Editing Sigma Alpha Epsilon (section)

===Discriminatory incidents===

{{See also|2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident}}

In 1982, SAE members at the [[University of Cincinnati]] were suspended for a racially insensitive party corresponding with [[Martin Luther King, Jr. Day|Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/10/us/fraternity-barred-for-sponsoring-racist-party.html |title=Fraternity Barred For Sponsoring Racist Party |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 10, 1982 |access-date=March 10, 2015}}</ref>

In 2002, [[Syracuse University]] officials suspended the chapter there after a member appeared in [[blackface]]. The member was expelled from the university.<ref>{{cite news|title=Students hold forum to discuss blackface incident|url=http://dailyorange.com/2002/05/students-hold-forum-to-discuss-blackface-incident/|work=Daily Orange|date=May 2002}}</ref> The chapter returned after the suspension and in 2006 was found guilty of hazing a new member by the University's Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.<ref name="dailyorange"/>

In 2013, SAE pledges at [[Washington University in St. Louis]] allegedly recited lyrics to Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit" in slam poetry form within close proximity of several African-American students in the university's dining hall. Chapter operations were halted for several months while the chapter was put under investigation due to allegations of racist behavior stemming from the incident. The chapter was fully reinstated following the investigation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/27/sigma-alpha-epsilon-racism_n_2776707.html |title=Washington University In St. Louis' Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter Suspended For Alleged Racist Pledge Activity |work=The Huffington Post |date=February 27, 2013 |access-date=March 10, 2015}}</ref>

In 2014, the chapter at [[Clemson University]] hosted a "Cripmas" party in reference to the Southern California-based black American [[Crips]] gang. The chapter "suspended all activity indefinitely", according to the SAE national office.<ref name=dailynews2>{{cite news|last=Wagner|first=Meg|title=SAE No Stranger to Unflatering Headlines|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/sae-frat-no-stranger-unflattering-headlines-article-1.2142806|date=March 9, 2015|work=NY Daily News|location=New York}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Ward|first1=Robbie|title=Fraternity grounded after 'Cripmas' party backlash|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/08/clemson-fraternity-cripmas-party-increases-racial-tension/20083415/|access-date=March 11, 2015|work=USA Today|date=December 8, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Kalsi |first=Dal |url=http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/27568067/clemson-president-on-cripmas-party-clemson-is-better-than-this |title=Clemson's SAE fraternity activities suspended after 'Cripmas' party |publisher=Foxcarolina.com |access-date=March 10, 2015}}</ref>

Also, in 2014, SAE members at the [[University of Arizona]] were suspended for attacking [[Alpha Epsilon Pi]], a Jewish fraternity.<ref name=dailynews2/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/18/university-of-arizona-jewish-fraternity_n_6177514.html |title=University Of Arizona's Sigma Alpha Epsilon Allegedly Attacked Jewish Fraternity |work=The Huffington Post |date=November 18, 2014 |access-date=March 10, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Arizona Fraternity Punished for Alpha Epsilon Pi Attack|url=http://forward.com/articles/209429/arizona-fraternity-punished-for-alpha-epsilon-pi-a/|access-date=March 11, 2015|work=Jewish Daily Forward|date=November 18, 2014}}</ref>

In March 2015, the national organization of Sigma Alpha Epsilon closed the [[University of Oklahoma]] chapter after a [[2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racial incident|video surfaced showing members chanting]] a song which featured the racial slur, "[[nigger]]," and made references to [[Lynching in the United States|lynching]] and [[racial segregation]]. The chant, set to [[melody]] of the popular [[children's song]], "[[If You're Happy and You Know It]]", declares, "There will never be a nigger at SAE / There will never be a nigger at SAE / You can hang him from a tree, but he'll never sign with me / There will never be a nigger at SAE."<ref name=dailynews1>{{cite news|title=University of Oklahoma president evicts Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers from campus frat house after racist video|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ou-president-evicts-sigma-alpha-epsilon-frat-house-article-1.2142516|newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|access-date=March 9, 2015|date=March 9, 2015}}</ref> Sigma Alpha Epsilon closed the charter of the involved chapter and suspended its members on  March 8, 2015.<ref name="APNews-20150311" /> The University of Oklahoma president, [[David L. Boren|David Boren]], simultaneously closed the chapter house,<ref name="fraternity closes">{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-oklahoma-fraternity-closing-idUSKBN0M51KU20150309 |title=University of Oklahoma closes fraternity linked to racist video |date=March 9, 2015 |publisher=Reuters |first=Jon |last=Herskovitz}}</ref> giving members two days to vacate the fraternity's campus dwellings.<ref name="disgraceful fraternity">{{cite news |last=McLaughlin |first=Eliott |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/09/us/oklahoma-fraternity-chant/ |title=University of Oklahoma disowns 'disgraceful' fraternity after racist chant 
|publisher=CNN |date=March 9, 2015}}</ref> On March 10, 2015, two students identified in the video were expelled from the university.<ref name="students expelled">{{cite news  
|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31821397|title=Two Oklahoma students expelled over racist chant video|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=March 10, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/10/us/oklahoma-racist-chant/index.html|title=2 University of Oklahoma students expelled over racist chant|author=Eliott C. McLaughlin |date=March 10, 2015|publisher=CNN}}</ref>

In May 2016, the SAE chapter at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] was placed on suspension for repeatedly using racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic slurs, and then ostracizing a black SAE member for speaking up against the chapter's behavior.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.jsonline.com/news/education/uw-madison-suspends-sigma-alpha-epsilon-fraternity-over-racial-slurs-b99727890z1-379958331.html|title=UW-Madison suspends SAE fraternity over racial slurs|website=jsonline.com|access-date=March 27, 2018}}</ref>