Word: alphas
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These events are not a coincidence. Rho Nu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (AOA), has just pledged a group (or "line") of 10 men, four of them Harvard students...
Pledging AOA is an intense process. During the pledge period, the Sphinxmen study and are tested on Alpha history. With such illustrious members as Martin Luther King, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois, Jesse Owens, football hall of famers Gene Upshaw and Art Shell, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, New York Mayor David Dinkins, Rep. William Gray III (D--Pa.), Assistant Professor of Neurology and Harvard Foundation director Allen Counter and Senior Admissions Officer David Evans, AOA is a rich and diverse organization. As any Alpha man will tell you, Alpha history is Black history...
Timothy S. Gramling '91 has been a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., since the spring of 1989. He currently serves as the Chaplain of the Rho Nu chapter...
Although the proposal may be an important news item, just as newsworthy are the many forums and service projects that Black fraternal organizations, like Alpha Kappa Alpha, have implemented to enhance campus and community life for people of color. It disturbs me that neither The Crimson nor The Independent has published an article on the fact that each of the Black fraternities and sororities represented on this campus has established its own scholarship fund to help needy students. Nor have the papers covered any of our forums on South Africa, on improving racial awareness or on images of minorities...
...doesn't the campus media publish articles on the attributes of black fraternities and sororities? Maybe because they are too numerous to mention. Sharon E. Epperson '90 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Lambda Upsilon Chapter