Talk:Kappa Alpha Society
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Changes being made on this page by me are done by myself,Rav Dhaliwal a VOO Kap'05 and recent alumnist. The omission of Nathaniel Berry CC'04 and Alan Bernstein CC? were done do to the lack of credible information available to me at this time. Berry seems to have just finished university and if he was so notable, his exploits would at least be documented somewhere on the WWW. As for Alan Bernstein, I could not verify if he was ever a Kap, since numerous web pages out there seem to mix up Kappa Alpha Order members with the Kaps of the Kappa Alpha Literary Society. I will however look further into those two individuals mentioned above before discounting them completely. Also additional "notable members" will be added as I have time.
I edited the reference to women to say " and a few women" since KA is a male society, but there were a few rare instances in the past when "a few" women were allowed to join legitimately.
The recent addition of the word "with" to the line involing Dr James Collip changes the context of the statement. As far as I know and I could be wrong, that Macleod and Collip won the Noble Prize for Medicine and each of those two shared their portions of the winning and recognition with their partners, who where Best and Collip. If this is wrong, feel free to change the wording on Collips KA info, but please provide a link or evidence. VOO KAP 14:13, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
I have removed the Alumnist Thomas Wellington since he/she does not appear to be a Kap according to the Kappa Alpha records of 1825-1940, 1825-1960 and 1976. This person may have been added originally to the article along with the two other names mentioned at the top of the page as a form of vandalism, so I suspect. VOO KAP 08:58, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] History
Can someone please expand this article to include a definitive history of the organization? As it looks now, this article seems to be nothing more than a list of a notable alumni. --† Ðy§ep§ion † 18:40, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Phi Beta Kappa was a academic honours society, not a greek social organization. As for a definitive history, go to the KA HQ website. I will if I have time have the history up some time in the future. VOO KAP 03:00, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Rav for patroling this page. I hadn't checked this page in a couple years but it has certainly changed for the blander. The laundry list of politicians and others seems wholey unuccessary. The page should look like a summary of "In the begining" from the publicly available KA histories (the descriptions are quite frank, it was a bunch of undergrads carving out a niche club and not the illuminati). Cribbing the two paragraph summary of KA from any other fraternity's pledgebook would be fine too. Add a list of current and defunct chapters and you're done - we started small and stayed small so the list only takes up 15 lines. Heck, the wiki entry used to have them, I moved some chapters around the last time I edited the page. The list of important people who have belonged could persist under the wiki name Kappa_Alpha_Vanity. Would folks freak out and revert the page if I made those sane edits? [Red, VL '96]
[edit] Bernstein
I can verify that Bernstein is indeed a Kap active in 1976 or '77, @ CC. I am in the record, I believe. Thanks for your contributing this entry.
CC 77
I too can verify that Bernstein is a Kap. After graduating, he remained on the CC campus for approximately 20 years and played an important role in many a CC Kap's experience.
CC '97
