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Human relations freshman Isaiah Flowers demonstrates Monday morning on the North Oval to support Unheard, an alliance of black students advocating for minority rights. During the demonstration students, faculty, staff and members of the community gathered by the George Lynn Cross statue to march through Oklahoma Memorial Union and leave notes expressing their frustrations with OU.

‘REAL SOONERS ARE NOT RACISTS’

PAIGHTEN HARKINSDigital Managing Editor

O f f e n s i v e. D i s g u s t i n g . Bi g o t e d . Disgraceful. Racist.

That’s what OU students and officials said in response to a racist video depicting members of OU’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra-ternity that surfaced late Sunday evening.

In the 10-second grainy clip, members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, dressed in suits on their way to a date party, emphatically sing the lines: “There will never be a n***** SAE. You can hang them from a tree, but he’ll never sign with me.”

Before midnight that Sunday, the fra-ternity’s national headquarters disbanded it. Before the sun rose Monday, about one hundred individuals gathered on the North Oval to demonstrate against the video and

the values it depicted. Demonstrations continued throughout the day as students and university officials alike agreed: The video and those it depicts do not represent OU.

Unheard, an alliance of black students who advocate for minority rights on cam-pus, kicked off the day’s events at 7:30 a.m. Before executive members addressed the full crowd, OU President David Boren left his office in Evans Hall to meet demonstra-tors outside.

Someone handed Boren a megaphone, and he didn’t hold back.

“In my mind, you shouldn’t have the privilege of calling yourself Sooners,” Boren said to the students in the video. “Real Sooners are not bigots. Real Sooners are not racists.”

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An OU Facilities Management worker carries letters from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house Monday after-noon. The fraternity was banned at OU after a leaked video showing members singing a racist chant sur-faced online

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OU employees boarded up windows and removed Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s letters from the fraternity house in the first set of actions to reclaim the house after the organization was disbanded late Sunday.

OU Facilities Management employees used a lift to re-trieve the gold letters from the side of the building, located at 730 College Ave., around 3:30 p.m. Monday.

The employees took down the letters and blocked the

OU community members protest racist video remarks

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OU President David Boren speaks to OU students, staff, news stations and Norman residents early Monday morning outside Evans Hall during a morning demonstration. Boren commented on a leaked video of Sigma Alpha Epsilon members participating in a racist chant.

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OU President David Boren stood behind a podium in Holmberg Hall on Monday morning and left no doubt about his stance on the actions of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members who were caught on video participating in a racist chant that sparked protests across campus.

“Would I be happy if they left the university as students and were no longer our stu-dents? You betcha,” Boren said. “I’d be happy. We don’t have any room for racists and

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bigots at this university. I’d be glad if they left.”

At this point the OU chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon no lon-ger exists. All of its members have been suspended from the fraternity, Boren has ordered the house to be closed and ev-eryone living inside must be out by midnight tonight.

For many, that is not enough. Calls for expulsion abounded across the campus Monday, and Boren explained in his press conference that the uni-versity’s legal team is working to find a way to punish individ-uals in a way that is constitu-tionally sound.

windows as residents packed their belongings, Facilities Management director Brian Ellis said.

“We are establishing con-trol of the property,” Ellis said.

The move came after OU President David Boren’s 11 a.m. press conference, in which he spoke out against a racist video that impli-cated Sigma Alpha Epsilon members.

During the conference, Boren said residents must be out of the house by midnight Tuesday and that the univer-sity would not help members find alternative housing.

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Unheard organizers address a crowd of about 100 people at their demonstration Monday morning in front of Evans Hall. Unheard called the demonstration in response to a racist video featuring members of OU’s now-disbanded Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

UNHEARD: Administrators and athletes join demonstrations on campusContinued from Page One

After Boren’s speech, in which he severed the univer-sity’s ties with the fraternity, Unheard executives gathered students near Evans Hall’s front steps.

“The events that happened this weekend are extremely, extremely offensive and dis-gusting to our culture and to our people,” Unheard execu-tive Chelsea Davis said to the crowd.

She and several other Unheard members stood on the steps to give recommen-dations. The executive mem-bers — along with many in the crowd — dressed in black. It was a sign of support.

The sun barely peeked over the top of the building

as Davis spoke. The morn-ing dew, made wetter by the day’s forecasted rain, was still fresh on the ground. It was hardly 8:45 a.m.

Davis gave the audience instructions: Grab some duct tape to close your mouth. Take a Post-It Note to write your concerns and make yourself heard. Then march so people will listen.

T h r e e m i n u t e s l a t e r, Unheard executives led the demonstrators from Evans Hall to Oklahoma Memorial Union with one destination in mind: the Office of Student Affairs.

Demonstrators stuck notes on the office’s door in hopes that administrators would see their complaints. By the end of the protest, hundreds of notes adorned the door.

One note read: “Education i s a l w a y s t h e a n s w e r.” Another read: “I’m hurt.” A n o t h e r : “ E x p e l t h e perpetrators.”

Around the same time members of OU’s Athletic Department, including head coach Bob Stoops and line-backer Eric Striker, demon-strated on the South Oval. The individuals stood near Lindsey Street, standing in silence as students walked past.

Later, football players and coaches didn’t practice in protest of the video. Instead of practicing, the team, lead by Stoops and athletic direc-tor Joe Castiglione, entered the Everest Training Center walking arm-in-arm and dressed in black.

An OU spokesman said

Stoops and other team lead-ers made the decision to forgo practice.

Unheard member Kumba Sicarr said she was happy with the student turnout and support at the group’s demonstration, but that the university should continue discussions about race.

“It doesn’t stop at this pro-test. I believe the university still needs to have a plan of action. This is not the first, and it’s not the last,” Sicarr said.

Members and demonstra-tors said the video is only one example of issues minori-ty students deal with daily, which is exactly why Davis and other Unheard members demand change — even after the fraternity’s punishment has already been doled out.

“We need the university to understand that this is a cul-tural change that needs to happen,” Davis said during the demonstration.

Joining the droves of stu-dents at the event were cam-pus administrators, includ-ing Student Life director Kristen Partridge and Clarke Stroud, university vice pres-ident for Students Affairs and dean of students, whose office-building door the demonstrators covered with notes.

T h e y s e e m e d t o b e listening.

Stroud said he was happy with the turnout at the pro-test but that he was both hurt and outraged by the video.

“There’s just no room in our community for it,” Stroud said.

Partridge echoed Stroud’s statements about student turnout, adding that she hoped the demonstration showed students that racism still exists on campus.

“Students who have not experienced that may not understand what students in minority communities face everyday. I hope that there’s a greater sense of awareness,” Partridge said. “I also hope that students in our cultur-al communities realize how many allies they have. It’s our honor to stand with them against things like hate and racism.”

S t a f f re p o r t e r s An d re w Clark, Daisy Creager and Joe Buettner contributed to this report.

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Unless their investiga-tion yields something more than the image of fraternity brothers spewing bigotry on a charter bus though, there is a good chance they won’t find it.

“If the extent of it is what we see in those 11 seconds of video, I don’t see a con-stitutional basis for [expul-sion],” said Robert Shibley, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

Shibley’s organization’s mission is to protect indi-vidual rights at America’s colleges and universities. Just last week the foun-dation helped students at Utah’s Dixie State University file a lawsuit against their school for placing unconsti-tutional restrictions on their First Amendment rights.

“It suggests that they would not allow black peo-ple into SAE fraternity or SAE chapter. If that indi-cates they might be engaged in unlawful discrimination, you can investigate the un-lawful discrimination angle of it,” Shibley said. “But ac-tually just saying that isn’t the offense. The offense would actually be engaging in discrimination.”

The removal of the frater-nity from campus and the students from their house was legal because it in-volved an organization that represents the university.

“The university can kick them off campus for a vari-ety of reasons, and there’s a lot of latitude to go that far,” said OU political science professor Keith Gaddie. “The question is, can you go after individuals?”

Gaddie said there is some space for the university to pursue individual punish-ment for the leaders of the chant. Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, individuals who create an intimidating or hostile environment can face consequences, Gaddie said.

“…The question is, have these people created an intimidating or hostile en-vironment on the basis of race? And in so doing so, does that create a violation

of the individual code of conduct for a student at the university which can lead to expulsion? That’s what has to be determined,” Gaddie said.

Title VI protects individ-uals from discrimination based on race, color or na-tional origin in programs receiving federal financial assistance, such as a public university. The goal then becomes proving that the perpetrators created a hos-tile learning environment for fellow students.

According to Shibley, what showed up on the video is not enough to legal-ly qualify as hostile.

“The harassment has to be based on a protected class and so severe, perva-sive and objectively offen-sive that it effectively keeps the targets of discrimination from getting an education,” Shibley said.

Simply speaking, even if the words are abhorrent, they have not lived up to that scrutiny in previous court cases.

“OU may not censor the students because of their hate speech. Their hateful speech is protected,” said Joey Senat, an associate professor in the Oklahoma

State University School o f Me d i a a n d St rat e g i c Communications.

According to Senat, the issue is much deeper than one of race: It is one of free speech.

“People should be wary when government acts to censor speech, even un-popular speech,” Senat said. “Censorship doesn’t solve any problems. It will drive the unpopular ideas un-derground, but it certain-ly doesn’t help convince anyone that their idea of another race is inaccurate. It doesn’t enlighten those people. And what it does lead to — that kind of cen-sorship — is people like me standing up to defend rac-ists. I would rather not de-fend racists. But I’m more concerned too about OU trying to censor ideas that David Boren doesn’t like.”

While the university seeks a rule that will allow them to send the students else-where, Senat advocates for a dialogue.

“Those people who hold racist viewpoints are as sin-cere in their viewpoints as I am in that people should be treated equally and that racism should not exist,” Senat said. “Obviously it

does exist, but those rac-ists hold those views to be sincere and punish-ing them by government punishment does not change their mind. It only reinforces what they hate.”

Boren called the frater-nity members disgrace-ful. He let them know that they had lost the privi-lege to call themselves Sooners. And he closed h i s s t at e m e nt by l e t-ting them know just how much he would love it if they left.

“ They don’t belong here, and I don’t want them here ... I might even pay personal bus fare for them if they’d go some-where else,” Boren said.

Dillon Hollingsworth, [email protected]

RIGHTS: Students protected by First AmendmentContinued from Page One

REACTION: President Boren castigates fratContinued from Page One

“We don’t provide stu-dent services for bigots,” Boren said.

He went on to say that he wants those involved in the incident gone from the university.

“I don’t have much sym-pathy for them,” Boren said.

Members have been leav-ing the house with luggage in hand since late Sunday evening. As OU employees removed the letters, Sigma Alpha Epsilon members waited in a parking lot near the house.

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J o e F o o t e , d e a n o f t h e Gay l o rd C o l l e g e o f J o u r n a l i s m a n d M a s s Communication, is stepping down as dean in August.

Foote sent an email to the college’s faculty Monday afternoon announcing his plans to focus on non-ad-ministrative journalism education.

Foote plans to focus more on non-administrative tasks

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‘No such thing as boring history’Historian discusses Dust Bowl at third annual Teach-In

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SUPRIYA SRIDHARNews Reporter

Historian, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning jour-nalist Timothy Egan spoke to students about the impor-tance of the human aspect of history in the Oklahoma Memorial Union on March 9.

Egan’s talk was part of OU’s Teach-In, an annual event that commemorates OU’s pride in American History. This year’s topic, “The Western Frontier,” fo-cused on the American West.

Egan spoke about the Dust Bowl, the topic of his novel “The Worst Hard Time.”

“I am a huge believer that there is no such thing as boring history,” Egan said. “There is just boringly told history.”

Egan discovered this pas-sion while reading his son’s AP U.S. History textbook and seeing its lack of information about the Dust Bowl. The texbook had one paragraph on the subject.

“Steinbeck wrote ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ about all of those that left ... but two-thirds of them didn’t go any-where,” Egan said.

While traveling through counties in the western Plains, Egan heard stories about the Dust Bowl from sur vivors. He ended up using six stories in his book that took him back to those years.

“I wasn’t talking to a 92 year old. I was talking to a 17 year old,” Egan said.

Egan went on to describe the histor y of Western Oklahoma and the culture and geography that played a role in it. This began with the international allure of the Homestead Act and con-tinued through the impact of the Great Depression, Egan said. The economic strug-gle, combined with the dust, created an unimaginable situation.

“There was a randomness to the death. You lost friends you thought would live for-ever,” Egan said.

Egan ended the talk by stating the importance of recording “your story,” the human aspect of history.

The event began with a lunch, followed by an intro-duction by President David Boren, who spoke about Egan’s work and his rela-tionship with the Oklahoma people.

“In a way we feel we’ve

claimed Tim Egan as one of us. He has helped bring to us a better understanding of ourselves through our histo-ry,” Boren said.

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Historian Peter Kastor lectures at OU’s Teach-In on Monday afternoon in Catlett Music Center’s Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall. Kastor discussed “Oklahoma, the West and the World” during his 2 p.m. lecture.

“Realizing that I have just a few years left before retiring, I want to focus on the non-administrative things I’m passion-ate about like new teaching methods enhanced by tech-nolog y, interna-tional development proj-ects and leadership of the World Journalism Education Council,” Foote said in the email.

Foote, who has been dean for 10 years, will take a sab-batical in the fall and will re-turn to the faculty in spring 2016. He said he is trying to

transition back into a teaching position before bowing out all together.

Foote said he ex-pects OU President Boren will announce the new dean by the summer.

Foote’s favorite part of being dean through his 10 years was getting to know the students in Gaylord.

“Every day, Gaylord stu-dents inspire me through their creativity, passion and dedication,” Foote said. “[Monday was] a textbook example of why this college is special. Students don’t

have to be assigned to any-thing. They jump into action immediately.”

Foote said as an alumnus, he is grateful to return to his alma mater and have a hand in building future leaders.

“You need to look no far-ther than [Monday] to see what kind of energy is pro-duced by students and why they make it such a privilege to lead this college,” Foote said.

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Football team eschews practice for protestSooner athletics stops schedules to stand for equality

JOE BUETTNERWomen’s Basketball Reporter @Joe_Buettner

Framed by a steady March rain shower, the Oklahoma football team linked arms and silently walked to their indoor practice faci l i ty Monday afternoon.

H o w e v e r, O U ’s p l a y -ers and coaches weren’t dressed for their scheduled spring practice, and they didn’t stay in the Everest Training Center for more than a few minutes.

Donning predominantly black clothes, head coach Bob Stoops, the coaching staff, the players and athlet-ic director Joe Castiglione made their stand against the now infamous SAE video.

The players lined up in rows and walked quiet-ly from their locker room to the practice field with Stoops front and center.

Each small row marched onto the field and stood si-lently before unlinking their arms and huddling near midfield to say a prayer.

The team left immedi-ately after the prayer, and no players or coaches were made available to the media

as scheduled.While OU football is in the

midst of its offseason, the Oklahoma men’s basket-ball team has a Big 12 tour-nament game to prepare for this Thursday.

Head coaches Lon Kruger and Stoops joined some of their players at OU’s demon-stration this morning on the South Oval, but Kruger’s squad was back to work after beating the Kansas Jayhawks this past weekend.

Senior forward TaShawn Thomas attended the pro-test and was disappointed with the more somber atmo-sphere campus experienced Monday following a big win

for Oklahoma hoops.“After you win a big game,

you usually have ever y-one saying ‘good game,’” Thomas said. “It wasn’t hard. We didn’t get to talk about the win today because of the protest this morning.”

The video also overshad-owed a big day for junior Buddy Hield, who won the 2015 Big 12 Player of the Year award.

Hield won the honor after tipping in the game-win-ning shot against Kansas. However, he wasn’t too upset with the poor timing of the SAE incident.

“I can’t let stuff bother me. People say stuff like that

everyday,” Hield said. “It’s not right to say, but I think the university did a good job

handling the situation.” However, on the bas-

ketball side, junior Ryan S p a n g l e r d o e s n ’ t s e e the video affecting OU’s perception.

“I’m not worried. I think people realize that was a

small group that impact-ed all of us,” Spangler said. “I think they got what they deserved.”

Oklahoma basketball will continue its preparation for the postseason, but it’s un-known when OU football will return to the field.

The football team is slat-ed to have media availability Wednesday, but OU spokes-man Pete Moris was unsure how this decision would af-fect OU’s spring schedule.

Joe Buettner [email protected]

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Head football coach Bob Stoops and members of OU’s football team walk arm-in-arm during their regularly scheduled spring football practice on Monday outside the Everest Training Center. The team did not practice Monday in protest of a video showing members of the now-disbanded Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity participating in a racist chant.

“I can’t let stuff bother me. People say stuff like that

everyday.”BUDDY HIELD

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Not on OUr campus

Sooner nation was chal-lenged Sunday, and as we’ve come to expect, the Sooner family came together in the face of staggering ignorance and racism. On the 50th an-niversary of “Bloody Sunday” — the historical civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama — an ignorant, hateful group of bigoted OU students sang gleefully about lynching and the N-word. The SAE chant was clearly learned, re-hearsed and passed down to the members who unabash-edly sang it Saturday. The rest of the world learned about it Sunday be-cause a person on the bus emailed a video to The Daily. It is unacceptable for such racism to exist in 2015 and we urge OU to make sure the video re-mains an isolated incident.

Thankfully, OU is off to a good start in combatting sys-tematic racism. Under the leadership of OU President David Boren, the OU SAE chapter was closed and all members ordered to vacate the fraternity house by mid-night tonight. Many Sooners called for immediate, forceful action and Boren delivered. He called the offenders in the video bigots and a disgrace. He shut down the frat and announced an ongoing in-vestigation into the possibil-ity of expelling the students in the video. He visited with Sooners who gathered early yesterday morning to protest on campus.

Achieving greater diversi-ty and inclusivity at OU isn’t an easy task, but it is a neces-sary task. We are glad Boren kicked SAE off campus, and, like the student group Unheard, we believe the next step towards promoting equality at OU is implement-ing mandatory diversity and sensitivity training for all students. Offering an online seminar for current students

and requiring a diversity training class as part of reg-istration for new students would be a start. If OU truly wants to ensure another rac-ist video never happens, we need to squash institutional-ized racism at every turn.

It’s disappointing and dis-heartening that OU students engaged in a display of such blatant racism, but we are encouraged by the reactions of OU students and admin-istrators. Yesterday, we saw student-athletes stand to-gether in solidarity, count-less students march in silent

protest on campus and administrators show support for OU students.

As we’ve said be-fore, we applaud OU Unheard for all it’s done to pro-mote diversity on campus and com-

bat racism at OU. The group organized the powerful yes-terday morning protest and shared its message on na-tional news outlets. We are thankful OU is listening to the group’s concerns and implore administrators to continue to listen to Unheard students. It’s clearer than ever that racism is alive and well in 2015, and OU needs to root out racism wherev-er it appears on campus. We believe maintaining an open dialogue with Unheard is a great way to tackle that goal.

OU is by no means a per-fect place, but we can get bet-ter by standing up for what’s right and adopting a zero tol-erance approach to hatred and racism. No OU student should ever feel unwelcome on this campus. The way OU came together yesterday to both protest the SAE video and support our African-American students shows progress towards equality can be made.

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