A Guide to FrAternity And Sorority LiFe - Virginia Tech

NPHC
AFA
Nickname: Mighty t.i.
National Founding Date:
December 3, 1906
National Website:
www.alphaphialpha.net
National Chapters: 691
Chapter Name: theta iota
Virginia Tech
Chartering Date:
January 29, 1973
Local Website:
www.aphia.org.vt.edu
Motto:
“first of all, servants of all,
we shall transcend all”
National Programs:
Project alpha
a voteless People is a
Hopeless People
voter education
Famous Members:
brother Martin luther King Jr.
brother w.e.b. Dubois
brother stuart scott
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ALPhA PhI ALPhA
exPenses:
New Member, First Semester dues:
Provided at Interest Meeting
Fall Semester dues:
Provided at Interest Meeting
Spring Semester dues:
Provided at Interest Meeting
acaDeMics:
GPA New Member Initiation
Requirement: 2.5
GPA Active Membership
Requirement: 2.5
Since its founding on december 4, 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., has supplied
voice and vision to the struggle of African-Americans and people of color around the world.
Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African-
Americans, was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., by seven college men who
recognized the need for a strong bond of brotherhood among African descendants in this
country. The visionary founders, known as the Jewels of the fraternity, are Henry Arthur
Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel
Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy.
The fraternity initially served
as a study and support group
for minority students who
faced racial prejudice, both
educationally and socially, at
Cornell. Early leaders of the
fraternity succeeded in laying
a firm foundation for Alpha Phi
Alpha’s principles of scholarship,
fellowship, good character,
and the uplifting of humanity.
Alpha Phi Alpha chapters were
developed at other colleges and
universities—many of them historically
black institutions—soon after the founding at Cornell. While continuing to stress
academic excellence among its members, Alpha also recognized the need to help correct the
educational, economic, political, and social injustices faced by African-Americans.
On January 29, 1973, the Theta Iota chapter was established as the first black Greek
organization at Virginia Tech by a group of ambitious black men known as the Fine Nine.
On April 17, 1992, the Interfraternity Council and Student Affairs Council recognized the
Theta Iota chapter as a positive fraternal influence on the campus of Radford University.
Since then many Radford men have continued to develop the tradition of a unified joint
chapter with their brothers at Virginia Tech.
The Theta Iota chapter has set precedence at Virginia Tech by being identified as leaders
in community service. Since foundation in 1973, the chapter has won numerous awards,
including its highest honor in 1981 as Alpha Phi Alpha National Chapter of the Year,
Outstanding Fraternity Awards 2001-2005 from Radford University, and most recently,
Most Improved Chapter GPA for 2005-2006.