It’s not considered the longest-running & most consistent form of SERVICE of all BGLOs and undergraduate Greek Societies. 

1. We did it FIRST!! 

It wasn’t the “pink print” for May Week & all BGLO “weeks”. 

1. Ivy Day began in "MAY" of 1908 and then extended into a week. 

It wasn't the ritual/ceremony that gave a visual representation to the university that Sororities and Fraternities not only had a place at the university but helped form a stronger bond that fosters in their members a love for Alma Mater that endured.

2. 1. Ivy Day was one of the programs that helped the faculty understand the importance of fraternities & sororities when other students across HBCU campuses stated fraternities were useless in March of 1908.

It wasn’t the same Ivy John Harvard planted at Harvard. It wasn’t the Ivy that literally created and defined what we’ve all come to know as the “Ivy leagues”.

1. It literally is the same ivy planted at Harvard and 2 other ivy leagues schools and from other international world acclaimed spots. 

   1. Ivy Leagues

It’s not a ritual custom from both African & Greek traditions & used to express strength & endurance.

1. Cultural Heritage of the Ivy. 

It’s not the same Ivy that guards Former President Cleveland grave who passed in 1908 or the ancestral home of some of our earliest presidents. 

1. Presidential

As if it wasn't the ivy that surrounded royalty,

1. The ivy itself came from Abbotsford, Scotland where the famed author Sir Walter Scott held a county seat

We didn't pledge to cover the Earth in Ivy, and doing so serves as a visual reminder that we grow by leaps & bounds.

1. Covering the Earth...

It wasn't the event where 19 out of 22 women of the largest D9 sorority took their 1st sorority picture that became the blueprint for their national sorority painting. 

It wasn’t the symbol used for our pins, worked with the Y, when we fed the hungry, clothed the poor, tutored students, or help establish the NAACP in general & in DC all before 1912.