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Speaker 1: Well, having a 2.5 grade average I mean, you know, that's fine. If everyone can't sustain a 2.5 average what does that tell you?

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Speaker 1: I mean it, it doesn't tell me that they can't be my brother or they can't have something to offer groove. I mean, so I'm not going to hold that as a barrier for someone who really wants to pledge. I mean, if he graduates, fine. He can pledge our grad chapter but he won't have to have a 2.5 in our graduate chapter and he could still be doing for the community.


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Speaker 1:I mean, you know, we don't say that we're the smartest people in the world. We don't proclaim to be or anything, so therefore we don't make judgments upon other people, which may not be unjustified.

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Speaker 2: Um, I would like to add that we, also, have a GPA requirement. Um. In terms of being discriminatory, we are talking about in terms of wealth or any other means of material possessions and stuff like that. Or social standing, we don't use those to qualify the person for membership.

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Speaker 3: I think we've got a philosophical question that I think a brother must have a Q under his arm.

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[light audience laughter]

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Speaker 3: Uh, anyhow. What we. They will be performing here this afternoon at 3:15. We can't solve it at this time, I would have hoped they would have had a chance to do for my colleague last week Friday a little something for the Zetas, but we will let that pass until later. Well, she's a Zeta y'all, so please be sure and do something that's later this afternoon. This is Dr. Glassleryfr a folklorist at the University of Maryland

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Speaker 3: I would simply say to my uh brother, fella Walker that uh to simply add something here. The 60's was as we know the period of you know the period of struggle. John O. Killens the novelist wrote, has written a trilogy of really of the black American experience, "And Then We Heard The Thunder," "Young Blood," and "Sippi". "Sippi", the novel looking at the 60's looking through the eyes of a young black legion who has a dilemma, "Should I stay in collage or should I leave and join the movement?"

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Speaker 3:And I think pretty much what they are talking about here in terms of an organization, we should reach or or we should available to blacks of all social, economic, and other status, you know for whatever walk of life, if you're for the uplift or the betterment of the community you could be my brother. Uh, I think that is pretty much where they are coming from.

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Speaker 3:Uh, but anyway that's a nice question, we'll see you over there. And we will check you um to see what you got. We have the next workshop which is coming on which is uh spoons and we will now, let's give the gentleman a hand of Groove Phi Groove as they leave at this time to prepare. Thank you again gentlemen.

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Speaker 1:3:15.

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Speaker 3:3:15 on the main stage.

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Speaker 1: Is that a Bouvier? I have one at home.