Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. , the first international fraternal organization founded on a historically Black college campus, is celebrating its 110th anniversary today. Howard University undergraduates Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper, and Frank Coleman, joined by their faculty advisor Ernest Everett Just, established the brotherhood inside the Howard Science Building (later known as the Thirkield Hall) on November 17, 1911. Eleven other undergraduate men were later selected along with Love, Cooper, and Coleman to join the Alpha chapter organized on December 15, 1911. The fraternity formally became incorporated on October 28, 1914, and was recognized as a fraternity by Howard. The values of the fraternity, "friendship is essential to the soul," have always been to build a "strong and effective" unit through the binds of brotherhood. The organization now has over 700 chapters in Germany, Japan, and the United States. With the principles of "manhood, scholarship,...