undergrad chapter just had a line come through of 4, the line before that was 6, the line before that 5. There are only 2 members of the chapter that have to do everything. All POST prop 209. For the next school year, the University admitted 175 Black people...INCLUDING ATHLETES!!!

I'm real nervous about what that means for not only the NPHC orgs, but for the state of the Black Union altogether. We are organizations that do major community and public service. Other campus orgs also do (I mean like Afrcian Education or Black Hypertension). With 175 Black folks, all of which will not be involved in community orgs, Sororities and Frats, etc., it looks real bleek. Headquarters already requires certain numbers for Intake to even be possible. If this university made it so that NPHC orgs could not get funding from campus resources, reserve rooms, or anything, we'd be screwed.

I just wish that people would try and understand the difference between the groups and the ways in which low enrollment of Black folks in the first place, affects NPHC orgs ability to have high membership.

I'm sad.