University fo Okahoma-Sigma Alpha Epsilon-Racial Chant

[ChioLu]

Per Twitter, cops are now surrounding the OU SAE house.
http://t.co/MvesHm41rj

Maybe a good time for OU Panhellenic to expand ...

Update: SAE members moving out of the house under police protection due to death threats. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_oRFj2UgAAmORp.jpg

Student demonstration planned on campus for 7:30am Monday.

[Kevin]

http://www.thelostogle.com/2015/03/0...n-charter-bus/

Chapter closed, all members involved will be expelled from SAE. This is a HUGE chapter, probably around 200 members if I recall correctly. The police had to surround the house to protect members who were moving out from violent protesters. The house has been vandalized and I'm sure as soon as the cops or security people are gone, vandals are going to do some serious damage.

Local SAE alumni have been very vocal that this is being handled.

--btw, watch The Lost Ogle's blog for updates.. it beats the pants off of our local traditional journalism sites.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ChioLu

Maybe a good time for OU Panhellenic to expand ...

WHAT????

I seriously hope that I'm misunderstanding what you said, because that reads like "whoo hoo! Somebody did something stupid and wiped out their decades old chapter, now we can get a sweet house out of it!"

To the main point, these guys are assholes and yes the whole chapter does deserve to go because that was some pretty basic "we have sung this song a million billion times and think about it as much as we think about breathing." I'm glad someone finally blew the whistle on this, and I hope he stays safe.

[exlurker]

Another news story, similar to the one Comrades True posted a link to. This one's from the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/us...nity.html?_r=0

The story (above) says that the infamous song on the bus “was a fixture within a fraternity chapter at the University of Oklahoma, not an anomaly, the university reported Friday, and members first learned it at a gathering of the national fraternity four years ago.

‘It was learned by chapter members on a national leadership cruise sponsored by the national organization of Sigma Alpha Epsilon,’ the university said in a brief report on the results of its inquiry into the episode . . . . “

The story also reports that SAE fraternity leaders from “multiple chapters” knew the song, and used it on the the cruise.

Edited to Add:

From the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/g...id=ptv_rellink

Long story w/ links to some videos.

It includes mention of a sort-of-hilarious, and deeply sad / disturbing, part of the agenda for the upcoming SAE national leadership cruise --

“PR NIGHTMARE Associate Executive Director of Communications . . . presents a shockingly graphic, yet amusing, crash course in how Sigma Alpha Epsilon and our brand are perceived in our eyes versus the public’s eyes. He uses real examples of the biggest PR follies our members make in social media and other media and explains what it’s like to be the public spokesperson for us.”