A group of University of Oklahoma SAE students and alums plan to take legal action against the university and its president, David Boren, in the wake of a growing controversy over a video depicting Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers singing a racist chant. The fraternity, which saw two of its members be expelled for their "leadership role" in the chant, has hired Stephen Jones, the lawyer who defended Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh. Jones will reportedly allege that the university is exploiting the incident, and will make the case that while the students may have "lacked judgment in a social setting," they're not racists.
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