I visited the site and may have a simple explanation for the situation.
At my school, the NPHC orgs along with a few other predominantly minority orgs, all fall under the BGLOC (Black Greek Lettered Organization Council) Early last year however, we wrote and called the NPHC office to see if we could use the name "NPHC" as our Council name. Of course we were denied Because all of the orgs were not NPHC members. But then again, the name BGLOC doesn't fit us either b/c not all the orgs are BLACK GREEK LETTERED Organizations. So we're trying to come up with another name. This may be what happened at the UofC-Boulder.
I didn't look into the ethnicity of the other orgs in that particular "Historically Ethnic" groups list. But it may be possible that BGLOC just cannot describe them all. And since AKA is the only NPHC org there, as you said, they certainly can't have their own council.
Maybe the name they chose was decided by the members of that group and they see nothing wrong with it. Maybe they are described as "groups" because all may not be fraternities and sororities. Maybe they're just community service orgs or consider themselves Social Fellowships like (GphiG and SphiS). There are many possible reasons, but I won't make excuses for anyone... just offering possibilities.
Hope this helps some.
SoloRHO
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[This message has been edited by SoloRHO (edited August 07, 2000).]
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