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Originally posted by Firehouse
Psi Upsilon is unique in that in addition to the national coat-of-arms, each chapter designs their own version of the fraternity crest, changing the colors and adding symbols within an approved heraldric framework.
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Beta does this as well, unless they have discontinued this tradition. From their website:
At the urging of the Michigan Chapter, the 1909 Convention authorized each chapter to adopt its own arms. According to the laws of heraldry, the arms of the first nine chapters after Miami are "differenced" by symbols centered in the upper half of the shield. One of these symbols is the cross moline which is used on the arms of DePauw, our ninth chapter. The arms of other chapters have a device, peculiar to that chapter, in the upper left quadrant. Michigan uses the lamp of knowledge on two books from the university arms; Toronto, the maple leaf from the Canadian flag; and Middle Tennessee, the Tennessee walking horse. Each chapter has its own motto, written in Greek on the scroll in words beginning with the same letters as the chapter name.
In Beta, each chapter also has its own chapter seal, in addition to the Fraternity seal. The chapter seal is placed on a member's shingle.
DKE may have individual chapter arms as well -- I know of at least one chapter of DKE (Lambda at Kenyon) that has its own arms, based on the DKE arms. You can see it
here.