Two University of Oklahoma students were expelled Tuesday over their alleged “leadership role” in a racist chant by Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members, a decision that President David Boren says speaks to his school’s “zero tolerance” policy for such “threatening racist behavior.”
The decision comes two days after a video of frat members singing a racist song surfaced, and hours after Boren told CNN he would suspend or expel the group’s ringleaders if at all possible.
Already, the Greek letters sigma, alpha and epsilon have been removed from the frat house’s facade, the house will be closed as of midnight Tuesday and the university will board up the windows sometime Tuesday, following up on separate decisions by the university and the SAE national headquarters to shutter the Oklahoma chapter, Boren told CNN.
But Boren seemed to say that individual punishments could be a bit trickier.
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