Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Announces Plan To Combat Racial Intolerance

‘I want to be crystal clear: we have a zero tolerance for that sort of behavior’

Sigma Alpha Epsilon Unveils Plan to Fight Racial Discrimination and Insensitivity (NBC News)

Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the fraternity that dissolved its University of Oklahoma chapter because of a racist song, said Wednesday that it would hire a national director of inclusion and put its 15,000 student members through diversity training.

The fraternity said that it was still trying to determine where the song — which repeatedly used a racial epithet — came from. But its national executive director, Blaine Ayers, apologized for "the pain this situation has caused."

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