Almost entirely white group made ‘offensive, hurtful, and unacceptable’ statements with ‘racist overtones’, school says
The university’s chancellor, Glenn Boyce, said that a conduct investigation had been launched into one student and more might follow in the wake of Thursday’s volatile scenes on campus.
Some of the protesters were dressed in Stars and Stripes dungarees, others held aloft US and Donald Trump flags. They threw water bottles and cups at the pro-Palestinian protesters and yelled: “Who’s your daddy?”, “Take a shower”, and “Shave your legs”, among other offensive chants. Announcing the investigation, Boyce acknowledged the bitter history of racism and segregation at the 25,000-strong university, which only accepted its first Black student under legal duress in 1962. “It is important to acknowledge our challenging history, and incidents like this set us back. It is one reason we do not take this lightly,” the chancellor said.
The fraternity Phi Delta Theta has said that it has expelled a member it called “the responsible individual” behind “racist actions” that it said were “antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and theAlpha chapter”. The identity of the individual, as well as that of the person under university investigation, have not been released.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, struck a different response. Invoking an acronym for his “Make American great again” slogan, the former president published aThe overtly racist tone adopted by some of the counter-protesters on such an august campus called to mind some of the most regrettable events of segregation in the deep south of the US.
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