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Greeks Foster Inclusive Cultural Understanding, Tradition

September 30, 2008 - 11:00pm
By Emily Dally

Over the past century, culture-based fraternities and sororities have provided a strong support system for minority students and have grown to become influential organizations on America’s college campuses.

This movement is rooted here at Cornell, when in 1906, seven young men, nicknamed “The Seven Jewels,” organized Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the first intercollegiate fraternity among African American men.

The fraternity was formed 16 years after Ezra Cornell proclaimed, “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study,” and one year after the first black student graduated from the University.