The University of Oklahoma chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity became the focus of outrage on Monday as a result of the online posting of a video that shows its members celebrating the chapter’s exclusion of African-American men in a song containing a racial slur and lynching reference. The video, leaked to the university’s student newspaper, prompted the fraternity’s national organization to disband the Oklahoma campus chapter and David L. Boren, the university’s president, to order the fraternity’s house on the campus immediately closed.
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