SIGMA GAMMA RHO UPDATED CORE EXAM MANUAL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Operation BigBookBag - ✔✔Chapters provide selected schools and other facilities
across the nation with book bags, notebooks, writing and drawing paper, pencils and
pens, dictionaries, thesauri, rulers, glue, construction paper, textbooks, computers and
many other needed school items.
✔✔Sigma Youth Symposium - ✔✔Sponsored in conjunction with and in
commemoration of Sigma Week, the Sigma Youth Symposium focuses on some of the
prevalent concerns that negatively impact our youth: drugs, teen violence, abuse, low
self-esteem, suicide, teen pregnancy, etc. Held on the second Saturday of March by
each Alumnae Chapter, simultaneous Sigma Youth Symposiums address issues that
affect teens today.
✔✔National Marrow Donor Program - ✔✔Established in 1992, this initiative was
developed to address and reduce the number of African American deaths due to a lack
of sufficient numbers of race appropriate bone marrow donors.
✔✔Hattie McDaniel Cancer Awareness & Health Program - ✔✔Providing education on
an act of support of early detection as well as research for the prevention and cure of
breast, prostate ovarian colon and other types of cancers
✔✔ACT against AIDS LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE A3 4 LIFE - ✔✔The Act Against AIDS
Leadership Initiative (AAALI) is a $16 million, six-year CDC partnership that harnesses
the collective strength of some of the nation's leading organizations to fight HIV in
populations hardest hit. The effort brings together a wide range of organizations,
including civic, social, civil rights and professional organizations, as well as those in
government, education and media. While many AAALI partners have longstanding
commitments to fighting HIV in their communities, the initiative provides the critical
funding needed to allow each group to make HIV prevention a core component of its
day-to-day activities.
✔✔Slogan - ✔✔Greater Service, Greater Progress
✔✔Official badge - ✔✔Open book, torch as foundation, ten pearls mounted on the
edges and two rubies as the base
✔✔Coat of arm - ✔✔Consist of a lamp of learning, a quail, a serpent, two stars, skull,
and bones, fasces
✔✔Flower - ✔✔Yellow Tea Rose
✔✔Mascot - ✔✔Poodle carries itself in a classy, sophisticated way and it is one of the
most intelligent breed of dogs.
, ✔✔What was the first collegiate fraternal organization and what year was it founded?
a. Phi Beta Kappa - 1776
b. Phi Beta Sigma -1706
c. Phi Sigma Sigma -1906
d. Phi Delta Theta - 1916 - ✔✔A. Phi Beta Kappa - 1776
✔✔What was the first Black Greek-Lettered Organization
a. Sigma Lambda Gamma
b. Sigma Delta Alpha
c.SIgma Pi Phi
d. Sigma Phi - ✔✔C. Sigma Pi Phi
✔✔The NPHS is the acronym for
a. National Panhellenic Council
b. National Pan-Hellenic Council - ✔✔b. National Pan-Hellenic Council
✔✔Iota Phi Theta became a member of the NPHC in
a. 1963
b.1980
c.1991
d.1996 - ✔✔D. 1996
✔✔People join Greek-lettered organizations for the opportunity to bond and develop
close ties with other like-minded individuals. This is commonly known as
a.Kinship
b.Inter-Fraternalism
c. networking
d. Fraternalism - ✔✔D. Fraternalism
✔✔Although Greek-lettered organizations existed on their respective campuses, the
founders of Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, and Sigma Gamma Rho, chose to
create new organizations because? - ✔✔The existing organizations excluded African
Americans
✔✔NPHC organizations do not accept first semester freshman, because they would
prefer that new members have a collegiate GPA upon applying for membership. This is
an example of a commitment to?
a. High GPA's
b. Deferred recruitment
c. University requirements
d. Scholarships - ✔✔D. scholarship
✔✔.When and where was Sigma Gamma Rho founded?
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Operation BigBookBag - ✔✔Chapters provide selected schools and other facilities
across the nation with book bags, notebooks, writing and drawing paper, pencils and
pens, dictionaries, thesauri, rulers, glue, construction paper, textbooks, computers and
many other needed school items.
✔✔Sigma Youth Symposium - ✔✔Sponsored in conjunction with and in
commemoration of Sigma Week, the Sigma Youth Symposium focuses on some of the
prevalent concerns that negatively impact our youth: drugs, teen violence, abuse, low
self-esteem, suicide, teen pregnancy, etc. Held on the second Saturday of March by
each Alumnae Chapter, simultaneous Sigma Youth Symposiums address issues that
affect teens today.
✔✔National Marrow Donor Program - ✔✔Established in 1992, this initiative was
developed to address and reduce the number of African American deaths due to a lack
of sufficient numbers of race appropriate bone marrow donors.
✔✔Hattie McDaniel Cancer Awareness & Health Program - ✔✔Providing education on
an act of support of early detection as well as research for the prevention and cure of
breast, prostate ovarian colon and other types of cancers
✔✔ACT against AIDS LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE A3 4 LIFE - ✔✔The Act Against AIDS
Leadership Initiative (AAALI) is a $16 million, six-year CDC partnership that harnesses
the collective strength of some of the nation's leading organizations to fight HIV in
populations hardest hit. The effort brings together a wide range of organizations,
including civic, social, civil rights and professional organizations, as well as those in
government, education and media. While many AAALI partners have longstanding
commitments to fighting HIV in their communities, the initiative provides the critical
funding needed to allow each group to make HIV prevention a core component of its
day-to-day activities.
✔✔Slogan - ✔✔Greater Service, Greater Progress
✔✔Official badge - ✔✔Open book, torch as foundation, ten pearls mounted on the
edges and two rubies as the base
✔✔Coat of arm - ✔✔Consist of a lamp of learning, a quail, a serpent, two stars, skull,
and bones, fasces
✔✔Flower - ✔✔Yellow Tea Rose
✔✔Mascot - ✔✔Poodle carries itself in a classy, sophisticated way and it is one of the
most intelligent breed of dogs.
, ✔✔What was the first collegiate fraternal organization and what year was it founded?
a. Phi Beta Kappa - 1776
b. Phi Beta Sigma -1706
c. Phi Sigma Sigma -1906
d. Phi Delta Theta - 1916 - ✔✔A. Phi Beta Kappa - 1776
✔✔What was the first Black Greek-Lettered Organization
a. Sigma Lambda Gamma
b. Sigma Delta Alpha
c.SIgma Pi Phi
d. Sigma Phi - ✔✔C. Sigma Pi Phi
✔✔The NPHS is the acronym for
a. National Panhellenic Council
b. National Pan-Hellenic Council - ✔✔b. National Pan-Hellenic Council
✔✔Iota Phi Theta became a member of the NPHC in
a. 1963
b.1980
c.1991
d.1996 - ✔✔D. 1996
✔✔People join Greek-lettered organizations for the opportunity to bond and develop
close ties with other like-minded individuals. This is commonly known as
a.Kinship
b.Inter-Fraternalism
c. networking
d. Fraternalism - ✔✔D. Fraternalism
✔✔Although Greek-lettered organizations existed on their respective campuses, the
founders of Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, and Sigma Gamma Rho, chose to
create new organizations because? - ✔✔The existing organizations excluded African
Americans
✔✔NPHC organizations do not accept first semester freshman, because they would
prefer that new members have a collegiate GPA upon applying for membership. This is
an example of a commitment to?
a. High GPA's
b. Deferred recruitment
c. University requirements
d. Scholarships - ✔✔D. scholarship
✔✔.When and where was Sigma Gamma Rho founded?
