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Published: Monday, March 9, 2015, 9:46 AM
Updated: Monday, March 9, 2015, 1:02 PM
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The University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon members were forced to move out of their frat house after video showed some of the brothers singing a racist song.
University of Oklahoma President David Boren (l.) speaks with students as they protest Sigma Alpha Epsilon members' racist chant. Boren ordered the SAE house vacated by midnight Tuesday.
George Henderson (l.), a professor emeritus, joins students at the University of Oklahoma to protest fraternity members' racist chant caught on video.
Students at the University of Oklahoma demonstrate against the fraternity members' racist behavior.
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University of Oklahoma’s president gave the school’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers one day to pack their things and leave campus after video showed the chapter singing a racist chant.
OU President David Boren ordered all members out of the frat house in Norman by midnight Monday, KOCO reported. Brothers must remove all of their things and find new places — and the school will not help them in their housing hunt.
“We don’t provide student services for bigots," Boren said at a Monday press conference. "We don’t plan to help them."
The school cannot expel or suspend the members until an investigation, Boren said, but he said he’d “be happy if they left” on their own:“I might even pay bus fare for them" just to get them away from the university, he said.
The university is working to determine which members were involved in the video.
"You are disgraceful ... Real Sooners are not bigots, real Sooners are not racist," Boren said at a Monday morning rally protesting the video, according to the Oklahoman.
Unheard, a black student organization, planned the early morning campus rally. The group also leaked the controversial video, filmed over the weekend on a bus packed with SAE brothers, but it’s not clear how they obtained the clip.
In the nine-second clip, a group of rowdy members shout a bigoted cheerwhile on their way to a Founder’s Day date night.
"There will never be a n----r SAE / There will never be a n----r SAE / You can hang him from a tree, but he will never sign with me / There will never be a n----r SAE," the group chanted, according to the video.
National Sigma Alpha Epsilon headquarters shuttered the OU chapter Sunday and suspended all of the house’s members from the national organization, it said in a statement.
That closing prompted President Boren to force the brothers out of their on-campus house.
Overnight Sunday, as the fratmembers began moving out, vandals spray-painted “Tear it D” on the house — possibly an unfinished “Tear it Down” demand.
The university is conducting its own investigation. It's not clear what possible punishment the school could impose on top of the suspension from SAE headquarters.
SAE national headquarters said it hopes to one day reopen its Oklahoma chapter, which was founded in 1909, with a group of men who exemplify the fraternity’s creed, which calls members to live up to the ideals of “the True Gentleman.”
SAE boasts roughly 15,000 members nationwide. It was founded at the University of Alabama in 1856, making it the only social fraternity established in the Antebellum South still in existence.
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National Sigma Alpha Epsilon closed the OU chapter after the video was leaked.
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All OU SAE members have been suspended from the national frat.
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All University of Oklahoma SAE members have been suspended from the national fraternity.
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