Talk:West Philadelphia High School

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This page is NEW, and is intended to promote new content and interest in this page. The page is about a MAJOR high school in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is linked to in more than five pages that I know about, and maybe countless others. Please do not delete. Give community members a chance to add content. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Heybiff (talk • contribs) 20:05, 6 June 2007

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BetacommandBot 10:41, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Fraternity

§ History has a long paragraph that starts with a sentence on the school's championship Speedboys basketball team, but then goes on and on about a fraternity called "Atophi", via an alleged connection with the Speedboys, who however are never mentioned again ("But in 1988 there was a movement of 2 concurring events which boosted the Speed Boys into the spotlight once again"). It is almost totally unreferenced, and the refs it has are useless. The paragraph was added by an IP editor on 13 September 2016, their sole contribution. Its references are almost blank, e.g.

{{Cite news|url=|title=Temple News|last=|first=|date=|work=|access-date=|via=see Noon Time Diversion at SAC Center}}

Its formatting was* rather bizarre, with boldface in odd places, and it is followed by a one-sentence paragraph at the end of the section:

This section on Atophi will be improved. Direct links and citations with be added.

* "was": I did a fair bit of copyediting on it, including a paragraph break, and filled in parts of some refs before wondering where it came from and when to expect the improvements promised in the text (which of course is a big blunder). It's been over four months now, which makes odds of a googol to one that the answer is "never". I'm deleting the whole fat chunk, but preserving it here in case somebody (even the original IP ghost) comes by and can make something useful of it.

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West was known for basketball (1975, 1976 & 1977). But in 1988 there was a movement of 2 concurring events which boosted the Speed Boys into the spotlight once again. The most controversial fraternity in Philadelphia at the time was fueled by the motion picture School Daze and a controversial educator called Brother Skief (the fraternity's first advisor and later Dr. E.Y. Murphey). The fraternity, called "Atophi Fraternity", was a very popular social organization and listed "Six Emeralds" as its six principles or reasons to "go to high school" and continue education. Each day Bro. Skief would show a film of step-dancing from the colleges and universities, which motivated a small group of the most active or popular students at West— Tony Dphax King and four others— to develop their own step-dancing team. "Why wait for college?" they asked. Each day after school the group obtained special permission to meet in certain areas of the "old building" (South 47th–48th Streets on Walnut Ave.) to practice, argue, plan and design the Coat of Arms (photo coming soon). In 1990 the fraternity became the first high school/college fraternity, with the first chapter at West Philly High and college chapters at Temple University and East Stroudsburg University. Atophi's colors were green and gold or green and white. Atophi began to perform at the annual Spring Fling shows in the Delaware Valley and was known to do a very interesting and clean "guest performance" with the eight historically black Greek-letter college fraternities and sororities. The most controversial Atophi routine was the "rock throw", and the most loved was the "monkey rolls." The performances were so good that Atophi and the Kappa Alpha Psi chapter at Temple University began a bitter rivalry which caused a major brawl at Temple University. This section on Atophi will be improved. Direct links and citations with be added. References

--Thnidu (talk) 03:50, 24 January 2017 (UTC)