Sunday, May 22, 2016

The war against white young men!-----UW-Madison suspends frat for alleged toleration of racial slurs

UW-Madison suspends frat for alleged toleration of racial slurs:
"The University of Wisconsin-Madison has suspended its Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity for allegedly responding inadequately to complaints about a “discriminatory environment” at the chapter.
UW issued a press release Tuesday announcing the suspension, saying SAE would be reinstated on November 1, provided that each of its members completes training in diversity, inclusion, and mental health.
...Blank then mentions the diversity and inclusion training SAE members will be required to take, saying she expects the national fraternity to undertake parallel efforts to reeducate the members of its Wisconsin chapter, as well.
...No details regarding the complaint or suspension were ever released, but according to a timeline of events on UW’s website, the circumstances leading to SAE’s current suspension also began with a Halloween party.
At that party, which took place in 2014, a member of the fraternity alleges that another member “addressed him with a racial slur and choked him for about five seconds until other members intervened.”
Leaders of the chapter maintain that they were not informed of any racial component to the fight at the time, but did impose sanctions on the aggressor.
According to The Badger Herald, the CSO report concluded that SAE had acted to its “fullest capability” based on the information available to them, but despite largely exonerating the fraternity on that count, the Committee expressed dissatisfaction with its handling of the overall environment in light of subsequent reports of intolerant behavior.
The next incident on the timeline took place in March of 2015, when an SAE member “ran down State Street yelling a racial slur.”
The university acknowledges that the fraternity expelled that member and suspended another who was “involved” in the incident, but notes that the expelled member “continued to be present at times at the chapter house.”
Three additional complaints were filed at irregular intervals over the course of this school year, all by the same student who claims to have been victimized at the 2014 Halloween party.
Sometime in fall 2015, the complainant asserts that he raised objections about “racial, anti-gay, and anti-Semitic slurs” he had overheard at the house, but was rebuffed by fellow members.
Then, on December 22, he claims to have “heard another member yelling a racial slur outside the house,” though the fraternity says it was unable to identify the member in question.
A few months later, on February 26, the student filed another complaint, saying “he heard another member repeatedly singing a lyric containing a racial slur.”
The other member denied the accusation, and no disciplinary action was taken.
The following week, the complainant brought his charges to the university, prompting the Division of Student Life to launch a one-month investigation that served as the basis for the CSO’s eventual determination against SAE..."

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