I actually received an e-mail from HQ regarding this issue earlier in the semester. It was pretty much along the lines of: "We don't even want to dignify this with a response, but since so many people have brought it to our attention we'll briefly address the issue. If you find fraternity and sorority Rituals online please respect the organization and do not read them. If you find our own secrets, or anyone's, just ignore them. Non members will never fully understand our values, so don't even bother validating this with a response."

Well said!!!

oh thank goodness. Ours used to be on a site....i searched just now and it's actually no longer there. YAY!

I agree. :D

Nationals has been trying to get ours taken down for a while. :( Since it's been validated, though, the place is set on keeping it up.

I hope that you and the other organizations involved are successful in this pursuit.

Then again, as mentioned before, reading your (own) ritual and experiencing it with all of your senses - especially hearing and seeing it in action - are two completely different things. We can at least take comfort in knowing that.

unfortunately, our entire ritual is on the internet.

You have very wise men at your headquarters!

Also excellent advice.

Someone once posted part of our ritual online, but it was so bastardized that the absolutes and meaning were completely lost. There was a fraternity guy at my school who would pressure women to tell him at least their handshake - and then he'd pass it on to anyone who wanted to hear it. I wouldn't want that type of person anywhere near my GLO!!!

I searched for ours...if you search for the exact phrase that Alpha Phi stands for you can find one website that correctly guessed it, but nothing that comes close to the full ritual. If you didn't know what you were searching for there is no way you could find it, which is of course fine with me. :)

Yeah I even tried googling the meaning behind the Psi Upsilon and nothing popped up. so happy.

Aside from our whole ritual being out, I did happen to Google certain key parts that you would have to know by going through and some of them brought up results.

Sad face again. :(

But I guess that's expected when your Fraternity is the size of Montana.

I haven't been able to find Kappa's full ritual online (thank goodness!) but I have found a few secret things. Luckily, the only way I was able to find them was by typing in the exact phrasing from the ritual, which obviously no one but a Kappa would know to search for. It's also a relief that the true things are mixed in with a LOT of misinformation and wrong guesses! :D

Actually, to be specific, DU's Ritual is not on Wikipedia, only the text of our Oath. The Ritual Book IS on the Fraternity website and is linked to the Wikipedia article...(I should know; I wrote the new DU article) :)

I'm glad to say that I tried to google it, but I couldn't find Phi Sigma Sigma's ritual!

At least 2 full rituals were posted on GC several years ago.