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Black Greeks part of KU
By DEB MILLER
Staff Renorter
About 100 blacks at the University of Kansas are involved in a system many students know little about—black sororities and fraternites.
Three black KU sororites-Sigma Gamma Rho, Delta Sigma Theta and Alpha Kappa Alpha—and three black fraternities-Alpha Phi Alpha, Omega Psi Phi and Kappa Alpha Psi—stress brotherhood, sisterhood and community service.
All but one of the sororites and fraternities meet in the Kansas Union because they don't have houses, and one sorority, The Alpha, has a charter but is inactive.
The newest black fraternity on campus, omega Psi Pi, has 18 members. Omega Psi Pi is a Greek organization.
The newest black sorority on campus is Sigma Gamma Rho. Michelle Frasure, president, said Wednesday that the sorority's members, will receive its charter Saturday.
FRASURE'S SORORITY, like the others, is involved in community service programs. Last semester sorority members raised $235 for an occupational therapy center in the community and fraternity members act as big sisters and brothers for children in the community
Bonita Franklin, president of Deltasigma Theta, which has 22 members, said that in some black families it was a tradition to join the group's sorority to do community service work.
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Requirements for joining a black sorority or fraternity vary but a student must have between a 2.0 and 2.5 grade point average and must be a full-time student.
Prospective members are pledges for females to 12 weeks before they are initiated.
THE BLACK fraternities have "smokers," or parties in the fall and spring to get acquainted. Then in the spring rush is held.
Frasure said Sigma Gamma Rho was selective because it wanted people dedicated to doing community service work.
Qualities that Alpha Phi Alpha looks for are better mental health, healthy bodies, Body Health.
"We try to look into the inner person," he said.
Alpha Phi Alpha, which has 25 members and is the only black fraternity with a house, had had its KU house since 1955, Presley said.
FUNDS for the house came from KU's chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha and other organizations.
The other black fraternities also have considered getting houses, but representatives of both said money problems had held them back.
Larry Brown, one of Kappa Alpha Psi's 25 members, said the desire for a house would be stronger if more KU students lived in dorms.
"In that case, people would be glad to live in a place, but here there's a lot of money available," ignoring.
The fact that most black fraternities and sororites don't have houses isn't the only thing which makes them different from their white counterparts. None of them are members of the Interfraternity Council (IFC) either.
According to IFC rules, each man who goes through rush has to pay $25, and Presley said his fraternity wasn't ready to make its men pay that amount.
PRESLEY SAID Alpha Phi Alpha had considered joining IFC last year. However, differences in rush and pledge programs caused conflicts.
Presley also said Alpha Phi Alpha members had received crank phone calls when the fraternity considered joining IFC. The fraternity hasn't given up the idea, he said, because joining IFC would give it more recognition on campus.
Many of the black fraternity and sorority members said they would like to see more interaction with the white sororites and fraternities on campus.
Frasure said one白权孝 donation 10 to Sigma Gamma Rho's fund-raising committee.
MORE INVOLVEMENT would mean
more communication, more com-
munication, Freesay said.
Robert Turkey, assistant dean of men and adviser to IFC, said the only interaction between black and white fraternities was on the intramural basketball court.
"I'm sure they have a lot to offer because they go beyond the predominantly white fraternities in the amount of community work they do," he said, "and they must have very strong bonds to stay close without houses."
Brown said one project he would like to see would be an all-Greek picnic.
"It might be a way to bring everybody together so we could get to know about each other."
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