Yale's Chapter of SAE Known for 'White Girls Only' Incident Breaks Ties With National Organization

On Tuesday afternooon, Yale University’s chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity announced that it would dissociate from its national organization and would henceforth be known as “Leo,” reports the Yale Daily News.
'We Need Yale to Choose Us': Inside the Racial Tensions of the Ivy League
During the week of Halloween, Yale University’s Intercultural Affairs Council sent a campus-wide memo, appealing for students to be sensitive about their costumes. Days later, a faculty member opposed the minority conglomerate’s memo in a letter, invoking free speech. On Halloween Eve, a frat brother allegedly denied…
How to Fix a Racist Frat
The video was obviously horrible: Fraternity brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at the University of Oklahoma, jubilantly and drunkenly singing—to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It”—“There will never be a nigger in SAE.” The song went on. “You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me.”
Oklahoma SAE Members Learned Their Racist Chant on a Leadership Cruise
The bitter jokes, they write themselves: University of Oklahoma President David Boren revealed on Friday that the racist chanters of Sigma Alpha Epsilon learned that chant on a "national leadership cruise" four years ago.
Jon Stewart: Morning Joe's 'Rap Causes Racism' Theory Was Dumb as Hell
We've heard lots of hot takes on what made the racist dopes of Sigma Alpha Epsilon's Oklahoma chapter such racist dopes, but none was hotter than Morning Joe's: it's all because of that damn rap music. Wow. Does anybody have a pair of shades, to shield me from blinding light and heat of this take?
Morning Joe Has a Good Explanation for the Racist SAE Kids: Rap Music
Your favorite morning program came in big on Wednesday morning, as hosts of Morning Joe Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough shared the mindblowingly original assertion that the reason the Sigma Alpha Epsilon frat bros at University of Oklahoma were singing that racist chant is because they were negatively influenced…
Happy SAE Frat House Mother Sings Racist Chant, America Kinda Sucks
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon "nigger" song controversy at the University of Oklahoma is only getting worse as a video surfaced showing the frat's house mother singing the same word with a smile two years ago.
Frat at University of Oklahoma Permanently Closed After Racist Chant
The national leadership of Sigma Alpha Epsilon—the fraternity that sure seems to show up in a lot of terrible stories—has permanently closed the chapter at University of Oklahoma after a video surfaced showing frat brothers chanting about hanging "niggers" from trees.
Yale Frat SAE Banned For Violating Sexual Misconduct Policy
The Yale chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has been banned from campus until 2016, reportedly for violating the school's sexual misconduct policies, then impeding a university investigation into the frat's actions. Nobody is saying just what the violation was, only that it involved a presentation that took…
Andrew Lohse and the Rise of the Frat Bro Feminist
You've probably heard of Andrew Lohse, or at least about what Andrew Lohse has told you about being excessively hazed by the brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon , the fraternity he was part of at Dartmouth College . Lohse got famous in 2012 for publishing a tell-all about the disgusting antics he and his…
In 'Historic' Move, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Gets Rid of Pledging
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has a long and storied history of shitty antics at many of its chapters nationwide. This year, however, they've faced heightened scrutiny, which ultimately led to them being labeled the "deadliest" fraternity by Bloomberg News. The bad press apparently escalated so much that SAE…
Now We've Heard All the Stories About the Worst Frat in America
On Monday, Sigma Alpha Epsilon was given the title of The Worst Frat In America, thanks to a Bloomberg piece that claims that the frat is responsible for more deaths of their members than any other frat in America. While it's quite an honor for SAE to receive this title, it's a super bummer they're getting all the…
Washington University Frat Suspended After Pledge Scavenger Hunt Gets Racist
Washington University in St. Louis has suspended all Sigma Alpha Epsilon activities after its pledges ridiculed a group of black students as part of a scavenger hunt, because nothing establishes brotherhood more solidly than holding an impromptu slam poetry-style reading of Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit" in front of…
