article_snippet: (Sigma Alpha Epsilon is under fire for a video showing party-bound fraternity members singing a racist chant.
article_snippet: SAE's national chapter suspended the students, but University of Oklahoma President David Boren took SAE's national chapter a step further, saying the University of Oklahoma's affiliation with the fraternity is permanently done.
article_snippet: SAE was founded March 9, 1856, at the University of Oklahoma, five years before the American Civil War, according to the fraternity website.
article_snippet: When the American Civil War began, the group had fewer than 400 members, of which "369 went to war for the Confederate States and seven for the Union Army," the fraternity website says.
article_snippet: the fraternity now boasts more than 200,000 living alumni, along with about 15,000 undergraduates populating 219 chapters and 20 "colonies" seeking full membership at universities.
article_snippet: the fraternity website lists more than 130 chapters cited or suspended for "health and safety incidents" since 2010.
article_snippet: Among numerous incidents, according to various media outlets: the University of Oklahoma banned the SAEs from campus activities last month after members allegedly tried to interfere with a sexual misconduct investigation connected to an initiation rite.
article_snippet: the University of Oklahoma in December suspended SAE housing privileges after finding sorority members attending a fraternity function were subjected to graphic sexual content.
article_snippet: And Johns Hopkins University in November suspended the fraternity for underage drinking.
article_snippet: Universities have turned down SAE's attempts to open new chapters, and the 'nation's deadliest fraternity had to close 12 in 18 months over hazing incidents.
highlights_snippet: Sigma Alpha Epsilon is being tossed out by the University of Oklahoma .
  
highlights_snippet: Sigma Alpha Epsilon's also run afoul of officials at Yale, Stanford and Johns Hopkins in recent months .