SAE frat director maintains racist song ‘does not at all reflect our values’

Since the video of members of the University of Oklahoma chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity singing a racist song became public a few weeks ago, the national fraternity organization has distanced itself from those members’ actions.

In a Q&A posted to the fraternity’s website, the answer to the question “Has your investigation found that the song was sung by members nationally?” is this: “Our invetigation [sic] to date shows no evidence the song was widely shared across the broader organization.”

University of Oklahoma President David Boren called that assertion into question in a Friday press conference, however. Boren wrote in a letter to the national fraternity organization: