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University of Alabama Omegas welcome five new members
Source Doors opened around 7 p.m. Friday, and the audience trickled slowly into the Central High School auditorium to experience Omega Psi Phi’s probate, or coming out show, for its five new members, The Unconquerable Souls of Havoc. A probate show, according to chapter president Xavier Burgin, is an open presentation of new members of [...]
University of Alabama AKAs host forum on literacy
Source One out of four Alabamians cannot read this sentence. To underscore the plight of illiteracy that afflicts the state of Alabama, Alpha Kappa Alpha held a forum Tuesday evening called HELP — Honoring Education through Literacy Promotion. Christin Blackburn, public relations chair for the sorority and a senior majoring in communication studies, said the [...]
University of Alabama Alphas create book scholarship
Source The UA chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha has come together to help create two book scholarships for black men at Paul W. Bryant High School and Central High School. The Excellent Eight Scholarship has been created this year and was named in honor of the eight founding members of Alpha Phi Alpha. Milton Nettles, [...]
Univ. of Alabama AKAs lead march to honor first black students
Source A few drops of rain were not going to stop the Alpha Kappa Alphas from celebrating the integration into the University Tuesday night as they marched on from the steps of Gorgas Library to Foster Auditorium. “It begins with you,” said Brenda Elliot, assistant director of athletics academic programs. The Theta Sigma Chapter of [...]
Frat Apologizes for Racial Insensitivity
A White fraternity at the University of Alabama sees their actions merely as a throwback to the days of the Old South, when Confederates proudly displayed the Stars and Bars and paraded around in their gray rebel uniforms. But for the African-American students, members of Kappa Alpha Order are throwing back to a time when Whites [...]
University of Alabama Deltas host Hip Hop for Obesity event
About 35 women sat in Miles Studio at the University Rec Center. While some stretched and talked with friends, others looked on with eagerness, waiting for the instructors to begin teaching. “On your feet,” said Taryn Petty, a senior psychology major at UA, finally kicking off a night of booty shaking and hip-hop battles. Petty [...]
AKA celebration interrupted by Old South parade
Members of a historically black sorority plan to ask University of Alabama President Robert Witt to cancel Kappa Alpha fraternity’s Old South celebration. It comes after a parade of students in Confederate army uniforms stopped in front of the sorority’s house during anniversary celebration on Saturday. A number of UA members and alumnae of Alpha [...]
