Sigma Alpha Epsilon

WASHINGTON (AP) — Their reputations sullied by race-tainted incidents, many colleges are clamping down on campus fraternities. Despite some swift and tough actions by schools — and in some cases, public humiliation — episodes such as the racist chants by members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at the University of Oklahoma keep surfacing. In […]

A few days after the now disbanded Oklahoma University fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter got booted off campus and dissolved, board members for the group hired lawyer Stephen Jones…

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A national spokesman for the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity says two investigations are underway into allegations of racism and members’ knowledge of a racist chant at university chapters in Texas and Louisiana. Spokesman Brandon Weghorst confirmed Thursday investigations into chapters at the University of Texas-Austin and Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. […]

Although they voiced their opposition to the video, the “Morning Joe” panel expressed that rap music, particularly Waka Flocka and the explicit lyrics and use of the N-word in his music, is to blame for the offensive clip and the resulting drama. Needless to say, Black Twitter exploded and took the MSNBC hosts to task […]

A highly sought after offensive tackle who pledged to play for the University of Oklahoma football team today rescinded that commitment, a day after a racist…

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The University of Oklahoma’s president expelled two students Tuesday after he said they were identified as leaders of a racist chant captured on video during a fraternity event. University President David Boren said in a statement the two students were dismissed for creating a “hostile learning environment for others.” Their names […]

A highly sought after offensive tackle who pledged to play for the University of Oklahoma football team today rescinded that commitment, a day after a racist…

  “If You’re Happy and You Know It,” clap your hands. It’s a very popular song recited by children all across the country, if not the world, every single day. But I and many of you will probably never think of that song in the same way after one dumb, racist fraternity at Oklahoma University […]

University of Oklahoma’s chapter of the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon is no more. The school on Monday shut it down after members were caught chanting a racial slur and referencing lynching in a video that went viral. In the clip, which initially surfaced Sunday, members of SAE are seen on a bus chanting, “There will […]

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A University of Oklahoma fraternity will close and its members will be suspended after the group’s national headquarters says a video of members participating in a racist chant was posted online. Sigma Alpha Epsilon said Sunday night that an investigation had confirmed the contents of a video showing multiple people chanting […]