First, membership in Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, as in all BGLOs, does not end with college. Some members provide exemplary service to their communities as active members of K A Psi from the day they become undergraduate members until they depart this life as graduate chapter members. The K A Psi member says his father “was a Kappa at Tuskegee University,” but no matter whether he is still active in the fraternity or not, he IS still, and will always be, a Kappa.

Second, stepping originated in the 1950s and 60s, so while the chapter may have been stepping since its inception (probably in the 1970s), there was no step team at the inception of Kappa Alpha Psi. In the 1950s and 60s, Black fraternities started singing and dancing to mimic the styles of R & B groups like the Temptations and Four Tops. The fraternities with the best song and dance steps got the most recruits. This is how it has come to be known as “stepping” today. World War II is equally influential in the evolution of stepping…
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First, membership in Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, as in all BGLOs, does not end with college. Some members provide exemplary service to their communities as active members of K A Psi from the day they become undergraduate members until they depart this life as graduate chapter members. The K A Psi member says his father “was a Kappa at Tuskegee University,” but no matter whether he is still active in the fraternity or not, he IS still, and will always be, a Kappa.

Second, stepping originated in the 1950s and 60s, so while the chapter may have been stepping since its inception (probably in the 1970s), there was no step team at the inception of Kappa Alpha Psi. In the 1950s and 60s, Black fraternities started singing and dancing to mimic the styles of R & B groups like the Temptations and Four Tops. The fraternities with the best song and dance steps got the most recruits. This is how it has come to be known as “stepping” today. World War II is equally influential in the evolution of stepping…
Read more: http://artseducation.suite101.com/article.cfm/stepping#ixzz0VvJrBbJR

First, membership in Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, as in all BGLOs, does not end with college. Some members provide exemplary service to their communities as active members of K A Psi from the day they become undergraduate members until they depart this life as graduate chapter members. The K A Psi member says his father “was a Kappa at Tuskegee University,” but no matter whether he is still active in the fraternity or not, he IS still, and will always be, a Kappa.

Second, stepping originated in the 1950s and 60s, so while the chapter may have been stepping since its inception (probably in the 1970s), there was no step team at the inception of Kappa Alpha Psi. In the 1950s and 60s, Black fraternities started singing and dancing to mimic the styles of R & B groups like the Temptations and Four Tops. The fraternities with the best song and dance steps got the most recruits. This is how it has come to be known as “stepping” today. World War II is equally influential in the evolution of stepping…
Read more: http://artseducation.suite101.com/article.cfm/stepping#ixzz0VvJrBbJR