xoxo, chi o

I don't know if this is true or not, but regardless it's none of our business. Rituals are sacred to each sorority. How would you like it if your sorority's ritual secrets were on display? NPC would not allow any sororities to have unsafe or unethical initiation practices, and that's all we need to know.

This is a well known thing. They lay down in a box acting as a casket to be re-born as a Chi Omega. I don't think it's that bad. The chapter in my hometown (I'm from a college town in TN) is notorious for using a broken tanning bed in the basement as the casket. They're a joke there.

I have a very STRONG feeling this is exactly what the "nervous PMN" was wanting to be posted ... I was honestly waiting to see it once no one gave the response she wanted on her other post.

Fact is no one know except initiated Chi O's and using it as a scare tactic before rush is desparate.

Hey everybody, let's play "Who's pathetic and catty enough to make such a post?!!

It's a fact that Chi O was very dominate last year having the highest GPA, winning everything with a crown, winning Derby Day and having the most members in almost every campus organization, BUT this type of post is not how we other sororities get top girls! I pray you are not a member of my sorority because we plan on winning girls over during recruitment without using lies and scare tactics! We build our house up with tearing others down. I feel sorry for you and your sorority.

I have my guess as to which group would go to such pathetic measures ... give me your guesses first!!

This feed needs to stop! Guessing would only cause more
Bashing. Chi o is a great group of girls and this needs to be the last comment on here.

This stupid rumor has been around forever according to my mom and aunt, who were Chi O's 25 or so years ago. Absolutely not true!

I have an older cousin who was a Chi O at a different school and I asked her about this before I rushed. She wanted to calm me down so she told me that the original initiation included the coffin and you were carried in it then "reborn." She said that over time that became a bit too weird for modern day women to wan to do, so they tweeked it and now each chapter is a little different. Some chapters just have a box that's not a coffin to symbolize the death, some just have you close your eyes and cross your arms right where you are, etc. She has no idea about the one here though because she didn't go here. And she wouldn't give me anymore details than that since I hadn't rushed yet and she hasn't mentioned it since I didn't pledge Chi O. But just to put this rumor to rest, I don't believe any Chi O chapter makes you get in a coffin anymore.

why does anyone care? Everyone needs to focus on their own sororiies' ritual. All rituals were designed as a guide for living your life as a woman of character and integrity. Most are based on Scripture and provide guidance for daily life. Perhaps if we all remembered our chapters' ritual then we wouldn't feel the need to post certain comments in the first place. Really, there was no reason for the original post than to scare PNM. Live your ritual people!

I would feel cheated if I pledged Chi O and went into initiation all excited and then was asked to "die" to be reborn in Chi O. For a sorority that relies so heavily on scripture and religion during rush, that seems very opposite of what is expected or acceptable. Strong christian girls that pledge Chi O have died and been reborn in Christ, and Christ alone. Asking Chi O to rebirth you again seems sacrilegious to me. I know this isn't the intent, I'm saying I would NOT be comfortable being reborn into anything other than God's love and forgiveness. New member's pledge with the security of no hazing and being loved in their sororities, and to me this violates some of that security. I know it's not be place since I'm not a Chi O and that if anything horrid occurred it would not continue for so many years but thats how I feel about using religious analogies to that extent in ritual. I think anyone about to pledge ANY sorority should know what they're getting into before hand. If this doesn't bother another girl like it does me then thats fine, she should pledge. But she should know she is expected to "die" to her former self and be "reborn" into Chi O.

Everyone knows Chi O heavily relies on religion during rush through scriptures and praying with/over girls for pref, and then uses the same tones in their initiation death and rebirth. Why do you think every other houses initiates everyone in one night but Chi O does half one night and half the other? Takes a long time to lay down, die, and be reborn. This isn't new news.