Copy Cats??

[wahoo11]

Delta Chi shares 3/4 of its principles with Delta Upsilon verbatim.

Delta Upsilon also shares its colors (blue and old gold) along with 3 of it's principle (Friendship, Justice, and Learning --ie diffusion of liberal culture) with Sigma Chi.

How many fraternities have a knight's helmet and balanced scales on their crests? How many fraternities use a skull or a skull and crossbones? Exactly. A lot.

I think greeks tend to get this overwhelming sense of pride in to which organization they belong. Granted, we do have a lot to be proud of. However, often we forget that out mottos/creeds and colors are often very encompassing and commonplace. Blue and gold, blue and white, red and black are far too common to say anyone explicitly copied them. True, the posted group does have a lot in common with ADPi, but without knowing them, the sense of outrage is unwarranted.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by wahoo11

Delta Chi shares 3/4 of its principles with Delta Upsilon verbatim.

Delta Upsilon also shares its colors (blue and old gold) along with 3 of it's principle (Friendship, Justice, and Learning --ie diffusion of liberal culture) with Sigma Chi.

How many fraternities have a knight's helmet and balanced scales on their crests? How many fraternities use a skull or a skull and crossbones? Exactly. A lot.

I think greeks tend to get this overwhelming sense of pride in to which organization they belong. Granted, we do have a lot to be proud of. However, often we forget that out mottos/creeds and colors are often very encompassing and commonplace. Blue and gold, blue and white, red and black are far too common to say anyone explicitly copied them. True, the posted group does have a lot in common with ADPi, but without knowing them, the sense of outrage is unwarranted.

If that's the case, I'm going to enroll at Cornell, start a fraternity with Red and Buff as its colors, the White Carnation as the flower, and the Knight as our mascot. I'll name this organization New Delta Chi. I'm sure that'll go over well.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by wahoo11

Delta Chi shares 3/4 of its principles with Delta Upsilon verbatim.

Delta Upsilon also shares its colors (blue and old gold) along with 3 of it's principle (Friendship, Justice, and Learning --ie diffusion of liberal culture) with Sigma Chi.

How many fraternities have a knight's helmet and balanced scales on their crests? How many fraternities use a skull or a skull and crossbones? Exactly. A lot.

I think greeks tend to get this overwhelming sense of pride in to which organization they belong. Granted, we do have a lot to be proud of. However, often we forget that out mottos/creeds and colors are often very encompassing and commonplace. Blue and gold, blue and white, red and black are far too common to say anyone explicitly copied them. True, the posted group does have a lot in common with ADPi, but without knowing them, the sense of outrage is unwarranted.

I'm sorry but these groups were forming at a time when communication and technology were quite different. In 2007 when these ladies organized they could have used the internet for research to be sure they weren't using the same name. Groups can have similarities, but it is hard to explain away the use of:

• colors - Blue & White
• mascot - Lion
• historical name - Adelphean Society
• Motto - "We Live for Each Other"

That's four things, not one, and very specific things to this group that aren't "generic." You also may want to look into crests and heraldry, as there is much diversity in helmets, such as placement and design, and they mean entirely different things which are not always obviously to the average person. Alpha Delta Pi was founded 156 years before this group who currently goes by New Delta, it is not plausible or probable that a woman at UTEP had those specific identifiers come to her in a revelation.

Oh maybe it is New Delta because someone is the reincarnation of an original Adelphean? (If that offends any members I will delete it) People get religious revelations to bring along a new faith movement, perhaps there are visions from beyond we're just not privy to. There could be a flaming talking cactus in the desert for all we know.

[tcsparky]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

There could be a flaming talking cactus in the desert for all we know.

Just spit Dr. Pepper all over my screen!!


I agree that there are too many commonalities for this to be coincidence. It's very, sad. They could have been original and special, instead of clones or wannabees.