University of Oklahoma Ousts Fraternity Over Racist Chant Caught on Video
As moving trucks encircled the disgraced Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house Monday, workers unscrewed the group’s Greek lettering from above the door. It was a remarkably rapid dissolution of the long-standing University of Oklahoma fraternity chapter whose members were caught in a viral video singing a racist chant.
University President David Boren had wasted no time. The former U.S. senator and governor of this state severed all ties after watching the video, which an African American activist group on campus had gotten hold of and posted online. The chant heard in the video refers to lynching and uses a racial slur repeatedly. Boren gave members until midnight Tuesday to move out.
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