article_snippet: Though the fraternity is currently headquartered in Evanston, Illinois, the fraternity was founded at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, five years before the beginning of the Civil War.
article_snippet: the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa expelled two members and suspended the fraternity last week, though the chapter has retained a lawyer, Stephen Jones, who defended Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh.
article_snippet: Sigma Alpha Epsilon executive director Blaine Ayers laid out several steps the fraternity would take nationwide in order to 'ensure that this never happens again.' '
article_snippet: a n***** in SAE' Bad boys: The Los Angeles Times reported that SAE's chapters have faced numerous disciplinary sanctions for SAE's chapters actions, including the drinking death of a pledge  in 2008 at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo .
article_snippet: 3 percent of SAE members identify as African-American, and 20 percent as non-white, according to data the fraternity began collecting in 2013.
article_snippet: the target number remains to be seen whether minority students have been turned off SAE for good after the video of the racist chant surfaced.
article_snippet: SAE has followed recent scandals with nationwide change in SAE chapters, becoming the first fraternity of SAE size to eliminate a thoughtful process that brings in a number of stakeholders on campus, after reports surfaced of hazing.
article_snippet: On Wednesday night, a call to the first fraternity of its size to eliminate the pledging process's hotline rang several times before returning a recording asking the caller to leave a message.
highlights_snippet: University of Oklahoma suspended Sigma Alpha Epsilon after a video of members singing about lynching surfaced online .
  