All Orgs That were founded before 1930/Why I pledged stories

[PrettyBoy]

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. was founded Jan. 5, 1911 on the campus of Indiana University by 10 African American college students.

During my freshman year in college I knew nothing about greeks. It didn't dawn on me until I saw guys walking around campus wearing the same letters that I grew up seeing in the family basement. I put 2 and 2 together. I said "Hey those are the symbols in the basement. I've seen dad wear the same symbols". Well, my fathers fraternity was the 1st fraternity I saw on campus (not a Kappa). His fraternity stuff is all over the basement, but I never knew what it was before I left for college my freshman year.

Well, I was really curious so I started asking upper classmen questions about the different greek orgs. Each of them had their own image and were all very different from one another. After asking questions and seeing a lot of them, none of them seemed to interest me, so I decided not to pledge at all. That all changed when I saw the Kappas (Nupes) for the 1st time on campus. They were standing in front of the student union building and some of their cars were parked in front, with Kappa stickers ect. on the windows, license plates ect. They drove the best cars on campus, wore the nicest clothes and all the best sororities wanted to throw parties with them. I thought this was so cool. They were the talk of the campus. I did more research and in the year book they had the highest GPAs out of all the other fraternities on campus. That was it! I knew then that this was what I was going to pledge. At the time, I was only 19 and when I saw how close they were and how popular they were, and how many members that are world icons, I really wanted to be a part of that.

A year later me and 5 other guys received our acceptance letters, pledged for 16 weeks and became members. 219 guys came to the fall interest meeting the year before and only 8 were accepted. Two dropped out and 6 made it. The day the 6 of us finally made it in was the happiest day of my life.