Creating a colony at Harvard?

[naraht]

I'm an alumnus of Alpha Phi Omega (initiated in 1986) and I've had several friends among the alumni volunteers in Boston including one who was a graduate student at Harvard. As of the last time I talked to them about this (a couple of years ago), Harvard's student activity rules were written in a way where Alpha Phi Omega (although co-ed) could not be recognized as a student organization.

Unlike some members of the NIC, NPC and (all of?) the NPHC, Alpha Phi Omega does allow active chapters to exist without the recognition of the fraternity as a student organization on that campus. It also does not allow for active membership by students at one school at a chapter chartered to another school. There has been a recent change which would allow an undergraduate student at Harvard to be an Honorary brother of a chapter, but that would need approval by a national board member.

It is entirely possible that in the next 16 years that the student activity rules at Harvard may change so that Alpha Phi Omega would be able to charter a chapter at Harvard. With more than 6,000 undergraduates, local active chapters and local staff, I believe that after a change to the rules it would be an immediate extension target.

However, until those rules change, no action of any type is going to be taken in regards to that school.

[sigmagirl2000]

Am I the only one who felt like their head exploded reading this? TBS, NPHC, acts of violence, one year olds?

I'd like to sing "one of these things is not like the other" ... but "none of these things is like any of the others"

[PersistentDST]

[dekeguy]

WTFO?

[hithere112]

this is obviously a troll, I mean look at the screen name. Sensitive "As #$@!" what the af stands for.

[WhiteRose1912]

Originally Posted by hithere112

this is obviously a troll, I mean look at the screen name. Sensitive "As #$@!" what the af stands for.

I doubt she created the account in 2001 just to troll us 12 years later.

[Sen's Revenge]

Originally Posted by WhiteRose1912

I doubt she created the account in 2001 just to troll us 12 years later.

[sigmagirl2000]

I find it interesting that OP is all "NPHC must be broken" when she was posting in the AKA forums over the past 12 years

[NinjaPoodle]

[IrishLake]

Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

iDied

[elicampbell]

Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

LOVE THIS!

To the OP - as an alumnus of Alpha Phi Omega, I don't agree with your assertion that Alpha Phi Omega needs to "break the NPHC." That idea goes against the ideals of the fraternity.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by elicampbell

LOVE THIS!

To the OP - as an alumnus of Alpha Phi Omega, I don't agree with your assertion that Alpha Phi Omega needs to "break the NPHC." That idea goes against the ideals of the fraternity.

As an aside, the first day that Alpha Phi Omega shared a campus with NPHC organization was depending on how you count it

* January 11, 1927 when Beta chapter of Alpha Phi Omega at U of Pittsburgh was chartered (Omicron of Alpha Phi Alpha having been chartered in January 30, 1913, Omicron Psi of Omega Psi Phi was founded March 27, 1927 and chartered March 10, 1928)

* May 10, 1930 when the NPHC was founded at Howard University.

[33girl]

WTF, Kim Jong Un is gonna blow us all to kingdom come before your rugrat gets anywhere near Harvard.

This thread is

[IrishLake]

I don't get how it seems like he/she forgot to speak English? I mean, a few years ago, it was fine...

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by IrishLake

I don't get how it seems like he/she forgot to speak English? I mean, a few years ago, it was fine...

Maybe this is another case of someone's account getting hijacked, as we were told happened to Low C Sharp.