The chevron was by far the most common heraldic division the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) employed to divide the two or three colors in an institution’s hood, but beginning in 1895 the “parti per chevron” was also used quite frequently. Here the two school colors were placed in the hood lining one above the other, with the division between them following the shape of a chevron. Later the IBAC began to use a per reversed chevron division and a division per bar on rare occasions. Confusingly, in IBAC lists from 1927 and 1948, a number of hoods were described as “[color] above [color]” or “[color] over [color]” which referred either to a hood lining divided per chevron, per reversed chevron, or per bar, and today it is not usually known which of these three patterns the IBAC intended to describe.

Waynesburg University was cited as having a hood lined “orange above black” in IBAC lists from 1927, 1948, and 1972, but none of these lists described the way the two colors were divided. However, a list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described the university’s hood lining as orange with a black chevron, which must be erroneous because this was a duplication of the hood the IBAC assigned Princeton University in 1895 (which is no doubt why the IBAC originally assigned Waynesburg a hood lined “orange above black”). None of these citations accurately described the dark shade of orange that has been one of the official school colors of Waynesburg since the early 20^th century, so this has been corrected here, and as the only college or university assigned a hood lined dark orange above black the colors have been divided per chevron.