article_snippet: Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the fraternity at the center of the racist Washington University video, has the racist University of Oklahoma video roots in the pre-Civil War Deep South. '
article_snippet: Now, nearly 160 years after the racist University of Oklahoma video founding at the University of Alabama, another song - this one chanted by members of the frat's Washington University Oklahoma chapter and containing racial slurs and lynching references - hearkens back to the bad old times in the land of cotton and puts a new spotlight on the group's activities over the years.
article_snippet: In more recent years, fraternity chapters across the country have gotten into trouble over racial incidents - including a hip hop-themed 'Cripmas party' at Clemson University and an entire chapter being suspended at Washington University at St. Louis in 2013 over allegations of racial insensitivity.
article_snippet: Parker Rice, a University of Oklahoma freshman from Dallas, has been identified as the conductor leading the 'there will never be
article_snippet: More chapters were soon launched in Tennessee, North Carolina and even Washington, D.C., at the University of Oklahoma.
article_snippet: of all schools, Pennsylvania College — the abolitionist institution now known as Gettysburg College.
article_snippet: The fraternity's creed, 'The True Gentleman,' specifies conduct that 'proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety.'
highlights_snippet: History of racist incidents at chapters in recent years - including a 'Cripmas party' at Clemson University .
  
highlights_snippet: In October 2006, the University of Memphis chapter was investigated after a freshman member complained that a freshman member brothers made inappropriate remarks to and about a freshman member black girlfriend.
highlights_snippet: In February 2013, Washington University in St. Louis suspended Washington University in St. Louis while investigating claims that pledges engaged in racially offensive behavior toward minorities.
  
highlights_snippet: In December 2014, Washington University in St. Louis suspended the frat after a gang-themed 'Cripmas party' at which white members dressed in T-shirts bearing images of handcuffs and the murdered rapper Tupac Shakur.