NPHC Traditions and Practices that annoy you

[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

Another thread in the Greek Life section made me think of this. Among NPHC organizations, and those organizations with NPHC-style rush and intake, there are various non-ritual practices that are unique to our type of organizations. Some of these practices are universal and others are not. I thought that we could discuss some things about our OWN organizations that annoy us. (Although this thread has the potential to go haywire, I felt if we set the proper tone at the outset, it could work!)

Here is my example:

Presentations of new members at midnight in the cold. Don't they know I have to work in the morning? Don't they know I get bronchitis? argh!
Forbidden in Delta
Members of city-wide chapters who take the same approach to "recruitment" of members as huge HBCUs. You can't be at St. Wilona's with no chapter website expecting the dudes at Jackie Collins College to be able to find you.
yeah, a pet peeve of mine here in MN. That and a citywide chapter only "publicizing" at one school.

Busy crossing jackets. I mean REALLY busy crossing jackets.
ditto

Losing our songs and musical traditions to the ages... I am talking about songs that DON'T sound like James Cleveland and Mahalia Jackson. Many of our orgs have like REAL SONGS with four part harmony! And they're being lost because of a lack of effort to document the lyrics and record them.
Delta has published an official songbook and we do workshops on it at our conventions and conferences.

Again, these annoyances are not universal, but I hope you see my drift.

This is NOT intended for non-NPHC members to take the opportunity to question or belittle our traditions.

I hear ya.