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Originally posted by Rain Man
Mccoyred, I find your post interesting, but I want to reserve comment until I finish my research. I am only about 2/3 of the way done with the fraternities and I haven't even touched the sororities (though their listing isn't nearly as big as the fraternities, thank goodness--I have been researching like crazy).
Just wanted to acknowledge your post and that I read it. Stay tuned...
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Okay, I pulled out my copy of BG101. It has an entire chapter dedicated to the question "Was Eight Enough?" (p91 - 110) where it looks at non-NPHC BGLOs as well as the acceptance of IPT into the NPHC. It mentions Sigma Pi Phi, Alpha Kappa Nu and Pi Gamma Omicron fraternities among others. It also mentions social groups like Groove Phi Groove, cultural organizations like Malik Sigma Psi as well as Christian groups.
It seems that the non-NPHC organizations that existed between 1910 and 1960 were either local, literary or other honor societies or social non-Greek letter organizations; after 1960, groups were primarily cultural or specialized (ie Christian, multicultural). In several references, the books indicates that these organizations pre-dated the establishment of NPHC chapters then declined but nowhere does it specifically state that these groups were incorporated as chapters of the NPHC groups.
Unlike the NPC and IFC where locals petition to become chapters of the National organizations, the NPHC groups seemed to have supplanted the other groups rather than incorporated them.
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