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Students hold a fingerprint banner before National Pan-Hellenic Council demonstration Tuesday evening out side of the Huston Huffman Fitness Center. The participants then marched through campus to the former Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, located at 730 College Ave. The students marched in celebration of the house’s closure.
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Bell-Ard, a senior at the demonstration. “Hopefully this leads to larger changes.” As the demonstrators marched down College Avenue, students came out of greek houses and watched from windows. Several members of Sigma Phi Epsilon came out of their fraternity house and joined the group in the march. “There are a lot of people outside of the OU bubble who need to hear what is happening here,” Bell-Ard said. “[We DAISY CREAGER News Reporter need] to create a form of healing and to use this as momentum for larger structural issues. This was a starting point for anti-blackness.” Members of National Pan-Hellenic Norman police officers blocked traffic on Council and other demonstrators “[We need] to create College Avenue with their cars, and students stopped traffic Tuesday night when a form of healing stood in the parking lot across the street of they marched from Houston Huffington and to use this as the former SAE house to watch. Center to the former Sigma Alpha Epsilon The students gathered in the house’s house, chanting, singing and holding a momentum for parking lot for about an hour, and sang, banner. larger structural chanted and spoke about changes that need The march was a celebration of the closed SAE house after the video surfaced issues. This was a to be made on campus and what members National Pan-Hellenic Council should do Sunday. starting point for of moving forward. The demonstration started at Huston Bell-Ard spoke about how racism requires anti-blackness.” Huffman Fitness Center, where demona cultural change. strators, more than 200 people, used paint MARQUIS BELL-ARD, “What we were saying was jarring,” Bellto put their thumbprints on a white banA SENIOR AT THE Ard said about the student speakers. “I think ner. They marched down the South Oval DEMONSTRATION that they felt the powerfulness but some of and to the former SAE house parking lot, these conversations won’t be easy.” located at 730 College Ave., chanting “not Rashid Campbell, African American studies senior, said on our campus” and singing “Lean On Me.” “We need to move beyond songs,” said Marquis students need work for campus and cultural changes.
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“I need y’all to say: I’m the change,” Campbell said. Campbell also said that though some of the things demonstrators were saying were harsh, such as how white people embrace black music and culture but don’t embrace black people, that was the point. “If you are not uncomfortable, you are not learning,” Campbell said. Public relations junior Emmi Coatney said the things she heard at the demonstration were moving and interesting. SEE MARCH PAGE 3
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A student moves out from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, located at 730 College Ave., on Tuesday afternoon. Students were evicted following the fallout from a racist video featuring members of the fraternity.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — OU President David Boren said OU officials do not yet have plans for future use of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house after the fraternity was shut down and two students, Parker Rice and Levi Petitt, were expelled in the wake of a surfaced racist video. All 68 members living in the house, located at 730 College Ave., have until
midnight Tuesday to move out, Boren announced at a Monday morning protest. At the regularly scheduled OU Board of Regents meeting, Boren told The Daily what might happen with the fraternity’s former house. “I don’t know whether we will use it for something else [or] whether we’ll tear it down,” he said. “Obviously, [the board] didn’t know until 24 hours ago, just like I didn’t either, that that piece of property would be available for other use.” Boren said the board will study all of the house’s possible alternative uses, but does not expect an answer anytime soon. Currently, the university
owns the building and its property. At midnight, the university will take hold of the building, said Brian Ellis, Facilities Management director. “The building is no longer associated with SAE at all,” Ellis said. After the house was vandalized with spray paint Sunday night, the first floor will be boarded up for security and protection of the property, Ellis said. Jessica Barber, jessicabarber_16@ou.edu YA JIN/THE DAILY
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Two OU students put their hands around each other as they listen to a speaker during the demonstration in front of the former Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, located at 730 College Avenue, on Tuesday night. Demonstrators gathered to celebrate the house’s closure.
MARCH: Demonstrators hope video sparks conversations about race Continued from Page One “They opened up a space for people to come together face to face, which is bigger than just social media,” Coatney said. “We need to talk about these issues and listen to what they have to say.” Coatney said that it is important for the OU community to unite and heal. “We shouldn’t think of it as a certain race getting hurt. We’re all human,” Coatney said. “If people feel hurt and neglected, there needs to be a place to talk about that. I think that racism is an issue that needs to
be addressed.” Wa r d 7 C i t y C o u n c i l member Stephen Holman, who attended the last 30 minutes of the demonstration, said he is proud of the students for taking a stand. “I think that it sends a really positive message about unity and standing together in the face of adversity,” Holman said. “Even when it’s an unfortunate topic, when they can get a lot of people together, good things happen.” He said that he hopes the SAE video sparks discussion and change. “I’m under no illusion that these things
happen here,” Holman said. “Norman has come a long way from the past that we once had. Hopefully we can use this event to continue to move forward together.” Bell-Ard said that Na t i o n a l Pa n - He l l e n i c Council is making plans to keep open discussion about racism alive. “It’s going to be using the white allies we have at this university to challenge their friends,” Bell-Ard said. Daisy Creager, Daisy.C.Creager-1@ou.edu
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Students hold their fists high in the air to support the speaker during the demonstration in front of the former SAE fraternity house on Tuesday. Students chant “Be the change”.
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The red silhouette stands out against the rest. OU Sigma Chi alumnus Jason Bolton says some greek students can get caught up in a group mentality that supports racism or other forms of bigotry even when they as individuals don’t agree with it, which is why some choose not to speak against bad behavior.
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When Jason Bolton watched the recent viral videos of OU Sigma Alpha Epsilon members chanting racial slurs, he was reminded of being a fraternity president in the 1990s. “What I see demonstrated in that video reminds me a lot of what was going on in the ‘80s and ‘90s, and what I know went on well in advance of that,” said Bolton, who was president of OU Sigma Chi in 1992. “I knew of that song, I knew versions of that song that existed at different fraternities on campus,” Bolton said. “And it’s hard to believe that,
in 30 years, or 50 years ... that those things have never been brought to the university or the administration.” The videos show SAE freshmen Parker Rice and Levi Pettit singing the lyrics “You can hang them from a tree, but he can never sign with me — there will never be a n***** in SAE.” Students present sang and clapped along. There is a psychological explanation for why students choose not to speak up in these situations, said Bolton, who received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from OU. “[Students] get caught up in the group mentality that, in my opinion, comes from a long history and a long creation of culture that supports this type of thinking,” Bolton said. This mentality often stems from a longing to fit in. “I think sometimes these
young people who become members of a fraternity, don’t necessarily understand how hurtful those words are, and instead it’s just an attempt to define who they are,” Bolton said. This type of behavior isn’t typical, said an OU freshman sorority member who wishes to remain anonymous after being prohibited from talking to the media by her organization. “I think it’s a bad situation caught on tape,” she said. While secret songs are common in the greek community, they are not offensive, she said. “They took something really dark and played with it in a light-hearted way ... I’ve never heard anything even remotely similar to that kind of song,” she said. “I don’t think that’s representative [of greek students].” Social situations affect how
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people act, said Eric Day, OU psychology professor. “Given the right circumstances, what normally we would consider to be reasonably good people could end up doing horrible things or at least not intervening as much as they probably should have,” Day said. Solving this problem takes all hands on deck. “There has to be a conservative effort to go into each of the fraternities ... talking about what is going on, what are the effects, how are these groups going to be more inclusive,” Day said. Bolton believes kicking students off of campus doesn’t solve the problem. “That cannot be the end of this deal,” Bolton said. Paris Burris parisburris@ou.edu
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araphrasing Shakespeare, I tell whoever will listen to me: “The civil rights movement of the early twentieth century is dead. Long live the civil rights movements of the early 21st century. Long live the members Unheard and the Black Student Association. And long live their multiracial and multicultural allies.” I have watched with much pride as the current generation of student activists has accepted their turn at creating and recreating organizations to curtail racial bigotry. Most of the time these students go about their business quietly and other times they are less quiet. Almost always, they are polite and thoughtful. These young women and men are my heroes. “So, how are they different from the OU student civil rights activists of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s?” Today’s OU student activists are highly motivated heterogeneous people who have joined together and are doing some extraordinary things. In the
are several types of racial bigots. Most of them have little in common except their dislike for people of color in general and black people in particular. Black student activists are inclined to believe that most white people at OU do not give much thought to what is happening to blacks and other people of color. But the few white people who do think about these things are a much-needed critical mass of kindred souls. Until the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity incident, only a few of those kindred souls DAILY FILE PHOTO expressed even a small George Henderson amount of public outrage about the lack of privileges process, they are overdepartment nooks and for countless ethnic micoming the incalculable crannies. Fortunately, our norities. Now there are exhorror of being ridiculed student activists have not pressions of rage throughby their critics and friends lost sight of their goal to out the campus. and even demonized by abolish as many vestiges The challenge for tosome of them. There have of racial segregation and day’s student activists is to been numerous instancdiscrimination as possifind ways to turn bystandes when their adversaries ble. It is a noble goal. And ers into allies and to neuwere wrong about them. these students are noble tralize their adversaries. To But none of their adverpersons who are becomthat end, today’s students saries are more disining quite proficient at unare learning how to dragenuous than the others. covering overt and covert matize the fact that people They all try to minimize conditions of unequal ed- treated unfairly, whatever or rationalize away enucational and employment their race or ethnicity, are demic racism that hides opportunities. not shadowy abstractions on our campus in various On our campus there of reality. They are real victims. And they require real remedies. These are some of the lessons memVoted BEST Asian & Sushi bers of Unheard are teaching all of us. I said literally the same things about Children Chil Ch ildr dren en tto o King Kin Ki n Size their predecessors.
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Regents approve design-phase plans for new Residential Colleges The OU Board of Regents approved the design development phase plans for the new Residential Colleges on Tuesday. The student housing facilities will hold approximately 300 students each and will include a communal dining area, faculty-in-residence apartment, storm-shelter, student lounge areas and other amenities. OU president David Boren announced organic chemist Dr. Mark Morvant and political scientist Keith Gaddie as the new “inaugural masters” for the Residential Colleges at the meeting as well. According to a press release, as “masters,” Morvant and Gaddie “will build community and unity within their respective Residential Colleges.” Both men are current faculty at the university. “[Morvant and Gaddie] are truly master teachers,” Boren said in a statement in the release. “And their appointments as OU’s inaugural masters will transform our students’ undergraduate experience through a living/learning environment that incorporates technologies and fosters student engagement.” The budget for the Residential Colleges project is $100 million and they will be located at the southwest corner of Jenkins Ave. and Lindsey St.
Regents elect veterans from the board for chairman, vice chairman The OU Board of Regents announced the elections of two officers who, combined, have served on the board for more than 25 years. The board elected Jon R. Stuart of Tulsa as the new chairman of the OU Board of Regents. He has served on the board since 2002 and is the president and chief executive officer of the family investment company First Stuart Corp. A. Max Weitzenhoffer, whose family OU’s College of Fine Arts is named after, was elected as the vice chairman of the OU Board of Regents. He has served on the board since 2003 and has won numerous theater awards for his work as an independent producer of New York and London theater productions. The OU Department of Musical Theatre is named after him, and he is also a 1994 inductee in the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
Cate Center renovations to include reading rooms, conference rooms The OU Board of Regents approved the design development phase plans for the renovation of Cate Center number two at the Regents meeting Tuesday. The center will be renovated to include classrooms, seminar rooms, reading rooms, faculty and staff offices, conference rooms and other rooms. The Department of English will be relocated to the new center, allowing Gittinger Hall to be demolished. The firm selection process is underway to begin renovations.
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A group of student athletes including members of the football team lined up on South Oval and then migrated to the courtyard outside the Barry Switzer Center on Tuesday afternoon. They came together as an organization to show a united front in the aftermath of the racial conflict caused by one of OU’s fraternities.
OU athletes take a stand on SAE video Football, softball, track and field and spirit squads members among demonstrators
campus in recent days. Team leaders met together last night and then relayed the messages back to their teams, infielder Lauren Chamberlain said. The demonstration started on the South JESSE POUND News Reporter Oval, with students lining up on both sides @JesseRPound of the walkway in front of Dale Hall. The group then migrated to the courtyard outOU student-athletes gathered Tuesday side the Barry Switzer Center, where they afternoon to show a united front in the face were addressed by Kimberly Miller, the diof the racial turmoil that has gripped the rector of human resources for the Athletic
Department, and Jay Boulware, an assistant football coach. “In light of a situation that Offensive center Ty Darlington could potentially separate led a group prayer at the end of the demonstration. us, I think it’s important to The demonstration had members from show that we’re not going multiple sports, including football, softball, anywhere.” track and field and spirit squads. Coaches from multiple sports teams were in attenLAUREN CHAMBERLAIN, dance, including head football coach Bob SOFTBALL INFIELDER Stoops. “In light of a situation that could po- and we just want to end this by showing and tentially separate us, I think it’s important proving that we are one family,” Carmichael to show that we’re not going anywhere,” said. Chamberlain said. It is important to recognize that this is not about one isolated incident and that Jesse Pound racism is still an issue, Chamberlain said. jesserpound@gmail.com Jenny Carmichael, a track and field athlete, also said that the athletes are trying to show a united front. “We want to be united for the campus,
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OU’s Board of Regents approved the first phase of the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium building project Tuesday, which includes design and developmental elements worth $160 million. The facet of the project will focus on bowling in the south end zone as well as adding new suites and club seating. The original plan presented last summer, which including renovations to the west-side deck and press box as well as improvements to stadium infrastructure, was to cost $350 million. OU athletic director Joe Castiglione and the regents agreed to split the stadium project into two phases, with the first phase to be completed by the beginning of the 2016 football season. OU President David Boren cited falling oil prices as the reason behind scaling back stadium renovations for the time being. “In one week, half of the net worth of our major donors was wiped out by the falling oil prices,” he said. “You’re sitting there, somebody’s worth however-many millions dollars…three days later, they’re worth half that. That’s exactly what happened.” During the meeting,
Boren described the new plan as “focused and frugal” and said none of the stadium funding would come from state or tuition dollars. The project is funded through private source, athletic department capital funds and bonds, Castiglione said. Castiglione said the bonds will be funded through ticket revenue, which will provide $5 million per year, conservatively. Higher ticket prices from suites and club seats will add an additional $12 million. “ We’ re g o i ng t o have tough times with the university budget, tough times with a lot of our fans,” Boren said. “I needed to be able to say to the state government, ‘Not one penny.’ I needed to be able to say to the students with their tuition money, ‘Not one penny from you.’”
“We’re going to have tough times with the university budget, tough times with a lot of our fansv.” DAVID BOREN, OU PRESIDENT
The stadium capacity, currently at 82,112, will increase to more than 84,000 after phase one. The new south end zone structure will feature 22 suites, 60 open-air loge boxes and 1,976 club seats. However, future building projects and adjustments
to seat width and handrails could bring the new number back down to present-day levels. The new building space moves student-athlete services to the ground floor. The space will include a new locker room, strength and conditioning room, training room, nutrition center, meeting rooms and the equipment operation. Student-athletes from all 21 Oklahoma programs will use the center, according to the press release. The weight room will triple in size to 26,600 square feet and include a 70-yard turfed speed and agility training area. “Our efficiency improves greatly in this new layout,” Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said in a press release. “The players will have access to essential services all within a few steps of each other in a facility that will be among the best in the country. As for the second and final phase of the stadium project, Boren could not speculate as to when construction would begin. “I don’t know when the second bite might come,” he said. “When will oil prices recover? We had to make the decision to do this in phases that week the oil prices went down. Maybe when the oil prices get back up and stay stable for a while and the economy is back on its usual footing, that’s when we’ll make a decision about the second phase.” MATT WESLING/THE DAILY
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A shot of Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium from goal line to goal line. OU Board of Regents approved the first phase of the stadium renovation, worth $160 million, during their Tuesday meeting.
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Why this guy likes to wear a Lego head Man beneath the mask says character started with selfies he sent to his brother ANDREW CLARK Staff Reporter @Clarky_Tweets
Since his creation on Halloween of 2014, OU’s Lego Man has become an Instagram phenomenon and a popular sight by students across campus. But the history senior insists he and the Insta-famous character are two different people. “He goes wherever I go,� Lego Man said. “Lego Man found me.� He also chooses not to reveal his personal identity to the public when he is wearing the mask because he does not want to bring attention to himself. “I think it’s more fun to not know who Lego Man is or who’s underneath the mask,� he said. “A lot of times people do things to get themselves recognized, and I think this is just about Lego Man. It’s not anything more than that, it’s just all fun.� The idea of Lego Man began when he started sending selfies of himself to his brother with the Lego head on, he said. “[My brother] was just cracking up,� he said. “He kept on changing the faces and stuff. And I was just like this could be something, like I could make something out of it.� He then decided to create the Instagram account that would eventually gain more than 2,700 followers. He has taken selfies in front of many popular campus and country-wide locations, such as the new “LOVE� statue on campus, Huntington Beach, California and Disneyland in California. “It’s a blast,� Lego Man said. “I think my friends get as much fun out of it as I do. People get on Instagram just to check and see how Lego Man is doing. It’s pretty awesome.� While Lego Man has been mostly a character purely created out of fun, the alter-ego has also served a practical purpose for the history senior. For spring break, Lego Man, the man under the mask and a small group of students who attend Journey church in Norman will travel to Nicaragua for a mission trip. The DANIEL HOANG/THE DAILY masked man said he sent donation letters to friends and Lego Man visited The OU Daily’s newsroom and poses for a photo family to fund the trip, but also found a way for Lego Man to during the snow fall March 4. Lego Man plans to continue his adven- help the cause. tures and shares it with his online followers. “I made a GoFundMe account for Lego Man and he raised about $300 or so,� he said. “But then I got funded completely
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015 •
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OUDaily.com ›› Oklahoma baseball wraps up home stand with 3-1 loss to Golden Eagles.
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Senoir tightend Blake Bell runs with the football against Oklahoma State University during the fall 2014 football season. OU will hold its annual Pro Day 9:30 a.m. today in the Everest Training Center. Pro Day is closed to the public and is for football graduates and current and former student athletes who will consider entry into the National Football League.
PRO DAY
Current, former Sooner players will perform for NFL Draft spots alongside scout-attracting transfer Green-Beckham Oklahoma football graduates, early entrees into the NFL Draft and several former athletes will participate in the annual Pro Day at OU Wednesday. Among the most notable participants, transfer wide receiver Dorial GreenBeckham will work out with the Sooners despite never taking a snap in crimson and cream. Green-Beckham arrived in Norman last summer after he was dismissed from Missouri. Green-Beckham’s presence gives the other Sooners’ participants in the pro day an advantage as he is expected to attract scouts from several NFL teams. Oklahoma junior defensive tackle Jordan Phillips announced his intentions to enter the NFL Draft
less than 24 hours after the Sooners’ bowl game loss to Clemson. At the NFL Combine last month, Phillips put up solid numbers, completing the 40-yard dash in 5.17 seconds and benching 225 pounds 28 times. Additionally, he recorded a 30-inch vertical leap, second among defensive linemen. Linebacker Geneo Grissom was invited to the combine, as well. He clocked a 4.81 in the 40-yard dash but did not lift, however, because of an injury. Tight end Blake Bell might be the most interesting storyline of OU Pro Day. After switching to the position from quarterback before his senior season, Bell racked up 16 recep-
tions for 214 yards and four touchdowns. At the combine, Bell’s 20-and 60-yard shuttle drill times ranked second-best among tight ends. In the 40-yard dash, Bell clocked in at No. 5 for his position. Several Oklahoma alumni will participate in the workouts as well, including former safety Gabe Lynn, wide receiver Trey Franks and linebacker Tom Wort. Lynn and Wort were both signed as undrafted free agents, but failed to make any NFL rosters after leaving school. OU Pro Day begins at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Everest Indoor Facility and is closed to the public. Senior linebacker Geneo Grissom flies through the air while attempting to sack the Texas quarterback
Brady Vardeman during the OU-Texas Cottonbowl on Oct. 11 at AT&T Cottonbowl Stadium in Dallas, Tx. The Sooner beat the Assistant Sports Editor Longhorns 31-26.
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Kaitlyn Underwood, opinion editor dailyopinion@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/opinion • Twitter: @OUDailyOpinion
Don’t ban greeks, ban the secrecy
Our view: Don’t ban
frats; ban the secrecy surrounding frats.
Among all the reactions and outrage over the racist SAE video are voices calling for OU to abolish fraternities on campus. Some have used the actions of a few ignorant SAE members to characterize all greek members as racist and ignorant. But, we know the hatred of a few doesn’t reflect the hearts of the entire greek system. However, the SAE video showed the world that when you’re part of an organization you represent it in all you say or do. Like it or not, the racism of the SAE members on that bus has put OU greek life under the microscope. With that in mind, we believe it’s imperative for OU greek organizations to be more transparent and open about their practices. We believe OU shouldn’t ban fraternities — OU should ban the secrecy surrounding greek
organizations. If OU wants to maintain its zero tolerance policy towards racism, as President Boren proclaimed on Monday, we must shine a light on the shadowy parts of campus to reveal subtle racism ingrained in OU organizations. We believe airing out greek policies should be the first of many steps to root out institutional prejudice at our university. We are fully aware of the many benefits greek organizations provide
outside parties in the aftermath of events like the SAE video. However, protecting a greek house’s reputation is not more important than speaking out about racism. We challenge members of OU greek life not to comply with such gag orders and to instead speak up about any other incidents of racism or prejudice occurring within their community. This challenge extends beyond greek organizaILLUSTRATION BY TYLER WOODWARD/THE DAILY tions. We implore all OU groups to re-evaluate OU, from higher retenThe university endorses speak. OU students detion rates to raising funds greek organizations and serve to hear greek voices their policies and practices to ensure that any as such greek houses and volunteer hours for about the SAE incident, philanthropies. However, should be required to re- but no greeks will speak member of the Sooner family would feel welthe general population at port their demographics to The Daily. Breaking OU has and selection processes. down the chosen barrier come and accepted. no idea of silence between greek Speaking out for what’s The secrecy and exOur View is how fra- clusivity surrounding students and non-greek right requires courage. the majority opinion of Thankfully, the efforts ternities greek organizations sets students is essential to The Daily’s of student groups like ensuring that no greeks and so- its members apart from nine-member the general student body, ever become so insulated Unheard and the reacrorities editorial board that another horrifyingly tion of the Sooner nation but it also breeds susselect to the SAE video show racist incident like the their picion among students that enhancing diversity members. Furthermore, not involved in greek life. SAE video happens. and equality is and must We understand naOU administration can’t That secrecy is especially monitor the selection concerning when contional greek leaders and remain a priority for OU. process or hold people presidents of OU chaptroversies like the racist accountable if biased SAE video happen and ters often order members Comment on this on recruiting does occur. greek members refuse to not to speak to media or OUDaily.com.
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