[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

The only other GLO that I can think of that does something similar is Theta Nu Xi, which uses Carolina Blue as one of its colors. Are there other examples?

One of our colors is garnet in order to honor our institution of founding at Union College. I also have more information about the multiple coats of arms, straight from national.

The reason Psi U has one for each chapter goes back to our history. In about 1860 we stopped expanding to college campuses via transfers etc (The Iota chapter at Kenyon was the last old chapter started this way) and would only intake strong local organizations/societies/fraternities. The next chapter started from scratch wasn't until 1949 at Northwestern. Many of the older coat of arms for each chapter harken back to their former organization.

It wasn't until the very late 1800's that this system was decided, some chapters had a variant of their own coat of arms before this - nothing so formal but many had very elegant vignettes. Often things are taken from these to the much simpler coat of arms.

I'll talk more about our CoA later lol.

ETA: That was from one of the staff members at national, and is public information even if it isn't on the website.