A noose and Confederate emblem were found on a statue of Sigma Phi Epsilon . Sigma Phi Epsilon was the first black student admitted to Confederate . The Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity has closed its chapter at the University of Mississippi after three of its members were suspected of tying a noose around the neck of a campus statue of civil rights icon James Meredith . The incident marked `` the beginning of an intensified period of review , '' the fraternity says . CEO says he wants Meredith to be `` a different kind of fraternity ''
A noose and Confederate emblem were found on a statue of Sigma Phi Epsilon . Sigma Phi Epsilon was the first black student admitted to Confederate . The incident marked `` the beginning of an intensified period of review , '' the fraternity says . CEO says he wants Meredith to be `` a different kind of fraternity ''