University of Oklahoma expels two students over racist chant

The two expelled students were members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

The video which was posted on YouTube and surfaced this week, featured the SAE members in a bus chanting a slur to refer to black people. The chant also had references to lynching and that blacks will never be admitted into the fraternity.

President of the university, David Boren, released a statement in the aftermath saying: “There is zero tolerance for this kind of threatening racist behavior at the University of Oklahoma. I hope that the entire nation will join us in having zero tolerance of such racism when it raises its ugly head in other situations across our country.”

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The university branch of SAE was also ordered to be closed by national fraternity officials after the video went viral. The members were given until midnight on Tuesday, to remove their belongings from the campus fraternity house.

UPDATE: The two students have since apologised.

Source: TIME