Unheard, student group that revealed racist SAE video, causes change at Oklahoma
At a news conference announcing the findings of an investigation of the racist chant that prompted the shuttering of Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s Oklahoma University chapter and the expulsion of two fraternity members, OU President David Boren saluted the student activists of Unheard, who first brought the now widely viewed SAE video to light.
“I want to commend the students and leaders of that group because they brought things to my attention that we needed to address,” Boren said Friday. He joked that, at a meeting ahead of the press conference in which SAE members apologized to representatives from Unheard and other black student leaders, he'd told members of Unheard, “I wish you’d change your name to ‘Heard,’ because they have been heard.”
Unheard, which was founded at OU at the start of the current semester, gained national recognition earlier this month for tweeting the cellphone video seen round the world: of Sigma Alpha Epsilon members emphatically chanting racial slurs and lynching references to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It,” while on the bus to a fraternity event. ...
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