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SAE. They’re known nationally as a top tier fraternity. However, SAE also is in the news often for both good and bad reasons. In this case, you can say this news is bad for the SAE chapter at Yale University.
VIA Yaledailynews.com:
Yale’s chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has denied allegations that brothers racially discriminated against students of color during a party held Friday at the fraternity’s off-campus house.
On Oct. 31, the day after the party in question, Neema Githere ’18 posted a status on her personal Facebook profile recounting the experience of a group of women of color which she said were denied entrance to SAE on Friday on the basis of race. Though Githere was not part of that group herself and was not in attendance Friday, she noted in the post that a similar incident had happened to her last year and invited others who had been discriminated against by SAE to comment with their stories. Since it was published, her post has received over 600 likes and almost 100 shares.
“I’d just like to take a moment to give a shoutout to the member of Yale’s SAE chapter who turned away a group of girls from their party last night, explaining that admittance was on a ‘White Girls Only’ basis,” her post read.
Members of SAE have categorically denied the accusations. Yale SAE President Grant Mueller ’17 said he has been in contact with Yale administrators and representatives from SAE’s national organization about the incident to repudiate charges that SAE members engaged in racist behavior when deciding whom to admit to the party.
“Obviously I was shocked and flabbergasted [at the idea] that anyone in SAE would even have these words come from their mouths,” Mueller said. “It’s just kind of upsetting for me because we try to be so incredibly accepting and take pride in our diversity.”
The administration has also been in contact with the students involved in the alleged events outlined in the Facebook post. Emails provided to the News show that on Sunday morning at 10 a.m., Howard emailed a Yale student he had heard was present for the events outlined in Githere’s post requesting more details about the alleged incident. Howard said he had been contacted by the student’s residential college dean about the events and wanted to gather as much information as possible.
