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04-02-2007, 07:56 PM
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huh?
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04-02-2007, 08:05 PM
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huh?
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I'm glad that I saw your sorority under that line. I was going to start another thread about AKA, but I didn't want to be annoying by asking too many questions. I will just ask here. I noticed that the AKA symbol is an ivy leaf. Is AKA connected to any of the following by any chance?
Harvard
U of Penn
Columbia
Dartmouth
Cornell
Brown
Princeton
Yale
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04-02-2007, 08:08 PM
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I'm glad that I saw your sorority under that line. I was going to start another thread about AKA, but I didn't want to be annoying by asking too many questions. I will just ask here. I noticed that the AKA symbol is an ivy leaf. Is AKA connected to any of the following by any chance?
Harvard
U of Penn
Columbia
Dartmouth
Cornell
Brown
Princeton
Yale
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lol.. Yes. Alpha Kappa Alpha is connected to these universities.
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04-02-2007, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by FutureGreek1
I'm glad that I saw your sorority under that line. I was going to start another thread about AKA, but I didn't want to be annoying by asking too many questions. I will just ask here. I noticed that the AKA symbol is an ivy leaf. Is AKA connected to any of the following by any chance?
Harvard
U of Penn
Columbia
Dartmouth
Cornell
Brown
Princeton
Yale
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You need to stick with me, this is what my doctoral disseration is on.
The founder of AKA was Madam CJ Walker, who had 8 daughters. Each daughter attended a different Ivy League college (or in some cases, their female counter part, like Radcliffe or Barnard). Well, Walker's daughters joined forces with their mom and established the first sorority for black women.
Incidentally, each daughter married an Alpha founder, except for the Yale daughter, who got stuck with a Sigma.
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04-02-2007, 08:11 PM
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To heck with that, I'm happy being an Alpha/APO then.  |
I heard the Alphas each get a pyramid in their name after initiation. No?
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Originally Posted by Senusret I
You need to stick with me, this is what my doctoral disseration is on.
The founder of AKA was Madam CJ Walker, who had 8 daughters. Each daughter attended a different Ivy League college (or in some cases, their female counter part, like Radcliffe or Barnard). Well, Walker's daughters joined forces with their mom and established the first sorority for black women.
Incidentally, each daughter married an Alpha founder, except for the Yale daughter, who got stuck with a Sigma.
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CTFU!!!!!
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04-02-2007, 08:14 PM
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I heard the Alphas each get a pyramid in their name after initiation. No?
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Yes and no.... post 1990, we got stuck with the Aztec pyramids and we have to share.
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04-02-2007, 09:20 PM
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Yes and no.... post 1990, we got stuck with the Aztec pyramids and we have to share.
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But at least we get our own eagles in APO.  I visit mine at the Brookfield Zoo every week!
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04-02-2007, 09:32 PM
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what about the poor sisters of theta? how do they work that out, having a kite as their symbol instead of an animal? are there like, kite zoos?
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04-02-2007, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Senusret I
You need to stick with me, this is what my doctoral disseration is on.
The founder of AKA was Madam CJ Walker, who had 8 daughters. Each daughter attended a different Ivy League college (or in some cases, their female counter part, like Radcliffe or Barnard). Well, Walker's daughters joined forces with their mom and established the first sorority for black women.
Incidentally, each daughter married an Alpha founder, except for the Yale daughter, who got stuck with a Sigma.
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Which Sigma? And what is wrong with them?
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04-02-2007, 08:18 PM
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Which Sigma? And what is wrong with them?
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Wasn't it Bill Cosby's grandfather?
Sigmas and Alphas have a good-natured rivalry. It has to do with sharing the pyramids, I think.
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04-02-2007, 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by FutureGreek1
I'm glad that I saw your sorority under that line. I was going to start another thread about AKA, but I didn't want to be annoying by asking too many questions. I will just ask here. I noticed that the AKA symbol is an ivy leaf. Is AKA connected to any of the following by any chance?
Harvard
U of Penn
Columbia
Dartmouth
Cornell
Brown
Princeton
Yale
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www.google.com
Then you enter a search term such as, oh, I don't know, AKA?
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04-02-2007, 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Xidelt
www.google.com
Then you enter a search term such as, oh, I don't know, AKA?
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I prefer not to use google, I rather talke to live people.
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04-02-2007, 08:21 PM
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I prefer not to use google, I rather talke to live people.
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Okay. go to ask.com and use the SearchLive! option.
Kind of an integrated search/chat thingy.
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04-02-2007, 08:33 PM
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I prefer not to use google, I rather talke to live people.
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i can understand why you'd want to, but really with some of these questions, if you look around you are NOT going to get the answers you are looking for. for example, yes, it's probably a good idea to talk to greeks about their experience rather than relying on some of the weird stuff that comes up in a google search.
but a quick search of the term "ivy league" should explain to you why they're called the ivy league, just as a quick visit to the Alpha Kappa Alpha website would prove extremely enlightening, I'm sure, as to any connection with harvard, yale, princeton, etc.
trust me, you'll be doing yourself a favor.
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04-02-2007, 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by mystikchick
i can understand why you'd want to, but really with some of these questions, if you look around you are NOT going to get the answers you are looking for. for example, yes, it's probably a good idea to talk to greeks about their experience rather than relying on some of the weird stuff that comes up in a google search.
but a quick search of the term "ivy league" should explain to you why they're called the ivy league, just as a quick visit to the Alpha Kappa Alpha website would prove extremely enlightening, I'm sure, as to any connection with harvard, yale, princeton, etc.
trust me, you'll be doing yourself a favor.
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This IS a troll...you know? 
It never fails!  
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